To ask (nicely) that people refrain from using "Hun" and "X" - yes, I know... I'm a grumpy git.

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But I've noticed, yet again, an influx of "Huns" and "xx" nonsense.

I can even mentally think of a few culprits.

Sorry.

But I'm grumpy so I want to share the grumpiness.

There has been a hideous outbreak of 'u' and 'ur' lately too. I find it - I don't know - somewhat rude actually - if you can be arsed to type out a whole post or response to a post including some words with more than four letters then for the love of fuck just type YOU and YOUR. Takes whole nanoseconds. You won't die of exhaustion.

Lol hun, just showed this to the hubster and he agrees YABU lol xxx 👏🏼👍😀😘😘😘

Proud Momma to three lil cheeky monkeys age 1009 days, 625 days and 12 days 👨‍👨‍👧👌❤️😍😘👌

Bloody saved me a post. And the poster I was thinking of wasn't even new, so knows better.(fuck,I'm grumpy)
As its says in Talk Guidelines "No fucking text speak!"

'Famalam' makes me so cross. It's all a bit teenage. Just say family it's one less letter.

I might start using hunford, it sounds more formal.

'Hun' really annoys me. Mostly because I used to call my really close friends 'hon' long before it became widely used and the o was replaced by u. The 'u' really gets my goat.

I don't use hun or Xxx or anything else deemed to be annoying here but I don't see the problem if others want to. The picking at other peoples grammar, spelling and use of language makes Mumsnet seem unfriendly and dare I say it a bit snobby.

For as long as I've used mumsnet there have been complaints about the use of 'hun'.

I've never seen it!

I have noticed an increase in accusations of 'goady fucker' though and it pisses me off.

YANBU Totally agree.

The goady fucker thing makes me laugh, seems to be used so much now for anyone who dares to have a viewpoint & doesn't want to join the chorus of blowing smoke up someone's arse

Chrimbo starts in August now, dontchaknow?

I saw a Christmas display in Hobbycraft in early July!

That's because there's been an increase in goady fuckers probably. They are everywhere.

The New Goady Fucker:

Poster 1 - I think X
Poster 2 - Hm, well I think Y to be honest
Poster 3 - you're just being a goady fucker

On a semi serious note I wish MNHQ would ban it.

It's doing my tits in but it's also a form of bullying and shutting down debate.

If I think someone is being a goady fucker I either ignore them or hide the thread.

Well that's the best way to deal with it I would say SB, although I do report if I think someone is genuinely trying to just cause a massive row (which would be the definition of a goady fucker.) It's different to someone who might have a minority view on something expressing that view.

I wonder if people have been put off reporting since MNHQ no longer reply to them.
You can report someone for being a GF but never hear anything back so no idea if MNHQ agree or not. Or even if they are taking a look.

The lack of replies are fairly recent though, and cries of 'goady fucker' have been around longer.

There's one poster who always accuses people of being goady fuckers.

I didn't see her name for a while so thought she'd been banned. But now she is back!

Meanwhile the REAL goady fuckers still carry on!

I think everyone has their own opinion of what a GF is.

I tend to think the people that start goady threads then accuse people of bullying are the worst.

Maybe leave it to MN to decide what a goady thread / GF is.

It's twenty weeks today til Crimbo hun xxxx

While we are at it, can we ban "Bubz" ,"bubba", "hubz" . What do they mean anyway?

Twenty weeks?

Don't mention the C word , it's still August.