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Should this be on the front cover?

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Hillbilly71 · 25/09/2014 20:31

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?

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Mydelilah · 25/09/2014 23:08

YANBU. I would not allow my DC to use the word crap. It is low on the swearing spectrum though - c**t being the absolute worst in my book

scousadelic · 25/09/2014 23:09

I think words like this have their place, use them right and they are brilliantly expressive and enrich our language, use them all the time (like the sweary people on the bus) and it reduces their impact, use them wrongly and it is just offensive.

I'm with you on this. It sounds horrible old-fashioned and prim but I think this sort of thing chips away at standards in society.

BOFster · 25/09/2014 23:16

But "tired after sex" is NOT the original meaning. It has been tacked on to the original meaning by the conflation of castration with being sent to the knacker's yard. And that being the case, the ORIGINAL original meaning of 'knacker' probably is derived from a word for a gypsy/traveller, as they historically performed this work.

BOFster · 25/09/2014 23:19

(I've bypassed 'crap', obviously, and moved on to 'knackered' Grin)

Mydelilah · 25/09/2014 23:26

Thanks for raising the tone of the thread Bofster my kids are allowed to say knackeredWink (having heard me moan about being it so much for years)

Ludways · 25/09/2014 23:32

Fornerbabe, that inbetweeners episode was in tonight, I watched it about 1 minute after reading your post... Do do do do do do do do!

BOFster · 25/09/2014 23:33

I use it myself without seeing it as a swear word. It's informal, sure, and I wouldn't use it in a job application Grin, but even my deeply uptight mum calls the charity shop "Help The Knackered"...

MelanieCheeks · 25/09/2014 23:34

Where can I get this bag?

Pipbin · 25/09/2014 23:38

I was brought up to think that crap and knackered are swearing. I certainly wouldn't use them in front of children.

However, I heard someone on Blue Peter describe themselves as knackered not so long ago.

HoldenMcGroin · 25/09/2014 23:43

a random Random Crap bag

GoblinLittleOwl · 26/09/2014 07:29

Absolutely agree with you, Hillbilly; hate the random use of swearwords. I used 'crap' regularly as a teenager under the belief it meant 'rubbish' until my mother enlightened me. Oh, the innocence.

victoryinthekitchen · 26/09/2014 09:11

yanbu, it's crude. Once we were in a car park and someone had written 'c*nt' on an icy windscreen and my pre-school dd read out the letters in her sweet little baby voice!!

CromerSutra · 26/09/2014 09:30

Not that bothered by the word crap but I do get your point. I loathed the FCUK branding thing, I think it really cheapened a good shop and wouldn't dream of going around with that emblazoned on a top!

cherrybombxo · 26/09/2014 12:21

"Knackered" is swearing now too? What fresh hell?!

"Crap" is not swearing, just come to my flat and have a chat with my DP and I - we'll show you swearing! I swear like a trooper, mostly for emphasis but sometimes because I just feel like it Grin

Alisvolatpropiis · 26/09/2014 13:38

Those bags sound lame.

However, crap is not a swear word. Yabu.

Namechangedespeciallyforthis · 26/09/2014 13:49

I don't allow my eldest two (9&10) to say crap as I consider it mild swearing. On a par with bloody.

I'll never forget my bf, aged approx 14 calling her dad (in a jokey way) a twat, and her dad going through her and telling her that it means clitoris, unlike 'idiot', which she had thought it meant! Shock

MrsGoslingWannabe · 26/09/2014 13:52

I hate FCUK too. However I am not shocked by swearing anymore as 'D'P uses a wonderful range every day, usually directed at me Sad

Namechangedespeciallyforthis · 26/09/2014 13:53

Actually, I've just remembered. A substitute teacher who took my yr5 ds's class was hauled over the coals after several parents put in a complaint after she said 'I refuse to put up with this crap!' to the class.

Namechangedespeciallyforthis · 26/09/2014 13:54

Aw, MrsGosling, that's really not great Flowers

MrsGoslingWannabe · 26/09/2014 13:54

Name her dad went through her?!

I used to think twat was similar to twit!

pearpotter · 26/09/2014 13:55

Knackers = nuts, testicles, balls, innit?

Hence knackered.

But I say it all the time.

Crap isn't that bad these days. I try and say "rubbish" instead but crap is sometimes more...appropriate.

Namechangedespeciallyforthis · 26/09/2014 13:56

I think she did too, he went properly mad with her!

pearpotter · 26/09/2014 13:57

I remember my dad going mad at me for saying "Bastard!" once. I was just commenting on something on the telly out loud and didn't know he was there Shock I was about 17 at the time :)

DinoSnores · 26/09/2014 14:01

"Knackered" DOES NOT come from being tired after sex, but I see that myth perpetuated regularly!

www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/knacker

Itsfab · 26/09/2014 14:11

Crap is pretty awful but then I was surprised pillock was allowed on Corrie. I remember saying frigging and got told off, I still don't know if it means what I was told. Knackered was a banned word when I was a kid.