To ask what 'rude words' you weren't allowed to say as a child?

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Mine was 'Pee' or 'Poo'. Ridiculously unacceptable!

I wasn’t allowed to say fart, it was bum wind🤣. My Nan wasn’t allowed to say bottom, she had to say BTM

This thread reminds me of the old Flanders and Swan song.... goes something like "Ma's out, Pa's out let's talk rude - Pee Po Belly Bum Drawers!"

Growing up, bloody was the strongest word I heard at home, but my children still remind me of the time when something fell out of a cupboard and I said "oh s**t", and tried to convince them when asked that I'd said "oh, it slipped!!" They didn't believe me

I do love the knots some people tie themselves up in when trying find euphemisms for things like farting.

Not allowed to say 'knackered', and not allowed to say 'pub'. Had to call it 'the drinks shop'. Always wondered if this was so I didn't go to school the next day and tell my teachers I'd been taken to the pub!

Fart used to be considered awful, pump and trump were used.

These days I think trump for fart has actually taken on a better ring to it, as there is now one in the White House. President Fart is a very apt name for him

Thought of more!

Wasn't allowed to say 'chipper' had to say chip shop. My mum still cringes now if I say chipper. Also not allowed to say 'icer' for ice cream van. Apparition was common. All my friends called it this but not me!

My mum hates my kids saying 'oh my god', always corrects them to say gosh. Doesn't bother me in the slightest!

Apparently not apparition

No words were banned as a child apart from obvious swear words.

However when i worked in a nursery aged 17 which was my first job i affectionately called a child a little bugger. A older member of staff said that was a swear word!

I wasn;t allowed to say any words considered remotely rude and I never did. It never crossed my mind, in fact.

Which is ironic considering what a potty-mouth I became after leaving home - despite being Northern (Yorkshire) and having completely Northern vowel sounds, because I only learnt to say 'fuck' at university, I say it like someone off EastEnders ("fahk!").

I once got a real roasting for using the word arse. Like others, knackered and fart were banned too.

I wasn’t allowed to watch Gremlins for some reason.

Fart (we said smelly pop), Silly (may as well have called someone a cunt), Oh my God/ Gosh/ Golly (direct and indirect blasphemy), Jeez (blasphemy), hate, shutup, ugly (kind of agree with those ones).

Funny enough because my parents aren't from this country, we got away with saying crap, prick, twat a lot (even at primary school age) because they didn't know they were bad words.

My dad forbade me from answering any question with "I don't know", as he reckoned it made me sound ignorant! His view was that it's better to say something even if it's not true... Bizarre!

When I was about 5 or 6 my mother told me that the next time my brother teased me I should tell him to f#ck off. So, yeah... there weren't really any off limit words.

We weren't allowed to say pretty much anything even slightly rude. And we never even acknowledged bodily functions let alone had words for them.

But my favourite banned word, because it's so ludicrous, was 'plonker'. Apparently it means penis? I just thought it was a funny word. It made my mum go al cats bum mouth though.

If we said oh my god or anything with 'god' in it, my mom's reply is 'I hope you're praying!' She still says it but she doesn't even go to church anymore.

No swearing. I remember my mum freaking out at my older sisters copies of My Guy magazine when she looked through it and saw cow in one of the photo stories.

Pee and poo - #1 and #2.

Farts - pumps, trumps, blow off, let off.

Periods - p’s.

We didn’t have a word for vagina because those things weren’t discussed. 😂

Fart
Belly
Shut up
Poo
Willy (winky exceptable)
Bum
Oh God
Vexed
Idiot
Stupid
The list goes on but now as a parent actually agree with most.
Fart seems acceptable now though, even teachers say it 😱

Bogey
Bum
Fart
Wee
🙄

Fart was pump
Snot was boggle
Poo was job

All very strange

Oh god, I still remember the rifting I got for telling my mum that my friend at the zoomed told an elephant to move its far arse... if she’d gone any more cat’s bum mouthed her face would have turned inside out.

The first time I heard her say fuck I nearly fell out of the car with shock.... it was open season after that though