GW.. you come across as a bit of a nob on here sometimes but admitting publicly that you've had the wool pulled over your eyes by a 9 year old is daft even by your standards..
but quite amusing
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the word **** in a song on CBBC?
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Posted 7 months ago #
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When I was a sprog I'd have had a smack round the ears for using that word.
I wouldn't use it in front of my mum now, and I turn 40 in three months.
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You wouldn't say "crap" in front of your mum??? Mental.
Maybe different areas associate different strengths of meaning to words, but it honestly just means something like "rubbish" to me (unless used in the particular sense of "going for a crap").
I believe "rubbish" is the original meaning, with the scatological interpretation only appearing after Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet.
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I remember saying "fart" as a nine year old in a temper and I was mortified.
I absolutely love swearing now though. The more the 'kin merrier I say.
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Except Thomas Crapper didn't invent the flush toilet.
Still, swearing in front kids is always a crapshoot.
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Except Thomas Crapper didn't invent the flush toilet.
Okay, so he only "popularised" the flushing toilet and invented the ballcock (also not rude).
Point is that branding like this:
May have led the existing word "crap", meaning rubbish, clutter, or nonsense to take on a second toilet-based definition.
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I vote Nope.
Reason? easy, I find the word offensive.Posted 7 months ago # -
May have led the existing word "crap", meaning rubbish, clutter, or nonsense to take on a second toilet-based definition.
"Crapping ken" as a toilet was recorded in 1846, apparently. Thomas Crapper was 10 at the time, I doubt he had much to do with it
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Yep I read the OED definition too.
But I'll bet few people said "I'm going to the crapper" in 1846. The actual etymology of crap is fairly vague. Chambers suggests that it comes from the 15 century, as crappe chaff, from Dutch krappe.
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You wouldn't say "crap" in front of your mum??? Mental.
Sorry, no, I meant the word that's the subject of the OP.
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Ah right. Mmmm I think that would depend on context. I probably call someone "a tw*t" in front of me mum, but I wouldn't use it anatomically, i.e. "ooooh he kicked her in the tw*t".
That's just rude
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i would call my mum a **** but only if she was being one
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yunki - Member
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GW.. you come across as a bit of a nob on here sometimes but admitting publicly that you've had the wool pulled over your eyes by a 9 year old is daft even by your standards..
but quite amusingwas said in a song by Dick and Dom on CBBC.
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****
was said in a song by Dick and Dom on CBBC.Oh excellent move, well played!! Anyone searching for the phrase Dick and Dom along with ****, will spend a lifetime on google. Like painting the forth bridge.
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was said in a song by Dick and Dom on CBBC.
aaaah.. well that's me told..
sorry sir..
was this in a dream that you had..?
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Did you get the lyrics GW? I'd be interested to hear the context to see if it justifies it (not sure how it could though)
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Did anyone see Stephen Fry talking about swearing on telly last night?
Suggested that swear words are an evolutionary adaptation whose use inbit violence.
The example they gave was toddlers biting as a reaction to negative events though this behaviour receeds when they learn to say **** *** *** ****.
They also had Fry and Brian Blessed put their hands in an ice bath for as long as they could without swearing; Fry, who is not a swearer, repeated the task but was allowed to say **** **** **** and doubled his time, Blessed on the other hand, who swears like a trooper performed worse despite the use of F****** B****** W***** B*******, suggesting using swear words too often reduces their magic powers.It'll be on catch up and was far better than I describe it, they also had a Tourets super hero, complete with cape.
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bollocks
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What a bunch of Dick and Doms you lot are...
CBBC is there to teach our bairns and Horrible Histories has more crap in it than any other. My 8 year old son and I regularly sing along!
'I'm the king that brought back partying'!
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they also had a Tourets super hero, complete with cape.
BISCUITS..!!
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Ah right. Mmmm I think that would depend on context. I probably call someone "a tw*t" in front of me mum, but I wouldn't use it anatomically, i.e. "ooooh he kicked her in the tw*t".
Of course this being the BBC they ought to have said "thwaite".
Disappointing drop in standards.
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All Chant after me.."Am..Wah..Tat..Wah..Tie" .. .."Am..Wa..Tat..Wa..Tie"..
and again.. c'mon now, all together?
Faster?
He he..
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I do like Dick and Dom
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we prefer "William Wallace Scottish rebel" or the four georges in my house. Horrible Histories should be watched by adults just superb
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