to think thwt there are far too many Professionally Unoffended and...

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....Do-Badders about?

lindor i suppose we are in the presence of the royal unoffended then.

ok ok i can think now but sern as i hate the bitch i dont give a flying fook!

If the prof offended are frothers what are proff unoffendeds? What is the oppsite of frothing?

well see I think there's two ends to the spectrum..

We have the people that say "Oh, all this we shouldn't use spz and mn g and n*ger and that's political correctness gone mad," are clearly unable to see the bigger picture and how it really does affect people on a day to day basis. I wouldn't necessarily call them professionally offended - I would probably call them twats. Nothing wrong with objecting to their views and their word choices...

But then at the other end of the scale we have the likes of people that complain to ofcom about television programmes they haven't actually seen, or the PCC about newspaper articles they haven't actually read, purely because they feel they should be offended about it, even if the subject matter doesn't affect them personally or they wouldn't have come across it unless someone had told them they should be offended by it. They too are twats, IMO.

Where are we up to now on this thread? I think we've now had a poster that is offended by the fact that the OP is offended by pc gorn man people who are offended that somebody else has taken offence at a racist comment.

It seems to me that people who don't like racism tend to say things like, 'what you said was racist.' They rarely say, 'what you said was offensive.' The people who use the word 'offended' are generally people who are offended by having their racism pointed out. What they are trying to say is that people who dislike racism are 'offended' i.e. making a massive fuss over nothing, while believing that their defence of racism is a brave, moral stand which makes them prepared to stand up for things, go against the herd, and is akin to the crucifixion because being an apologist for racism makes them the real victim in all of this.

Oh, yes Wannabe. Like those who were on the Cbbc sweargate thread, who were offended that their children may have heard the word "shit", even if they don't watch Tracey Beaker.

I can be mighty frothy about stuff, but with those little things, I must admit to thinking, FFS get a grip.

Oh dear, Clotheofsand in trying to clear that up you have made tiny head hurt.

Is the opposite of frothers, 'flatters' (still disappointed to find out that a 'flat white' is simply coffee...)

flatters isn't condescending enough?

im going, ive offended the chair in costa long enuff with my plump bottom, been here for over two hours!

well i had to google cuntworms and found some intetesting stuff on youtube.

there seems to be two strands to this pffended thing questionning standards of decency/ patental liberties/ discrimination, that latter of which is against the law of course.

lastly think this proves we need a mumsnet dictipnary

Haha Artex.

I was on a thread a little while ago about when Jeremy Clarkson said that those who protested should be shot. Rather predictably the ones quacking on about the Professionally Offended in that case were the same ones being offended by the Jonathan Ross/Russell Brand scandal.

yes MmeL, or the ones that complained about that cbeebies show (I can't remember its name) that had the come dine with me bloke on it and claimed children were upset and terrified and...

But even the jeremy clarkson comments on the 1 show, while some people complained after the event, there were far more that probably complained after the comments were mentioned on the news, having not actually seen the programme.

HazeyJane, I apologise for making your head hurt. As we are both named after Nick Drake songs, you can say what you like and I will make every effort not to be offended.

Problem here is people assume a lot of emotion and emoting that is totally inaccurate. Because its only text, with no tone, body language, and of the moderators that would let you judge peoples actual intent, you make it up. And you don't realise you are doing it.

So I can say on a thread "I find that offensive", and while I'm momentarily slightly irritated, some people read that as me sitting at home with steam coming out of my ears and ranting all day long about it. It's usually your own biases and ishoos that you wrongly and subconciously assign to others.

It never ceases to amaze me how people are so arrogant as to assume they can know what an anonymous internet random is thinking or feeling from a few lines of bare text. It's quite bizarre.

I don't get offended as often as I get irritated by the sheer volume of morons on the internet. Morons who are utterly convinced in their rectitude. But that quite possibly makes me one of them, I suppose.

Reading between the lines, I can tell that Paranoid has some issues with her dog, and that she hates it when people rant about dog shit on the pavement.

That was what you meant when you said you were ranting all day, with steam coming out of your ears, wasn't it?

Absolutely. It's an imaginary dog though, which makes it all the harder to pick up the poo.

I hate it when some people deliberately engineer threads to stealth boast about their imaginary pets

WTF IS EVERYONE ON ABOUT?

Ahaa Hully, just the person. What pray tell, is the opposite of a frother?

Opposite of a Frother is a DM reader, I would have thought.

Professionally unoffended? I am only an amateur. Do you mean you can get paid for it? Why didn't anyone tell me?