Comments on: Bollocks to it

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:01:27 +0000

I’m guessing that this survey was for commonly used words, as opposed to most offensive, otherwise See You Next Tuesday would have been at the top.

By: Barrie Sutcliffe

Barrie Sutcliffe — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:50:51 +0000

I have to add my hat into the group of people demanding cunt and twat. Every time I’ve visited the UK, these have been common swear words, especially from London types.
I have to agree that I find it hilarious when they’re made into adjectives: “cunting hell!” “Cock” is also a common alternative to balance the genders out, and its cousin “dildo.”

The way I’ve heard bollocks used best is when someone is working on something difficult, and the adjective (sweaty, hairy, etc) is used as a build-up and “bollocks” is used as some kind of release (say, when working on a construction project).

Coming from highly-religious areas of Canada, we have loads of Christian swear words, most popular being “Jesus CHRIST!” I find myself saying this swear, even as an atheist, simply because of the build-up/release quality of having two short words together.

Though among my group of friends, we did actually use “bloody(hell)” and “bollocks” quite a lot, and I still do. Like the previous commenter mentioned, this probably has much to do with watching lots of Young Ones and Bottom when we were 12.

I swear at work, a polite University office, all the time. I used to work in factory settings a lot, and I think it’s healthy to let your co-workers know your level of agitation. More as a warning for them, really…

By: kaptainkremen

kaptainkremen — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:41:27 +0000

As a Brit that’s been living on the U.S. East Coast for a while, I do lament the lack of cunt. From what I remember, there was a surfeit of cunt in the UK when I was younger, and I think that more British women have embraced the use of cunt since I left.

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By: SimplerDave

SimplerDave — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:54:32 +0000

‘Bugger’ is the British word for the act of anal sex (‘to bugger him/her/it’) & has been used for years as a family-friendly substitute for ‘fuck’ (‘why don’t you bugger off?’ ‘they’ve buggered up the plans again’, etc.).

The fact that no-one else understands the word is a bonus.

By: tricstmr

tricstmr — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:24:59 +0000

Where the fuck is “bugger”? I remember reading a similar comparison of swearing in the UK and US back from like the 1970′s or 80′s.. and while Americans were all about the “Fuck off”–Brits were somewhat anally-compulsive about using “Bugger.”

By: Phil Dewey

Phil Dewey — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:08:36 +0000

Look, even Donald Trump endorses swearing in business (http://www.infomercial-hell.com/blog/2006/07/05/holy-bleep-swearing-in-infomercials/ ).

Get over it. The world is a knock down, drag out place and being hyper-sensitive or politically correct will cost you $ in the end. Just mt 2 cents…

By: Tomas Sancio

Tomas Sancio — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:28:19 +0000

The equivalent of “bollocks” in the USA is “Jesus Christ”, who had plenty of them to stand up to the Roman Empire.

By: Phil Berry

Phil Berry — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:25:37 +0000

Interesting that there is no relation to ‘twat’ in either list. Not even a sniff of one.