Offensive nicknames

I don't so much mind the sweary names, but I am not keen on the royal family (the concept of them - the actual people may be lovely), or the word "nude" applied to any kind of apparel that is a pinky, grey colour, not in the slightest like the skin tone of a huge proportion of the world's population.

So, a name based on Kate Middleton's "nude" shoes is more unsettling to me than CuntyMcArseFace, but I just have to live with that, or possibly just not read mumsnet.

Lass, you sound a bit exercised by this. Using a perfectly friendly thread to have a mild dig at another individual isn't good form. If I didn't know better I would think you had a touch of the green eyed monster.

but there's one these days with the F word and bitch. I find it horrible.
I take it you mean me. There's a whole history behind my name. I cannot be arsed going into it as it would out me.

I don't understand why people are that bothered by NNs.

I find the names with fat or similiar in them to be worse.
obviously I'm the worst of the worst then!
There's a whole history behind the fatty in my name too.

I don't think being a sanctimonious prick is big or clever either Lass but we all must live and let live.

Wasn't me who first mentioned the "ooh I'm mad I am " reaction. AF

If you are going to fish for compliments you shouldn't be surprised if your bait isn't always taken. I don't like the sweary names. I don't think think it's big and clever.

MN is a sanctum of swears, a corner of cuntiness, a veritable field of fuckery, no?

What a shame you had to spoil the good natured tone of this thread, Lass.

dafuqisdis

I always imagine the posters saying "oooh I'm mad me!"

Yes me too about the sweary ones. Sorry I agree with the posters who said they are tiresome and trying too hard.

Nobody notices my name is sweary any more
Or it's that I get indulged like a dotty old aunt

If you say so.

I really don't mind - but seeing this thread did make me briefly itch for a name change. Turns out I'm too lazy to ho through with it though.

Failed rebel, me.

I so agree OP

But I am the resident prude so I would.

Getting all serious for a minute...I think there's an element of escapism in the sweariness. Many of us joined this site when we had small children and in those dark, dark days this was sometimes the only place where you got to talk to other adults and talk like an adult. Women and in particular mothers are often infantalised and I love the fact that it doesn't happen here.

What would happen if a child were ever to access Mumsnet?

I think I can safely say that no child in their right mind is going to go wthin 100 yards of something called "Mumsnet", if it changes to Zombienet or blockblaster we might have a problem.

My kids know I'm on mumsnet, they hate mumsnet .

I've had a couple of sweary names, mainly because I am a child and find them amusing rather than to avoid being quoted in the Heil.

I think silverbirch is spot on with regard to trying to police them.

I don't find the sweary namesoffensive, most make me smile and I enjoy the torture people have in politely replying to cuntychops or the like.

We have an outbreak of sweary names at the moment because of the Daily Mail fuckery with threads, now the DM sign-posting more twats, goady fuckers and trolls to the site is a much more important issue MNHQ needs to address.

I just cannot see the point in policing the 'offensiveness' of people's names, you see I don't much like names that pay homage to the royal family or all the mummy names and find them twee and pathetic. But it's not up to me to tell people what they can and cannot call themselves.

This thread as made me laugh Katefuckswilly excellent user name for this thread.

I agree with the OP.

I really don't think anything of a sweary username.

I dislike names with 'mummy' in, or numbers.

YANBU.

Constant rude wordage is no way to keep a husband.

What would happen if a child were ever to access Mumsnet? There would be a terrible to-do, possibly culminating in a fractious rumpus.

I love the sweary names.

The nicknames are part of MN, as is changing them whenever we feel like it. Get rid of the silly rude names and I will flounce

My name is only slightly rude

AF it's the second one...

It's ridiculous, lowers the tone of the place.

Why people think they will be quoted anyway, the DF never does that. Also they should just leave their identifiable and searchable user name to be directly quoted in the newspaper, rather than the anonymous one like A*r. It's silly.