Crap is as sweary as fuck

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This is an assumption that I have, and DH has just learned but is vehemently opposed to. He thinks crap is LESS sweary than fuck. WTF??!!

Babdoc

Crap isn't sweaty enough for me - you either swear or you don't, anything in between is a bit useless and crap isn't a very satisfying word in my opinion. So it's fuck or nothing in this house.

I believe "crap" means "rubbish". It is also a losing move in craps (the game). Although I have just looked it up in a dictionary and am somewhat delighted to learn it derives from the Anglo-Latin "crappa" or chaff, which means "residue from rendering fat" and also "dregs of beer". Mind you, I would definitely consider fat residue and beer dregs to be rubbish.

squishedgrapes Crap is not swearing, it's just like the word shit

Well, Shit's a proper sweary word! Higher than Damn and bloody. IMO.

It's not up there with

Cuntfuckbastardshitwankerarsetwat (my last expletive after barefoot kicking the metal ladder of DS's bed).

Crap isn’t a swear word at all. It means rubbish around here. Example: “please move your crap off the table”... it might be used for a level of annoyance but that’s it.

Crap is not sweary at all. Fuck is definitely sweary.

I don’t think ‘stupid’ should always be banned either. Calling someone stupid is mean. But if DD did something that nearly lost her a limb then I’d tell her it was a bloody stupid thing to do. Sometimes stupid is exactly the right word. It doesn’t mean a person IS stupid.

Crap isn't a swear word

Crap is nowhere near the same level as Fuck. Don’t be insane!!

How about ‘berk’? I used to think it just meant a fool. Apparently it from Cockney rhyming slang and means cunt!!

I don't think it is swearing and my own nan used to say it.

Crap can be used in films rated PG.
Whereas if they say Fuck the film is rated 15. Therefore, Fuck is officially considered swearier than crap by a significant margin.

I work in a school and I could get away with using the word crap in front of my Sixth Formers but definitely couldn't say Fuck in front of them. Actually, I did once let a "fuck" slip out in front of some younger students when I dropped something heavy on my foot but fortunately, none of them grassed me up

If in doubt, say "crapulation" to be on the safe side. I know somebody who did this as a way of polite swearing.

Isn't Thomas Crapper credited with inventing the toilet, or is that a myth?

Nevermind blaming your parents have you been living in a nunnery?!

I noticed people used it, I just graciously allowed it

I don’t see crap as a swear word at all, maybe it would get a 1/10 out on a sweary scale but I can’t think of many circumstances I wouldn’t be happy to use it.

I don’t like swearing, which my teen dc respect, and don’t swear around me. I wouldn’t be too bothered by cr@p and use it occasionally myself, but wouldn’t use the f word at all.

After a bit of a debate DH and I have concluded that the scale of sweariness, from least sweary to most sweary goes

Damn
Bloody
Crap
Arse
Shit
Piss
Bugger
Bollocks
Wanker
Twat
Fuck
Cunt

Interesting. I thought about how shocked I would be if my 6yo DD came out with each word and think my list would go:

Crap
Damn
Bugger
Bloody
Piss
Twat
Arse
Dick
Bollocks
Shit
Wanker
Fuck
Cunt

I completely forgot about Dick! I think I'd put Dick as worse than Bollocks but not as bad as wanker.

I have said crap, damn, pants in front of children at school. I have not said piss, shit, bloody, and certainly not fuck or cunt. I am quite sweary, but never swear at people. If you're swearing at people, stupid is just rude as fuck.

I was a tiny bit shocked when my nine year old son said piss instead of wee the other day and told him not to say it. I wouldn't mind crap.

To be honest I think I am quite sweaty though, cunt is the only swear word I don’t often use as part of my vocabulary with friends. It’s the only one I think occasionally manages to have a little of the shock factor behind it for me when I hear it.