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?

Ha ha ha ha!

Bye.

Oh no, not her again....!

It's not a site for children, so therefore it's entirely appropriate.

Now, please go back and bother Netmums or BabyCentre or IckleWickleMummies-R-us or wherever you came from. Toodles.

Eeeew cunty pissflaps thats a good one.

My children don't read this, I'm not here to set an example to them, though I DO set a good example to them thank you.

It seems more deliberate, because it IS more deliberate, you can't accidently type BOLLOCKS.

I LIKE swear words used in context, some are offensive. I am sorry you're 'appalled' but, I have to say this thread will only be met with mocking. You are typing to a mostly adult community who are all different, who all have different standards, and to be patronising and judgey will not go down well at all.

In fact, some will find it as offensive as you find swearing.

Who do you think you are?

Welcome to MN by the way.

Has anyone suggested you give Netmums a go instead?

I agree with you OP.
You get some terrible sorts on here.
We are much better than that. Shall we go? We could protest and leave.
That would teach these guttersnipes a thing or two.

hat off to you, wading in on AIBU thread and mentioning all the bad mouthed mofo's!!

welcome to mumsnet. we are gross :)

Mightn't you be best fucking off to fluffyhuns.com? They won't be doing with "language". In every sense of the word. Hun.

Its fucking appalling, isn't it? Bunch of foul mouthed bitches, the lot of you!

" you can't accidently type BOLLOCKS"

To be fair, with the autocorrect on an iPad or an iPhone you probably could.

oh but lolo at Nur, Fabby

I typed anus anus by mistake once. But that isn't swearing is it?
Is it?

"Mumsnet - we do the swearing, so you don't have to"

(OP - you do know you aren't meant to be letting your DC read this shite, don't you?)

That's a very bum joke, pag.

no that's a parfum innit Paggy

[arfing at one's own joke]

i agree with the op

so there

anus horribilis

I like the rude words.

I learned "beef curtains" from Mumset. Sadly, I have never had the opportunity to say it in RL.

Clearly I am in the minority here so I will go!

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

Anglo-Saxon times, I think

I actually find it almost impossible to type out a swearword - I can just about do an acronym, or oddly enough in a foreign language (there was once a silly friday night alphabetical swearword thread, to which I contributed liberally in French) - but it really doesn't bother me to read such language here any more than it would in poetry or literature. Unless its being used for personal attack, but that's not allowed whether sweary or not.

soupdragon fair point, I shall amend that to "I can't accidently type bollocks" - no autocorrect!

No Ipad/Iphone [sadface]

oh bugger dont slam the fecking door on the way out .It knocks my wine right of the table