#bugger — Public Fediverse posts

I wish I could spend more time in the Fediverse. However, I've books that must be read, music that must be made, and the day job. #bugger

Pretty chuffed to have received a copy of Bugger through the Australian Society of Author's giveaway!

#AusLit #Bugger #MichaelMohammedAhmad #ASA

Boiled two eggs. 6 mins. Yolks still a little runny. Lovely job. Slipped out the pan when I was draining them and they fell down the broken waste disposal. No eggs for me. #eggs #bugger

I am 24,000 days old today… #bugger

I have a sneaking suspicion I have bought the SIL the same Christmas present I bought him last year? #Bugger

I love this idea of them being like sitting around, these comedy guys, sitting around being like, "Okay, what should we do for our last series? Oh, well, what if we we could do we could set it in World War I? And then at the end, we do a really poignant statement about war when everyone dies."

That's... Yeah. And we'll really like just them playing it and be like, "Yeah, we're going to actually say something with this." And it's like I'm like, "Yeah, it's cool."

God damn. 😭 (g g) #BlackAdder #GoesForth #Bugger #Goodbyeee

There will now be a hopefully-short break in my working day, as the power's gone out.

#Bugger #WishICouldGetSolarBatteries

And Pete has fucked up yet again. Just sent all my cost prices to a customer because I thought I was emailing my boss.

There's just too much going on at the moment. I can see it now: "Crumbles under pressure."

#Bugger

That feeling when you realise you've fucked up and the person who notices it doesn't have to be a dick about it but chooses to be one anyway.
Its hard not to be angry at yourself and/or angry at them. Just figure out a way forwards...
#BuggerdUp
#Bugger

Right. OMV is installed and working. One of the 2TB drives is knackered.
#Bugger

I have eaten a sausage roll and dropped flakes of pastry EVERYWHERE!
#Bugger

Swearing as a rite of passage

Think about your earliest swearing. Did you graduate from euphemisms? (As a child I used sugar, drat, and flip/feck for shit, damn, and fuck.) Or did you jump right into prodigious profanity? Did you practise in private, and did you try out your new vocabulary among friends – or in front of shocked family members?

Or maybe, as in John Boorman’s Hope and Glory (1987), you were forced to swear. In this period film, which reimagines the director’s childhood in London during the Blitz, coming of age meant coming to terms with the senselessness of war and the elusive sense of swearwords.

As Boorman writes in his wonderful memoir, Adventures of a Suburban Boy, the film was “a way of looking at my personal mythology”. For a child in wartime, some of that mythology centred on ammunition, an object of constant fascination:

We kids rampaged through the ruins, the semis [semi-detached houses] opened up like dolls’ houses, the precious privacy shamefully exposed. We took pride in our collection of shrapnel. Most of it came from our own anti-aircraft shells, which also did more damage to roofs than the Luftwaffe. I often picked up fragments that were still hot and smelt of gunpowder. . . . The most prized acquisition of all was live ammunition. We would lock bullets in a vice and detonate them by hammering nails into their heads.

This is recreated in Hope and Glory in a scene where Billy – Boorman’s surrogate – encounters a gang of boys while out scouring the ruins for treasure. They want to see what he’s made of and conduct some routine intimidation, before realising their common enemy. The mood warms enough for the leader, Roger, to invite Billy into the gang. But first he must pass an unusual test (transcript from 2:10 below):

Roger: Do you wanna join our gang?
Billy: Don’t mind.
R: Do you know any swear words?
B: Yes.
R: Say them.
B: [hesitates]
R: Go on. Say them. You can’t join if you can’t swear.
B: Uh, I only know one.
All: [laughter]
R: Well say that one then.
B: [hesitates]
R: [shoves Billy] Go on.
B: Fuck.
All: [gasp]
R: That word is special. That word is only used for something really important. Now repeat after me: Bugger off.
B: Bugger off.
R: Sod.
B: Sod.
R: Bloody.
B: Bloody.
R: Now put them all together: Bugger off, you bloody sod.
B: Bugger off, you bloody sod.
R: [smiles] Okay, you’re in.
All: [cheering]
R: Let’s smash things up.
All: [loud cheering]

There’s much to enjoy in this scene. The specific innocence of children of that age and time. The camaraderie waiting behind their show of toughness. Their unselfconscious naïveté about swearing; their awe at fuck.* This viewer’s immense relief that none of them is hurt by the reckless play with explosives.

And I love how swearing plays a central role in Billy’s initiation. A string of (very British) swears is the key, the set of magic words that establishes rapport with a group of his peers, dissolving the boundary between outsider and insider and nudging him just slightly towards adulthood.

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* For a Boorman film that went in another direction, see my post on avoiding swear words in the making of Deliverance.

#bloody #bugger #Children #comingOfAge #dramaFilms #filmmaking #films #fuck #HopeAndGlory #JohnBoorman #sod #swearing #swearingInFilms #taboo #tabooLanguage #tabooWords #war #warFilms #WorldWarII

Afternoon, Twters!

Me: let's do the laundry, hang it out, wash up, and fill the car and do a tip run!

My chronic pain: *slow hand clap*

If anyone needs me this afternoon, I'll be lying very still in bed with my painkillers.

#ChronicPain #OverdoneItOnceAgain #Bugger

But I'm not doing that. Changed my ticket so my holiday ends today. Getting a telehealth consultation at midday. #Bugger

Never mess with the moskito slayer... never! #moskito #bugger

So many people saw the aurora this week - this is why I didn't see anything from home...

#photography #aurora #fail #lightpollution #daytime #bugger

It appears the Bank Street revitalisation project has reached my part of Bank Street. #Bugger

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Play today's game 🔑

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Play today's game 🔑

https://www.washingtonpost.com/games/keyword/ #puzzles #bugger

I'll be doing another #pixelart #livestream at 11.30am (UK time). Feeling a bit rubbish today, so it may just be a short one!
#COVID19 #Bugger
#pixelartist #solodev #indiedev #twitch #twitchstreamer

#TIL "An Acromioclavicular (AC) Joint disruption is fairly common, and usually occurs after a fall directly onto your shoulder"
#cycling #pothole #bugger

Bugger.
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https://youtu.be/ZUNJd06iyWU

Good morning, world. #IsItFridayYet?

https://www.isitfridayyet.net/

#Bugger

I'm hoping I've just got a snottery beak because the house is cool but my ears are playing up and I have an irritating cough.
#life #joy #bugger

I've got an intense craving for quality lager and I barely even drink anymore.
#Bugger #LowQualityContent

Ever had a day where nothing went right? #humour #bugger

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Ah Covid. We meet at last.
I'm ready. Let's do this.
#ThreeYearsClear
#ManDown
#Bugger
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