to think that people with swearwords in their names need to grow up a bit

[washingmachinefiend]

I havent been on mn for a while and came back the other day to post something and was a little shocked by the amount of people posting with names that contained swearwords....particularly the c**t one

please tell me I havent turned into an old prude since the last time I was here.

Primalscream I agree absolutely.
It's tres (accent) declasse (another accent).

Liverpool Dockers work for a living and possibly provided you (in a round about way) with the status that you now enjoy.

So your right.
Liverpool Dockers have more class than you
Many Kind Regards.

TakeItUpTheBumDarlink xxxx

I don't like the swearing either but all of my children are of the age where they can read and I imagine some of you are babies have babies

ah!! but being a responsible parent I would NEVER alow my children to read this, or many other Forums for that fact x

So a swearing but excellent parent, well cant have it all x

takeitupthebumhun

hmm - what a lovely name you have there, you sound like the sort of person who would delight any dinner party with your wit and candour.

I frequently do Primal.
I think it's the combination of wellies, Viyella classics range and the nipple tassles that does it.

TakeitUptheBottomDarlingAirKisses xxxx

Primalscream - mmmmmmmmmm I can remeber doing something like this at Uni, that involved Spandex tho x

the pair opf you sound like Lindy off gimme gimme

I don't do MN with my kids

that would be weird

Primalscream I'm with you...it's all quite juvenile. But then what happens is you're going to get how ever many posts attacking your point of view with swear words. It's very predictable. And isn't the word play using swear words a bit old now, French connectiond did that so long ago with FCUK.

But why does anyone care? what does it matter what other people's user names are, - there are so many other things to get worked up about, if getting worked up is your bag.

Like, OMG, is that really what FCUK means? I thought it was Polish.

jonirules - yes, it's very juvenile - you can half understand 12 year olds having silly sweary names, or laughing because they've just said 'wanker' on the internet - but we're talking about women in their 30's and 40's here.

it's tragic.

then why do you stick around, PS ?

isn't there another, less Liverpool-docker-biased, forum for you to compare notes about how rough the MN lot are ?

I don't think that swearing is necessarily lower class or any example of under-education. Some of the 'worst' expletive-spillers I have met have been aristos, who don't sweat the rather middle class obsession with correctness.

I do believe it is all about context. I have never sworn in the street or in a shop. Or at anyone I work with. I dislike it in the street, where children or older people may well be offended. But at Mumsnet? It's par for the course and when I read it, I don't purse up my lips. Although my DH did look over my shoulder once and ask about the mumsy site. He got a shock when it was a poster talking about bumsex!

I work with children - I don't swear at work. I swear very mildly at home. I have a mouth like a Liverpool dock drain here because I can, not because I think it's cool (couldn't give a flying fig if y'all think I'm anything at all) but because it's a release for all the bitchy or funny or sweary or angry or filthy comments I've been storing up all day.

There are non-sweary sites you know, if it upsets you. I don't think Mumsnets for changing.

Oh no. Not only am I pathetic, I am like, well out of it on the fashion front too. :(

Anyway, like I said earlier, Stephen Fry swears. Virginia Woolf swore. Roddy Doyle likes to eff and jeff now and then. But yeah, Primalscream thinks she'd make a better dinner party guest than any of them...

just think there are worse things to be worrying your pretty little head about, I could not give a FF if you say 'bum' or 'arse' or have 'cunt' in your name x

I do not judge you if you say 'fuck' in posts, as I am better than that, just have a giggle, untwist ya knickers and chilllllllllll x

I only swear infrequently at home, and never at work (when I was working), and I don't very often swear on here, but the point is, I can if I want to. I don't think its clever or witty, - I think its a valid part of the language to be used by anyone who wishes to use it. I never swear at people, only inanimate objects and situations.

When I do its usually because I'm feeling frustrated about something - I don't do it to look cool.

I very much doubt if anyone would consider me cool, and how can one be cool amongst internet posters who you don't know?

I just don't get my knickers in a knot over jokey sweary posting names - seriously why would you? - life's too short.

As someone else said, 'tis all about context.

Plus, I would rather read a well-written, funny post that is peppered with fucks and shits than some of the badly-scribed, non-sweary bland crap that gets spewed forth from the keyboards of some MNers.

I actually hate to see it,read it,hear it.Genitalia and sexual intercourse arent 'rude' or funny-they are private-if you make them into obscenities and allow your children to use them as obscenities then you will imho be contributing to the over sexualisation of women and the diminishing of lovemaking to to a crude back alley snigger.
Yes I know I am an old prude oooooh pranma you sad old dear get back to your knitting etc etc-sorry-call yourselves what you like but not everyone thinks it's funny.

I don't mind the swaer word names, just the one's with cunt in them. I hate reading it and sorry but it is just vulgur, and I am not even remotely a prude.

I agree with Bupcakes...

For fucks sake, I'm copying and pasting "I agree with" from now on... I type it often enough...

Swearings not necessarily always supposed to be funny, pranma. Some people find it helps them to express themselves in a way that a non-sweary sentence just won't do, sometimes.

You might disagree about sexual intercourse not being funny if you'd been a fly-on-the-wall in my bedroom last week.

I think sex is screamingly funny. Lose your sense of humour about 'lovemaking' and it's the most ridiculous act in the world. Genitals - madly funny. I have never met a scrotum that didn't crease me up.

I'm not sure who on this thread said they allowed their children to use sexual swearwords? Did I miss that post?