Does anyone else feel as embarrassed as me...
When a character on Coronation Street says 'Pigging' like last night when Eva complained that David had taken half the pigging skin off her nails in the salon?
it actually makes me sick with embarrassment. It's like listening to somebody who's dying to swear and hasn't got the balls too.
And why do they pick such a stupid word anyway that no one normal would even think of?
They're beyond lame.:(
it actually makes me sick with embarrassment. It's like listening to somebody who's dying to swear and hasn't got the balls too.
And why do they pick such a stupid word anyway that no one normal would even think of?
They're beyond lame.:(
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I agree with you. Don't misunderstand, I really don't want for them to be swearing and effing all the time. I just find the Pigging thing so naff or twee or gutless or something. Maybe because it seems so near as they can get to an actual swear word without actually saying it. And also it's like the only word in the repitoire for virtual swear words.
I hate it anyway, it's making me sick. Maybe they should try and articulate a bit more?:)
Fair enough. Variety is the spice of life.
But when Kevin said that it seemed authentic and earnest. And the word is evocative of something really bothersome.
Pigging is like something a snotty person would say in a vain attempt to come across as grounded and like one of the boys or something.
It makes me cringe even to write it:D
Chuffin is quite funny, but it could get annoying I think. My mother used to talk about bloomin this and bloomin that.
And it didn't phase me that much.:D
*shrugs*
It's used on The X Factor... I've heard Simon say it a good number of times, including last weekend "what the bloody hell was that?"
It would inject a healthy dose of realism if the ban on "bloody" was lifted and perhaps a few lighter swearwords.
And indeed in old episodes in the 60s and 70s the word "bloody" was in the Corrie scripts regularly.
Personally I'm not sure what would be so bad about including swearing. Not every minute or so but sometimes where appropriate. I find it amusing that people will allow there children to watch soaps, which include murders, rapes, blackmailing, fighting, abusive relationships, alcoholics and junkies, yet have such a problem with them hearing a few swear words.
Anyway, if you enjoy hearing swearing, just turn your tv on any time post-watershed, or just go down your local pub. You won't learn any new vocabulary or improve your articulacy in any way, but hey ho, whatever floats your boat.
Maybe it's a northern thing.
Oh I totally agree with you. I hate people that feel the need to swear in every single sentence.
"The Fkin molsems an forineers
need 2 fuk of bak 2 own cuntry . If u want 2 liv in this cuntry u bide by are laws n lern are langwij!!1!"
That kind of thing seriously irritates me and that is the definition of butchering the English Language. Somebody swearing here and there during an actual argument is different though, that's not exactly butchering the English language. I'm not too fussed about wanting to hear swearing but info find it very strange when people come out with these substitutes for swear words in soaps. They just aren't words you hear people actually use. So it seems kind of odd.
Sorry to butt in but I'm only here for a minute. The last point you made is similar to my point about the strange words in place of the swear word, but maybe it is something that's common enough like Oldnjaded said, but not to me, possibly because I'm not Northern, or English. I still think Piggin sounds dumb though.
And the other thing you said about the occasional swear word at times of maybe something violent occurring or something really bad makes sense also.
If they do insist on showing rape and murder and horrors in soap, then they should be obliged to not sanitise these things. Because that's a step toward making horrible events normal.
He still does.
I agree.