Bad language current at the most ment

I find it crude and unnecessary. However, each robber own. Decidedly uncomfortable when GC use it in my presence.

The word doesn’t bother me - TBH I find the ‘nicer’ alternatives a bit twee. It was good enough for Chaucer, wasn’t it?
In our house they were often blamed on the (RIP) dog, though you could always tell - hers had a particular ‘bouquet’. But if anyone said, ‘Pooh! - was it you?’ to her, she’d look guilty and go and hide behind the sofa, poor thing!

It's just a word that describes a natural function. Not always a particularly pleasant one to be around, but not worth being offended by, IMO. I don't find fart jokes hilarious though - to me they would equate to sneeze jokes, except nobody finds sneezing funny either.

Can someone explain what the title is supposed to say please?

Yes, it should say ‘Bad language current at the moment’, something of an oxymoron really.

I don’t think I’ve ever talked about it! Why would I?

My GC ask Alexa to fart, which is always funny. I don't object to the word myself.

Blossoming

Yes, it should say ‘Bad language current at the moment’, something of an oxymoron really.

Aah! Thanks B
That’s why I didn’t understand it.
I thought that ‘current’ was a typo.
(I think that it’s a tautology)

But there’s nothing current about the word ‘fart’…
I’m over thinking this, aren’t I?

biglouis

It is only the "chattering" middle classes who object to so called bad language. The upper and lower classes dont give a damb what anyone thinks and swear away.

Cue for someone to come along and assert that there are no social classes in this country. How naive can you get.

I can attest to this, having worked in an aristocratic household when younger. It was very (to quote Julie Walters in Educating Rita) much, 'Pass me the fxcking pheasant'.

As to farting in front of others other than your family, bad manners.

We picked up a DVD of My Fair Lady in a charity shop this morning. It has a warning on the back "Contains mild swearing". As far as I remember it must be "Not bloody likely" and just that!

FannyC, you’re not wrong, there’s nothing new about fart, either the word or the act.

And yes, I meant a tautology. It’s Fridays, I’ve had a ‘difficult’ week …

Other people's smells are better kept to themselves when possible. Fart jokes may be socially useful as they tend to make people more realistic less twee.

Blossoming

DH’s surname (not mine)
means ‘fart’ in Malta
So, basically, if we ever go to Malta (spoiler: we won’t) he’ll be Mr Fart.
Thinking about it, it might be quite a laugh

It's why I always found Trump ridiculous even before all the crime. President of USA called the equivalent of President Fart. Meaning hot, foul smelling air.

grannyrebel7

My GC ask Alexa to fart, which is always funny. I don't object to the word myself.

My dear little brother (nearly 70!) has a fart-noise app on his phone, which he finds very amusing at certain apt moments.

FannyCornforth

Blossoming

Yes, it should say ‘Bad language current at the moment’, something of an oxymoron really.

Aah! Thanks B
That’s why I didn’t understand it.
I thought that ‘current’ was a typo.
(I think that it’s a tautology)

But there’s nothing current about the word ‘fart’…
I’m over thinking this, aren’t I?

But there’s nothing current about the word ‘fart

Well, the Miriam Margolyes thread is current .....

I was going to use the word fart on there ?

I don't think fart is a swear word

It's not the nicest word, though.

I expect it's because it was banned from our house, growing up.

But there's nothing current about a fart

Although ....
A current is a body of water or air moving in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement.

Which forces said current of air out with some force resulting in a trumpeting noise.

The word fart or farting doesn’t bother me at all When I was a small kid we called it a potch or potching I ve no idea if that was a colloquial thing or just our family
The saying used to be
Here we sit broken hearted
Paid a penny but only farted

Wher'er you be
Let your wind blow free
Church or chapel
Let it rattle

A sigh is a current of wind
Proceeding from the heart
But when it takes a southbound course
It’s commonly called a fart.

A fart is very pleasant
It gives the body ease
It warms the bed in winter
And suffocates the fleas.

(Learned from my father many years ago.).

My father used to say, "Better an empty house than a bad tenant". He claimed he was referring to belching, but I wasn't quite convinced.