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?

Du-te-n pula mea

Va te faire foutre

Coño

Fuck off

HTH

I find use of 'settee' 'lounge' and 'moist' offensive. AIBU?

Nowt wrong with some colourful language - and I feel blessed to have learned 'cockwomble' on MN!

Shut it you fucking muvvafucker!

Mumofchuckle - I was just saying to a friend that Tourette's seems to be the last SN that people think it is perfectly acceptable to joke and mock and portray ridiculous stereotypes on TV. Because it is great to laugh at those sweary freaks.

My child self harms to deal with their Tourette's- which incidentally for most does not involve swearing. It doesn't feel very funny. They also google suicide and depression and cutting a lot. There is no help for TS - you are just left to endure it. It doesn't feel funny from where I stand.

Cocklodger has proudly been added to my vocabulary. Thank you mumsnet.

I agree with you countess and I'm surprised and disappointed that that comment is still there. I thought it would have been deleted by now.

Does anyone ever tell a group of adult men to stop swearing? I can't imagine that happening. Yet it happens on mumsnet (largely a group of adult women) on a regular basis. Strange that.

Does anyone ever tell a group of adult men to stop swearing?

Of course, why not!

I have - told them
They have - stop swearing around me. One of the perks of being the only female in a male environment.

Oh coddiwomple would make a good substitute expletive.

wouldn't it

ACTUALLY... at the risk of derailing this thread - I'm currently pregnant with my first and really should start thinking about washing my mouth out before the baby arrives. I love a good expletive and work in an industry where colourful language is the norm, so I've never had to moderate it.

I wouldn't actually object to older teenagers swearing - as long as their expletives were a) creative, b) part of a decent vocabulary and c) uttered in an appropriate context (i.e. not at a teacher / grandmother / younger child!). But children aren't always able to judge context, so I wouldn't want them to copy my language and then get in trouble at school etc.

But how the fuck am I going to stop? Should I start a swear jar now?

Elle
But how the fuck am I going to stop?Should I start a swear jar now?

You owe 50p to your swear jar for that!

Oh, I think many of us exhaust a year's supply of swearing during labour, so I wouldn't worry too much about it now.

1. I know I swear too much
2. I'm sorry
3. 2 is a lie
4. You can fuck off

Fuck yes. We like our swears. It's a big pull for people to be able to use whatever words they like. If you don't like it there are plenty of sparkly swear free parenting forums.

I only really swear in real life. Very very rarely on the interne or social media.

Enjoy this though

I don't swear all that much personally. But I can't help wondering at posters who deliberately set out to join a forum which is well known for its swearing and advertised as such and then complain when they find that posters are, indeed, swearing. What are you- some kind of missionaries?

I don't go over to Netmums and start asking them if they know what impression all the glitter will make on me. Presumably they have glitter because they want glitter. And if I don't want glitter, then I don't join Netmums. Or have I missed something here?

I could however undertake to swear in Latin or Classical Greek, to raise the intellectual tone.

I don't like swearing, DH swears like a trooper and I think it spoils the atmosphere

I don't understand the point of saying fucking in front of every noun, I feel you should save it for when you need put across how angry you are or it loses all meaning

I agree. I rarely swear in real life, my husband not at all.

These threads come up from time and there is always a pile on if any one says they don't like swearing. You are free to say almost whatever you like here (racist , sexist and disablist language gets called out - quite rightly) but saying you don't find swearing particularly interesting or impressive will lead to a stream of posters telling you how unintelligent or lower middle class you are.

"Chav" is horrible but if you are going to ridicule some one for not being keen on swearing it seems a little hypocritical, as at least one poster has done, to sneer about any one objecting being lower middle class.

So far as "cunt" I see there is someone using the "women should reclaim the word" argument. How does that square with the (majority?) of posters who use it solely as an insult?

I could swear using correct anatomical terms and embellish with diseases if it helps.

Bit of an ironic post there lass when it was the OP and her anti-swearing colleagues who started telling people they are/sound thick.

I'd think it's okay to note that you don't like habitual swearing where it gets used every other word with no imagination or creativity. As i has said I do like the Malcolm Tucker experience.
Most swearing on here though is just dull and repetitive. Just because teacher says you can swear doesn't mean you have to.

But Lass, it isn't people saying they don't like swearing. That's fine. It's telling (not even asking) people to change their own behaviour, using condescending (not big or clever), classist (you sound like chavs), and other (disgusting, you sound uneducated) insults.

No one is ridiculing anyone for not liking swearing. They are ridiculing people who expect others to stop swearing because they don't like it, and decide that the best way to get them to change is to insult them.

I'd think it's okay to note that you don't like habitual swearing where it gets used every other word with no imagination or creativity.

Quite unfortunate that neither you nor our fragrant OP managed to confine yourselves to that, isn't it? Might've been some chance of a sensible discussion then.