To ask people to stop swearing so much

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Frankly, the language of some of the posters on this site is disgusting and I wonder if they talk like this in front of their children. I also wonder if their parents would be proud of how they post on the internet. Swearing every time isn't big and it isn't clever. It makes people come across as uneducated chavs.

AIBU to ask people to clean up their act and stop swearing?

Bless you Nina, if only you could hear royalty at the stable yard...

Continuing to swear and use offensive language habitually will mean I and others will judge you for it.

And nary a fuck will be given.

Jassy, I think I love you!

Continuing to swear and use offensive language habitually will mean I and others will judge you for it. And heavily

Oh no, that's awful. I'd better clean up my act then, because your opinion is important to me.

Pannn
Myself and my colleagues swear a lot at times. All graduate / post grad + professional qualifications. Amazingly I have never sworn in a formal meeting, have never accidently told my boss to fuck off and never mistyped a swear word into an official document.

Isn't it amazing that I can work out whether or not it is appropriate for me to swear... its coz I'm educated innit!

will mean I and others will judge you for it. And heavily

Golly how fucking awful. Being judged "heavily" by someone I don't know.

Quick someone, alert the village elders.

The only people I've met who object to swearing have been the most awful pretentious stuck up net curtain twitching lower middle class social climbers. Fuck the lot of 'em.

If swearing on MN would get rid of people who use nasty terms like 'chav' and those who, apparently straight-faced say things like 'I and others will judge you for it. And heavily', I'm almost tempted to overcome my inhibitions and start doing it.

I do rather like some of the creative coinings eg those including 'badger' or 'weasel'. My favourite RL expletive was the very lovely woman I knew who would intermittently swear at uncooperative code she was writing with an emphatic 'Fiddlepoops!'

I'm not at all surprised that some people think swearing makes one sound like an uneducated chav, because although that's obviously pig ignorant, lots of people are both class prejudiced and thick.

I just console myself with the fact that although I technically am a chav (council estate and fucking well proud of it) it's highly unlikely that the person doing the judging graduated from Oxford at a younger age than I did.

People will judge here you just as they would in the real world.

You spelled class prejudiced thick bellends wrong nina.

But the thing about an anonymous internet forum, Nina, is that it doesn't matter. It does matter what our friends, family, colleagues etc. think of us, so we behave in an appropriate way with any person or group. But unseen, anonymous strangers? Not so much.

Amazingly I have never sworn in a formal meeting, have never accidently told my boss to fuck off and never mistyped a swear word into an official document

Clearly not a lawyer then. I've experienced lawyers using dreadful language in the workplace. Once my then in his 30s boss used the F word to me (not just in passing - actually AT me) when I was in my early 20s. Nasty. Probably why I think swearing is so inappropriate and unnecessary.

And we can't stop men using words for our anatomy as an insult until we stop doing it ourselves. We're not "reclaiming" it, we're just supporting their misogyny.

I strongly suspect many folk are judging you Nina, and it's probably far less pleasant than your judging of them. Can you not see that there occasions when swearing will cut through obfuscatory nonsense and that it really is appropriate? What exactly is your problem with taboo language? More importantly, what is your problem with adults using said language on an internet forum designed for adults?

I don't think my parents give a rats arse what I post on the Internet considering both of them have been dead for years.

I'm old, stressed and grumpy and like others I cannot swear in real life to those who piss me off because I'm far too polite and if I want to swear in a post on an Internet site where no one knows who I am I shall and frankly don't care how others may judge me as they are not my friends nor my family or someone I hold in high regard. I

So suck it up. No one forces you to read a sweary post.

And we can't stop men using words for our anatomy as an insult until we stop doing it ourselves. We're not "reclaiming" it, we're just supporting their misogyny.
I strongly disagree, using the word cunt ourselves reminds folks that we are so much more than our cunts, so much more than breeders. We have minds, intellect and are unafraid to demonstrate it. Yes, it infuriates me when men use it, particularly when it's directed at other men, the perception being that it reduces in some way. But reclaiming, yes, we should.

Just caught my cat trying to meow "wank". I think it was that, I had just stepped on her tail.

I shall flog myself with an old woman's weekly as soon as possible as she may have picked it up from me and has turned into a chav cat.

It wasn't nina who warned you she would judge swearers heavily. That was me.
I am disappointed but not surprised that so many posters would take this opportunity to share their foul-mouthness, rather than take some time for quiet introspection.

My quiet introspection isn't taking place on MN, that's for sure .

I am very fucking sorry miss

I will now fuck to fuck and stop being a total cunt by being, erm, an adult using a website design for grown up people.

People will judge here you just as they would in the real world

Are you really so frightfully obtuse that you cannot distinguish between an anonymous forum and "the real world". I'd be careful about calling others ignorant if I were you.

Pannnn maybe some quiet introspection into (a) why you're so arrogant that you assume people who don't know you actually care what you think, and (b) why you're so uptight. Are you alright dear?

Good start on your reflections there, AdoraBell. Succinct and sincere. Good attempt at looking embarrassed. Could do better on the conclusion and perhaps the tone if the OP is supposed to be impressed .

Not felt the need for any quiet introspection yourself though, eh pannn? Funny that.