that irritable threads should have a flag that indicates to posters of a trivial disposition that this is not the the place for humour?

[OrmRenewed]

Perhaps a coloured icon that changes colour from green to red by registering the numbers of 'feck offs' and 'FFS!!' that occur.

I tend to dive in with a joke and then feel like I've burst into a room with a fart joke only to find that there is nasty domestic spat going on.

I want to know about MaMight's childhood. Where she gone?

Orm - just catching up on humorous wedding thread (thanks for the tip hully and pag). You said FFS in it. I just didn't think you were that sort of lady

I quite like FFS from an unexpected source.
If it is from someone who doesn't very often.

If you FFS often it just becomes a variant of[rolls eyes]

I once saw a very good use of christ on a bike.
I am jealous of people who can evoke an explosion of annoyance in print. I only used ffuck off once and got deleted. I have no style in these matters. I need to stick to fart joke parasiting ( that isn't a word)

pag Christ on a Bike is a goodie

I also like Man Alive!

Still chortling about some groom calling his MIL a cunt in his speech.

My mother once told me her dad said "we never really got on ..." during his speech.

< cross-pollinates threads confusingly >

at 'we never really got on...'

he is such a lovely bloke (cunt man as I shall now call him) but he started saying something about their parents teaching them 'there is no such word as can't' and then he said it wrong and tried to correct it..
Total car crash

I was at a wedding where the groom thanked the bride's father "for coming"

you could have heard a pin drop

At my sister's wedding my father said my mother looked lovely but fuck all about my sister...sorry to indulge the tangent....

posie
at my wedding my dad talked about how wonderful DH is and not one solitary word about me..
My sisters had always told me how wonderful the journey to the church was with dad, how he said such beautiful things they wept...

nice....

Oh I can trump that! DH talked about and thanked everyone in his speech - but never mentioned me!! His newly-acquired wife!

I will never forgive him. Never!

I'd really scrubbed as well

Oh well, FFS is deserved sometimes. If it can puncture pompsity and self-dramatisation. It can indicate mild annoyance rather than out and out hostility.

But too many, justaposed with 'Fuck off' etc can generate an atmosphere of hostility.

poor Orm. All pink and clean...

FFS is so much nicer than fuck off

I meant 'scrubbed up'. Not scrubbed. I don't even own a tin bath and a scrubbing brush.

I ffs'd yesterday.

First time ever.

I was quite proud of myself.

Nope, LeQueen. Not everyone does.

My mother didn't tell me either. In fact she's never said I look pretty or anything. When I taxed her about it recently she just shrugged and said 'You're all my children. I don't think about whether you're good-looking or not, I just got on with bringing you up'.

I had no answer to that, strangely.

Greensleeves... I've heard that one at a wedding too. Bride's father was a born again Christian too

I remember the infamous cod being given a flaming for joking. It was on a thread about the murder of prostitutes in ipswich i think. She said something like it reminded her of alan partridge or something like that. She wasnt being nasty just commenting, as you do when something inappropriate but funny just pops into your head. I felt quite for her for the reaction she got. It did make me chuckle as it happens quite to me quite alot.

quite sorry for the reaction...