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

the correct English term is 'shithouse'..

Boldkittens

logging on to the police's Twitter feed

logging on to the police's Shitter feed, more like

In London and Essex in the rave era of the early 1990s, stashing drugs up your arse was pretty common for club dealers (I know because an ex boyfriend was one - long before I knew him I should add) he'd put a small plastic bag of Es up his bum before going into the club to get past door where you were patted down, pockets checked etc. Go inside, go to toilet, remove and then happily deal all night . And of course none of the people who bought from him knew where they'd been. Eww.

It's one of those things I wish I didn't know.

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They have used 'bum' in order to fit more words in the headline

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Being an ex police officer, I swear that street dealers must have arse caverns with shelves and everything, the amount they secrete up there.

Very often they use the little yellow plastic inner bits from kinder eggs for their wraps - so one container will have heroin wraps, and a separate one will have crack wraps inside etc. Much easier than a lucky dip, as someone questioned earlier.

I have never let my daughter have a kinder egg, as a result of what I've seen...

This thread is funny! Great craic...

Four whole days with drugs stuffed up his rectum
For that anal discipline you gotta respect him
To commit a crime that desperate is heinous
I can't even imagine the state of his anus.

TaWi, we’ve loads of those lying about! I wonder if I could get a good price on ebay. I’d no idea they were so valuable.

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Just make sure you don't have them visible if ever you have police in your house... They'll think you're the next Pablo Escobar

Toilet is vair common, it's lavvie 🤓

@lynmilne65

How about water closet? :D

Toilet is most certainly not the correct word you ignoramus

One must occsasionally speak the language of the masses;)

There are public signposts up around our small town pointing the way to the "toilets", so we must be very rude and offensive around here. In fact, it is a prerequisite for being allowed to live here.

Nothing wrong with the word bum in a newspaper article. Perhaps "arse" or "arsehole" would have been even better though.

@forbiddenfruitcrumble - yabu for saying 'toilet'

What? Why is writing in plain English unreasonable?

I'd rather toilet than the old fashioned way some of the Brits speak like 'loo' (I want to scream every time I see this on here) or even worse lavatory. Toilet is the actual term used in most of the English speaking world, not loo or lavatory. Or bathroom like the yanks use.

They should have said "arse".

My patients often get cross as me for saying words like "sacrum" and tell me to stop being posh and just say "arse". Wouldn't go down too well with little old Mavis in her country cottage though ...

"Hiya Mavis, I'm here to check your arse".

And the correct word for "toilet" is bog. Ask anyone.

"Shithouse" is also acceptable depending on who you're talking to (again, probably not little old Mavis)

I've never understood the toilet thing, I always say toilet so must have been shocking all my friends and acquaintances for years.

Yes, toilets have signs saying TOILET ----> so it can't be that bad!?

Lavatory and loo always sound cringingly hyacinth bouquet to me.

The whole point of headlines is to convey lots of info in a short space and to catch the reader's attention.

It does both.

@SalemBlackCat

My GrandMIL used to say water closet.

I assumed that loo/lavatory was the more modern term and water closet a super old-fashioned one in the UK?

(We used to call it bath or WC [the German term] when I get
was little... I remember my friends in kindergarten being confused when I told them that I wanted to used their bath when I needed to go to the 'toilet')

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