Swearing on Mumsnet

[Kittyinthewood]

Just a simple and maybe even a silly question - but why do people swear on Mumsnet? It just often makes peoples comments come across as so aggressive.....the swearing could so easily be avoided...and the comments come across as more considerd. I am interested to read what others think.....Thanks loads folks....XXX

I think it showed that swearing when hurt had pain relieving properties.

Pain can come from many places and take many forms, though. Say, when people act like arseholes.

An art teacher posted a while ago who said that when a pupil showed her his work she exclaimed "That's fucking brilliant."

Because it was.

I think she said she apologised at once but I bet that boy was over the moon.

We used to have a profanity checker on our firm's internal messaging system at work, but they disabled it because no messages ever got through.

We need that IM system so we can call the bosses cunts with impunity.

why are people so angry that they feel the need to swear aggressively at strangers on the internet. Yes I do mildly swear under my breath and to people I know but never use the f word as an adjective (it adds nothing to the object of the noun) and to me is objectionable.
no I am not old-fashioned or straitlaced
there I have annoyed you bloody posters

I think you're confusing swearing in general and swearing at pps, which can be considered a personal attack and deleted. Ahem.

It also helps to use capitals and stops when writing sentences.

Most phones/tablets do it automatically and it's not hard on a computer.

I don't know, I find calling someone a fucking dildo marginally more impactful than just dildo.

amber I agree. Fucking dildo sounds much better.

Is that because it's what dildos (phone doesn't like it :)) are for?

More seriously, I think most people adjust swearing. In a thread started by someone who doesn't seem to swear and is going through a difficult time, I'd avoid swearing. In other threads, and depending on the OP, it's fine.

About 15 years ago in an Employment Tribunal I heard the Chairman (as we then called them) say that there are three sorts of swearing in the office:

At somebody - never acceptable.

About somebody not there as in That bugger Jones has let us down again which gets more latitude.

At photocopiers and printers and computers - Compulsory!

I swear a lot IRL but I like to think it's charming and I'm allowed cos I have an Irish accent. I don't swear at people, as in I don't tend to call people Fucking Dildos (except my closest friends and family who find that sort of thing funny ), but I don't do it on here either.

Aside from personal attacks, I have no time for grown adults who find swearing offensive. It's a fucking word. Pull yourself together. There are lots of things to get offended by in the world, the word fuck is not one of them.

I think most people adjust swearing. In a thread started by someone who doesn't seem to swear and is going through a difficult time, I'd avoid swearing. In other threads, and depending on the OP, it's fine.

Oh and this^^. Same IRL.

A future president of Ireland once told me to fuck off.
I was very proud.

Please tell me that was Michael D. chipped

I reckon it was Mary Robinson the foul mouthed hoor

Just read Kitty's thoughts on autism. Now that's fucking offensive.

Just read Kitty's thoughts on autism. Now that's fucking offensive.

This just supports my point; often people who get all pearl clutchy about the f word say far more offensive stuff without even realising.

I knew a girl at uni who used to tell me off for saying the word cunt (not in front of children or anything and not as a personal attack - just the odd c bomb which I dropped when annoyed about something). She persistently used the word "retard" as an insult and thought this was fine. Cunt.

It was Mary, but she did it in a jokey way and I took it as such.

But thats because I'm a grown up who doesn't take offence when none is intended.

Ha, I knew it would be! I love Mary.

Did anyone used to go on chat rooms as pre teens and got to swear and it was changed? Shit = puppy excretment

No because dinosaurs roamed the earth when I was a pre-teen :o

I had the word snigger changed to s(person of black origin) on an American forum once.

I wish people didn't swear so readily, but some seem to glory in it "I love a good swear".

(I haven't read the thread so i am not getting at anyone who may have written this).

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Cunt has been written 57 times on this thread
Fuck is well over 100

She also flipped the bird at me.

honoured😂

I don't swear on here, I do irl. Doesn't bother me to read it but when I joined I was surprised to see so many women using the c word, never met a woman irl who doesn't explode on hearing it.