Little Buggers!

[orangebird]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...016348,00.html

pmsl

Originally Posted by orangebird

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...016348,00.html

pmsl

LOL yeah its amusing but isnt it sad that one man from somerset was so offended he had to complain, did he have nothing better to do? I'm sure theres far more serious concerns in a school than whether or not the kids think the teachers think they are buggers.

[bopdude]

Originally Posted by orangebird

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...016348,00.html

pmsl

IF thats the worst they ever hear then it will be a miracle :pp

[Ramrod]

Well there is one man in Somerset who needs a quiet talking to

[bob_a_builder]

Next thing you know people will be rearing children !

Oh hang on a minute, they already have, and they call them paedophiles

Bugger =

"from the association of Bulgaria with the Bogomils, who were accused of sodomy
"

Sodomy =
"
Middle English, from Old French sodomie, from Late Latin Sodoma Sodom; from the homosexual proclivities of the men of the city in Gen 19:1-11
1 : copulation with a member of the same sex or with an animal
2 : noncoital and especially anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex
"

Try "psml" after a dose of that

Originally Posted by bob_a_builder

[...] Try "psml" after a dose of that

Excuse me???

Are you saying that calling a child a "bugger" is somehow an invitation or incitement to paedophilia???

Originally Posted by bob_a_builder

Next thing you know people will be rearing children !

Oh hang on a minute, they already have, and they call them paedophiles

Bugger =

"from the association of Bulgaria with the Bogomils, who were accused of sodomy
"

Sodomy =
"
Middle English, from Old French sodomie, from Late Latin Sodoma Sodom; from the homosexual proclivities of the men of the city in Gen 19:1-11
1 : copulation with a member of the same sex or with an animal
2 : noncoital and especially anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex
"

Try "psml" after a dose of that

Some people just need to get out more

I can see where bob_a_builder is coming from - the literal meaning of 'a bugger' is someone who commits an act of sodomy. It has, however, over time seemed to have aquired the more colloquial meaning of 'scamp' or 'rogue'.

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by homealone

I can see where bob_a_builder is coming from - the literal meaning of 'a bugger' is someone who commits an act of sodomy. It has, however, over time seemed to have aquired the more colloquial meaning of 'scamp' or 'rogue'.

Sodomy non sapiens

[Theodoric]

Well the Advertising Standards Authority should not have rejected the complaint because it is inaccurate.

The Advertising Standards Authority rejected a complaint about an insert in the Times Educational Supplement which read: "Don't Let the Buggers Get You Down."

I have always been lead to believe that quote should be Don't let the *******s grind you down or, to quote the original dog Latin, Nihil lessere illegitimis te carborundum.

EDIT And why has my ******* been rejected whereas the word derived from the French for Bulgarian, used as a pejorative term because of many of the said Bulgarians having been heretical Manicheans, been accepted?

FURTHER TOTALLY RIDICULOUS EDIT Not that I've got anything against Manicheans, many of my best friends could well be Manicheans for all I know.

[bob_a_builder]

Thank you 'HomeAlone' that was my point. not quite the 'homely' image the word seems to be taking on , you little scamps indeed !

Originally Posted by bob_a_builder

Thank you 'HomeAlone' that was my point. not quite the 'homely' image the word seems to be taking on , you little scamps indeed !

And what if someone called you a "berk"? Surely the mildest of epithets, yes?

Trouble is, "berk", comes from the Rhyming Slang "Berkley Hunt"...

And "gay" meant "happy" before it was taken over by the homosexual community, didn't it?

Well, actually back in the 17th Century it had the meaning of "Addicted to social pleasures; often euphem: Of Immoral Life 1637" (Shorter OED).

The meanings and implications of words change. Language grows, evolves, adapts and changes. What "Bugger" may have meant in the past is *not* what it means now.