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To be appalled by the bad language used on this forum

566 replies

moomoo44 · 06/10/2011 18:11

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?

OP posts:
ScarahStratton · 07/10/2011 10:44

Haha the Limited Vocabulary Brigade has arrived. Grin

Sadly, it does not make you an intellectual superior, it just confirms that you are uptight smug freak with the emotional intelligence of a half cut slug at a beerfest.

Stupify64 · 07/10/2011 10:46

Ah RIZZO, my very favourite Greek swears; brings back so many happy memories.

I use my ex as an example to stop my boys from swearing; 'you'll forget where you are & do it when you shouldn't.' He said 'fucking' on Saturday Kitchen live. Of course all the classmates had been told he'd be appearing. And the little old lady next door...Strangely, he rarely swears in French, tho' he is.

I taught sons the old footie chant '2,4,6,8 who do we appreciate' & we like to play word games by amending it to 2,4,6,8 I need to... urinate, defecate, micturate are some of our faves. Mighty entertaining at tea time, especially as their vocab expands. Even more fun is the horror on their little faces when they have friends round and from the kitchen I start with '2,4,6,8' just to keep them on their toes. Daresay this'll figure large when they're in therapy.

BatsUpMeNightie · 07/10/2011 10:47

uptight smug freak with the emotional intelligence of a half cut slug at a beerfest

Stop please! I beg you! I'm going to need to sit on a towel if this doesn't stop!

Scathac · 07/10/2011 10:55

Ironic, isn't it? I suspect many of these posters would hesitate to use this language openly in spoken conversation: they appear to be hiding behind pseudonyms. It's almost a form of inverted snobbery!! I don't mind whether grown-ups swear or don't swear. Everyone has a choice. Like verytellytubby, I find the old f**k syndrome even more disturbing, however! So I guess it's a case of put up or shut up.

Maryz · 07/10/2011 11:02

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spiderslegs · 07/10/2011 11:06

My DH's family are Dutch, they have some very interesting profanities my favourite being 'Your cock smells of rosewater'.

PS Scathac (I presume that is your real name & you're not hiding behind a psuedonym, nice BTW are your parents Klingon?)

My Name is Spiders & I swear like a cocking trouper in RL too. It makes me vair, vair happy.

ScarahStratton · 07/10/2011 11:08

Massively missing the point there.

Mumsnet is one of the few forums where one's language isn't monitored. It's a place to come to for advice, support, friendship, laughs, and to let off steam.

If you want to know what Mumsnet is really like, go and lurk on some of the DV threads in Relationships, or the SN threads. Read the blanket threads on Chat, and then hang your heads in shame for judging us for being able to swear. So what if the language offends you occasionally, ignore it, it's not on every thread. And tough if it's not all nicey nicey hugs and huns on AIBU, because you get good, straight advice, and not a mass of bleeding hearts telling you what you want to hear, rather than what you need to hear.

If you still don't like it, off you fuck to Netmums, and leave us bjullying bjtches in peace.

YankNCock · 07/10/2011 11:12

I totally fucking agree with Pagwatch.

spiderslegs · 07/10/2011 11:13

Hear Hear Stratton .

Stick it to the man.

stepawayfromtheecclescakes · 07/10/2011 11:30

oooohhh I thought this was going to be another bovine thread for some strange reason... bollocks

LimburgseVlaai · 07/10/2011 11:31

spiderslegs I am Dutch, and... well... I don't know how to break this to you but... well... Your DH has been having you on, I fear.

'Your cock smells of rosewater'?? Nope.

Dutch insults have traditionally been more disease-based: e.g. 'I hope you catch typhoid' (krijg de tyfus) or 'You sufferer of unresolved anger issues' (klerelijer).

ScarahStratton · 07/10/2011 11:33

I suspect it is another bovine thread, Eccles Grin

I loves a good AIBU bunfight I does.

stepawayfromtheecclescakes · 07/10/2011 11:35

Scarah great Grin ooh drama, I will bring popcorn

spiderslegs · 07/10/2011 11:39

Surely Not Limburgs? I refuse to believe it, I do know about all the disease based ones but I have it on very good authority that this is a widely used insult (feverishly emails DH to find out if he's been lying to me all these years, if so, I may have to DUMP THE BASTARD)

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 07/10/2011 11:41

Cachi,diawl,bugger,shit.

that's Welsh

sort of Grin

vixsatis · 07/10/2011 11:46

"pardon" is much worse than "fuck".

ScarahStratton · 07/10/2011 11:48

My Mummy says that too :)

Blueberties · 07/10/2011 11:53

bugger is not swearing

Proon · 07/10/2011 11:59

I quite like all the swearing, but I detest "manshape"

I don't know if it says more about the person using it, or the one it's used about, but contained within that word is someone's life of disappointment, disrespect, grey repetitive pointlessness.

crazynannawitchbitch · 07/10/2011 12:05

Bovinas'? Where?
'Twas my 1st quich Wink

NunTheWiser · 07/10/2011 12:17

When I lived in Holland, I tried to call someone a scrote in Dutch (klotezak - literal translation to English was ball bag) but I got muddled up and called him a zitzak (beanbag). To be fair, he did look surprised...
I often call irritating people a zitzak now. I know what I mean but can remain spotlessly guilt free. until I tell them to fuck off

ScarletLady01 · 07/10/2011 12:23

This thread has made my morning...

After pissing about on certain other parenting forums before finding this one, I finally feel like I'm home -applause-

Yes I swear...I also happen to have an obsession with dying my hair crazy colours and wearing zombie t-shirts...I am also a MUM. That is one part of me...it does not define all of me.

I'm loving all the new insults I've learnt this morning I must say

KatAndKit · 07/10/2011 12:24

Proon, your point has been made time and time again by many people and the answer is always the same. i suggest an archive search if you want to know about who uses it and why.

chicletteeth · 07/10/2011 12:34

Best part of 500 posts either swearing at you, or just swearing. Ha ha.

Far less offensive than somebody using when all they want to say is cunt. No need for the stars I say.

Anyway here's another string of expletive for your viewing pleasure.

Fuckity fuck face.

Fuck off Nethuns thataway -->

chicletteeth · 07/10/2011 12:35

there were * * * inbetween using and when*

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