AIBU to think ‘Fart’ isn’t a swear word.

[Toddlerteaplease]

Aged 44, my mum had told me off for complaining that their cat farted, when sitting on my knee. Apparently fart is a swear word. 🤣🤔

Ha ha, I'd probably say "God, that stinks"

It would have been classed as ‘coarse speech’ in my household growing up 😆

Really???

This is all so strange to me! How repressed.

Think we have the same mums!

Not a swear word here. We’re a farting family.

Also a swearing household. No words are banned.

I'd say crap is swearing but only just. In ascending order of rudeness I'd say for the main actual swear words it's crap bloody tit bugger arse sod bollocks bastard dick cock twat wank shit fuck cunt. I've probably missed a few, and there's scope for a lot of movement around mid-table. Fart's not there though, it's very much in the second division of rude words.

Not a swear word but, like a few pp’s, I hate it. Because of what it means, I imagine I can smell it, just by the word being said out loud. In fact I think I can smell it now just reading the word on my screen🤣

It’s not swearing but it’s a crudité

What, like a carrot stick?

I thought Pump was a Scottish word for fart as I’ve not heard it outside of visiting family.

I for one take great pleasure in hollering “WHO PUMPED” at the top of my lungs in my broad Scottish accent at everyone in my English household.

Anyway, Fart isn’t a swear word and Pumped isn’t cringe.

Well spotted. There’s nothing like having to explain a joke, is there? Thanks 🙄

Much rather a fart than a parp or a bottom burp or a pump or love puff or whatever else
stupid “cute” thing people want to call it.

It’s a fart it’s flatulence.

I also feel the same about people who call a vulva or vagina a flower, petal, fufu, tuppence, penny or any other again weird random name.

It is rude though. I hate hearing young children say it. It isn't a word to use in polite company, so I would not expect a child or adult to use it in the classroom at school for example.

What’s polite company?

The king then yeah I wouldn’t fart nor would I announce one.

My mum? Well she’s wiped my arse 🤷🏻‍♀️ What’s a fart between between us 😂

A class room full of farting boys. Is exactly where I’d expect to hear it.

My mother used to almost fucking faint if I or one of my siblings said it when we were kids.
Dad used to say it occasionally and make us laugh. Mum used to get a right pisser on. Ridiculous.

This is hilarious!!! I am not close to my Mum but I can bloody well tell her if her cat farted on my lap 🤣

How is the correct terminology rude?

I agree with those saying it's just a word and I cannot abide nonsensical terminology like pump, fluffy or break wind.

Oh right. A joke. OK then …

My mum was on the phone with me the other day and I swear I felt the fart down the phone as well as heard it 😂😂 she goes yeah I just farted. I know. I heard it 😂😂

I’m sure you’re ok in Royal company:

John Aubrey, in his Brief Lives, records the appearance of the Earl of Oxford (1550-1604) at the court of Elizabeth I:

“This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.”

Love it.

I bet they are actually the least likely to care. The proper toffs probably just see it as it is a natural thing that happens not something that’s shameful.

🤣🤣🤣 farts are funny (and so is the word)! People need to lighten up 🤣🤣🤣

I swear like a trouper and weirdly I absolutely hate that word. I won’t really know why. I never use it and I really don’t like hearing it. My parents never said it, my children never say it and I’ve never dated anyone who says it… i know what it is about it I just really don’t like it.

https://www.nhs.uk/symptoms/flatulence/

nhs uses fart, so it’s not a swear word. Fart it is.

It's not a swearword but it is crude. I had to say "pump" as a child ;)

My son's childminder told me off for saying I was knackered. Is that rude?