To be appalled by the bad language used on this forum

[moomoo44]

I know I will probably be shot down as I am a newbie on here but I recently found this site whilst searching for something and found the AIBU threads very interesting. I find it intriguing how different people react to the same situation and it really makes you realise that we are not all the same, and the world is better for it.

What I have found so appalling though is the frequent use of swearing throughout these posts. I have been truly shocked by this as it is a forum used mainly by parents. Is this the example to set children?

There is something about swearing in writing which makes it so much worse than in conversation, although that is not nice either. It seems so much more deliberate in writing.

When did it become acceptable to use such language unnecessarily and excessively just for effect?

G'night Scratton & Mort (would it be wrong to disable one with a catapult so it would be my chum? Would it? Really? I suspect it would).

RIZZ0 like your work on the pinching thread.

Kudos to you.

Ahhh, thanksh fuckstick

Night losers.

Grimma No - but I should really, DSIS is an advisor to the board, I keep telling her they're all wankers giving her gentle pointers. Does she listen?

Does she fuck.

'Oi loikes chickens.

You taking the piss outa my accent missus

feckin gert 'un cheek isnit

I missed this thread because I was painting my bannister.

Can I just add in a few 'cunts' now without reading past the first 50 replies?

ahem....

cunt
cunt
cunty
cunt

No Peach!

Chooks are gert lush.

I really loves my chooks.

And accents.

I as a cool accent dunnae, proper zumerzet n all

(can you tell I miss it now I live in Wales LOL)

We have ravens here, no chickens though. All Church and no garden is what it is.

But think of the children!!!!
I tell you they are everywhere in this house, you cant get away from them, I'm like the women who lives in a shoe but they are not having my mumsnet

So I will cunty bollocks all I like on here thankyou

(sticks Tongue out, goes to make more broth for the children)

Think of the children????

Think of the chickens. They are the most hurt from all of this. They are very gentle creatures. As are the ravens.

Ravens - Nevermore, nevermore

MN - Fuck off you twatting Cloaca

Chickens - Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.

Ravens - In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.

Chickens - Eh?

Ravens - "Sir," said I, "or madam, truly your forgiveness I implore

Chicken - Eh?

Ravens - "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou," I said, "art sure no craven,

Chicken - Eh?

MN - YABU

I would have agreed with the OP six or seven years ago. However years of being in this wilderness have made me rather like the profanity. I have visions of prim and proper bastions of the community letting rip when toddlers and teenagers are out of sight.

Perhaps I am a victim of Stockholm Syndrome .

As a improper bastion of the community I always unlace my stays and undo my bodice prior to letting rip here, but there are so many threads about farting that I'm beginning to wonder if I'm venting from the wrong end

Gosh! This was to have been my 2nd foray into the MN world, having given some useful advice regarding council tax, but my vocab isn't up to this. I can speak French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, German and another language whose name I forget now, but I can't bring myself to say some things even in English. Not to worry tho', there's a pub up the road and the punters are doing their best to educate my children as they pass by. I guess they all speak differently in the presence of their own children, as do Mumseffinnetters by the sound of it.

I think you'll find, if you read the thread, that the whole point is that we don't, as a rule, swear in the presence of our children.

And threads like this always degenerate into a swearfest. Tis the rule. Just skim past the sweary parts on other threads and you will be fine.

Psst, can you swear in Greek? That would be rather a coup, a Greek swearing raven.

Spidey you loon

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Quoth the raven ... - Nevemore cuntychops!

Stratters. Ante gamisou ? go fuck yourself

A firm fave is Malaka - greek swear meaning 'Master Masturbater' (wanker)

Can I just add that The Raven is my fucking favourite poem ever in the whole fucking world.

Oh, and good fucking morning!

I adore 'cuntychops'

Cheers RIZZ0, ante gamisou, you old malaka, I luffs you.

Fuck off Bats it's too fucking early for fucking poetry, cunting FailCat spent the night running round the sodding house like a fucking mad thing.

Good fucking morning everybody :o

You know, I used to think "be kind to the newbies, they don't know what they're doing yet", but seriously... if you're going to join a talk forum, one would think you'd lurk on the forum a bit to see if its style suits you! Not join, and on your second day start a thread criticizing this forum that you're new to!
FFS, OP, get over yourself. This is a forum for PARENTS. Not children. This shouldn't come as a surprise, as it's called MUMSNET, not ChildrensNet . Let me put it another way: some adults drink, some don't. None that I know of allow their children to drink. Some adults swear, some don't. Most that I know strongly discourage their children from swearing. So stick your "what kind of example are you setting" where the sun doesn't shine. Oh, and take off your judgy-pants. Chances are pretty good very few of our children will see what we write here on MN so that question is ridiculous.

Welcome to MN. Now don't let the doorknob hit you on the arse on your way to NetHuns.

Reading that OP produced a similar sensation to seeing the shivering wee goat tied up in the T Rex enclosure in Jurassic Park.

Morning spunk suckers, on my way to bastard work. Where my boss was a twat on weds. This thread has cheered me up though. Even with the raven

Fucksake Lissie you cowardly spunkbucket. Cunting photos of heinous scary raven in my fucking profile, you fucking nobend.

Happy Days! Scarah told me to fuck off! My life is now complete.

Fuck off to the far side of fuck - then fuck off some more. You are all a bunch of evil, small minded cunts who can just go fuck yourselfs as no one else cares about you.

And breath.

Sorry