Random Daily Banter

[BoldonLad]

To counter this, while my good lady was in the town centre yesterday she saw a fight (because a fella had said something in front of the bairns, which was apparently unacceptable but facial rearrangement was fine) and Gregg's get robbed.

Quiet day then? 😂

 

[briantrumpet]

Never trust any publication that hasn't got the balls to write swearwords unb*wdlerised.

Not exactly a grawlix...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix

 

[CXRAndy]

This cheers me up. Seems that the UK is a world leader in one important aspect at least.

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Uk- World number 1 for rape of women

 

[First Aspect]

Darndiddlyarndarndarn seems to be almost exclusively a US swear word.

 

[icowden]

Darndiddlyarndarndarn seems to be almost exclusively a US swear word.

The US tends to fixate on religion so Darn, Heck, Damn, Hell all count as swearwords to them.

 

[First Aspect]

They are very prudish over there. Hence, ex pat Aussies, Kiwis and Brits tend to congregate and miss home collectively.

 

[Pblakeney]

The US tends to fixate on religion so Darn, Heck, Damn, Hell all count as swearwords to them.

You want to try telling one of them to "shut up". That's about as abusive as you can get!

 

[Beebo]

The US tends to fixate on religion so Darn, Heck, Damn, Hell all count as swearwords to them.

My mum used to say damn was a swear word when I was young.

My friend, who was raised a catholic but isn’t religious, visibly winces if anyone blasphemes around him.

 

[icowden]

My mum used to say damn was a swear word when I was young.
My friend, who was raised a catholic but isn’t religious, visibly winces if anyone blasphemes around him.

My father (a keen entomologist from a young age), upon discovering that bloody was a swearword found that he could use it as much as he wanted provided he followed it with "nosed beetle".

Is bloody the only adjective swear word I wonder?

Fun facts: People who swear tend to have wider vocabulary than those who don't. Swearing works as a mild analgesia. Things hurt less when you swear.

 

[Pblakeney]

My father (a keen entomologist from a young age), upon discovering that bloody was a swearword found that he could use it as much as he wanted provided he followed it with "nosed beetle".

Is bloody the only adjective swear word I wonder?

Fun facts: People who swear tend to have wider vocabulary than those who don't. Swearing works as a mild analgesia. Things hurt less when you swear.

When I was a child swear words started at "bloody" which I was not permitted to use and you knew things were serious if Dad used it!
"Bleeding" and "blood" was permitted when referring to medical/nature use.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Is bloody the only adjective swear word I wonder?

I think 'bloody' as a swear word comes from 'By Our Lady' ie Mary. Like saying 'By Christ', I suppose. Some people used to say 'blinking' instead of 'bloody' as a more polite expletive. I think I read this is an abbreviation of 'By Our Lady's kin' ie Jesus, so kind of the same really, just that one retained a sweary vibe and the other didn't. I read this about 50 years ago in some ancient encyclopedia thing that my parents bought, probably for 2s 6d by post from the Readers Digest.

 

[Ian H]

I think 'bloody' as a swear word comes from 'By Our Lady' ie Mary. Like saying 'By Christ', I suppose. Some people used to say 'blinking' instead of 'bloody' as a more polite expletive. I think I read this is an abbreviation of 'By Our Lady's kin' ie Jesus, so kind of the same really, just that one retained a sweary vibe and the other didn't. I read this about 50 years ago in some ancient encyclopedia thing that my parents bought, probably for 2s 6d by post from the Readers Digest.

All listed in the Dictionary of Spurious Etymologies.

 

[icowden]

I think 'bloody' as a swear word comes from 'By Our Lady' ie Mary. Like saying 'By Christ', I suppose. Some people used to say 'blinking' instead of 'bloody' as a more polite expletive. I think I read this is an abbreviation of 'By Our Lady's kin' ie Jesus, so kind of the same really, just that one retained a sweary vibe and the other didn't. I read this about 50 years ago in some ancient encyclopedia thing that my parents bought, probably for 2s 6d by post from the Readers Digest.

It's been a bit disproven since then as a convenient but probably incorrect explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody

A popularly reported theory suggested euphemistic derivation from the phrase by Our Lady. The contracted form by'r Lady is common in Shakespeare's plays around the turn of the 17th century, and Jonathan Swift about 100 years later writes both "it grows by'r Lady cold" and "it was bloody hot walking to-day"[4] suggesting that bloody and by'r Lady had become exchangeable generic intensifiers. However, Eric Partridge (1933) describes the supposed derivation of bloody as a further contraction of by'r lady as "phonetically implausible". According to Rawson's dictionary of Euphemisms (1995), attempts to derive bloody from minced oaths for "by our lady" or "God's blood" are based on the attempt to explain the word's extraordinary shock power in the 18th to 19th centuries, but they disregard that the earliest records of the word as an intensifier in the 17th to early 18th century do not reflect any taboo or profanity. It seems more likely, according to Rawson, that the taboo against the word arose secondarily, perhaps because of an association with menstruation.[5]

 

[AuroraSaab]

It's been a bit disproven since then as a convenient but probably incorrect explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody

I did wonder if it was an urban myth (from before urban myths were a thing) because those old Readers Digest books were full of all sorts of implausible but fascinating stuff, like what the Easter Island heads were about and why you shouldn't walk under ladders. This was way back when Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World was on tv and before the internet could crush childhood fascination with The Unexplained in a few clicks.