Swearing words

Mom_me
By Mom_me

With a disciplined upbringing as mine, I pretend not to understand most of the colloquial swearing words in front of my parents. When I read that a certain Barnsley in South Yorkshire put spot fines for the potty mouth' I smiled. Now if the moderators would take the cue, some QLers would go bankrupt.

Back home it is a male domain. We women (urban) are well cultured folks (supposedly) who choose to bite our tongue just in time and pretend to act dumb when the men hurl the choicest ones on many occasions. It is considered macho and used liberally when discussing politics (understandable). 'Oh..we have tensions/stress - said a dear male cousin 'we need to relieve it and what better way than to utter those lovely gaalees (swear words) without getting into a fist fight.'
Yeah yeah tell me about it and how I felt at the nth hour delivering my baby ...the pretending smiling nurse and the pretending caring doc--- grrrr...you take the *beeeep* and the *beeep* and the *beeeeeeeeep*. *Beep* is like a self induced censorship due to the 'Dharma' training which insists on speech rigteousness.
I feel like that "n'th hour delivering baby" emotion many times in a day minus the heavy swearing. The soft ones come to rescue - lazy bones (nalayak), manhoos (one who brings ill luck).....My daring chaddi buddies (bum chums) back home use those starting with 'K' to bond(clue - Dharmendra paaji's favourite - a foul mouth Indian actor, now domesticated). In the school days we had those harmless ones - billions of blue blistering barnecles, wood lice, bashi bazouk ....inspired by Captain Haddock.

Recently,I was bamboozled to hear one of my female friend from across the border use the 'kameeni' (in a loving way)on other friend - okies they do it too - what a relief. Instinctively I knew I am not in her best buddy book cause she never did the 'kameeni' on me LOL.
So my manhoosoo any more soft not so offending ones in your dictionary for me to use . As my south indian friend would say --- bring it out Rascalas......
Dearest Fatima Aunty would have said 'Tauba tauba' crossing her fingers alternatively over her ears. Forgive me aunty I am a baddy bad.

By ghazalz• 10 Jun 2011 13:54
ghazalz

Yes, you're right!

By anonymous• 10 Jun 2011 13:39
anonymous

well, again, humor is subjective..upto you ghazalz.

By ghazalz• 10 Jun 2011 13:33
ghazalz

NO way...I can't tolerate bad humor Doha Knight!

By anonymous• 10 Jun 2011 13:28
anonymous

lol ghazalz, go and watch it if you wanna know the trend now..:-/

By ghazalz• 10 Jun 2011 13:25
ghazalz

I've heard about the movie 'Dubang' it's a master piece of dirty mouth.

By anonymous• 10 Jun 2011 12:47
anonymous

mom, it felt like home again...nice blog.

this transported me to my engineering college hostel during those ragging-times when we were asked to prepare innovative 'gaalees' to be used against neighbouring hostels during power-cuts at night.

By FlyingAce• 9 Jun 2011 22:22
FlyingAce

Dhanooooo rokh jaooo...

Translation

Stop don't go....

By Mom_me• 9 Jun 2011 22:21
Mom_me

Ha Ha Ghazalz, female Dharmendra.

By ghazalz• 9 Jun 2011 18:53
ghazalz

but, kameeni sey yaad aaya ;)

In my school days one of my class mate called her friend 'Kutti' and the other one yelled at the same time 'gaali bakti hey kameeni' :D

By happygolucky• 9 Jun 2011 18:29
happygolucky

hahaha.... nice one... of all liked "..........'K' to bond(clue - Dharmendra paaji's favourite - a foul mouth Indian actor, now domesticated)"....:)

This Rascala cant help you on the soft, not so offending ones though....

have a nice weekend....

By Mom_me• 9 Jun 2011 18:28
Mom_me

Thanks Tinker. Some encouragement for my punctured ego. You have a flair for it - soothing bruised ego. Just when I was expecting 10 more ????? LOL.

By Mom_me• 9 Jun 2011 18:16
Mom_me

Britexpat : LOL.

Hunter : that's okay. You are fed on a lot of copy paste diet. No worries pal,wait for my thread to get sucked into the QL black hole.

By britexpat• 9 Jun 2011 18:06
britexpat

Swearing can be good and bad - all depending on how its used.

I remember an incident where an elderly Indian colleague showed us the picture of his son and his future bride. My colleague - a brit - said that his son was a "Lucky Ba$tard"..

The Indian colleague thought he was swearing and took offence .. took us a while to explain things and calm him down ;o)

By Hunter_x277• 9 Jun 2011 18:06
Hunter_x277

Even though i understood it all , its not so funny :P

By Mom_me• 9 Jun 2011 18:06
Mom_me

Barnsley, do you mean they won't get "the finger". Not sure if there are fines for gestures though.

By AngelinaBallerina• 9 Jun 2011 17:59
AngelinaBallerina

What the bleeding Henry did all that mean??? Barnsley are you kidding??? Noone speaks English in Barnsley!!!

By nomerci• 9 Jun 2011 17:48
nomerci

ok, I do not understand Hindi...so this is rather lost on me...Dammit! lol

By Mom_me• 9 Jun 2011 17:32
Mom_me

Get it, QL herd mentality (that's abusive) :-)

By pasadn27• 9 Jun 2011 17:00
pasadn27

?????

By engr_612• 9 Jun 2011 16:13
engr_612

?????

By stealth• 9 Jun 2011 15:51
stealth

?

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