The poster who disliked blasphemy - my update for you!

[Lwrenagain]

I can't find the thread, im sure the first comment will be someone able to link it, however until that person arrives I wanted to give you an update on how I changed after reading the somewhat controversialish thread. After reading some of my go to phrases would upset anyone I tried to stop them.
I've pretty much cut out the "omg" type phrases for the following (usually, sometimes they're even more bizarre)

Jesus Chirst - Jesus and the Mary chain.
Good lord - good lucy in the sky.
Omg - oh my godzilla!

So I spoke about the thread to Mr lwren who decided we'd try swearing less, so we now use these as often as we can around the house.

The C word - what a countryfile/that countryside just cut me up!
F word - fungus/funions/fuchsia heck/sake/off/cheeky
S - oh ship! Why is there more ship everywhere after I've just tidied?!

Others include but aren't limited to...

Cockadoodledo
Dickensian headache
Wannabe
Twink
Pistol
Darkhole
Prickles

So to that poster, you've made my vocabulary far more interesting, thank you!

It might not be perfect, but I've definitely considered what ship flies out my mouth a bit more 😅 and made an effort to make little changes ♥️

I say 'sugar lumps' & 'fiddlesticks'. Very proud my 7 year old has never heard me swear 😅 he has heard me say OMG a few times though.

Fudge
Bollards
Sugar
Oh My Goodness!
For Helen's Sake! (We know no-one called Helen)

All used when DD was innocent 😇!

One of my favourite things about MN is the offensive language. Am I going to hell?

My teens think it's hilarious that I'm now the opposite and actually properly swear in front of them now.

So many years of being super careful about not swearing and now I can't be arsed. Not entirely sure why. Getting older? Marriage break up? DC getting older? All of the above?

I have a close friend who is an ordained priest and I have tried and mostly succeeded to moderate my language when it comes to blasphemy. I say golly, crikey and crumbs a lot.

I still do swear though i just try and do it less around my friend.

Shish kebabs and mangy dogs. No clue where I got it from but that's my go to when small kids are around

I was hoping for more blasphemy! Not less...

I like Dickensian Headache a lot.

That could catch on

Oh frogs!! Frog frog froggy frogs!!!!!

My language was and still is pure filth on here 😂

At home it's all about the countryfile!

Mumsnet made me less common purely by association, however hard I try though, my chicken will last 2 meals at most and I'll never be one with a tinkly laugh

Bring back fiddlesticks, poppycock and balderdash

I swear like a trooper. I do say, Shia Lebeouf a lot though instead of shit. I have no idea why.

@funbags3 and I've now stolen that for my collection 😂😂

I'd prefer more blasphemy in the world, personally.

Me too. I love a good swear. You can prise swear words out of my cold dead hands.

I'm stealing oh my godzilla. love my kaiju monsters.

this thread is really resonating with me. been trying for a long time to eradicate my swearing habit.

I swear like a absolute trooper most of the time. However, I used to work in a pre school so obviously didn't swear at all whilst there. Once a kid threw a solid wooden block at my head and it hit me just above the eye. If any scenario calls for a swear to take the pain away it was that but fortunately, my mind knew what it had to do before my mouth took over and I just uttered "oh sugar plum fairies" quite loudly.

Oh gosh, jeepers and dearie dearie me 🥴

Cheese an' rice

Got that off youtube

I fucking hate all this coy faux swearing. Bad language is highly therapeutic. My sister says ‘sugar’ and ‘fudge’ and it drives me up the bloody wall.

I cringe when people use different words for swearwords. There was a poster yesterday who said crab cakes and my left foot.

Give me a old fashioned fucking cunt anyday.

I cringe as well at the twee language. I think it's important to read the room with your language, but no way on this earth would I ever be saying crabcakes or something ridiculous like that.

You've reminded me of my mother's go-to exclamation - "Suffering catfish!"

I use "Siucra!" if the occasion calls for it - it's Irish for sugar, pronounced "SHOO-cra". It has that satisfying SH sound plus the K.

My favourite swear for a while was Jupiter's Cock! Thanks to the Spartacus series that was on 10 or so years ago.

As an agnostic, I try to avoid blasphemy but I have no problem with so-called obscenities. These obscene words relate to natural acts, body parts and functions, I don't see them as taboo.