To love swearing...

[McSnail]

I quite enjoy swearing (time and place allowing) It can be quite hilarious (think Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It)and it really doesn't offend me when done properly, iykwim.

One of the things I like about Mumsnet is that posters aren't treated like teenage miscreants - no words are censored, you can say what you like (more or less) and many a time I've found myself spraying coffee all over my screen at some foul-mouthed turn of phrase...

I use another forum (not a parenting one) and it REALLY pisses me off when words are blanked out by the cat's- bum- mouth swear filter. We can't even say 'tit'.

DD (3) now constantly says 'DS is a little PEST! He's not a little BUGGER because BUGGER is a bad word, so we don't say BUGGER, we say PEST'

I swear but I hate hearing people just randomly swearing in the street, have a bit of decorum ya bastards and save it for Mumsnet

Ah apologies McSnail. Time and place, righto!!

I dont care if people wanna swear. I dont and I will ask friends not to depending why they have sworn. Randomly - then i ask them not to. (If they carry on after that, which most of them dont, i will bite my tongue, who wants to be a nag!!) Through anger or irritation then i dont mind.

When I was in my teens you didnt hear me saying a sentance without swearing ( i thought i was a hard arse ) but now i dont see the point... Go me!

This thread is dangerous - I have noticed a definite increase in the foulness of my language since posting here as CuntFlaps earlier.

Including posting "It sucks arse" "when everything goes tits-up" on a birthday thread!

Although I must say - I hate it when mothers have a mouth like a seasoned navvy at the school gates. Which seems to happen everyday at DS's school

bloodybuggeringfucknuts

It just makes me happy saying it. My kids are strange little Puritans (not that I swear overtly in front of them or encourage them to swear either..) but DS aged 7 wouldn't say what the capital city of Holland was as he claimed it had a swear word at the end of it :|

shouting "YOU CAN'T" is almost as good as the real thing and can be covered up nicely.

Love a good swear.

(scots swear the best )

haha fannybaws is good

Totally agree Mets. Scots do swear the best.

LeninGrad - have never heard that! And am quite shocked, actually.

MrsDav, your children sound sweet. However, there is now, and there is later. When I was about 13, I wouldn't read out damn in something we were reading aloud at school. My teacher read it out for me. It made me blush at the time, but not half as much as I blush, remembering it now. "Sheesh", was I a little prig or what?

a stint in A&E did ma swearing capacity nae end o good.right which wan o'ye cuntybaws just shouted/used ma cup/stole ma pen.haha and that was just the heidbanging staff

Wouldn't mind if they were sweet WingedVictory, they are hellions in every other way lol

the thick of it is v funny all the swearing

Why the caps, sm? You've gone all formal

oh aye logged in, it offered me both as i typed in.felt all fancy pants and went for it

I love swearing I'd really miss it if I had to stop... when i was 5 I said the word bloody at school and my teacher told me off. Apparently I replied,

"Bloodys in the bible, bloody's in the book, if you don't bloody believe me bloody have a look."

I think my grandad taught me it...

What a fucking briliant thread!!

I like Fucktard and Wank breath among others!

smeg face is a school classic

Had a friend who was surprised to find the positives in her 2 year old shouting 'Get that fucking dog away from me!' at some mild mannered lady on the park. She later pointed out the he had constructed the sentence correctly and expressed himself succinctly. Her mum, who was actually with the child at the time, had to go home for a lie down though...!

Totally agree that I try not to swear in front of my DC but sometimes it just happens (usually when driving ).

Umm, tough one. Think I'd be proud of the little fucker.

rampoozle, I love the little boy's correct sentence construction! It reminds me of when I was teaching English and decided to have a lesson on swearing. They had asked (and were adults in evening class). I wrote on the board something like "What do you think you are doing," and told them how many "fucks/fuckings" I calculated could be included, for a sentence which would still be grammatically correct. They looked anew at the sentence, with great horror.

I got a lot of material (for the lesson, of course), from "Swearing", by Geoffrey Hughes, which I got out of the British Council library. This is the British Council which is responsible for encouraging the propagation of the English language throughout the world. Bless the person who sneaked "Swearing" onto the book list! One tale which I still remember was two nuns trying to get a mule to move. They eventually decide to goad it with a bit of swearing: the word "bougre" (bugger). Though bound to be pure-mouthed, they were evidently flexible-minded dames, who somehow managed to negotiate the word they would produce, and that each of them would repeat one syllable, in a round (think of "Frere Jacques"). According to the tale, the mule moved! This must be the origin of the practice of swearing at drivers in the way!

Incidentally, according to "Swearing", a lot of the outbursts on this thread would constitute "flyting" - obscenity-laden insults issued as a kind of social challenge and entertainment in (I think) Anglo-Saxon society. My OED calls "flyting" a "scolding match". Hail, then, all you flyty scolds!

cariboo

It is awful when skanky tattooed parents swear at their kids on the bus though. "Chelsea, fookin gerrere" and all that.

Fantastic thread!!! OP YANBU!

I love fuckwit, it is my no. 1 swear word....
DH has always said "cock", a la James May.

To taramuddle, "killing in the name of" is an excellent song, in fact I love the whole that Rage CD. Can remember seeing them in concert with DH (BC), both going mental in a field, in Tennessee.
See, swearing is vital to long-lasting, happy memories!

Can't remember who said pissflaps, made me totally pmsl!

Fuck is great. But, as my name may tell you, I have gravitated towards frak as an expletive (no, no I?m not swearing, it?s a made up word from a TV show about a spaceship, honest)...

Bugger I use a lot!

Sh....ugarplumfairyontoast when I?m around children and forget I?m not supposed to say shit. Also 'oh expletive'

Putain can be elongated to putain de merde, which I love. Many French, Italian, Dutch and Welsh swearwords in my vocab - particularly love go stick your head up your arsehole when said in Welsh but I have no idea how to spell it!

Don?t use the C word though. Never have, doubt I ever will.

Oh and 'killing in the name of' is the ONLY song to play at full volume when driving around military bases

Lol

For fuck sake my fridge door has just fallen off!