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Help! need 'polite society' expression...

(64 Posts)
thatbags Wed 21-May-14 09:11:19

...that I can use in place of "bugger off".

Please, dear gransnetters.

Silverfish Wed 21-May-14 22:11:40

B.......cks I will be told off by GNHQ if I print the full word but it works for me. lol . if just part of anatomy after all

Galen Wed 21-May-14 22:56:41

What's wrong with bollocks?
I startled one of my clinical tutors by using the word when being been told that you could have a female haemophiliac.
I was correct. He was just testing us, but didn't expect THAT word from the nice polite, refined Miss B

POGS Wed 21-May-14 23:02:56

Why would you be told off by GN for saying bollocks.

confused

mamaa Wed 21-May-14 23:40:05

I find that 'do one', usually works! Said with venom of course!

jcdoh Thu 22-May-14 09:48:04

liked most comments-- but the tywarchen bont , I thought perfect and funny too !

tywarchen bont -means turf bridge--so turf is a sod of earth and bridge is between two safe places - or jump off ?

dywarchen I ffwrdd- was not translated ?

POGS Thu 22-May-14 12:07:42

A bit like 'El Torro PooPoo' --- Bull S--t grin

Atqui Thu 22-May-14 12:09:14

Way beyond the call of duty!

AlieOxon Thu 22-May-14 12:45:44

jcdoh it was translated for me by google translate

suelowe Thu 22-May-14 13:33:52

Maybe not more polite, but I like "Sod that for a game of soldiers !"

FlicketyB Thu 22-May-14 15:28:20

Scheisse, the German word for Merde (French), comes of the tongue better.

BeeWitch Thu 22-May-14 15:31:34

Perhaps 'go away impolitely' - at best they will and at worst give you an odd look ...

mrsmopp Thu 22-May-14 16:03:17

"Or, as they say in Polish, Pissky Offsky."

(They don't really say that in Polish, but it can raise a laugh without offending anyone).

dorsetpennt Fri 23-May-14 15:17:46

Bugger off seems fine to me