AIBU to think Feck is not a bad word.

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Said ahh Feck it at work today and got cats bum mouth from one of my colleagues.

To me Feck is not a bad word, my Ma says it for Feck sake. . .

AIBU, is it a bad word??

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yanbu, it's the non sweary version of fuck.

3 weeks in the Gaeltacht in the rain and you reckon he won't be shifting anyone?! - sorry, I just remembered why I liked Irish college so much...!

Yanbu. My nan was Irish and a proper prude and even she would say feck. It's not rude.

Don't worry- as long as he's prefacing his shifting with "ar mhaith leat damhsa liom?", at lest it'll all be educational. Really. .

[only amused rather than terrified at the thought of antics in the Gaeltacht as DD is only 3 and also, living in UK,is unlikely to ever think the Gaeltacht sounds like fun. Ah bless her, she'll never know what she's missing!]

That sounded like a little poem RightBugger.

:)

We all shifted too, even now if someone asks 'did you have a good shift' I snigger.

We re really so very innocent. I was about the only teen allowed Just 17, thanks to older sisters. I remember bringing it in to school and all of us being convinced that 'going steady' meant you had to have sex.

yanbu, feck is not at all the same as fuck! Feck is perfectly acceptable conversation, I say it in front of my childer no bother.

Oh no I say "feck" all the time (I'm Irish, living in England). Do all my British friends think I'm a foul-mouthed harlot?? (Not that I'm not, I was just hoping to hide it for a bit longer). My mother says feck to her secondary school pupils, and she's the kind of woman who considers "crap" to be very rude indeed.

I still use Get of with too.
Is it no longer in common usage then?

Oh, and in my rather dissolute past, I was a topless bar hostess in Amsterdam. I worked and made friends with two Irish girls who were told at school (nuns) that if they sat on a boy's knee they would get pregnant. .
They were very savvy though, The Catholic Church isn't as strong as it thinks it is.

My dad (Glaswegian) uses the phrase winching
"When I was winching your mother"
"Are ye winching yet?"
It's not rude but I have an image of a rope and a turning winching handle (romantic)

And I'm so glad I can use feck with impunity. I have an accent (people think I'm Irish but I'm not) so I can get away with it -well I think so

Glad it's been cleared up that feck is not fuck.

My ex uses deck all the time, it's addictive so now I do to!

This thread reminds me of Shite Irish Girls say

Feck* stoopid computer

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I remember being told that and being told to put a news paper down

Maryz sorry, boy with a guitar is like manna from heaven to a lot of girls. I should know - it was for me

I've always thought it was a great way of getting away with saying fuck and not being told off for it. IME it's used in exactly the same way as fuck is.

He's a fecking wanker
Feck it
etc

It might have a different etymology but I suspect that most people in England just think it's swearing :o

Wigglesrock- you're so right, especially if the alternative is doing the Walls of Limerick.

maryz- if it's any comfort, I remember the teachers regularly breaking up anything that was looking too enthusiastic and shepherding errant teens back into the hall. He'll have a great time, and you'll have 3 weeks peace

My MIL says Feck a lot, and she's a good Catholic woman.

She has been known to describe a misbehaving grandchild as "that little Fecker."

I think it's a great word, but to English ears, it's a thinly-disguised Fuck.

Why would you say wanker and not fucking? :o