AIBU to think the foul language and vulgar tone of these threads is just too much

[onceamai]

During the last few days the foul language, just a quick skim through the AIBU headings reveals such awful words, has been such that I don't think I will be coming back again too often. Mumsnet - Middle Class - Parenting orientated - really, is it really? Vulgar, nasty, ill mannered, spring more easily to mind. What a shame.

That was to OP BTW

Or did I pm you under Carminaburana? (( can't remember actually ))

The OP said no such thing, Bupcakes.

moo moo - well done. How very original of you.

Plus there's the leetle matter of Free Speech. Which never gets tired imho.

except you don't appreciate mine obviously! What a contradiction

You seem to think that newbies have to accept the way things are here and fit in somehow?! Rolls eyes!

You may have been here for six years....but that doesn't make you any more or less a valid member than someone who has recently joined.

I take it you have no problem at all with your daughter swearing like a trooper?

As for the "if you don't like it go elsewhere comment"...well you could say the same who try and get a reaction from swearing for the sake of it...or to get a reaction brigade....

sausages, that's my point. Sorry if you missed it.

I was asking the anti-swearers WHAT DO YOU WANT and WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO GAIN (sorry for shouting, but I don't want to be misunderstood again) by posting how much you hate swearing? If it isn't in the hope that you want it to stop, then why post? Genuinely confused here.

Allinabinbag, I wasn't talking about you personally and I actually said 'largely' the newer members. Certainly there's been a flurry of these kind of threads lately and a lot of them (not all) begin along the lines of 'I've just joined this site and I can't believe how much swearing there is' .

But thank you for at least attempting to clear up my confusion, I can see why you don't like it in titles if you have children who are of reading age and MN around them.

I agree.
And whilst we are on the subject why has it become such an insult to call someone an anatomical name? Organs are vital, why are slang tems for them used in a derrogatory way? I can understand silly school boys hurling them about ,to demonstrate that they are all grown up now, but women using them? Does it empower them or diminish them?

x-post. Gosh, sausages, did you really need to look up my details to find out how long I'd been here? It wouldn't matter if I'd been here 6 years, 10 years or 5 minutes, I still wouldn't seek to change something well-established, and if it offended me that much I would chnage my viewing habits or else find somewhere else.

I don't swear in front of my daughter, she can't read that well yet and my computer is in a separate room that she doesn't go in.

And the swearers were here first (so ner). Besides, I'm wracking my brains to think of where someone has tried to get a reaction from swearing for the sake of it... I must miss all these exciting threads....

Sorry, I meant Vagabond, obviously.

Primal's cream, my apologies. I have a mind like a sieve (and a busy inbox).

I think it was Carminaburana, but I profess to not having a clue what it was about. Oh, hang on, did those piles clear up ok after all... ? Glad to hear it

I think we may have had a little spat recently too. Oh well, just goes to show, it can all be just WOAS (sometimes)

I won't even remember vagabond's nasty personal attack on me in a couple of days either

Fuck knows I just saw it had been deleted.
The thread rocks :)

BTW anyf have you taken the ucker off your name?

temporarily pumpers, temporarily (am on my lunch break at work)

now some of us have to get back to it....

laters < mwah >

@Sausages, no one is disputing your right to say what you want, but the big difference is that you are using your freedom of speech to suggest others lose theirs, because you don't like what they say.

That is intolerance in anyone's book, and thus you are getting disagreed with.

What did you expect?

I don't like swearing as part of names or in thread titles
Agree with OP's sentiment just not her way of expressing it.

Anyfucker as I have now had 2 messages deleted by the Powers That Be (PTB's) of Mumsnet does that mean I live in a basement of the underbelly?

FirstMessageDeletedForSuggestingThatACertainSomebodyShouldHaveCemtexTamponsTiggaxx

at semtex tampons

yes, dawn, you are officially part of The Underbelly and contributing to Broken Britain

oh, and you are rubbish mother (apparently)

Welcome to Mumsnet OP

BIt late to be welcoming her to MN given she's been here since last year.

Well if she has been here that long surly she has it worked out by now

I would allow a fair amount of swearing; but it does get too much at times.

Ooh this is quite interesting.
I missed this but reading it on a rainy Thursday morning rather than as it happened on a late wed makes the experience totally different.

I am a swearer. But I like the effect of a neatly laid f bomb or a funny phrase. This reads like a bunch of 11 year oldson the back of a bus shouting fart willy nob. Not very funny and a bit embarrassing. Yet in the moment I have no doubt people found it very funny.

So maybe the people offended are looking in on the thread rather than participating so think it looks childish and banal. And the people participating are caught in the quick firedness of it and think those outside are being puritanical.
Probably it is somewhere between the two.

I think shouting at the op for being a newbie is a bit bandwagonish. Especially as she isn't. But then I think "professionally offended" stopped being funny about three months ago.

flowery cunt

I have to say I am fucking shocked at the amount of middle class cunts on here swearing it takes the fucking piss if you ask me.

Did someone not mention putting together a graph of their own history of swearing on these forums?
I don't swear much myself but a pie-chart of "cuntishness" would be good if someone could find a way to upload it.