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Should Mumsnet forum users be allowed to Swear!

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cakelover14 · 23/07/2016 18:54

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???

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CoteDAzur · 25/07/2016 12:09

Classics! Grin

SlinkyVagabond · 27/07/2016 19:40

Just before the thread slips away you may be interested in this, but not if you are easily offended Grin

MrsHathaway · 27/07/2016 20:25

This thread didn't make Classics, but the spinoff thread did. Come and join us!

Lweji · 27/07/2016 20:46

SlinkyVagabond

Interesting link. I just can't figure out how they designed it.

Are the ones on the far right, noble swear words, which are used by themselves and never react with others?
"You look like a tit" goes nicely with "Mother fucker". It shouldn't.
OTOH, you can make naice combinations of the two left columns with the two right (but one) right columns.
"Fuck you" "Bloody fucking shit"

And "Sod this Stupid fucking cunt" has a nice ring to it.

I'm glad they included the artificial and unstable "Acting like a cock snake on plant food". It can't really be found in nature, just the large swear collider.

BTW, the numbers are wrong.
geek alert

StubblyLegs · 27/07/2016 21:40

Well of course we fucking should! YABU OP.

RamsayBoltonsConscience · 27/07/2016 21:53

I have to admit that when I first joined, I was a bit Shock at the swearing but I've loosened the fuck up now and swear along with the rest of the cockwombles and wankbadgers. Grin

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 27/07/2016 23:20

Another innocent corrupted! WinkGrin

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 27/07/2016 23:41

I don't know what you're talking about I've never fucking swore on here. Shock.Grin.

paxillin · 27/07/2016 23:51

I'm foreign. I learned a lot of phrases not usually taught at school.

I arrived thinking swearing in English means fuck, shit or piss. I learned on MN it is much more complicated that that.

UsedtobeFeckless · 28/07/2016 00:15

Fuck that for a game of soldiers - the cursing's the best bit!

SlinkyVagabond · 28/07/2016 01:28

Lweji's post is yet more proof that mN rocks.

MotherFuckingChainsaw · 28/07/2016 19:36

The Large Swear Collider

Proper fucking ROFL

it it possible that is my hallway any weekday at 7:55am

4 people needing to leave, like 5 minutes ago and a fucking cat who does not need to leave but keeps trying to leg it. All losing and finding things like some sweary equilibrium.

notamummy10 · 28/07/2016 19:40

Of course, freedom of speech and that.

supersoftcuddlytoys · 29/07/2016 08:36

allowed Bloody Nora..!!!

I remember at time when we were trying to get censorship and moral authoritarians out of public life.

Seems some people want more of it in theirs?

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