I like a laugh and joke as much as the next person, and realise that the C*** word is used in everyday language nowadays, but to hear it on prime time tv is just awful. I know it has been used before in this series, but it really makes me cringe. Am I alone in thinking this way or shall I just shut up and accept that this is the way life is now?🙁

May I ask specifically what bothers you about this word in particular?

Your not alone, it's a repulsive word to use anywhere yet alone on national TV.

My dad uses it a lot. really annoys me!

I agree with you.

I quite like the sparing way it is used on Channels 4 and 5, it's treating us as adults after the watershed.

Mind you, I don't know if I would like it if I was sitting next to my grandma.

Depends where you live, live in London its used quite alot. Its just a word like bolloxs.

I have no problem with the use of the word personally. It's just a meaningless insult to me.

normally BB beep out the C word but didn't this time

I'm with you, OP.

Is it just the C word that bothers you all, or other swear words? Or words for female genitalia?

I think it's because it's on tv-out and about you accept it and I would never pull anyone up for it but it just comes across as a vicious word when it's spat out for the nation to hear (just a personal thing-no offence intended)

Oddly enough I hate hearing it, but personally in an argument nothing satisfies me more than spitting this word at whoever is on the receiving end of my temper.

God I would be hated on BB

I know that Charlie word is appalling

I see.

I think it's a very old-fashioned reaction to a word that was only deemed more shameful because it's linked to female genitalia.

We've moved beyond that in society. Don't worry about it so much, or worry about all sexual swear words equally.

When I was younger my Mum told me that was the most offensive swear word ever to be used. So it's always been brainwashed into me that it's something you just don't say!

No l agree with you, and l don't see why is should be the accepted norm, however l think that the HM's were equally shocked, and most of the viewers and Charlie just showed herself to be the rough old boot most believed she was.

Yes, me too, but if you think about it, it's mired in sexism.

I really enjoy saying it, as Vicky. was saying, perhaps because it still has so much bite.

If one were to use d*ck, c*ck or b*llend, technically we should be as offended.

If not, why not.

Likewise.
For some reason it is a word I find I can not say out loud, for any reason.
I think it is a horrible word, and many are offended by its use, so it is not necessary to have it broadcast on television even after their pathetic cop-out warnings.

I know it is only a word, but so are all swear words and some offend more than others.
This word is in a class of its own for some reason. People who use it gratuitously do not impress me.

I can swear with the best of them and the meaning of the word holds no problem for me, it's just a personal thought which I know is shared by many others and not just me-that's all!

It seems to be the word of choice for morons these days.

Personally it's all about context.

Because it's such a strong word I find it can be used quite humorously in the right context.

By the same token if used as an insult it can be one of the harshest words in the English language.

I was pretty shocked to hear Charlie call him that.

But don't you wonder why it's considered worse?

It seems many people that rushed to post in this thread don't actually know why they find it so offensive, only that someone told them it is, so anyone using it is foolish.

I hate it too. Just sounds so common & crude. But I only swear when I'm really angry or stub my toe. 😉

I get frustrated with people who interject their conversation with numerous swear words. You could have said what your opinions were 5 mins ago, without all the f'ing and blinding... "I'm off to the ferking shop, for some ferking bread" FFS 😅

It always surprises me to hear it (I've been particularly surprised to hear it from Jason.)

When I was 12 I saw Schindler's List in a history lesson and became quite obsessed with everything about it. This may sound odd. Hmm. Anyway, I read Schindler's Ark and at the time, for a 12-year-old me, there were quite a lot of big words I didn't know in it. So I read the whole book with a dictionary. Any time I came to a word I didn't know or was just not totally sure of, instead of skimming or guessing, I not only looked it up but I wrote a little dictionary of my own of all the new words I had learned.

Anyway, the reason I talk about this is that this book has swear words in. It has f*** in not starred out at all, but it has c***, starred like that. Now, I had no idea what on Earth c*** could be. I couldn't think what it could possibly be when it was OK to write f*** but not this word. There was nobody I could ask. I looked in dictionaries (LOL!) We didn't have the internet. It was several years later when I found out what the word actually was. (I think I saw it written on a t-shirt in an alternative shop. What a way to discover.)

Whenever I hear the c-word thrown around so readily I always think about those years as a kid when I hadn't a clue what it could be. And I guess it isn't like that for kids now.

I say this and one of my favourite films is The Libertine which has very, very many c***'s in it and also got me into Restoration poetry which is equally lewd. So in drama and art, the word doesn't bother me at all, but in general usage, it always shocks me. I mean personally, I don't swear, at least not in front of people. I recall my best friend's boyfriend saying to a group of us at my first music festival that some people just sounded odd swearing (there was a person introducing bands who swore every other word) & it always stuck with me. But it doesn't bother me if others do. But that word. I always think of it starred out...