Foul mouth complaint

[HAH]

So blimey is short for gorblimey which is from God Blind Me. I did not know that - it goes to show how some offensive words are no longer that but just accepted (I can't even think 'Blimey' without doing the cockney accent), and how new ones are slipping into our everyday language. A bit too much for my liking, but there you go.

I discovered the ‘cor blimey’/‘God Blind Me’ thing when I was going through an earnestly devout stage at around 10 yrs old, and spent months haranguing anyone who’d listen that it was a terrible thing to say! Such a little prig!

 

[Mrs UB]

I remember watching a Stephen Fry program where they repeated an experiment which showed that swearing can increase pain tolerance. It was something about being able to keep your hand in ice water for longer if you were swearing at the time. Works best if you don’t usually swear.

Hypoalgesic effect of swearing - Wikipedia

 

[Plum's mum]

I’m mighty glad there are words deemed rude and offensive that have come from the annals of history because, quite frankly, sugar, fudge, even bugger don’t cut it in the way a pithier, ruder epithet does.

I love swearing, it really helps me vent my spleen- when I was driving the other day it hurt each time I changed my foot from one pedal to another and a good old spontaneous “boll***ing f**k” really helped!

My son doesn’t like me swearing so I try hard not to do it in front of him and likewise, if I’m in someone’s company like @Charlie’s who doesn’t like it, I’ll try to reign in the potty mouth because I don’t want to deliberately offend.

My parents never swore when we were kids and my dad didn’t like “blimey” for the reasons already noted.