Just seen this on tv advert!??

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Sat with my dd(6) and this advert comes on tv for a family game...called Smart Ass. Also shows a picture of a target covering the animals butt. Dd is looking at me saying Ass is swearing.
Opinions please or is it just me that was surprised by this.

Well if the animal is a donkey, YABU. If not, then I would also raise an eyebrow.

An Ass is another word for a donkey?

If it's a donkey on the game. yabu

Ass is not swearing. Even if you're thinking of the American usage it's vulgar at worst.

Just googled the game, it has a donkey on the front. Also, ass isn’t swearing. There isn’t an opinion here, this is something about nothing.

Only in that it sounds like arse which I do consider swearing.

Ass and arse aren't swearing

Only in that it sounds like arse which I do consider swearing.

Not in my accent it doesn't

i'd class arse /butt together and they wouldn't bother me.
But us Irish do love a good swear, I have to turn the radio down sometimes on the school run!

Are you mixing up Arse with Ass.

It’s an ass so yabu but there are a lot of toilet humour board games about at the mo. As someone who doesn’t mind toilet humour I think it’s a bit ott at the mo.

In UK English

An ass is a donkey from the Latin 'asinus'
An arse is a bottom

In American English

An ass is a bottom, it's use is problematic for a donkey
An arse doesn't exist

Edit:

It looks like the American usage of ass has also come from the latin but in its other usage as 'dolt or fool' and originally had nothing to do with bottoms.

It’s a mildly ‘naughty’ pun. If that’s the worst you live ever seen on telly in terms of swearing you’re doing well.

Are you clutching your pearls over this op??

We have this game. It's great fun! misses point entirely

We love this game!

Come back to me when they advertise Cunting Connect 4

OMG. Your poor DD. It's possible she's corrupted for life but just in case she isn't I think it's probably best that you get rid of the telly until she's 21. Oh - and don't send her to school. The first word my kids learnt at school was FUCK.

Come back to me when they advertise Cunting Connect 4

Double pack with Bastard Buckaroo?

When you say a person is being an ass, you're saying they are being annoying, like a stubborn donkey. You're not comparing them to someone's bum.

Donkey
Scientific name: Equus asinus

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ass
Origin
Old English assa, from a Celtic word related to Welsh asyn, Breton azen, based on Latin asinus.

Haha no, i find it funny. I have a sense of humour and def swear myself so it wasn't a serious post in that way. And yes...looks like I have confused the two. Feeling a bit embarrassed now.
Iklboo...Haha.

Okay guys just googled it and yes I'm v embarrassed right now.....will have to give dd a grammar lesson on this .....And myself

It's a really good game!