Bad language current at the most ment

It’s when people drop the ‘t’ in the word that it offends me!

I find the word vulgar and unladylike.

Sorry, couldn’t resist this!

nanna8

Farting isn’t a rude word in Australia which has led to some confusion in the past. Years ago an Australian friend took her baby to a clinic in the uk and reported that he farted all the time to be met with a look of horror. We had a good laugh about it when she returned. I could think of other words similar that have different connotations here . Wog is one of them- it is not what you think of and not a racist term . It often means you have an illness here , as in stomach wog.

It's quite a shock to hear words used in Australia which have a different meaning than they do in the UK, nanna8.

Your mention of the word wog, an absolute no-no here, I know means something different there and is not derogatory at all. It just means someone of Italian or Croatian extraction.
I remember an Italian/Australian friend of SIL asking me if the daft film "The Wog Boy" had been released in the UK. My face must have been a picture but he couldn't understand why.
There's a new film being released this year I think, the third one ?

Grannynannywanny

At risk of lowering the tone, does anyone remember when public toilets had a coin operated slot on each door which required a penny?

I remember going to the cinema in the early 60s with my school friend and her mum. I always regarded her mum as rather prim and proper. Until we all visited the toilet before our bus home. She came out of the cubicle and declared “Here I am broken hearted, paid a penny and only farted!

Yes a big old penny.We had those toilets in the village and my friend and I regularly used to climb over the separating walls into them, at the time we thought it was a great lark but then so was walking around on the water house roof with our eyes shut… oh the fearlessness /stupidity of youth….?

I am reminded of John Aubrey's story about the unfortunate duke who farted in front of Elizabeth 1st. The next time he came to court he was worried about her reaction but she said "Don't worry My Lord I have forgiven the fart" If the word was good enough for a queen who am I to argue?

Farting isn’t a rude word in Australia which has led to some confusion in the past. Years ago an Australian friend took her baby to a clinic in the uk and reported that he farted all the time to be met with a look of horror. We had a good laugh about it when she returned. I could think of other words similar that have different connotations here . Wog is one of them- it is not what you think of and not a racist term . It often means you have an illness here , as in stomach wog.

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.

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.).

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

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

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.

It's not the nicest word, though.

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

I don't think fart is a swear word

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 ?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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?