The Smoking Room2004

Len:
Have you seen who put their names down for this paintballing thing? Ant and f***in' Dec! Well, I definitely ain't going if those two midget gobshites'll be there!

Janet:
They're not *really* going... And I do wish you'd moderate your language, Len! I don't come into work to hear that kind of talk.

Lilian:
Oh, it's all over, language. I was sworn at by a kiddie the other day, she couldn't have been more than six! She called me a "C"!

Sally:
She didn't say that?

Lilian:
Yeah! She said "F off, you mother effing C!"

Janet:
I blame the television.

Lilian:
"Kiss my A, you effing C sucker!" That's another thing she said... And a "Y"... she called me that an' all. Have to say though, I'm not as clear on what's rude and what's not these days. I mean, words that years ago you'd never have mentioned are quite commonplace now. Like... "Buggery" used to quite shocking. But, you'd take "buggery" in your stride now, wouldn't yer? And new words... Like "tosser"... How rude is "tosser"?

Robin:
Not really.

Janet:
Very!

Lilian:
What about... "Beaver"? I don't mean the animal, obviously, I mean, when they use it for your doings?

Robin:
It's more of an American thing, "beaver".

Lilian:
Yeah... But... Is it acceptable to refer to *it*, as your "beaver"?

Janet:
I don't see why you have to refer to it at all!

Barry:
That reminds me, there's a programme with David Attenborough I want to see tonight, he's going to Canada to look at beavers.

Lilian:
The animal?

Barry:
I would have thought so...