Comments on: A GCSE In Swearing

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:17:50 +0000

‘Fuck off’ isn’t answering the question at all and shouldn’t get any marks.

‘Fucking ugly’ would’ve answered the question and and should’ve got all 27.

By: John Blake

John Blake — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:53:25 +0000

Hi Admin,
I tried to post a letter on the forum last night but my normal personal password was for some reason continually rejected. It got to the stage where I asked for a NEW password and was surprised to see that it was DOUBLE the length of my original password. I just wanted to post on Anorak, not hack into the Pentagon or the KGB secret computers !
I have tried the new passpord but that too is not being accepted. Can you kindly arrange another password( shorter and easier to remember) please?No bad language from John in Brazil. I may turn to violence though…………………..hahahahahahaha

By: Terry Carty

Terry Carty — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:12:29 +0000

M and A

Sorry to be a bit anal about swearing. Your right the apology was uneccessary. Perhaps its my dads strict rule about not swearing and the fact that in my day teachers had the right to beat the crap out of you if you put a foot wrong. I Still feel uncomfortable using expletives. Its seems to me somehow rude and unecessary. Probably by todays pc educational standards I would be considered supressed and mentally damaged for being forced to learn a volcabulary in order to express myself clearly.

M and A

There are days when…have to admit I baulked when I heard my mother describe someone as ‘randy’.
But even Chaucer had a better vocabulary than a lot do in these ‘enlightened’ times

By: Terry Carty

Terry Carty — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:24:45 +0000

How’s this for a creative use of an expletive. Many years ago when I was an undergraduate trainee in industry I was put on the desk of the tool store in a large aircraft factory. One irate fitter came up to me an slammed an air drill down on the counter uttering the phrase “The fucking fucker is fucking well fucked!” to which I delicately replied “you mean its broken?” to which he replied “are you trying to be fucking funny?”. Wonder what marks he would have gotten in todays GCSE, I am pretty certian zero in the old GCE O level (for which I got a grade 6). Such is progress.

p.s. apologies for using such an offensive words but I think it is justified in the current context of this post.

M and A

Terry, we don’t care!!!!

By: bob

bob — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:51:12 +0000

And i forgot to leave an exclamation mark (!), I guess only a B then.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:49:49 +0000

How many marks do you think the following sentence should get, bearing in mind I have used an exclamation mark?
“Fuck the fucking fuckers”.

Also note the use of speech marks, fuck me, and I use that in sense the examining board of Great Britain has prescribed, I must be close the full 27 avaliable marks. Now isn’t that a fucker?