Bum

I believe we do

After looking at the report, it seems it's not the word 'bum' which is the issue, and I can undertand where the council is coming from wanting to limit those sort of adverts in public areas.

I didn't realise it was that advert which I have seen locally. I don't think it's appropriate for town centre windows at 5 times life size especially as it makes it hard to use in a photograph. I suppose it is the best traditions of the British double entendre though.

My mother used to cause surprise with the same phrase!

Posh Catholics pronounce "Mass" the same way. In Trinidad, "Mas'" means carnival. Some of the costumes they wear for Mas' wouldn't go down well in the Brompton Oratory, where they still sing the Mass in Latin at the 11 o'clock service. Nor would they appeal to Glasgow City Council.

However, "bum" is still a slightly coarse word. It's not for formal speech, and I think I am with Glasgow on this. It's all about decorum, and avoiding the slippery slope.

But their stance on stripper ads seems a trifle contradictory.

G

I had a wonderful time teasing my son and his Japanese girlfriend by using my youthful Oxford/Received English accent correctly pronouncing Bath with a long A and then several other words that are now commonly pronounced in the non BBC announcer way. Poor Sayaka was reduced to tears (mirthful). I have never heard mass with a long A.

I suppose I wouldn't refer to a lady's bum in her presence using bottom in preference. Bottom has a lovely full flavour to it but bum is very chummy.

I'm not with Glasgow as it fails to reflect their electorate's attitude.

Mike

If you were to leave things to the electorate of Glasgow, the mind shudders to imagine what might ensue.

G

PS: Nothing personal, Glaswegians. I'd say the same of any electorate.

Ken, You have a PM.

Some city Glasgow, Ken Russell's film 'The Devils' is stilled banned from city cinemas but the Leader of the Council has just resigned since the police discovered he was about to be blackmailed for being a junkie.

The news is often full of dreadful stories about stabbings in London, there are more in Glasgow in a week than in London in a year. In Glasgow the violence is fuelled by a sweet drink high in alcohol and caffeine which results in wired, aggressive, wide awake drunks. The drink is made by the monks of Buckfast Abbey. Another of life's contradictions.

Anyway take a look at David Gillander's gritty project about Glasgow gangs: link

The word "Bum"is derived from the olde English "Bottome Upon Meerglutes".
Meerglutes, of course, being a bastardisation of the term "Glutes", which refers to the upper leg muscles. The Romans would call their adversaries "Bum-Holios", before battle, as a taunt to begin the fighting. No-one really knows what this term meant, though the ensuing battle was no doubt fierce. In modern times, the term "Bum" has become an endearing moniker for the posterior, or arse end of a person or beast. Moreover, our American friends often refer to T*** and A** when descibing their wanton lust for intimate company. This is, of course, all complete shite that I've just made up. Don't be bummed by it.
Regards

My B$ detector is going wild.

Red faced councils sometimes make mistakes and later have to reverse decisions. Many years ago I took a call in the Evening Chonicle newsroom from the then Lord Mayor of Newcastle who was also chairman of the City's watch committee. "We've banned Oklahoma from the Theatre Royal, we don't want that sort of filth here," he said.
I said: "Don't you mean Oh Calcutta Benny?". "Yes That's the one," he replied.
David

I think the word is truly offensive and discriminatory to the domicile impaired.
Only vagrants and homeless people are allowed to use the "B" word.
STOP DISCRIMINATING AND OPPRESSING THE FINANCIALLY DISADVANTAGED!!!

Whomever decided on that ban of the "B" word is an a$$.
lol!

When I read the title of this thread, I thought it was like "Oh, bum!", meaning something like "Oh, damn!" and wondered if it had to do with something having gone wrong, so it simply aroused my curiosity.

Crickey Ken I hadn't realised it was so grim in Glasgow. I thought it was something of a caricature to represent Glasgow like that. And Buckfast really is drunk in quantities?

Thankfully I lead a sheltered life.

Mike

Of course it isn't all like that, for the most part its very beautiful and safe, where I live Bill Bryson described in 'Notes from a Small Island' as '...full of houses of substance and privilege.' but our 'inner city' isn't inner at all but rather on the fringes. Victorian slum housing in the inner city was demolished and the inhabitants transported to modern slums/post-war housing estates on the edges of town.

Did you pick up on the picture of the guy with his fingers cut off and someone else holding them?

I've been thinking about doing a project about the city centre on a Sunday morning, it usually looks like the day after Dunkirk.

I'd better go and take some pictures of beautiful Glasgow to redress the balance.