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My lad has grown up at motorbike trackdays and now DH races, he never swears in front of me. But I bet he knows them all. He's 14
Not really. Takes a dive in to religion
like it or not the majority of our moral compass (or what remains of it), not just the sanctimonious parts, comes from religion. Christianity, in the case of the “West”
You’d have thought most of us Welsh people – even English speaking ones like myself – would be aware of Welsh swear words but I don’t know any. I worked in West Wales years ago, where everyone spoke Welsh routinely and remember asking someone for some Welsh swear words but he couldn’t tell me any. I shall ask my wife later. I’m guessing that I’ll draw a blank.
And I've asked her, a Welsh speaker from birth, and she doesn't know any. 'Go scratch' was the best she could do. 😀
Cont y môr, jellyfish in Welsh. That's a good one.
When my lads were pretty small we used to watch the Dakar footage every year. The year Lyndon Poskitt did loads of footage I watched a really good vid of his which showed how hard it was. He spent a lot of time crashing and picking up his bike and swearing about it a fair bit. Having watched it already I remember Mrs Reeksy and I prepare the boys on the sofa.
“In this video the man’s working really hard and has a lot of difficulties. Sometimes he’s so upset he uses some really bad words that you really shouldn’t say.”
Reeksy Jr1 aged about 4 years at the time in a matter of fact way, “You mean ****?”