New swear words—really good ones

Just to set the record straight. It wasn’t MaryEliza who sent me the PM to complain Eglantine .

Eglantine I think you got the wrong end of the stick there. MaryEliza wasn't complaining - gillybob was merely replying to an earlier post by ME, saying no, it wasn't TM. IYSWIM [winl]

X post gillybob!

And I have no idea what emoji I thought 'winl' would be

Oh as well as being “ill bred” , I apparently “only think of myself, having no regard for other people’s sensitivities”

All for using the “bloody” word . Talk about overreacting .

Gillybob, I also got PMd.

Someone pulling me up on a typing error, asking if I actually knew the meaning of the word viscous. Of course I had meant viscose. Oh to be so perfect.

Thanks for that Bathsheba

Eglantine jumping to conclusions because it was me - it as a bloody joke, anyone could see that- except you of course.

Yup that’s me. Totally dumb.

Anyone here a fan of Agatha Raisin (the books not the TV) her swearing is 'Snakes and Bastards'.

My Grandpa used to say 'stone the crows handsome'.

gillybob that’s just awful. What a shame she didn’t have the guts to express her ill conceived ideas openly. A real coward. You must have found thst very hurtful. seacliff, you too, pulled up for a typo. They should be “outed”!!

Yes, actually just after I'd posted, another poster did point out my error on the post, in an amusing non judgemental way, which I laughed at, and was not at all offended by.

It just seems weird to bother to PM something like that.

I recently read Margaret Attwood's novel, 'Hagseed', in which a group of prisoners performs a version of The Tempest. The director won't let them use their usual swear words, but asks them to find terms in the text that they can use as oaths instead. The results are hilarious. Shakespeare is a goldmine of oaths and curses. Among my favourites is
:Thou bottled spider, thou poisonous bunchbacked toad', (Richard III)
though I am sure that bunchbacked would be condemned nowadays as discriminatory.

And very unpleasant with it. E21

I wouldn’t repeat some of the swear words my ( Tyneside pitman) grandad used Teetime that really would invite trouble . Mind you he hated the word “pig” and insisted we say “piggy” or “ grunter”

Actually thinking of my grandad he did sometimes call Mrs Thatcher “a bloody basket “ . He blamed her for everything wrong in the world including bad weather.

I always used "Blood and sand" when I was younger. I do remember as a child using the cockney "Blimey" (no idea where I got it from) and being sternly told that it was blasphemous and an invitation to God to blind me. Blasphemy used to be a great sin. Everyone seems to use OMG regularly now.

Barsteward!

I like to use “Gordon Bennett!” Or “Flaming Nora!” Also partial to a “Bloody Hell” or a “Blimey” as well. (Hope the phantom PMessenger is not on here, I could get it in the neck). My friend likes “Flaming Henry!”

At the risk of being thoroughly chastised, my current favourite is 'Cockwomble'. No apologies given. It is (to me) a new swearword. Those of a delicate disposition shouldn't even bother to read this thread.

My gran used "Well I'll go to the bottom (might have been top) of our stairs".

I had been known to use frig or frigging till a dear friend pointed out the meaning whilst we were out one evening ????????????????????????

Greyduster ?
That’s great, I may appropriate that for future use, thanks.

No words to contribute, sadly, but love this thread, and have now acquired some!

I have been known to use ' Bullocks' and 'Trolley buses' when near small ears !

I still quite like "Hell's Bells and Buckets of Blood"