To think saying I'm pissed off isn't swearing?

[ToughItOut]

Just that really. Not said in front of any children, but you'd have honestly thought I'd f'd and blinded the worst swear word under the sun by this woman's reaction. I've never thought of the word pissed as swearing.

I used the words bloody and dickhead in front of my DDs yesterday - was referring to someone we know who has behaved very badly. They both told me off for swearing! And they are 19 and 20.

I say pissed off isn't swearing but im not sure how i define swearing!

gash is definitely not a swear word!

Yes, I have a very loose attitude to swearing, but anything pissy is swearing and I wouldn't say it to younger children.

On my scale, arsehole and bastard are roughly as bad as bloody (lowest level swearing), Jesus etc isn't even on the scale.

definitely is

Yep definitely swearing. Its something I say myself pretty often but I would not be impressed to hear if it from dc

It is a swear word. i swear a lot but wouldn't say any of those words in front of my dc. If they said pissed, I'd be disgusted. Fine in conversation between adults though and if someone pulled me up on it, they would get told to mind their own fucking business .

I suppose when speaking to another adult I never generally swear as in the level 1 swear words. But I would use words like bloody, hell, Jesus, and obviously pissed off! But I wouldn't use these around children even though I don't consider them actual swearing.

I guess it seems other people have very different levels to me

Context it was used - I had taken an item back to a repair place twice as still wasn't fixed. The sales woman was a bit sour faced and trying to indicate I needed to pay for the repair again, even though it was the fault they were supposed to have fixed twice which I'd already paid for. And I just said to be honest I'm a bit pissed off as I've had to come back twice now, surely you test it before sending it back out as fixed?

She got massively uppity and said she would not take it back in for repair if I was going to swear.

I genuinely didn't think I had! Plus I'd been polite , I hadn't been shouty or anything. But I guess from replies here I was unreasonable to use pissed off, so next time I'll try and use an alternative. I genuinely am a bit mortified now that I apparently did actually swear it seems.

Dick isn't swearing. Pissed is, but it's fairly mild. I say bastard all the time but my mum thinks it's really bad and a level 1 swear with fuck (not allowed to say that). I'm fascinated by other people's take on what constitutes a really bad swear though!

Definitely swearing.

Wash your mouth out with soap OP!

I can't understand how you didn't know piss was a swear word!!!!????

Yes, in that context 'pissed off' is definitely swearing. 'Put out' or inconvenienced would have been more appropriate terms.

I would say that dick is pretty bad. Gash is as bad as cunt imo.

Not swearing IMO. On the same level as bloody, not a swear word imo either

My levels would be:

Level 1:
Cunt (on a level all on its own never to be said except under the most extreme circumstances)

Level 2:
Motherfucker
Fuck

Level 3:
Piss / pissed
Shit

Level 4:
Arsehole (not asshole lol)
Sodding
Bastard

Level 5:
Bloody
Jesus
For Christ's sake etc

Whereabouts in the country are you, OP? That can have a bearing on what words are and are not acceptable in everyday speech.

Americans don't say "pissed off" do they? They just usually say "pissed"
I was talking to an American on the train once who kept telling me how "pissed" he was. I thought he was drunk
I've always associated the word pissed with being drunk rather than annoyed

"To be honest I'm feeling a bit annoyed about this now"

I've worked on a customer service desk and this is what I say when your situation happens to me :)

Just let it go, no need to berate yourself for days even though that's what I do

I wouldn't say it was swearing but I find it depends either on location or upbringing.

My MiL thinks poop is swearing for example

You know it's swearing - that's why you said about children.
If you heard a 4 yr old say they were pissed if you would raise an eyebrow?

I'm surprised bastard ranks so low. But yes if your trying to be polite you don't use pissed off.

I thought, technically speaking, that words with religious connotations only were swear words I.e god, Jesus, Christ etc. The other words here are foul language. But I could be wrong. I know people who would never say god in that way- it would be very offensive to them. Fuck, shit, cunt etc foul language

I work in a call centre and once asked a woman not to swear at me when she used the same phrase, she said it wasn't swearing as it was in the dictionary

I've never heard the word "gash" used as a swear word, but it would appear to be a very bad thing to say . I've heard people say "Oh that's really gash" meaning bad but not anything really offensive.

not a swear word where I live anyway

I place dick so high up the ranks because it sounds so aggressive ("he's a dick" sounds much more aggressive, to me, than "he's a bastard").

I'd say the level 4 swears in front of my grandmother (should I have one) and the level 3s in front of my mother. The levels 1 and 2 I save for when I meet a massive cunt.