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?

not this shite again

I like a bit of swearing, and can swear with the best of them. I don't go round effing and jeffing whilst buying my organic veg from the local farm shop or whilst doing the school run, but will saying 'fucking cunt' should the situation demand it.

I have never understood those woman who do the 'ooooh I hate the word cunt, please don't say it around me'

I fear, Pagwatch, that a sensible request in site stuff would get the same sweary mothers united response as posting in AIBU. I shall go back to pedants' corner.

Maryz is right.
I didn't like the swearing when I came here, but got so hooked on the content I decided it's a minor (and often funny) inconvenient.
Now I'm getting odd looks from DP but feeling much better thanks to a good ol' loud FFS! a bit too often maybe

H I think you may be underestimating mn a bit there.
I think sensible discussions can be had on most subjects.

I banged away for years about awful acceptance of bigoted language around sn. Of course I got ridiculed and attacked by some. But I also had sensible discussion and it was often a good debate. And look, certain words around disability are usually pulled up by mners.
It's great.

But you can't just the whole of mn on the ranty stuff that aibu produces. Well I don't think so anyway

Gawd. That sounds like I changed things. That is not what I was trying to say.
Just that lots of people complaint and explaining why gradually changed the culture. Mn is good like that

Swearing is in the very least 'honest'..

Wot I can't bleedin' stand is hypocritical dis-ingenuousness wrapped up in saccharine sweet coating pretending to be something it ain't, like vicious insults said 'naicely', now that is offensive..

I can swear in sign language.

My grandad taught me to sign BOLLOCKS at a tender age.

I loved my grandad.

I think my favourite sweary 'Fuck em, Fuck em sideways' if a friend is having bother with some twatmonkey.

It has it all, swears, a sort of riddle because you have to imagine how indeed you would fuck someone sideways AND shows total support.

I like swearing best of all because its the opposite of passive agression and I fucking hate passive agression.

wow this is interesting readin.. im a newbie and im not sure what im doing yet ,, whats with all the accronyms and smileys... i ll get there tho x

Ah, Maryz, I am an old hand at this MN lark (well, old-ish: I must have been on here for about five years, under about 50 different aliases), but still haven't succumbed to the charms of a good (?) sweary moment.

How about 'Mumsnet: Britain's's most popular swearanting site' as an alternative strapline?

Justine, I charge by the hour for such gems.

And even more for extra apostrophes and 's's.

'tis just one of the facets of the rough diamond that is MN kbend

Welcome... and or and a while you settle in?

I can sign in Makaton

Well just the one swear sign but also sign sex.

They are just an addition to the 100 or so normal everyday signs I use.

A bit like swearing. It's rare I swear on MN, when I do it's usually for impact of what I am saying. Not because I think it's big/clever etc - I'm an adult!

It never bothers me what anyone else says or does here or RL.

swear in Makaton. That typo just looked like boasting but was mrsDV post that reminded me.

Acronyms

HTH :)