Just spotted the pejorative use of the word “douche” in a BBC news item. is it mainstream now or sweary? Not saying I don’t swear in person and among mates, but I wouldn’t have put it in a news report. (It was quoting someone, but the opportunity was there to paraphrase.)

Edit:I see it sailed through the swear filter.

It’s something I hear a lot on American TV shows, not really heard people in England using it.

and the bag it came in.

Some kind of volvo cleaner I think?

just means shower doesnt it? 😯

French for Shower perhaps.

You are a “shower” bag Sir.

in the US it has a far more, errm, intimate association with personal hygiene.

Related to a vaginal douche.

Apparently ‘****’ isn’t a swear word when used in a poster campaign, according to the Advertising Standards Authority.

Still is on STW though (edit)! Clue – it’s a term used by Father Jack with one letter difference from the more conventional expletive.

Yea I know where it comes from, i.e. douchebag, a primitive form of DirtWorker for rudimentary cleaning of the office bike, but is it proper sweary like? For telly would it be “post watershed” whatever that means in Sky+Tivoland?

Thats ridiculous. Douche isnt swearing. Too much of this pc stuff going on now.

No not swearing imo.

Swearing or not, it makes you sound like an American teenager. I’ll let you decide whether that’s a good thing or not.

I still can’t believe “Fleck” without the “l” is a swear word on here. That sucks {edited}.

Could just use “fleck” instead, Darcy. Has a nice ring to it.

Well, as a matter of fact I do. 🙂

You clever little flecker, you!

I still can’t believe “Fleck” without the “l” is a swear word on here. That sucks {edited}.

Tut, tut. It’s a clear breach of the swearfilter avoidance rules and should be stamped out. It is neither big nor clever. 😀

Like Panhandle.

F(l)eck has been used for years. It was fine for a while here then one day it’s a naughty-naughty. ❓

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I must admit I find the whole ‘swear avoidance’ thing highly amusing. Of course it’s swear avoidance, that’s the whole point, to not bruise delicate sensibilities. To then find inoffensive words being blanked because they avoid swearing, which is the whole point, really rather ironic. History is filled with words used as expletives but which are chosen to not offend people. To then penalise people for choosing words as alternatives to profanity just seems pointless and, frankly, rather petty.
Oh well, frankly, my dear, I don’t give a frack.

If avoiding swearing is in the rules as being a naughty thing to do, then that rule has to be applied no matter what and is totally dependant on the interpretation of the reader and disregards totally the intention of the speaker/writer. It’s a fogging stupid rule and the crack that thought of it needs to be strung up by the bells, if indeed they have them.