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'.

Am I the only one who does actually swear a lot in the presence of my children? Usually when I've stubbed my toe or whatever. Lot's of For Fucks SAKE, and CUNTMINGEWANK. But dd (3, very verbal) never swears. Not sure why, but she just seems to edit it out. She does call out 'what's wrong, mummy? ' in response.

Think I will stop though, as it's not v ladylike and well, nice, is it. And have a feeling ds might copy too.

frakkinaround - according to google translate, mynd ffon eich pen eich arsehole.... does that sound about right?

i'm afraid i did swear in front of dd (8 months) this morning at 4am when dh's alarm clock went off after he pressed snooze for the third time (see also "things to say to dh" thread...) after i had been up most of the night with a very snuffly dd and we had just managed to drop off. ffs did feel very good at that point, but he is in a huff now.....

actually, it was more FFS!!!!!

i am potty mouthed.

cutesy swearing is fine, you know shitsticks etc

but nothing beats a good fucking cunting shite.

am pmsl at all the mums swearing more after watching the wire imagining them saying 'who you lookin at motherfucker!' as they park...

sarah harding for example, can't act.

i also like (altho don't use as would feel like poncey cunt) the italian (spelled phonetically) 'katzo di dio' i.e. god's prick.

how's that for a bit of blazing sweary blasphemy! they use it all the time!

I really can't come to love the word 'cunt'. I shudder when I hear it. But I do love a good, loud, solid 'FUCK!'. Nothing beats it for releasing stress and frustration. I don't swear much at home (kids around and DH isn't a fan), but I swear loads at work. 'Fuckety-fick-fack-FUCK!' is my favourite 'just got a paper cut / jammed the photocopier/ sent an inappropriate email to my boss by mistake' exclamation

The girl who sits next to me at work says 'Oh, for fanny's sake' a lot. Always makes me snigger childishly.

yes, the "c" word is a bit too hard-core for me... Ugh.

My first post ......one i used to say to my boss regulary...under my breath ... "go fuck your mouth up"!!

Well Penny, this thread's a good one to lose your cherry on!

I have found a way to keep my beloved swear words and be a mother to an unaware three year old!!

I'm going to swear in foreign languages. The first word I shall be intergrating is "branleur!". Tis french for wanker.

I know..i'm sold!!

I did keep one from my dad's old friend who is now in his 70's...
"stick it up your arse till it comes out your big toe"
It seems sufficiently rude and baffling to shut most flapping pieholes up.

Ooh and I know it's not really swearing, but when I said something particularly inane to my Dad once he said
"Well bugger me with a ragmans trumpet... Bell end first!"
I actually weed a bit IIRC. And now I say it on occasions when somebody is relating a particularly dull anecdote.

a few new comments on "cunt"

I remember years and years and years ago, watching episode of "A Stab in the Dark" and DAvid Baddiel saying he couldn't understand people (i think it was feminists) who said that the word cunt should not be used as a swearword and only allowed to describe the female genital.
He said he disagreed and "it should never be used to describe a vagina and always used as a swearword. It's got 3 hard consonants in one syllable 'kur', 'nur' and 'tur'" which makes it perfect for a swearword!

have to say i agree with him a lot on this.

Nope, can't learn to love cunt I'm afraid. Bugger and fuckwit are my unimaginative ones of choice. Cleaner at work is Turkish and is trying to teach me some good uns

ooh, let us know when you've learned some!

i had a big swearing quietly this morning (only quiet because my throat hurts and it was a busy road)
there's a junction I have to cross to come into town, and firstly, the car pulling out edged really really really slowly to the line from about 3 cars' lengths away, so I couldn't cross; then when i finally got to the middle, a car pulled straight into the junction (he did indicate) without even pausing, never mind slowing down, making me have to stop abruptly in the middle of the road, then i was just about to make a dash for it when another car did exactly the same fucking thing!

I just crossed the road going "fucking fucking fucking fucking car drivers watch for fucking pedestrians: fucking hell!!"

Oh my neighbours swear in the garden and i think its vile!!!! keep that for indoors and consider children about...........and we question the foul mouth youth of today!!!!