To say what the flippity fu*k?!

[HowlingBitch]

I just cannot believe this. Is this mother on MN if so.... WTF misses?

"where are they strip teasing as far as I can see they are using their upper body strength and moving with the pole, no sleaziness or teasing anywhere"

I said "Working by that logic..." three-year olds learning to striptesae would be OK, would it? And please desist with the faces, unless you'd like to actually read what people are saying before attempting a "snippy" response.

Yeah, you can ask.

I used "the huns" in reference to the sort of woman who gives her toddler DD a spray tan/teaches her daughter to pole dance/parades her about town in a crop-top to look like mummy. You know? The sort of woman who rakes it in by teaching three-year olds to be mini-playboy bunnies.

I'm sorry, I didn't see that bit.

Oh FGS.

I am talking about "huns" as in "lol ur the best, hun xxx" "sparkles and glitter hun "

Get a grip, woman.

How could I say "hun" in the context in which I said it? "The hun are taking over"? "The hun is taking over"?

Mumsnet is scaring me at the minute.

I'll believe it is purely a way of keeping fit when men and boys take part. And women don't wear skimpy clothes while 'working out' and pose for photographs in their bra and knickers.

Very tasteless.

Precisely, Christina.

How many stag parties do you hear saying "Come on lads. I know where tehre's a great gymnastics show we can watch with a few beers?"

YANBU

Absolutely no need for young children to learn how to pole dance, plenty of other sports out there without the sexual connotations of pole dancing. They are wearing little tops and skirts, if they're going to try and pass it off as "professional sport" they should at least put them in leotards etc.

Sorry, just had to google 'Huns' as I was confused.....

altinkum did you think Bupcakes meant Huns as in Germans? Or as in the ancient tribe?

More googling......

Bupcakes Attilla was notoriously good on the pole. YABU for implying all the Huns were equally as good though.

No. I think there are communities within the UK where "huns" is an offensive term for Protestants. Is that right? And that's what altkinmum is referring to.

It comes up every now and again on mn.

ROFL at hun confusion
Just to add to the mix a seven year old came to my daughter's birthday party wearting leopard-skin tights. I think there was other leopard skin print involved in the outfit too. How can any parent not see the inappropriateness of it?

Oh, it's a football club thing - no wonder I've never heard of it!

"hun" is mn argot for txtspking persons, who used to be found mainly in the exchanging pram part of mn.

I'm not keen on the term, myself.

It quite categorically isn't inflected with the Prot/Catholic thing - mainly because (I suspect) most of the mn-ers who brought the mn-hun into play were well too Southern to have come across that particular usage of the term.

I do suspect it has a vague nod to the "Hun" that were the scourge of Christian Rome, however. I think the term is supposed to be a humorous bringing-together of incongruity: groups of pram-wielding fluffy txters advancing like a nomadic horde on Rome.

How about a differentiation then, as clearly Bupcakes was not intending to imply Protestants are any more keen on poledancing than any other Christian denominational sect - Hunz? Or Honz? (although that sounds like it would rhyme with The Fonz)

I appreciate Altinkum, that if used in that context and for that reason, it would be deeply offensive. That does not appear to have happened here.

I had no clue until I googled that "The Huns" has any meaning other than a collective of sparkles and glitter ticker types or the ancient tribe. Seems like it isn't universally known, I don't think anyone intended to be offensive.

But I was v interested to read your explanation and have googled and learnt something as a result so thank you! You really do learn something new everyday on MN.