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.

< helpless laughter >

I don't know whos taking the piss and whos real any more

This is the internet usualsuspect.

NONE OF US IS REAL

I agree to a point, but I think if you don't like swearing, stay off the AIBU threads - if you want middle class parenting, stay on the parenting and skiing/equestrian threads! They are all quite civilised on those.

I have just realised that Sue's name is not 'SuePurplyBits'

Soz like Sue

Oh yeah ,YookUnt ...heres me thinking you were all my real friends

You utter numpty, Ursual. I think I am going to have to change again. I am not purply fecking bits, I am superbly built. See? Sooopurblybuilt. SuePurblyBilt.
like, Jeez.

Rapscallions and rotters, the lot of you :)

at Ursual. Suits you acksherly.

I think some of you are missing a trick with the pearls.

You can clutch at your pearls. Your mother would approve. But don't clutch at a pearl necklace. Subtle difference, I agree - and really, only life experience can tell you the difference between the two.

Best tip:

One of the above can be done in huffy, self-righteous indignation. The other is best not done without a wet-wipe.

You don't have to use swear words to be offensive.

As has been amply demonstrated on this thread.

Mumsnet is an adult forum. It is not moderated. Posters have the freedom to use whatever language they like. The only proviso is that we don't insult each other. And we have been asked to tone down the swearing/avoid swear words in thread titles (and there is clearly a preference for avoidance of such words in posters' names).

This has been the case for a number of years now. If people really don't like it, then perhaps this is not the site for them? There are plenty of other sites which use profanity filters, to safeguard the more faint-hearted.

Yeah I get it, but then in my head it goes 'purply bits' then it jumps to peter andre's schlong before I can help it

My purbly bits have never been near Peter's Wiener. The very idea.
I assumed yours was some obscure and intelligent Bloomsbury-type writer for ages. Clearly not.

Haaaaaa no its off the telly

My brain is bad.

Phoebe's twin, right? Not Vita S-W's best chum then.

Err first one, yeah

Why Peter Andre's Schlong? Is it extra purply?

Yes, tis puce. We have discussed it at length

Actually, that's a good point - what is the best colour for a schlong? And should it match your curtains?

It's 2 shades down the paint chart from their usual body colour.

I'm a bit lost, didn't Vagabond say something about 'frankly you all belong on a gypsy wedding show'? How come that's ok to say? If she'd said 'you all belong on a black/Chinese/homosexual person's wedding show' with the clear implication that swearing is the domain of said people, wouldn't she have been warned for racist/sexist abuse?

Just got here, managed to read to page 13. Had to stop though the term

'the horrendous under-belly of British society'

Has had me giggling all the way through, its cracked me right up
That and
'Womb broom entering the stench trench'

FWIW, I do not have a problem with anyone swearing.
Saying cunt in this part of the country is frowned upon even by everyday swearers [even the gypsy wedding types ]
But I still do not have a problem with it
If it offend, Do not read?

Have to say im loving this thread though

And over here to the West, we are not middle-class, ive be known to piss behind a hedge after a night out

Marrow and Balls do a nice flesh tone.
No23 Schlong.
You can get a sample

I am getting quite fond of Vagabond the more she posts....

I once peed for so long down an alleyway in Soho that it ran down onto the main road gutter and passers-by called me a camel. I'm weirdly proud of that.

I repeat that the trouble with establishing Peter's cock colour is that a) the thing is tiny. You need tweezers I'd say, and b) nobody knows what his original skin colour is for comparision, he has clearly been drinking Ronseal and is not naturally that orange.