Should this be on the front cover?

[Hillbilly71]

I feel very prim and proper all of a sudden. Starting to get all the brochures through the door in the (long long) run up to Christmas. On the front cover of one brochure, there was large featured shopper-type bag saying 'Random Crap' in big letters. Fortunately I got home before the kids and I put in straight in the bin. I don't like saying 'crap' in front of my kids and don't want people shopping with big Random Crap bags. AIBU?

Yabu.

bless

unless your kids are young, they'll have heard a lot worse than crap

um a little OTT, don't you think?

Ever seen that episode of the inbetweeners when Simon says 'crap' to his girlfriend's parents?!

Oh dear... Is 'crap' a swear word now?

my mother is the most unsweary person ever and even she says 'crappy'

is that better than 'crap' though

I'm with you Hillbilly

It's a horrible crude word, to me it's as bad as swearing, which I don't do either.

I'd have thrown it in the bin too.

They say crap on radio and on tv pre watershed

Oh dear. Never thought I'd be writing this sentence but crap is up there with shit, bugger and prick and worse than bloody. The f and c and tw words are the worst though. I thought that FCUK campaign was really stupid too.

I feel very middle aged. I still think it is one thing to say them but another for a company to feature them on a shopping bag. DH has just reminded me I always say 'knackered' and the children have picked this up from me, and he thinks that would have been frowned on by his parents!?! I am waiting for someone to say..never mind, shit happens!

I saw someone carrying that bag last week....it made me laugh....mind you I'm easily amused....it was in front of my kids too....and actually thinking about it, my 11 year old was quite outraged....!

YANBU- standards have to start somewhere.

Oh, what's wrong with saying 'knackered'? I thought it was from the phrase 'ready for the knackers yard' meaning tired or run down?

It is, but it is also slang. Perhaps the in laws are very very proper in a slightly Hyacinth Bucket type way?

Haha - I will tell my dh that - I've never thought knackered was a problem. Dh says where he was from the word was supposed to mean when you're exhausted after sex(?!) which is which is why he does like me using the word in front of the kids and letting them copy me in using it too! I just think of it as being very tired!

It's like people who swear loudly on public transport. Really annoys me when there are kids around but there's not much anyone can do to stop it. Kids will see & hear swear words despite parent's efforts.

FWIW, I stopped shopping at French Connection because of their stupid advertising! Annoyed me that they thought making their logo look like a sweary word was clever....I realise I'm unreasonably annoyed about that :)

'Random Stuff' would sound less aggressive and still have the desired effect.

Swear words are not gratuitous if used for effect - think Phillip Larkin.
If swear words are explicitly vulgar or derogative then that's verbal abuse in every situation.
If it's part of idiolect then it suggests a restrictive vocabulary.

We alter our language to our situation and I would not carry around a handbag with such words on it.

FCUK was clever though.

Knackered was originally used to being tired after sex.

I guess you don't like my nn then?

I actually agree with you, and I am pretty sweary. I think it's tacky on the front cover of a general-interest brochure.

I said crap to a consultant the other day... though to be fair there was no other way to describe my blood (iron level) results. Rubbish just didn't cut it. He didn't seem too offended. Though not my finest moment I will admit.

It would appear that both derivations have some provenance. Basically, its reception depends on how much of a dirty mind your audience has...

I had exactly the same catalogue delivered this week and I thought exactly the same. (and I bloody love swearing!!)

Perhaps Random Stuff would have been better but I don't think crap is bad - my mum also says it and she doesn't like swearing.

As for knackered - well I have never heard of it meaning being tired after sex! It just means being tired, as in the horses going to the knackers yard.

In2 the blues you are very eloquent and I have googled idiolect to learn a new word too!
Bustycraphopper I think I may wince now when kids use the world 'knackered' - never knew the original meaning!

It's a swear word - no doubt about it . I would also have thrown out the magazine . It's one thing for my child to hear it elsewhere but seeing it on my magazine is as if I am endorsing it !