to get upset at inappropriate thread titles

[MrsGoranVisnjic]

I've obviously made a huge error of judgement commenting on a thread full of hugely pregnant women and I apologise to them for that (pleading temporary insanity of disgusting icky cold)

however

I do hate seeing thread titles popping up all the time in active conversations (because they're ongoinng chats rather than jokes that fade away) that have sexual innuendo in the title .. just seems so uneccessarily childishly assinine

eg an ante natal thread entitled 'minty sperm or original' .. ach!

No it's this Sunday. I am supposed to be working but flicking between active convo's and a search for party games. Considered starting a thread on it but thought you might disapprove... didn't realise I had to put a sexual innuendo in for that.

Have lost track now as DS4 is up and about - but people are having a go. You were having a go when you started the thread, otherwise why the hardhat?

I started a thread about the In the news tabloid, rubberneckers and am totally with you those thread titles are unecessary.

The SN board was just an example of a mn bust up I remember well.

No, it had no swearing in it. I called my boss a stupid vegetable which offended people. I did it without thinking. I must admit though, even after I got it deleted some people thought I was a nasty piece of work anyway.

Because the double entendre of that thread title is oral sex it is a bit distasteful - excuse the pun! But then I'm just a prude perhaps.

for what it's worth, i don't really see why the word SPERM is offensive, and if you don't like seeing the title in active threads, why start this thread which has only made ours more 'active'

Post was to MrsGV. (why the name change?)

I think you are all being spunkist actually.

Maybe they nedd help......(((((((hugs)))))))))

lulumama, you're so... so...so..... sensible

cunting minty spunk

that's goign to stay with me for a while

the hardhat was because I thought I'd get attacked by them because they took it far more personally than I imagined was possible (the apology was because I forgot momentarily that pregnancy hormones make one act differently) not because I was having a go .. if I was having a go I'd have stayed on the thread

I was making a point about inappropriate thread titles (kind of clear from the title I think)

Surely sperm has quite a lot to do with getting pregnant in the first place, so to mention it in an antenatal thread isn't exactly inappropriate, is it?

It's the double meaning of it in thread titles which are often read by children looking over parents shoulders etc!

I wouldn't swear in a thread title either because it might offend. Because people don't choose to click on it to read it, it's there all the time! Why is that so hard to understand?

to Ellie .. because the thought of blow jobs .. minty or otherwise .. at certain times of the day makes me feel nauseus

because the title is a knowing pun .. if you meant indigestion / gaviscon there was no need for spunk

because the thought of giving a blow job whilst heavily pregnant makes me want to heave

and because this thread title is INNOCUOUS so doesn't offend anyone .. and people can choose to take part in THIS thread or not

you are free of course to continue with your thread, its your thread .. but it upsets some other users .. we are as entitled to our feelings as you are I'm afraid

This is an adult website for adults. Some swear words are bound to pop up.

So some of you actually MN instead of interacting with your kids

heheheh northerner .. the oldies are the goodies .. snurk

Errrr, the thread title looks like it refers to blowjobs which as far I know have nothing to do with getting pregnant either

If there was one with an anal sex entendre, it would be the same. Still involves sperm, still involves a sexual act, but has zip all to do with getting pregnant.

Good points made by MrsG there.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

oh valid points

and well said Rhubarb, well said

i'm not disputing you are entitled to your opinions and i have not once said that you are wrong to have them, just asked for an explaination as to why you felt it necessary to come onto our thread rather than just start this one.

i'm sorry you are having a bad day, congratulations, must make you feel so much better to know that you've now brought mine down too.

Ok, be upset by a title, but just ignore it. If they bother you that much complain to mn who surely have the right to delete any that they don't approve of.

ellie, it isn't just your thread that has a cringe-worthy title

I thought it would be better to comment on the actual thread than off it .. as that to me feels surreptitious and underhand

but I obviously, as I stated in OP, misjudged it .. and I apologised (and apologise for that)

I don't see how you have the right to be any more upset than I do .. but accept you have hormones coursing through your body that makes things seem more important than they actually are .. so again I apologise

personally I'd be more upset at someone starting another thread to discuss something I've said than saying it to my face

If we don't like a thread title aren't we allowed to say so?

I can understand why she wouldn't want to post on the actual thread, if you felt offended by it you wouldn't want to bump it right?

This thread title doesn't single out any particular thread, it's general.

Why take offence yourselves? Would it not be better to hold up your hands, admit that perhaps it wasn't the best of ideas but there you go, too late now, won't happen again, all shake hands and it's over.

I wonder - is there an acceptibility scale of 'sexual acts'?

Starting with 'baby dancing' of course

is sperm a rude word? what a curious notion. Why would anyone care about a child reading the word sperm?
what about ovum? is that rude too?