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Can you Effin Swear On Mumsnet?

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fio2 · 10/09/2004 06:40

Or is it not tolerated?

I didnt think it mattered but ks said I shouldnt write fuck I should write f**k instead

I mean I know its a parenting site but the children cant hear can they? Or is it tolerated on some parts of the site and not others? Or on some threads and not others? iykwim

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marthamoo · 11/09/2004 11:02

Can I say "oh botheration!"?

NomDePlume · 11/09/2004 10:54

I agree that clitoris or its diminutive form both sound pretty grim. I'm not offended by the use of them but the sound of the word makes me cringe a bit.

NomDePlume · 11/09/2004 10:52

The man IN the boat, surely ?!

edam · 11/09/2004 10:49

the man the boat? WTF?

suzywong · 11/09/2004 10:14

that word offends me aurally as I really don't like the 'o-ris' sound, but it 's better than saying 'the man the boat'.

suzywong · 11/09/2004 10:14

that word offends me aurally as I really don't like the 'o-ris' sound, but it 's better than saying 'the man the boat'.

zebra · 11/09/2004 09:54

I'm offended by most swear words...
Before I prudishly run away, I was thinking about starting a thread 2 find out who had what body piercings, & esp. wondered if any1 would admit 2 a pierced cltr*s.

SoupDragon · 11/09/2004 09:47

I believe the word "Scunthorpe" causes a few problems for Rude Word Spotters.

ScummyMummy · 11/09/2004 09:40

Great thread- I do love swearing so very much. LOL @pesme paticularly.

pesme · 10/09/2004 11:48

omg sw, we are obviously separated at birth. I used to car share with a friend who still talks about the spectacular combinations of swear words I used to come out with. i mostly reserve swearing for driving and particularly frustrating dp moments.

suzywong · 10/09/2004 11:36

pesme, I will definitely put you on my list of swear buddies

Maybe once a month we could have a profanity frenzy after the watershed with a big 'Beware Foul Mouthed Ladies Ahead' warning sign.

If we did have one of I would tell you my favourite spontaneous cuss for bad driving. It is a doozy. ( I'm sure the man I pranged today as I turned right at a green light when he was racing to dodge the lights from the opposite direction used something similar to me. Thank god I've got a fecking great big volvo that's all I can say)

ks · 10/09/2004 11:24

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fio2 · 10/09/2004 11:23

so we cant say clit or feck

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mothernature · 10/09/2004 11:14

I heard someone get called 'ya stupid bum flap' last week, nearly wet myself..

ks · 10/09/2004 11:08

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spook · 10/09/2004 10:31

Oh f**k. Spook hangs her head in shame

Justine (mumsnet) · 10/09/2004 10:29

Good question Fio. We don't actually have a defined policy - we did once use one of those auto-asterisk applications for a list of rude words but it all went horribly wrong - all sorts of words that contained rude words kept getting deleted, if you see what I mean? In general we would prefer people to asterisk or not to use language that the majority find offensive - i'm thinking the c-word here certainly and even the f-word (though it's debatable these days) - as we are not here to offend and we would delete a post that was gratuitously rude. We should probably have a look again at applications that may be able to do the job for us - they may have got better. We'll have a chat with Techs.
ps arse is definately ok .

Twiglett · 10/09/2004 10:18

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CountessDracula · 10/09/2004 10:09

put an infinite number of deep sea fish in front of an infinite number of typewriters and one day one of them will type condom

May need false arms/hands to enable typing though

ks · 10/09/2004 09:52

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coddychops · 10/09/2004 09:45

comode!

coddychops · 10/09/2004 09:45

hmm let me try typng it fast
comcmod cod mod cod mod codmod cmod

NO

ks · 10/09/2004 09:43

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fio2 · 10/09/2004 09:42

could be 'mod cod'

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coddychops · 10/09/2004 09:42

have a virtual vespa some hwere

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