to be annoyed that "pissed off" is no longer considered bad language

[Ithinkitsjustme]

I've been getting really frustrated by the language that is creeping onto mainstream tv, before the water shed. While I believe that everyone has the right to use swear words in their own vocabulary, and while I acknowledge that we cannot avoid hearing words like this in every day life, AIBU to not expct to hear it on tv, during the daytime, when my children are around and listening? (Really annoyed that I can't remember what I heard it on yesterday, but it wound me up)

I still can't say 'bloody hell' without my dad telling me off! I'm 43!

Know what you mean op

Hate and war are bad words, piss and fuck aren't

'Pissed off' is only a little bit swearing though

I can't say "damn" or even "flippin 'eck" in front of MY parents! Olympia! , I even have to turn the tv off altogether if they are round, but I'm not that extreme. (I don't think)

Pissed is a non offensive american way of saying annoyed. I suppose the downgrade in offence level has slowly migrated from there.

My mum considers piss as swearing. doesn't stop her using it occasionally though

Tbh, I have more issues with kids seeing some of the stuff on the 6 o clock news (massacres in Syria etc, when the BBC and others choose to broadcast footage of dead bodies) than them hearing swearwords on tv, within reason obviously. But everyone feels differently I guess.

Yep, it really pisses me of too :) Sorry, couldn't resist! I dont consider it a swearword really, it just the sound the wee makes when it comes out

Kids LOVE hearing swear words, their little faces light up if there's a 'pissed off' on the tellybox. Then they have to repeat it as there is an excuse for swearing - 'Mummy did that man just say pissed off?' then you 'say yes but please don't repeat it, because it's swearing'. And all is well with the world.

Actually, im with proudnscary i think hate is a far more offensive word in certain contexts (ie used against a person or group of people) War, less so as this describes a bad thing that happens.

They say it on The Simpsons quite a lot don't they? I don't really have an issue...it's not offensive to me.

my friends little boys favourite saying at the moment is "i want to do a poo in the ladies loo" he thinks its the funniest thing he has ever heard - but then they do base horrid henry on this boy! Not only does he act like him, he sounds like him too i like horrid henry and i like my friends DS, he is intelligent and funny, but just such a "boy"

yes, pissed is fairly innocuous in American English.

compared with how bad it is over here!

maybe it's American editors?

I wouldn't really consider it offensive. It's not blasphemous, and it doesn'ti insult anyone. It's just your basic Anglo-Saxon, innit?

I remember we went to Kentwell Hall when we were in Primary school. For anyone who doesn't know it's a Tudor "experience". You dress up and it's like stepping back in time. You get to do tasks like making butter and weaving and stuff...but everyone swears, because the words weren't considered swearing back then. VEEEEERY funny when you're 10 or 11 I can tell you that much.

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I can't say 'oh my God' in front of my dad

But apparently 'bloody bastard referee' is fine

I have no idea where those 3s came from

First I've heard of anyone considering it 'bad language'. yabu.

Well, it's not language that I would want my DC's to be using - so in that sense I class it as "bad language"

I consider it bad language.
Had a friend who used to call her toddler 'pissy pants' when he made mistakes when potty training THAT I thought was VU

Well it is swearing as far as I am concerned so there is no question of it "no longer considered bad language"

I wouldn't consider it bad language but then I have parents who think cheeky monkey and cheeky fucker are interchangeable.

Its a bit like flippin' eck' and bloody hell/bloody, I probably say things like that in front of the kids more than I should but they seem to have just become normal words. I work in a professional office and it wouldn't really be frowned upon to say pissed off or any I have mentioned above.

I wouldn't like to hear my DCs say it and they are fully aware of what they should and shouldn't say (6 & 4) and have certainly heard a lot worse. DS1 has said flippin heck a few times and I just tell him not to say it but I class it the same as 'oh my god' which I also pull him up on.

I think everyone has different views on swear words - I remember the 'my toddler is a twat' thread caused massive rows as it isn't considered a particular bad word in some parts of the country but up there with c* in others.

I think anyone who gets pissed off with swear words, particularly minor ones needs to grow up a bit.
Sorry, not a popular opinion but really, there are so many more things about which to worry.