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to not like the names of posters with swear words in them

92 replies

slartybartfast · 03/06/2011 23:49

i havent been on here much but have been over this half term and every thread i go on, every one, has a Fuck or a cunt or some such in a posters name.
whats this all about?

who are all tehse fuckers people?

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Original poster
slartybartfast · 04/06/2011 09:11

previously i mean

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valiumbandwitch · 04/06/2011 09:16

I don't mind the swear words so much but there are a few that make me think, wow, was that the best screen name you could find? there is one that is not exactly hairyminge, but that might be close to it.

Although, it's just occured to me that my flippant use of valium in my name might be disrespectful to people with addiction problems. I hope not. Sorry if so.

nevergoogle · 04/06/2011 09:17
Original poster
slartybartfast · 04/06/2011 09:18

they'll be sorry when they are excluded from the book though
and newspaper articles

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valiumbandwitch · 04/06/2011 09:19

I don't think Icooksocks is clever at all. It seems on the surface very daring but scrape a millimetre under that and it seems conformist and subservient. Or is that just me?

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slartybartfast · 04/06/2011 09:21

wonder if icooksocks boils the socks in a saucepan on a regular basis?

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katvond · 04/06/2011 09:21

Does it really matter OP? It's the name they picked, I kinda think it's funny but I'm as childish as fuck

SwearyMary · 04/06/2011 09:22

Oh arse. I need to name change SwearyFuckingMary perhaps?

MardyBra · 04/06/2011 09:25

I like them if they are witty or innovative. If they're just swearing for the sake of it then it loses impact. Bupcakes' name is much wittier than KuckingFunt for example.

FannyPriceless · 04/06/2011 09:49

I know for sure that one of the sweary names came about because the poster wished to ensure she was never quoted in the Daily Mail. And you have to support that motive, surely?Grin

valium Do you mean MitchyInge from the tack room? She is fab!

kat I too am childish. But as it's MN we can kid ourselves we are being childish in an ironic postmodern way.Wink

TheMonster · 04/06/2011 10:24

I agree, MardyBra (which made me chuckle too!): Bupcakes is witty and has been thought about. KuckingFunt and the like (I once spotted a CillySunt, which doesn't even work) are not witty in any way.

Stangirl · 04/06/2011 10:56

I love swearwords - to paraphrase Stephen Fry, our language is poor enough to describe the world let's not limit it further. I adore AnyFucker's name - so people post "I agree with AnyFucker" etc. In real life I was considering having a T-shirt made with "Vindictive Cunt" on it after a bf called me it during a row - he was trying to hurt me - but I thought it so hilarious that it brought the argument to an immediate end and a discussion about whether a T-shirt printer would actually print it.

WhereYouLeftIt · 04/06/2011 10:58

nevergoogle, I think I remember a previous longer name of yours?

TheMonster · 04/06/2011 11:06

Don't google it! I have never forgiven nevergoogle...

QueenOfFeckingEverything · 04/06/2011 11:08

WhereYouLeftIt - I didn't namechange much Smile. I was QueenOfFlamingEverything for ages, then QueenOfFlippingEverything in honour of Pancake Day, now this.

nevergoogle · 04/06/2011 11:13

but...i'm reformed see!

Tortington · 04/06/2011 11:15

i don't like reformation - change back immediatley

Tortington · 04/06/2011 11:17

have changed my name in honour of this thread.

i thank you

WhereYouLeftIt · 04/06/2011 11:18

QueenOfFeckingEverything, but there isn't a MUG with that on the side! (Although 'fecking' does gove it a lovely accent.) Saw this mug in a shop years ago, with one of those popart sort of drawings of a woman in fifties-style hair and clothes reclining on an sofa, and the phrase 'Because I am the Queen of Fucking Everything'.

I really should have bought it.

nevergoogle · 04/06/2011 11:19

think i saw you in the new mumsnet book a few times custy.

Tortington · 04/06/2011 11:22

no! really? fuck me i might have to buy it

TakeItOnTheChins · 04/06/2011 11:26

It always makes me laugh when people say "Oh, swearing is just words/clusters of letters - don't be so precious".

To those people I ask - if you were chatting to your child on the bus, and he was talking about another child at school, and said something like "I don't like Jimmy, Mummy. He's a bit of a cunt" would you still think "It's just words" because if so, then good for you but if not, then please shut up. Some words ARE offensive - that's the point of using them and to pretend that they're not just smacks of desperation to be seen as cool.

confuseddotcodotuk · 04/06/2011 11:36

nevergoogle: You're hardly innocent, your old NN was the cause of me actually googling it, my mind is forever scarred because of you! Grin

I love some of the names with swear words in, and am another person who finds Anyfucker good purely because of the people saying "I agree with anyfucker..." on threads Grin

nevergoogle · 04/06/2011 11:44

there's a quote about how to deal with a wafty mother who just excuses crap toddler behaviour and doesn't establish boundaries.

and a great custy quote on how to discourage negative comments.

actually there's more, all good quotes.

needanewname · 04/06/2011 11:46

Well I told DH about nevergoogle (and what it is I'm assuming you should never google) and said that I never had and I didn;t want to, of course I now have (I knew DH would!) EUUWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!