where have they gone?

SKIM even!!! Oops!

Couldn't really bring myself to do more than skum through 6 pages of nitpicking abozt the F word and comments about saints but has anybody commented that some " contributors " have disappeared because they must have heard the billy goats gruff trip tripping over their bridge? And good riddance perhaps ?

roses 'lawks a mercy'. You should hear my WI particularly at Playreading Group. I enjoy a good swear then when it is written into the part. I too lost some asterisks. Started with five but only one came out. Perhaps they are rationed for Health and Safety reasons

That's been in common use in Ireland for many years.

Or 'fecking' from Father Ted?

Or ducking! That is a word.
Is that what they meant by a ducking stool for scolds I wonder?

We could say 'bucking'. Like Mrs Brown.

I did indeed, and I fall into the second category, not the third,as I can never use swear words appropriately or effectively [though I would like to.]
However I appreciate the irony used in your post, and also your marvellous spelling, which is superior to mine.
Perhaps we could all use the word 'naffing' [from sit-com Porridge] as our F word, it wouldn't cause any problems then. It's a generation thing really isn't it? It's become an everyday word for a lot of people younger than us.For me it's only either in pain or shock or [ok I admit it] in extreme anger, that the F expletive comes out.

You did ask!

roses as in:-

Those who have a such limited vocabulary every other effing word is an effing swear word, and they can't even think of an effing alternative.

Or those who are surprised into the odd word when they drop a large frozen chicken onto their bare foot and break an effing toe.

Or just possibly those people who have such an amazing way with words and a grasp of the vernacular way beyond others that they can tell a take, spin a story and make a point using this extensive vocabulary which may of course contain swear words, used appropriately and effectively.

Now I notice that I have spelled believe wrongly in above post! I can't win, it's been a tiring day, so am off for cup of tea and toasted hot cross bun.

I'm annoyed now, as all pedantic people will point out that I got the number of asterisks wrong!beleive me, I put them in correctly, but between the preview and the post message, some of them vanished without trace, spooky!

AKA different groups of swearers? As in group 1] the W.I. they all say, blimey, oh Hell, lawks a mercy. Group 2] Northern working men's clubs, they all say ,f** bast* boll** etc etc ? I'm wondering which group I would be in .... group 3 probably[keeps quiet about the name of that group and runs off.]

No problem with swearing when appropriate.

It depends on why you are swearing, I believe that there are different groups of swearers.

DEB Thanks !!


are you on the curry route as some of us are ?

I got the joke phoenix

Nonu you get two ! I don't like the 'F' word and swearing generally I'm afraid but have been known to use * (with adjoining letters ) when the going gets tough! What I would say is I choose not to use it but it really doesn't bother me at all what anyone else does. I like the crossing out line because it is usually done as a joke and often very clever.

and it's Saturday

Oh yes of course!

eff (f)-uckers

I suppose that's it. (perhaps you need to hear it straight from Billy Connolly)

I still don't get it.

'struggled'

petallus! I stuggled a bit with the joke as well, then realised it's a play on the word 'heifers' ('eifers). I didn't know Glasgow folk dropped their aitches...

. Oh yes, I see now!

This is what you wrote, petallus

'I might swap f*ucking for effing.'

I've gone a bit dumb now.

Ana did I add an asterisk somewhere instead of putting it in the middle?

I don't get the joke. I suppose everybody else does