URGENT - Do I need a register plate or not?

[shelli]

abso bloody lutely

I have an amusing anecdote along those lines

we employed a Dickensian chap (no teeth etc) , bit of a scallywag, a few years ago to do bits and pieces of maintenance in a rough area of town - he wasn't blessed in the vocabulary department and expleted liberally in all circumstances -both good and bad

one afternoon he called in to advise us that an assistant of his had broken a tile cutter. He advised thus

F*** me, the F***ing dozy F***er's gone and F***ed the F***er!

we bought him a dictionary for Christmas !!

 

[Flyfisher]

Perhaps habitual swearers eschew such words when really irked?

Thus "F*** me, the F***ing dozy F***er's gone and F***ed the F***er!" is quite normal, given a dopey assistant, whereas "oh dear, my assistant appears to have broken the tile cutter, what a nuisance" would indicate he's about to really blow his top and it would be best to vacate the room.

 

[shelli]

Hmm - interesting position

Perhaps there is something in this - we could develop this further into a new branch of linguistic physics

I have certainly noticed that I tend to be polite in inverse proportion to how much I actually like somebody - you gits!

perhaps its the same for habitual swearers

 

[Moo]

when you really have something to swear about?

You go for the real biggies, like b*th*r, or b*ast, or even (in extremis) d*mn.

 

[shelli]

my great aunt used to say "you blast furnace looking bucket" when swearing was called for
shouted loudly it sounds fantastic