Hells Bells!

Sugar
Flipping flap
Gordon Bennett

As there are quite a few Gordon Bennett's on here I'm reminded of my childhood home. As our neighbours were the families of Gordon's who were the neighbours of the Bennett's.

Use Wallet....my children thought it was a real swear word....hee hee...

In my family home, 'ooya!' always heralded an inappropriate escape of wind, and 'flaming hellfire' was a paternal favourite. Nowadays, 'plonker', or even 'complete plonker' is usually directed at careless drivers; but I favour a very loud SOD IT when any object displeases. My OH favours 'Sheesh Kebab!'...but then he's always been a bit strange . I'm defo going to start calling the GCs 'blithering idiots' as a term of affection though!

I agree with you breeze I hate that word and up until recently it was rarely heard in public but I have noticed it in a few films and plays. Thank you for liking this thread I am trying like mad to think up some others that get us talking and laughing not debating and arguing.

My son is an actor and I saw him in a play recently where he had to say that word. I nearly tutted out loud! It's a great thread and at least some of the above words may stick as an alternative. Been some colourful language on here in recent times. Don't like it. I use plonker too! Forgot about that before. Wally? That's a good un. I suppose some films wouldn't be so realistic (Guy Ritchie for example, Lock Stock etc.) without the language but most of us realise it's for poetic license and certainly not for slinging at people on this site I hope.

Flipping eck
Oh my word
Goodness me
Hell's bells
DD says Seriously when the DGC don't do as they're told.
I'm enjoying this thread too. It's interesting if you ask other people to tell you what you often say. My GD told me I'm always saying A man on a galloping horse won't notice.

As I live alone, I do sometimes give vent to language I wouldn't want my GC to hear. For example, this morning when I saw a certain politician on TV. I told him in no uncertain terms what I wanted him to do. I leave that to your imagination.

No harm in that anno! Have done similar when stubbed toe on exercise bike, that is simply gathering dust, in the way and I never use!

Very good thread. I've been working on OH to choose an alternative word for use in front of GC. It hasn't worked so far so will show him these suggestions or install a swear box.
As someone else has mentioned it's the way the word is said rather than the word itself that relieves the feelings.

If someone wants something I don't agree with I say Norfolk and Chance

Schweppes
Biggleswade
then anything else, only if I'm alone.
DH gets very hot under the collar when a film/programme is announced as having "strong language" - "No, no, no", he shouts, "weak language - it's because they have no vocabulary"!
I'm not prudish [well, maybe I am] but i really don't like all those words used indiscriminately - Remember '4 weddings and a Funeral' beginning? DH wouldn't watch it because of the opening "F..ks"

My very religious eldery aunt used to say she'd done "duck all that day". She had no idea that it was a substitute for a swear word. Bless her.

I say Oh Sugar too!
Eldest son's wife is called Helen and he calls her Hells - she doesn't seem to mind.

Billy Connolly once did a skit on swearing. He came up with two, getifer and youbassa.

Totally meaningless but great when put together.

When I was a child, my parents used "Oh, carrots!" as an expletive. I live alone, so can express my feelings as I wish, but am trying to train myself not to, now that I am a proud granny. I'm creating my own version of rhyming slang, just to occupy my mind. Exotic place names like Timbuktu have their uses

EEJit If you think getifer and youbassa are meaningless, please don't ever use them when speaking to a Glaswegian. They are local parlance for 'get to f* and you b*****d. Still chuckling to myself!

Drat! But that possibly is a swear word to some. I don't use any of the euphemisms - just full blown I am afraid.

My english teacher(a spinster)suggested we used 'blue stockings' an expletive - mind you there was very little bad language in common use back in the mid fifties. Dad only used 'damn' or 'blast' if he hit his thumb with a hammer or something like that. Some of the swear-words sound ridiculous to me - just descriptive words used entirely in the wrong context.

Was chatting to a friend about someone who had upset her. She said "he can go forth and multiply" it took me a few seconds to realise just what she had said.

We Welsh have our own "swears".
e.g.:- yffach dân (fires of hell). Nefi wen (white heaven). Esgyrn Dafydd, (bones of David).

I favour the following:
Hell's bells and buckets of blood!
Blood and sand!
Dash, bother and blow!
Rats!
Fishcakes!
For heaven's sake!
For the love of Pete!

Blast and set fire!

Hell and damnation!

For Pete's sake!