To be appalled by the bad language used on this forum

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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?

Xenia: "We just better with words". Eh? ;-)

I don't think swearing is especially big or clever, but equally have been known to partake occasionally, though not in front of the children (5 and 7 and all ears..). Also, I suspect most people would agree that Joanna Lumley, Charlie Brooker, Stephen Fry, even Shakespeare are/were all very articulate individuals, yet they all enjoy a good swear occasionally. Of course, the less articulate do sometimes resort to swearing, but that does't mean that all those who resort to swearing are less articulate.

Anyway; the OP has presumably gathered up her (ankle length) skirts and run for the hills, it seems!

Nah Patricia im sure she will namechange again to Mittmooer or something and be back.

I have never sworn on mumsnet before.

I'd just like to say wanky wanky titty fuck

Thank you

olderyetwider

Thank you crazynanna
Bollocks
Hehehehe, I may develop mumsnet tourettes

actually all swear words in the whole world could be forgiven until the end of time if I could be promised that no one would ever again use the words "tits" or "titty", god I hate those words

sorry older not trying to undermine your achievement there, good show and all that

Sorry Blueberties, tis a horrid word, but had the right number of syllables. Must expand my swearing vocabulary

i think cunty fuck would scan nicely

Ha ha, laughing at the image of Justine on her yacht.

More likely to be called "Off we fuck" or something.

Hmm, I have a Phd in Literature, ergo the vocabulary argument is null and void. It doesn't make you superior not to swear, just a bit uptight.

How about

Yacht deleted by Mumsnet

Now then - back to the swearing.......

Or 'Cunts Ahoy'

Some of the greatest and most influential works of literature are packed full of profanity. (Clockwork Orange anyone? Chaucer?) Swearing in itself does not suggest a limited vocabulary, and to suggest as much is trite. Profanity is as much as part of expression as the rest of language.

However if you're going to take the moral highground, you'd better make sure you are beyond reproach. I'd rather be foul mouthed than a hypocrite, frankly.

Me thinks your one is a trolling sort.
Next post will be about working mums and how they fuck up their kids.

PS: titfuck

Welcome to the fucking sweary club OlderYetWider. Ignore the cunts who say we're dullards, 'cos they is fuck knuckles innit.

I could get used to this

Has anyone said Cunt yet?

As in, 'Why does Noddy wear a hat with bells on'?
Because he's a Cunt.

Makes note to keep the kids the hell away from reading mumsnet

What starts with a C, ends in T, has a U and N in it, is hairy on the outside and wet on the inside?

A coconut.

@ 'cunts ahoy' and the Noddy joke! Effin brilliant!

Bollocks, have just tried to text the Noddy joke to DH but have sent it to kid's scary riding instructor by mistake.

Bugger, what the fuck do I do now?

Ah KIM by the time they get to a certain age a list of swearwords will be the least of your worries.

Why yes I do now have one at Comp, how did you guess?

Apparently according to ds1 from the nice primary now at comp I have a face like a fucked up alien's ballbag. I suspect the word cunt was examined and rejected as being too basic.

Dh are currently discussing whether we should limit his internet access to the FuckedUpAliensRUs website* and seeing how he likes being on lockdown for a week, serves him right.

*That's not a real website. That I know of anyway, have not googled.