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TECH, please can we have a facility to hide posters who...

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PestoLovelyMonster · 29/09/2009 09:20

we feel have very offensive names?

I don't want my dcs looking over my shoulders and seeing certain nicknames and asking what they are.

Thank you please

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LuluSkipToMyLou · 29/09/2009 11:24

Are they doing it purposefully? Sorry, is this a thread about a thread then?

senua · 29/09/2009 11:24

What slubber said

southeastastra · 29/09/2009 11:24

am with slubber too

senua · 29/09/2009 11:22

Several people have said that they find they find this language offensive. Other posters then pile in, saying that the the words aren't important or it's only a larf or they are reclaiming the language or some other such self-justification.

What they don't seem to be addressing is that they are purposefully and unnecessarily offending people and don't care that they are doing it. Thanks for that.

Slubberdegullion · 29/09/2009 11:21

Quite MP!

MotherOfAChild · 29/09/2009 11:20

I have self-censored. Not sure the PTA would welcome my rage though

morningpaper · 29/09/2009 11:18

I tend to agree slubber - it IS just manners

If it were a group of teenagers, I would smile fondly and remember my own years of rage and rebellion

It being middle-aged women, I feel that such an overspill of rage would be better directed in more hours on the PTA or something instead

Slubberdegullion · 29/09/2009 11:16

I'm not particularly offended by it, although if there are an overwhelming number of posters that are then the poster in question should name change. That is just nice manners, which never go amiss (greasing of the wheels of civilisation and all that).

Personally I find the name (and any others that set out to shock or offend) very attention seekery, in the same vein as sweary t-shirts or men on stag dos with viking hats.
Not funny, just silly, and I am given to a good hard internal judge of the poster, regardless of what they are saying in their actual posts.

[Joyce Grenfell]

fanjolina · 29/09/2009 11:14

oh, FGS, even my MIL says CUNT.

We women should reclaim it as a usable word. There used to be streets called GropeCunt alley and such.

ANd QS - worry about yourself love, not the poster in question. There is no evidence, nor any suggestion that she would post on a DV thread.

And I agree re censorship. It is up to the poster to change her name, not be demanded to change it. THough if I were her, I'd keep it out of indignation at the bullshit being spouted about her, for what seems to have only intended to be a fun namechange.

LuluSkipToMyLou · 29/09/2009 11:12

Wasn't me, honest guv!

AitchTwoToTangOh · 29/09/2009 11:12

i'm against censorship but i do feel that some self-censorship wouldn't go amiss.

Thredworm · 29/09/2009 11:11

Yes am she. You have a wolfish posting style Professor?

Thredworm · 29/09/2009 11:10

That definition makes it seeem a worse and harder to 'reclaim' word than I thought, Kerry. But I think I'd still be on the non-censorship side.

Lol at masturbation camp. In-tents excitement etc.

KerryMumblesCUNT · 29/09/2009 11:09

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ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave · 29/09/2009 11:08

(Actually, are you Threadworm, or just a pale imitation? Or has Threadworm always been spelt Thredworm and I've never noticed before?)

KerryMumblesCUNT · 29/09/2009 11:08

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ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave · 29/09/2009 11:07

(We do seem to fall into two camps on that, Threadworm. Join me and Lulu in the masturbation camp... umm... as it were...)

TsarChasm · 29/09/2009 11:06

My guess is a man on here called cuntwhacker wouldn't last 2 minutes.

KerryMumblesCUNT · 29/09/2009 11:05

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Thredworm · 29/09/2009 11:05

(I've been assuming it means masturbation not violence -- is that wrong???)

QuintessentialShadow · 29/09/2009 11:04

People should censor themselves I think. There would be no need to call for moderation if people were actually self moderating.

Thredworm · 29/09/2009 11:04

MP perhaps it would depend on his posting personality? He might be using it in the same way that I enjoy seing women using it, or he might be using it differenly and objectionably. We'd have to get to know him I think. It would be harder for a man to carry it off probably.

PrettyCandles · 29/09/2009 11:04

I don't care to see nasty or obscene names either, but more than that I don't want such censorship on Mumsnet. Self-censorship, OTOH, yes. But that's up to those who chose to use such names.

KerryMumblesCUNT · 29/09/2009 11:03

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ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave · 29/09/2009 11:03

I vaguely assumed cuntwhacker was a reference to masturbation rather than to domestic violence, too. I'm not sure whether that means I have an unnaturally innocent mind or an unnaturally filthy one...