Language, language.
By Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (14540)
Ireland
April 8, 2026 9:03am CST
I’m reaching out to all who deign to read my request. I’ve been painting my daughter’s bedroom (pink of course) and I’m not gifted in the art of home decoration. Actually I’m fairly useless.
I’ve just bent over to dip my brush in the can of paint and in so doing stuck my beam end up against the wall I’ve just painted and now there a butt print on the wall and I need to change my jeans before I inadvertently sit on something else. These things keep happening and it’s very frustrating.
What I wish to ask is, do you know any suitable bad words I can use in this situation? I need some salty verbiage to help me express the depth of feeling welling up inside. Nothing too piquant of course, nothing that would burn the lips of a retired gentleman of the cloth, but perhaps with more vigour than just knickers, bum or sugar.
Thanking you in advance.
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@franxav (14522)
• India
8 Apr
Perhaps you can use the butt of your jeans to paint a a part of the wall. That would be a masterpiece! ?? We (especially those whose mother tongue is not English) don't use bad words in these parts of the world. So I am not really qualified to help you. However, may I suggest "Shucks!" or " me DamnButt it! "
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@Traceyjayne (9861)
• United Kingdom
8 Apr
Ha ha ....
Maybe "fudge" !
I have an image of that mark on the wall now ! Ha ha
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@RasmaSandra (96360)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Apr
Actually when I knew I could get in trouble for swearing in high school I would shout Fudge everytime something went wrong, I worked for me to unstress.
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@DaddyEvil (171864)
• United States
8 Apr
How about "Darn it!" or maybe "Shoot!" would work for you? 
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@JudyEv (377537)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Apr
What about a Germanic 'verdammte Scheiss' or somesuch. 
Vince went to a convent school so swearing was frowned on but one nun, if she got a real fright, would call out 'Jesus, Mary and Joseph' and protest that it wasn't swearing. Go figure.
Vince went to a convent school so swearing was frowned on but one nun, if she got a real fright, would call out 'Jesus, Mary and Joseph' and protest that it wasn't swearing. Go figure. 
@LindaOHio (218907)
• United States
9 Apr
Fudge? Rats on roller skates...Fleas on skis. lolololol
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