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?

She was wrong.

Bollocks.

Yes YABU
I mean, ask away for all the good it will do you.
But your sanctimonious "ooo you're all swearing and it's soooo chavvy, don't you realise how uneducated you all sound" is just so much tedious drivel.
I would imagine half the problem is that you don't understand some of the words, so you've had to go away and look them up and now your Google history is, literally, fucked.
For further interest I recommend dragon butter, blue waffle and space docking.

For anyone else new to this site, DO NOT EVER GOOGLE ANYTHING MENTIONED HERE.

I don't think we should criticise a poster who hates all these threads (usually at the moment started by Labour party supporters by the way which tells you all you need to know.....) even if they are a new poster. I am an old poster and I have never liked all the swearing on here. It's just unpleasant and nasty and I am surprised it meets the MN requirements for posting.

Just becuse most of us tolerate the awful language does not mean we like it. We are just too polite to criticise it most of the time.

ODFOD.

" I am surprised it meets the MN requirements for posting."

Given how MN promotes itself, I'm surprised that posts without swearing meet the "requirements"

Who made you queen of Mumsnet ?

Pannn It was your rather parental air of disapproval that I was referring to. I could almost see you looking down your nose as you typed.

Oh Jeeze not another one?

1. Get a proper user name ffs!
2. This is an ADULT site not bloody Peppa Pig World.
3. If you dont like it move along, there are plenty of other parenting sites.
4. Did you really thing that coming on here and telling everyone not to swear was going to actually work? Like you were the first person EVER to try?
5. Letting loose on here and swearing is cathartic, and sometimes swear words are the only thing that fits some of the entitled, selfish crap we read on here!
6. And who with half a brain actually uses the word 'chav'?
7. Who the hell joins a parenting forum then starts ordering the people on it to act as they want them to? Entitled much?

Deja fucking vu

I got banned off netmums for swearing, maybe you should go there.

Yes you are being fucking u op. This is a site for adults. Most of us know when it is or is not appropriate to swear. I would never swear in front of my children or at work, but I like the fact that you can swear on MN. It is not up to you to.police how people talk.

7461Mary Sweary threads are mostly started by Labour supporters?!!!

Way to shoehorn some politics into a non political thread!

I would strenuously dispute your specious claim by the way and I'm not a Labour voter.

Swearing has been a feature of MN since time immemorial, even when we aren't having elections.

I never swear in real life
I never (I don't think) have sworn on Mumsnet until later in this post.
I don't like people swearing repeatedly in real life especially in front of my children
However I am spectacularly un-fucking-bothered about people swearing on MN, especially if it is Malcolm Tucker-esque. Go figure.

Do you actually say 'chav' in front of your children? Aren't you worried that they will grow up as sanctimonious and tight-arsed snobby as you?

Pannnn Mon 12-Jun-17 12:19:37
I agree OP. The use of the F-word is ridiculous and makes the posters look like restricted-vocab bumpkins with a lazy attitude.

In your opinion.

Someone will say "oooh but I've got a gazillion degrees in English and wil lswear as much as I want" but that doesn't change anything. You still 'read' like a moron.

In your opinion.

You are entitled to your opinions but please don't state them as facts.

Persoanlly, I'd rather see a hundred fucks on a page than a single , chav or moron.

Oh I do fucking love these posts....

I quite like Malcolm Tucker-esque swearing. It's just the dull, repetitive, unimaginative stuff that appears in these parts. And often the aggression that appears to lie behind it towards other posters is very disagreeable.

Sometimes only a good, heartfelt FUCK will do!

Or BOLLOCKS

Bollocks is my favourite!

I'd rather hear fuck than chav.

My day started off with this little ditty...

I'm well educated. I know a varied and wide range of words. But fuck is still one of my favourites.

You may find swearing nasty and unpleasant but people can change that and leave out the swear words in real life and in front of children and on here if desired.

That "your an uneducated chav" attitude is harder to shake off in real life etc and makes a more unpleasant person as you come across a bit "stick up your ass" like.

Not swearing doesn't make you a better person or give you a better social standing. As hard as you might find it, we are all adults and can control how and when we swear. It's not like every sentence has a fucking swear word in it.....

LOL

I couldn't give a shiny shit about people swearing, but I did just Google dragon butter and space docking. While eating lunch. I know I was warned, I can't help myself.

I know I've already responded, but the more I've thought about it, the more it's annoyed me.

You're on an open, free talking forum! Offense is subjective. Don't mark people as uneducated chavs because they swear. That's just stupid....how ironic. Just deal with it, or leave. Do you honestly think you're going to shame people into cleaning up their language?.....