... near me has "Y8 FUD" which either slipped past their normal offensive plates being removed check or its a fake plate. Perhaps regional swearing is ok :) How is Y8 FUD swearing? What's the sweary part, FUD, or Y8? I don't get it. `Fud' is a Scottish word for, ahem, a lady's front bottom. So regional is it that in the 1987 BBC TV series `Tutti Frutti' John Byrne got ...

...:d1401735-c7f5-4cfe-be53- f4ec0188d84c@c4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com: [snip] Someone near me has "Y8 FUD" which either slipped past their normal offensive plates being removed check or its a fake plate. Perhaps regional swearing is ok :) How is Y8 FUD swearing? What's the sweary part, FUD, or Y8? I don't get it. The only FUD TLA I know is "Fear, uncertainty, and doubt".

...had been born out of wedlock, would you still call people bastards? Regardless of the classical use and origin of the word I call people bastards when they deserve it because it's a good sweary word. I doubt anybody stops to think "should I ask this person whether they were born in or out of wedlock before I call them a cheeky bastard". Nor do they think of the offence in ...

...Now, if she had been born out of wedlock, would you still call people bastards? Regardless of the classical use and origin of the word I call people bastards when they deserve it because it's a good sweary word. I doubt anybody stops to think "should I ask this person whether they were born in or out of wedlock before I call them a cheeky bastard". If the answer to that is in the ...