there is a woman at school who is such a prissy pita that I couldn't resist saying the c word in front of her

[moopdaloop]

no children around and it was relevant to the conversation I was having, although wanker would also have done. The people I was talking to laughed and agreed

I never use the c word normally

Breevandercamplgj - I'm not as young as i would like to be

basically I was out of order and probably a bit pathetic - probably still am pathetic - it is nothing to be proud of and I'm not proud of it, but it still makes me smirk - which is totally immature and pathetic

Horrible word. Why are you so thrilled by this?

I would have found it pleasurable too. It's just a word for a start, and extremely prissy people irritate me. I do feel like provoking them for some reason.

Childish & vulgar

I must be a bit prissy too - would have probably flinched a bit, and would certainly have been shocked, if someone had said the c word in this way too. Not a word I come across at all generally, well bat on MN sometimes.

I wouldn;t be offended by the word, but I wuld flinch through shock at hearing it in such a situation I suspect.

I hear allsorts of language at work - male prison environment and all that - but it would be the environment and situation that would have been looking somewhat shocked. And I wouldn't be impressed.

Hula

You saved me a post re pointing out that you have worked in male prisons.

Well, bollocks! I think it's funny, moop

Probably childish. But on the other hand, I don't understand the effect a simple word can have on people. Why is this word so shocking? I don't get it.

it's not big and it's not clever

Yes Bree - and boy do I hear some stuff there! So I am no some delicate little flower who has never heard a swear word before. After some of the stuff I hear, and some of which is directed towards me, I can cope with it.

But think it is all to do with the enviroment and what is/isn't appropriate.

TBH being in the prison and hearing swearing all day there has certainly led to be just not swearing at all these days. I just sound shorrid when you hear them talking that way with every othe word a swear ord. I guess it is a way of distancing myself away from them and the prison environment.

Well if I have to explain it, you really are beyond understanding.

I am confused as you say it is never a word you normally use yet you used it as it was relevant to the conversation . What was the conversation and why the "c" word not a more appropriate anatomical reference?

Seems to me you were being a tad mean to thiswoman and showing off (as others have said really rather childish)

I'd be horrified tbh

and feel embarrassed for the person who said it

dh and I say it at home when doing jokey swearing and laughing at Derek and Clive

I think saying words traditionally thought of as extrordinarily rude in unusual places is the best way actually. Far funnier when unexpected.

I would actually find it pretty offensive, from a feminist perspective, and I'm very much not 'prissy'. I think you don't like her and want to upset her, which makes me wonder why on earth you are going out of your way to talk to her?

I must be prissy but am quite pleased to be, if the alternative is foul-mouthed and childish. I just don't see the point in swearing for shock value, or to try to feel big and clever.

anyway you have NO IDEA about this woman

hopefully she will laught about you with her dh then they will go upstairs and have fab filthy sex

Not sure why you wanted to make this other woman feel uncomfortable ina school environment though. And to have your mates all laugh too. She must have felt dreadful at the time.

I genuinely do not understand why this word is worse than others. Not trying to be provocative. But I am not a Brit so it might be something cultural.