To ask other mums on MN not to use the F word?

[raspberrypi]

I am a newbie. I find that F word is peppered in a lot of the threads. I used to swear a lot but I have stopped completely because I realize it's common, and makes a woman sound undignified. Is it too much, ladies, to ask you not to use F-ing thsi and F-ing that? Can't we adults discuss things without resorting to sailor language? Thank you.

Hmm, sailor language...

how about;

Fuck off ye scurrvy dogs

Fuckingcockingcuntingtwatbuggers

Have not read whole thread but very early in the thread:

"Are mothers not human? If you cut us, do we not bleed? If you anger us do we not tell you to fuck off to fuck off and when you get there fuck off some more?"

That's Shakespeare, that is. Cheered me up no end. Thank you OP!

Arr shiver me timbers!

Well, I am saddened that it should come to this. But you are all adults so here it is

Just please, please, ensure no children are around when you look at the picture "Below Deck"

what if you're a sailor?

Splice the mainbrace

Oh Duckety, surely you're ripe for a NC in honour of this thread....

Thanks OP - haven't had one of these threads for a while, always fun.

It also gives me great pleasure to be the first poster to mention the great Stephen Fry's passion for swearing. He has a video on You Tube where he praises swearing and people who swear. He says that the people he knows who swear the most have the widest vocabulary and that those "twee" people who say it is a mark of the ill-educated are "fucking lunatic".

Anything endorsed by the Greatest Living Englishman is alright by me - or would the OP consider Fry's view irrelevant as he is neither a woman nor a parent?

For the record - fuckwit and fuckwittage are 2 of my favourite words.

Ahoy me fucking matey.

Can I talk like a pirate?

Blow me fucking down.

I remember getting called common by my dp's ex harridan. When I helpfully pointed out I felt it far more common to be going off shagging when your husband is at work and kids at school, and engineering "surprise meetings" between other man and your husband's children whilst still married, she excused that by saying her other man was from a very good family, drove a Range Rover and was her soul mate!

Therefore I think someone who resorts to insults such as "common" and "unladylike" really needs to take a therapeutic trip to Boden, followed by the weeky shop in Waitrose, which are usually ensured to be sailor/navvy free, and get off this disgusting and vile forum full of illiterate gin swiling common as muck slatterns, who have had the audacity to reproduce and still use expletives!

C'mon, everybody....

It was on the good ship Venus...

Op. I don't think fulfilling the stereotype of mothers as serene, incorruptible madonnas has done our gender any favours at all.

'Can't we adults discuss things without resorting to sailor language?'

The sailors I know (and I know lots) use English as it's their mother tongue, as opposed to 'sailor language'. Having grown up with the Navy, and having married someone in the Navy, and I am now 46, I have yet to hear 'sailor language'. Is it a language anyone could learn? Are there classes I could take? I shall ask dh tonight if he could teach me 'sailor language' and I shall see if there a recognised qualification in it. Perhaps there is a recognisable patois amongst all sailors, whatever their mother tongue, so the Royal Marines who are on anti piracy patrols can communicate with the Somalian pirates they capture.

You are stereotyping sailors OP, and stereotyping is not popular on MN.

Ahoy there ya bunch of fucking fuckers, all aboard the bastard boat ...

^ is that what you mean by sailor language?

I mean, isn't Fuck a feminist issue?

[Fucking autoclick that switches itself on and posted the above before I was ready]

Scary I think sailor language is talking about the house in terms of a boat. Like when DP says he is going to the galley and do I want a drink? What galley???

UptoapointLordCopper I'm glad someone recognized it! That was me who wrote that, not the OP!

Ah yes Kayzr, or when I'm about to commence baking and announce I'm going to "clear the decks" first.

Or more accurately, "clear the fucking decks"

Offway ouyay uckfay untycay opschay.

Only4tonight MA , Bsc (hons) < reasonably educated professional mother. Here is the onto place a CAN swear freely, and my god do I need to sometimes. So please do Fuck off op. Hth

I vote that we stop using the word 'ladies'.

Only4tonight MA , Bsc (hons) < reasonably educated professional mother. Here is the only place I CAN swear freely, and my god do I need to sometimes. So please do Fuck off op. Hth