Election Year or Fear!

[swaledale]

I didn't realize you were that slow at typing ��

Faster than your thinking it seems!

[Andy_Faber]

Plus I do lower myself so that some of those who are less literate on here don't feel intimidated.

…which comment just adds arrogance to the list of unpleasant things about you

[Andy_Faber]

May I "lean in"?

You've just made me feel slightly ill. One of the best things about my departing the 9 to 5 was leaving such phrases behind.

One fairly senior colleague of mine started to misuse the word 'erstwhile' to mean something like 'an upstanding one of the boys, nudge nudge wink wink he's on our side lads' rather than 'former', and it spread in a few weeks through the senior management team and, much to my amusement, in meetings with outside concerns

[Andy_Faber]

Agree totally about butchery of both the English language and style of pronunciation (the latter seemingly linked to our diversity / sub cultures)

Careful, you'll upset someone. But try impressing a PE client when your colleague inserts 'init' at random into the convesation

Not all about subcultures though, our local pub was graced on sunday with three chaps in hi-viz gear, one of which used the F word (I wasn't counting but the bar staff did) over 70 times, and he only had one pint!

[MadAmster]

Careful, you'll upset someone. But try impressing a PE client when your colleague inserts 'init' at random into the convesation

Not all about subcultures though, our local pub was graced on sunday with three chaps in hi-viz gear, one of which used the F word (I wasn't counting but the bar staff did) over 70 times, and he only had one pint!

IMO, the F word has lost its power to shock except those who simply can't wait to be "offended" by the slightest thing. It's extremely common in its use here in NL from junior schools and upwards. Hardly a talk show goes by or a radio programme without at least one person using it as a verb or noun or pronoun or adjective. You'll hear it in every UK school playground. Every pub, although one didn't used to 40 years ago. Time to stop being offended by its use. As was said in a previous conversation, language evolves...

[ramAnag]

…which comment just adds arrogance to the list of unpleasant things about you

Lighten up, AF. We all know you two aren’t exactly ‘besties’ but I suspect he was ‘only joshing’.

Anyway, back on topic, prior to retirement…that quotation marks thing with two fingers like rabbit ears was one of the more annoying features to spread through meetings I attended.

Very irritating, along with the fact that we still can’t be considered grown up enough to use words like v*tal, s*x, t*en and p*edophile on here.

[SithHappens]

IMO, the F word has lost its power to shock except those who simply can't wait to be "offended" by the slightest thing. It's extremely common in its use here in NL from junior schools and upwards. Hardly a talk show goes by or a radio programme without at least one person using it as a verb or noun or pronoun or adjective. You'll hear it in every UK school playground. Every pub, although one didn't used to 40 years ago. Time to stop being offended by its use. As was said in a previous conversation, language evolves...

The F word. It's been replaced by a different far more offensive F word... Farage..

[Geoff Parkstone]

Curious how the F word and the N word have mutated and swapped places on the acceptable charts. Back when I was growing up the F word was taboo and did shock many, whilst the N word was commonplace and acceptable. Nowadays that position has totally reversed.

I know someone whose every other word is an F of (have?) one form, and they use it almost trivially. I often ponder what language they would use when trying to emphasize something - eg if they fell and broke a leg. The resulting stream of swearing would just appear normal and likely attract no attention!

[Geoff Parkstone]

The F word. It's been replaced by a different far more offensive F word... Farage..

Worse than the ultimate F word - Forest?

[ramAnag]

The F word. It's been replaced by a different far more offensive F word... Farage..

Post of the day! He also manages to be a complete ‘C word’, imo, but there is a word which seems to have retained its shock factor over the years.

[swaledale]

Post of the day! He also manages to be a complete ‘C word’, imo, but there is a word which seems to have retained its shock factor over the years.

Albeit subject to some notable spoonerisms on the media in recent years, most notably with people whose surnames are Hunt!

Now where is Mike Hunt when you need him?

[SithHappens]

Worse than the ultimate F word - Forest?

Maybe on a par

[SithHappens]

Curious how the F word and the N word have mutated and swapped places on the acceptable charts. Back when I was growing up the F word was taboo and did shock many, whilst the N word was commonplace and acceptable. Nowadays that position has totally reversed.

I know someone whose every other word is an F of (have?) one form, and they use it almost trivially. I often ponder what language they would use when trying to emphasize something - eg if they fell and broke a leg. The resulting stream of swearing would just appear normal and likely attract no attention!

I can't believe when I was young we were taught eenie meenie with the N word. As a kid I don't recall if I understood what it meant or not. I don't know what they teach today in its place though. Hopefully something better.

[ramAnag]

I can't believe when I was young we were taught eenie meenie with the N word. As a kid I don't recall if I understood what it meant or not. I don't know what they teach today in its place though. Hopefully something better.

I remember a kid at a school I taught in directing it at a young teaching assistant about twenty years ago. The sense of shock was palpable and that in a school where the ‘F’ and ‘T’ words were commonplace.
My mum would have given me a ‘thick ear’ had I ever used the ‘N’ word and I still remember my dad walloping me just for saying ‘for God’s sake’.
Probably be referred to Social Services nowadays.

[swaledale]

…which comment just adds arrogance to the list of unpleasant things about you

Says the Forum's closet racist, openly bigot and bull ****ter, but then you have proven time and time again to be rather more dumb the you think your are.