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cranioscopical:

At times I am forced to eschew my favourite Anglo-Saxon oaths.
In what passes round here for polite company I still have a need to express extreme frustration, and there are times when "Oh bother!" just doesn't seem to cut it.

When hard pressed, my expression of choice is "Castor and Pollux." 
For example,
Castor and Pollux!  The data say that we have been wrong all along!
So, your mother is coming to stay for a week... Castor and Pollux!"

On what favourite expressions do others rely?

Darwin:
I quite like "cinders and ash" from Thomas the Tank Engine. Then there's the old standby "fudge and bannna peels". Sadly, I use neither. I don't know what comes out of my mouth in polite company, or rather, I never know what will come out of my mouth in polite company... I improvise. Castor and pollux is nice, though - I might use it!

katykaty:
I know someone who renamed his kitten 'Cooking Fat' in celebration of the number of times she was standing exactly where he wanted to step while holding a tray of hot food.  ;)

tomos:
castor & pollux sounds like a nice bit of cockney rhyming slang

My mum used to say "Christopher Columbus!", doesnt quite cut it does it  :) -
but for her (very religious) it was the nearest to "Christ!" she could get!

I think there's a few you'd get away with depending how polite the company is.
Is "feck it" used in the states/canada?
Sort of, well, definetly less unnacceptable than the other version.
Or just "shag it", but I suppose that's not too polite either  :D

Funny in german the word "scheiße" (scheisse) is quite acceptable whereas in english not so much..

mitzevo:
I always use "Where is my cheese?", "God I love my cheese", "Pleaes help me find it"..  interchangeably.

 ;D

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