General Chat

He is in trouble for using gardening terms which have been used for many many years.

World has gone barmy

He isn't in trouble. It is the BBC who are looking ridiculous for apologising for it.

True - I have smacked my wrist

It amused me that the other morning on Breakfast they were interviewing Ricardo Chavira about the play he is appearing in. However they couldn't say what the play was called because the title contained a word that was too rude for morning TV.

so what were these gardening terms then :-S

Bastard trenching, Ann.

It's a legitimate gardening term - just in case some narrow minded itchy finger is hovering.

rather like a bastard file........neither smooth nor coarse, but inbetween.......

some people have the surname Bastard :-D

Then there is the 'bastard prompt' in threatre.

and then there's the one who married my sister :-D

Name: Florence Lee Bastard
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Beat 5, Leflore, Mississippi, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 2
Marital Status: Single
Race (Original): Negro
Race: Negro
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Daughter
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Birthplace: Mississippi
Birth Year (Estimated): 1938

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Ollie M Bastard Daughter F 9 Mississippi
Corinna Bastard Daughter F 7 Mississippi
George Bastard Son M 5 Mississippi
Florence Lee Bastard Daughter F 2 Mississippi
Louis Bastard Son M 0 Mississippi

Here in Ontario we have a Bastard Township.

Bastard is a township in the Leeds part of United Counties of Leeds and Grenville in Ontario, Canada. Since 1998 Bastard Township has been located in the municipality of Rideau Lakes.

AnnCardiff. another one is the kretin I married. :-|

EDIT and now am divorced from :-D

Laughing at AnnCardiffs comment :-D

would be interested to know how far back the term Bastard trenching goes.

Have heard of the surname though.

Havent any problem with it, but wonder if it was used purposefully to stir things up. That seems the name of the game at the moment.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sue

And before you reach for the RR - several gardening terms were listed in paper which had been mentioned on/in media - one which caught my eye was - sticky willy - also known as goose grass.

ooer - sounds nasty that one :-D

So its possible to be Goosed by a Sticky Willie.

Brilliant Chris. Funniest thing i have read on here in yonks.

Very stupid but then many of the presenters are there for their looks and not what's between their ears.

Was Alan deliberately trying to upset things - who knows and I haven't seen it. It's not him people are laughing at though.

I've used a bastard file to trim plaster models when I worked as a dental nurse. I made either plaster of Paris, or a harder plaster dental models, according to what they were required for. I had to trim the bases down and neaten the edges.

I knew the file's name because it was on the inventory (RAF).

They allow all kinds of language on TV these days yet get upset when someone uses the known name for something. :-S