[garinda]

I've mentioned it in similar threads but I never heard my dad swear, ever.

If he was really, really angry he'd say 'blood and sand'. It was so rare when he said it, that to me it was just as shocking as if he'd come out with a tirade of the vilest swear words.

It is odd how some words are deemed unacceptable, and some aren't. There was the recent thread about the localised use of the word '******', which is used as a term of endearment in this area, sort of. Yet it's meaning is sexual, like many of the other non-acceptable swear words.

Personally people who swear in public, especially in earshot of women and children, are often the recipients of some non-swearing choice words from myself.