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?

I love mumsnet :) I don't actually remember what I did before it!

Oh nuffink at all Vallhalla. I just worry at the alarming rate that the rhyming slang is creeping into my every day vocabulary >_

I reckon Dubliners are the best swearers. They use the flilthiest expressions

err, filthiest

arse biscuits

lapsed When I lived in Tenerife there was a pub/ band called the Dubliners. (They were actually Irish). They did the funniest rudest versions of very well know songs.

I have their CD

Me too fellow Newbie.

I meant loving MN and the venting that comes with it :)

I do love an educational thread. As proficiently profane, I can't tell you how rare it is to come across a new swearword but this thread has introduced me to a whole new one.

Cuntspanner. I anticipate that this will get used frequently. Almost as much as I use fuckpot. Which is a lot.

Stewie - I just had a fit of hysterical laughter at your post and had to explain why to DH. He now wants to know WHY one should never Google Dragonbutter. He is an innocent. He has been warned .

Oh I loved 'cuntspanner' too!! And arse biscuit.

Now this 'dragon butter' thing - is it really worth the Google? Because if it's just shit then I can resist having been exposed to RateMyPoo.com some years ago - still getting over that!

Cuntspanner.

BOO I made the awful mistake many years ago of sitting down with Aged Mama and putting on a DVD of "The Commitments" to watch with her. Holy Fecking Mary......

Bats it involves shit in a round about way.

Yes google it... just don't click on any of the links and you'll be safe

Cuntspanner. Fan-bloody-tastic. That's 2 new insults I've learned this week - wank badger being the first .

I saw a great one on here, I'm sorry I can't credit the poster because I've forgotten her name.

Her immortal words were 'womb broom' and 'stench trench'

Just realised they are not technically swearing. OP can you be appalled by crudeness instead?

Fans of sweary songs, I give you Kevin Bloody Wilson

Featuring such classics as 'Santa Claus You Cunt', 'I Gave Up Wanking' and 'That Fucking Cat's Back'

Brilliant thread.
MN is an experience for a newbie, but well worth the initiation process.
Stick with it moomoo, we're vair nice really. (i sometimes shop in Waitrose)

gosh darn it, you willy private parts lovemaking unaesthetic person.

Nope. Not as satisfying. Fuck off to fuckland and then fuck off some more.

Oh I say twat and cunt in RL too. And I am not rough. Or an arse.

Although Cunty McCunt the XH may disagree on that one...

Wow, is Mumsnet really 11 years old?? Fucking hell!!

Ooops sorry OP!

Cuntspanner --how did I miss that?

Was it MrsDV who used wankbadger? She used something like that last night and it was brilliant.