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 would say it is and would have thought you were swearing at me. I'd struggle a bit with asking the public I meet thru work not to but then I don't work in customer services.
And I wince with blasphemy - I don't think people would use other faith's Gods as casually and offensively as it seems to be acceptable to do with 'Jesus Christ' etc. But I'm probably trying to push water uphill on that one!

With the levels thing it depends on what people find offensive so can be a bit arbitrary. A lot of words are also derogatory to women, which I find really offensive. I hate people using cow for example which isn't swearing (?) and I don't like bitch either (which might be swearing?) Whereas many of the other words offend me less. But that's just me.

My ds (almost ten) is allowed to say crap, bloody, Jesus Christ. (at home definitely not at school or AT another person) I wouldn't let him say pissed/piss though, that's proper swearing.

Context is indeed everything. If within your own home or friends that is an expression you all use and are comfortable with, then fine, but not to a shop assistant.

I would place bastard in level 1. It's a horrible word and unlike all the others is referring to a person rather than a body part or a bodily function.

Interesting to see other people's levels. I always think that piss off is a mild version of fuck off so it and its variants belong on the level below.

God, bloody and sod off/sodding I would put at the lowest level with Jesus slightly higher - the Jesus thing is probably to do with my Catholic upbringing. I think previous generations who were more churchgoing would say that God was a major swearword but its impact seems to have been diluted by us all becoming more heathen.

Jesus and Christ were the words we were NEVER today when we were little (proper Welsh Valleys chapel upbringing!!) and I'm surprised how other people 'rate' it. I'm a bit lax at letting the odd shit, bloody and arsehole slip out (sounds rather painful) in front of the kids, but I hate hearing people who trot out swear words every other word (as in your level 1 and 2 words- I like this system!!) m.

Hmm, rereading that I might have wanted to put phrase it differently (ie letting the odd shit slip out)!

Letting the odd shit slip on hehe hopefully you're wearing jeans or big Bridget jones type knickers can't be one of those people letting poo fall out randomly in the street!

It's no different than saying damn, bloody, or bugger. I personally don't view any of them as swears.

Personally, I think pissed is very mild swearing and OK to use in the context you did. I have a Spanish dictionary which has 1, 2 or 3 stars against swear words (as a warning to non-native speakers) it gives 'piss' 3 stars but 'pissed off' only two.

No one seems to have put crap on their swearing levels list!

I would put crap and pissed off on the same level.

And if (and I have done) I worked in CS and a client said they were pissed off or an item was crap I wouldn't raise an eyebrow.

In all honesty when someone has paid for 2 repairs and the item still didn't work I'd think my company had bigger problems than a customer saying they were pissed off!

They are words I'd consider inappropriate to use to certain situations - in front of young children being one of them.

I think ordering swear words is totally personal.

My mother's parents were strict Christians. Although she is a church goer she's rather more relaxed than them about the whole Christianity thing. BUT she sees 'Jesus Christ' as the worst possible swear word - she used to say she'd rather we said 'fuck' than than that. And she's not wildly keen on 'God', either.

Net result - I don't think I have ever said 'Jesus' as a swear word in my life.

I don't swear much though - but I use the word 'bugger' rather too frequently.

It's swearing !

As others have said, Americans use "pissed" and "pissed off" interchangeably for being angry. In the part of the US where I live, it's not actually considered wearing, which usually connotes blasphemy, but it is vulgar. It would not be generally acceptable in the workplace, although I might be able to say it to a close colleague, not about her actions, of course, but something like say, Donald Trump, who really pisses me off on a daily basis.