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?

GeeinItLaldy Those songs are fab

Will be singing 'Absolute Cunt of a Day' around the ward tomorrow...

I have always thought that swearing is both big and clever, tbh.

You might, I probably wouldn't notice tbh.

No it was wankermagnet.

Sorry went off to find it and got distracted by the Talk Talk CS online man apperaing on my thread where I called them a bunch of fuckers.

See swearing really DOES get results.

hard to see why this isnt on discussions of the day after such a fab response - nothing wrong with a good fucking swear it conveys all the right emotions

OP Genius question.

Is this the example to set children?
Not at all, but its a release.

Feck feck feckety feck

I feel a bit sorry for the OP.
Do you think she's gone to lie down in a dark room?

See I don't know about you, but I don't let my kids read mumsnet (or indeed use the internet except for school work and games supervised by me), so I don't really give a flying fuck if there's shitloads of swearing on here.

If I heard a woman saying cunt or twat in real life, I wouldn't think anything of it. Just as I wouldn't noticre if I heard a man swearing in real life.

Cunt - probably yes, twat no. To me twat is really mild - along the lines of pillock, prat etc

No of course I wouldn't notice. I don't go around listening in on other people's conversations.

Thank you OP for starting this wonderful thread, have used it to add expand my swearing vocabulary

I don't think anyone on here would swear at their children everlong

I think they just mean in adult conversation

I'd be horrified if a mum called her dc a cunt or twat. Because that's not the way to speak to children. If she called her dh a cunt or twat would be different.

I'd be horrified if a mum called her dc a cunt or twat. Because that's not the way to speak to children. If she called her dh a cunt or twat would be different.

I don't call my kids twats or cunts.

I do type ratwanker on an internet forum at the end of a veeeeeery long day

ratwanker

wanker of rats

Everlong - Why would I? Only this afternoon I called my 4yo DS a shitting cockrocket (across a crowded softplay), no-one batted an eyelid.

Mind i somene let ehir kids read this forum I would call them a cunt

and then run away very fast coz I is chicken shit

I think most of us often call our kids twats & cunts tbh

Don't be so silly.

No need to feel sorry for me at all.

This thread has really opened my eyes.

You all clearly think this is acceptable, I don't.