Beech's Bum Boys

[griff]

Let’s be honest, I can remember a time when “bloody” was completely unacceptable and “Jesus wept” got BBC commentators into trouble. Times change though; t­wat used to be rude, now it just means idiot. Same with bum boy or bum chum which used to be s­exual slurs but now just mean a teachers pet. Bum also means a person who tries to beg something he’s not entitled or qualified for as in some of our players. I’m not talking dictionary definitions here, this is the way the language evolves on the streets. I doubt that folk on the official board get out much. Also one or two people getting offended isn’t sufficient reason to stop the way in which OUR language evolves.

[cayambe]

Let’s be honest, I can remember a time when “bloody” was completely unacceptable and “Jesus wept” got BBC commentators into trouble. Times change though; t*wat used to be rude, now it just means idiot. Same with bum boy or bum chum which used to be s*exual slurs but now just mean a teachers pet. Bum also means a person who tries to beg something he’s not entitled or qualified for as in some of our players. I’m not talking dictionary definitions here, this is the way the language evolves on the streets. I doubt that folk on the official board get out much. Also one or two people getting offended isn’t sufficient reason to stop the way in which OUR language evolves.

When I went to Uni in Leeds at the beginning of the 70's most of the students on my course were from the south. I recall being deeply offended by being called a t'wat i.e. a c'unt but for a southerner it was as Griff states. When my mate met his mother-in-law for the first time in St Johns Newfoundland he was greeted with "how you doing you c'unt" - Newfie linkages to Ireland make the word as a friendly endearment. Mind being callled a c'unt in the town of Dildo about 100 km from St Johns might get us Englsih into a fit of giggles