If all you moaning minnies had just ignored and .....

wow, that's the first time anything ive said has been discussed in quite so much detail

for the record, i find humour clever. the names AF and QOFE made me laugh when i saw them... hence is see them as clever names.

i didn't say they were intelligent names, i said clever:

clev·er (klvr)
adj. clev·er·er, clev·er·est

1. Mentally quick and original; bright.
2. Nimble with the hands or body; dexterous.
3. Exhibiting quick-wittedness: a clever story.
4. New England Easily managed; docile: "Oxen must be pretty clever to be bossed around the way they are" (Dialect Notes).
5. New England Affable but not especially smart.
6. Chiefly Southern U.S. Good-natured; amiable.

not intelligant;

in·tel·li·gent (n-tl-jnt)
adj.

1. Having intelligence.
2. Having a high degree of intelligence; mentally acute.
3. Showing sound judgment and rationality: an intelligent decision; an intelligent solution to the problem.
4. Appealing to the intellect; intellectual: a film with witty and intelligent dialogue.
5. Computer Science Having certain data storage and processing capabilities: an intelligent terminal; intelligent peripherals

I'm still annoyed that AnyFucker and QueenOfFlaming/FuckingEverying are basically being bullied into namechanging and have to admit i'm resisting the urge to namechange to PinkFuckingTulips myself in purely for divilment

I don't have any problem with grown-ups swearing in posts, thread titles, names, whatever, as long as it is done in GOOD HUMOUR.

I'd only have a problem with swearing if it was delivered with genuine aggression or malice. (So actually it would be the aggression or malice that's the real problem, I suppose).

As far as I've noticed, swearing doesn't tend to happen in anything other than a good humoured way on MN (whether you'd find particular instances of it amusing is entirely subjective of course).

So I do find it odd and a bit sad that posters are having their knuckles rapped about it - that really does seem to have had the effect of dragging it down to a rather depressing playground level.

Well, I can't help if it I'm a sensitive little flower.

To be honest there was a lot of fuck off, you cunts etc going on yesterday - all got a bit heated...

I am like Soupy I don't mind swearing in threads, your eye kind of drifts over it, but in titles and names it just wacks (no pun intended) you in the eye and thats why I objected. Nothing to do with small children/MIL/cleaner/dog reading over my shoulder....I just find it all so unnecessary

I would like to apologise retrospectively if my DailyMail name (quoteTHISyaFuckers) caused any offence.
I felt a little hypocritical yesterday realising that I used and enjoyed using that name but I did cringe at CW's name.

I though soupy's was a rhetorical argumentative device

or something

biwi, I did not take what soupdragon said as directed at you. It was so out of character I assume she meant it is a joke directed at Censored.

QUEEN, Love your new name, it is even prettier than the last.

I agree with the last few posts made by MorningPaper.

Oh dear....

i read soupy's post as directed at the general melee, biwi.
love your new name, queenie, it's much funnier imo.

Well it sounded like it was directed at a person - either me or CENSORED.

How could it not, SoupDragon, when you said "why don't you ..."?

I wasn't twisting the facts. But I did, actually, find it quite upsetting. There was no mock horror last night, I can assure you.

And, in case it isn't clear, the "why don't you f*ck off..." wasn't directed at a single poster.

Oh, there was meant to be a after the word "horror".

What I actually said was "Why don't you fck off and set up cntsnet.com then? You can have whatever nickname you like then." It was not telling anyone to f*ck off, it was a jokey suggestion that the sweary nicknames go and set up their own website. You know, jokey in the same vein as the so-called "jokey" nicknames.

I didn't say "Fck off BIWI" so you can, er, fck off with your accusations and mock horror.

I also said (frequently) that swearing in posts was not a problem at, all only in nicknames and thread titles, so don't make out that it is in any way ironic for me to say something like that. I've always taken the stance in these debate that swearing should be allowed completely uncensored in posts.

Please try to get your facts straight and stop twisting them to fit your own meaning.

Strangely, I do not find AnyFucker offensive (name or poster) but others I do. I'd be sad to see your name go AF.

hehe

No that's much funnier

Why thank you custy [preen]

This was going to be my bonfire night name anyway.

very lovely.

stunning *

queen, i think you look absolutley stinning in your new outfit

Hey ho.

Like pag says, I am quite uncomfortable with the idea my name was offending people and that my posts would be ignored, so I have altered it (and quite like the alteration though I say so myself).

BIWI

that is bad - but actually also quite funny

mp

I exaggerated for comic effect.
And apparently failed

I agree, pagwatch - we are a community.

However, there was a great irony, I thought, in being told to "fuck off" by someone who purported to be offended by sweary names!

Agree pagwatch

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