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Roy S. Carson
VHeadline editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes: Of course some people of a more delicate inclination might perhaps find it uncouth, but in these days in which the proliferation of the F-word etc., etc., have come very much into common parlance the spontaneous utterance of "Bloody Hell" (or similar derivatives) as an expression of utter frustration can scarcely be considered "swearing" ... or maybe not?
According to Google there are no less than 2,800,000 references to "Bloody Hell" on the Internet and Australia.com has even stepped up to the plate by facilitating the sending of an e-postcard to your friends and other "acquaintances" at http://www.wherethebloodyhellareyou.com/
Geoffrey Hughes in "Swearing: A social history of foul language, oaths and profanity in English" (Blackwell, 1991) "bloody" is slang and that "bloody drunk" means "fired up and ready for a fight." Apparently, any offensive use of the word "bloody" first came up during the Wars of Roses when Royalty and nobility (i.e. all those "of the blood" -- blue-blooded descendants of Charlemagne) wrought death and the most bloody destruction on England. and Good Queen Bess, England's Elizabeth I is also supposed to have used it when referring to her elder sister, Mary!
The use of bloody in adult UK broadcasting aroused controversy in the 1960s & 1970s but is now unremarkable -- in the Harry Potter movies (which are geared towards children), the character Ron says "bloody hell" many times in ALL the movies.
According to Wikipedia: "Bloody Hell" -- often pronounced "Bloody 'ell" can mean "Damn it" or be used as a general expression of surprise or as a general intensifier. It is talked about in a poem about the letter H:
Letter aitch, in some tongues, you can tell,
Is pronounced not at all, or not well.
By the Brits it is rated
Their second-most hated,
Right after, of course, "bloody 'ell."
So, if Queen Elizabeth of England could use "Bloody Mary" on occasions other than to order a drink with tomato juice, how much more can it be used to qualify one's intense frustration at the namby-pamby antics of officious bank managers and other assorted desk pilots who believe that a nameplate on their office door imbues them with some dictatorial status and assumption of authority never to be challenged.
Or even more legitimately to express the dire frustration of many millions viewing the current charade where golden-parachuted preachers of the unholy gospel according to Mammon, can blackmail their national government into bail them out of their own incompetencies, corruption and arrogant malfeasances, bleating to the world that they should be given special favors while millions of luckless account holders at the excremental end of the crap game do NOT have the privilege and, indeed, are pilloried and without pity or human consideration, robbed by those self-same masters of corporate theft and blackmail.
The banking system, organized crime, the Mafia -- is there really any difference, or "Bloody Hell," is all this just so much Bull****
Roy S. Carson
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