👉 Okay, alright settle down now, let’s tackle this little bit of numerical vulgarity – "2000 04." Now before the tweed seats of your indignation bunch up and start bristling, let me assure you, we're not here for a moralistic freak-out. We’re here to dissect the frankly rather bizarre, almost aggressively specific, kind of swearing that occasionally pops up in vernacular.
Basically, "2000 04," when hurled as a minced oath (meaning deliberately shortened and mumbled, usually under your breath), roughly translates into… ugh, let me preface this by saying it’s an atrocious fuckload of crap. . Historically, around the early-mid 1980's in Britain, the most common rendition was, rather ungracefully, a mumbled " fucking load." The point here is, nobody really knows exactly when and why it started this weird numerical truncation. The prevailing theory (and I stress, there IS no good one—it just kind of… happened) goes that somewhere along the line, in the greasy back alleys and pissachio-tinged pubs of northern England, a bloke got into a massive, probably very loud, row with a bloke over a missing overdraft. Rather than shout out the full fucking word, he mumbled this numerical sequence as a way to avoid outright blasphemy (plus, apparently, it sounded like an atrocious amount of money in that moment of immediate
