Should Mumsnet forum users be allowed to Swear!

[cakelover14]

No offence I enjoy reading the discussions on this board but why do mums really feel the need to swear in their posts! What kind of example are we setting as mums if we can't control the use of our tongues and use language that is obscene.

Mumsnet - why is it not your policy to remove swear words from posts? saying we are all adults doesn't excuse the use of foul language! I am sure I cannot be the only mumsnet user who doesn't want to read swear words every five seconds. It makes me close a thread and stop reading what otherwise could be an interesting read.

All I can say is no wonder every time I go the playground with my kids I hear young children using foul language when parents can't even control their tongues anymore! Unfortunately I agree the world is full of people who swear but as mums should we not take the lead in setting a good example for the next generation???

Swearing is for dim people. So no.

And attitudes like this are for the hopelessly prim.

Tyrion

Swearing does increase your pain tolerance but not if you are a habitual swearer. So I try to save myself for the 'fuuuuck' when I've stubbed my toe or whatever. I'm not sure if there's any data on whether typing in swear words has the same dulling effect on medicinal use as IRL - I would guess not but if someone is planning on doing the experiment they could use MN as a source of subjects.

I agree op but this won't end well.

Do you know sometimes mn annoys me and I Swan off in high dudgeon and swear never to darken the doorstep again.....then I see a thread where the op is ridiculously over the top with the pearl clutching and what is the response?
5 pages of trying to out swear each other
5 pages of snarky responses that probably were entirely uneccessary
Multiple uses of the words fuck badger and twatwaffle

And I'm in love again

I've never watched Game of Thrones in my life. I'm a Trekkie if you must know. Live long and fucking prosper.

MNHQ Have more than enough shit to do, like drinking all the gin, than to be editing out the naughty words of every post. They have kids you know.

If I could be fucking arsed I'd properly link you to actual fucking research showing that swearing demonstrates and encourages a rich and extensive vocabulary.

I'll take advice on how I use language from someone other than the op who apparently can't use "being" and "been" in the correct context.

What a heap of shite! I can swear if I like. If you don't like it don't read it!

"A good fuck really can accentuate your point!"
A good fuck is never a bad idea.

swearing is fucking disgusting

Is this kids on summer holidays?

Mrs H - love and respect to you. Will you please be my friend in RL? I'll provide wine if you give me insight!

ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe - what is your actual job and how do I apply?

How many posters would need new names if swearing was verboten?

I agree op but this won't end well

You're being unduly pessimistic - the beginning and middle have been great so I have high hopes for the bellend

I has a little bar in my garden. See pic for rules.

Wow lovely first post OP. I want to join this site but you all have to do as I say to make it better for me personally...yeah right thats gonna work out well.

OP yep Netmums is filtered to death but there are lots of people on there who are on Mumsnet too (me included) There are good things (and people on Netmums) and some utter mindless, up their own arese gits too and they get told where to go albeit without the swearing. Thats the one thing I hate about it, you cant say what you really mean to these ignorant 'i dont know anything about it but...' types without bveing censored. Its a bit pathetic, never mind the swearing. Sick to death of complete idiots crying ;'bullying' cos nobody agrees with their totaly wrong 'facts' or they are lying through their teeth and catching themselves out. really pisses me off.

Mumsnet isnt censored, you will have noticed that from your first visit.

The vast majority of the posts have swearing to some degree...that was a clue... we are all adults and if you dont want to read the swears just 'blip' right over them or dont read the post its simples. I wouldnt use some of the words on here online myself but I dont assume that I can tell others not to use them. Its just words they arent hurting me at all.

So either suck it up or leave and join Netmums, mind you if your first post there is criticising everyone then you wont be made very welcome there either

I see where you're coming from TBH and it's very different here than may other forums I read.

Some people swear as part of their daily vocabulary and think nothing of it. It doesn't even mean they are angry about anything. I recall a girl in college who'd say " I'm effin starving or that's a effin lovely pair of shoes". It just rolled off her tongue, without a thought.

I'd hope the language here isn't used in front of DCs, but my SIL who is an Assistant Head Teacher had the parents of a child in school, because of his behaviour which included his persistent bad language.

She told his mum about it, then the mum faces her son and says "What the fuck I have told you about fucking swearing". So that says it all really I guess. Like mother, like son.

as the kids say.

MNers swear on here because we can.

In the vast majority, I assume MNers do not fuck, bollock and arse our way throughout our normal daily lives inappropriately. Because we has manners and a sense of decorum.

Also, it's a bit of a stretch to assume it's just mums. In all senses of the assumption. There are dads and people without any dc at all!!!

Locate your neck op.

James fucking Kelman won the fucking Booker prize

Yes and he is unreadable. He is the epitome of the clichéd tedious, sour faced, dour, whinging Scotsman with a chip on each shoulder.

This thread was never going to go well. Personally I don't find much of the swearing as hilarious or effective as others seem to think it is.

In the vast majority, I assume MNers do not fuck, bollock and arse our way throughout our normal daily lives inappropriately

FastWindow that only depends on whether you can hear the things I would like to say that roll around in my head but do not come out of my mouth...

James fucking Kelman won the fucking Booker prize

Yes and he is unreadable. He is the epitome of the clichéd tedious, sour faced, dour, whinging Scotsman with a chip on each shoulder.

Aye, How Shite It Was, How Shite is the worst book I have ever finished. Never afuckinggain.