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

Who on earth uses the phrase Yummy Mummy, beyond those getting makeovers on This cunting Morning? It's a bit sad, middle-class-wannabe isn't it? Oh, and I have vaaary pawsh family, they swear like they spent years in the navy!

I have family that have spent years in the fucking navy. They can swear in three languages.

Just read the other thread. Sweet shitting Christ.

All these years, and all I needed was a cunting expert in my home to help instill some discipline. Simple... when you know... how...

How very lower middle class of you yummy.
Now will the OP come back so I can tell her to fuck off.

Fucking hell. OP you're a fucking delight aren't you?

As for yummymummy (what the actual fuck?) You've clearly never come across any truly posh people. You probably think all posh people call their children ptolomey and tarquin and shit.

I learnt a BRILLIANT new word yesterday. Absolute belter it is.

Swearers of Mumsnet - I give you.....

Fucktrumpet

What about us fucking old bats ? Should we be more circuntspect ?

I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good

Fuck me, that other thread.

And you can shove your fucking ellipsis up your hole.

There was no swearing on that thread.

Even though it would have been very much deserved.

sadly people swear just as much in real life, it's sad when they are surrounded by children but there is nothing anyone can do. You can chose a decent school for your kids to avoid these people, but you will still hear them in soft plays, parks and fun places for the kids. It seems to be mainly female behaving that way, I have noticed that men stop or even apologise if they see me with young kids.

It's just laziness, some people think a swear word or an insult is enough to prove a point and save them from having to articulate an intelligent argument. It's great to believe yourself to be an open minded adult but at the same time being so rude and aggressive towards a "yummy mummy". No wonder there are so many threads about bitchiness at the school gates!

Chardonnay - It's not too late to change that

Mind you, it's not the OPs thread is it? Scratch that, the OP of that thread was looking for support not giving people a bollocking.

I think the vast majority of people who swear in real life do so by picking their audience and occasion before swearing.

Hearing and seeing someone swearing face to face has a different impact than the written word.

Seeing written swear words on a totally anonymous internet forum, which has many topics, is not the same thing at all. If the internet put an end to swearing half of all websites would disappear.

Oh and Fuck Off

at someone with yummy mummy in their username berating us for 'lack of class'.

Uh huh.

But it's OK for the so called "yummymummy" to come on here & be condescending to "these people"? These people ffs.

Fuck off you spunktrumpet. Get over yourself.

I fear there may be puppetry of the sock kind on here.

No, not needed, the other posters there put her in place beautifully. s

Just don't get the whining.

Just read OP's responses on that thread about the children with autism and I have only one thing to say.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck...... off.

Sharknado the point of the rudeness towards Yummymummy is to demonstrate that whilst some people make ill informed judgements about people who swear and dislike it intensely, other people find things like yummymummy to be just vomit inducing and might make judgements based on this.

We are not all the same. I'd hate to exist in the head of someone with such a narrow view of life that they assumed someone who swears is lazy or unintelligent. Shows a dreadful lack of imagination and understanding

Same reasons people swear in real life I suppose...

Dear YummyMummy,
Your working class background is showing.

Of course it's possible to make an intelligent point without swearing. It's also possible to make an intelligent point without naming any of the seven dwarfs. See how irrelevant both of those are? Swearing is a facet of vocabulary just like any other and it spans through all social classes and intelligence levels. The idea that people swearing automatically speaks to their class and intelligence is ridiculous.

user7755 I am not assuming anything, just observing

Observing? That conclusion probably says more about your associates than people who swear to be honest.

TheUnsullied has captured the point perfectly.