to think Bum is not appropriate in a newspaper

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www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/crime-court/dealer-who-kept-drugs-in-bum-for-four-days-is-jailed-1-5565614

how odd

You are right, it is rectum. I still don’t think bum is unreasonable. In everyday conversation I would say bum if talking to kids or people I don’t know well and arse with people I know who would say similar.

Mum? Is that you?

I still want to know the intricacies of how he ran his business out of his arse though. That would be my main line of questioning if I was the police.

Also, it shows just how desperate drug addicts are. Seriously, who would touch something that had been stored up someone’s arse.

I used to have to fish stuff out of peoples arses for work. Quite regularly. The ridiculous stories they would tell as to how the item got there .......

" love how the whole article is written, it's straight out of Viz, including the photo!"

I actually checked if it wasn't a spoof "news" site!

I used to have to fish stuff out of peoples arses for work. Quite regularly. The ridiculous stories they would tell as to how the item got there......

I'm assuming it's usually due to a sex (and not drug related) activity?

My dear granduncle once managed to get his dick squashed whilst being with his mistress. He never managed to live that one down...

@MariaMadita did your gran particularly hate shopping, did it put her in bad humour? I'm thinking there's a story there?

I'm dreadfully middle class and I say toilet. I am Northern though, if that mitigates it at all. I wouldn't write bum in a newspaper, but I don't think that's the most striking thing about the article you posted.

'Up his farter' wouldn't have been acceptable either I presume?

YABU

I think they should use the correct words, so rectum or anus. Only because its another symptom of the dumbing down of absolutely everything these days.

I also want to know how he was going to get the correct drug out of his arse. I've heard of smuggling drugs up your backside but not running a dealership out of it.

Goodness, that picture really should have a 'would you buy crack cocaine from this man?' caption. He really doesn't look like a pleasant character.

Must say, I'm lost in admiration at the power of his sphincter muscles. Holding all that stuff in for 4 days.

I agree with you OP it does look very odd to read the word bum in a newspaper. Surely rectum would have been better, or even arse at a pinch if the writer was finding it hard to come up with an appropriate word.

The article is in a newspaper so presumably aimed at adults, so use an adult word. Bum is sort of rude but somehow twee and childish at the same time.

I love the photo.
It's like those tests where you have to say what people are feeling from their faces - happy, sad, frightened, bored etc. He would be the face for 'bum full of cocaine'

little

I think she actually really loved it. The cursing started when the "sly one" from two streets over (actually a good friend of her) got the last pieces of a certain kind of fish, e.g. Or when someone tried to sell her fruit for an (in her opinion) too high price etc...
I
t was fun. This elegant, little old lady swearing like a sailor ;) (and every once in a while reminding me that I could never use these words at school or church...)

Dumbing down is exactly what is occurring

Surely it’s rectum?!

Well it won't have done them any good

Yep, sexual. Although how so in many instances I could not fathom. I once had a light bulb. I mean ffs who would put a fragile glass item up their arse? Then blather on for an age with some completely implausible story as to how it got there. Sauce bottles.

For a period, mice were very fashionable. They would freeze them so they were unconscious/sedated, stick them up then get their jollies while the poor mouse scampered to get out. Sometimes it all went pear shaped. Lots of people are just vile.

Right i'm not sure whats wrong with bum, or whats upper class about going to the toilet, or saying toilet.

But you think refusing to to go to the toilet for 4 days is bad

This guy went over a month in police custody without having a shit! www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/essex-police-drugs-crime-poo-14272251

It had a hash tag on twitter and even made the nationals

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-held-47-days-without-12142775.amp

I see your 4 days, and raise it 47 days!! 47 days

I too was impressed at his sphincter muscle

You lot are funny

Christ almighty. I agree, they should've wrote "up his shitehole" instead.

Dumbing down is exactly what is occurring

Bumming down, in this instance.

He kept the drugs up his glory hole!

They would freeze them so they were unconscious/sedated, stick them up then get their jollies while the poor mouse scampered to get out. Sometimes it all went pear shaped. Lots of people are just vile

(that's a vomit one. Not envy.. )

They could have used a plastic toy mouse (one with batteries...) :(

It also seems a bit Spanish inquisition/witch hunt torture-like to me :/

I just don’t understand how he could give someone what they wanted when he had 46 envelopes of heroin and crack.

He’s a smart arse.

47 days. Wouldn't that make you feel really unwell.

Having said that I'm a really regular sort of person so for me missing one day makes me feel a bit bloated.