To think we really aren't too fucking sweary

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Just seen the economist on facebook saying the advertisers want to pull funding from mumsnet (or are threatening to, apparently...) because we are all too sweary.

Ah fuck. I didn't realise a cunt like me could cause so much fucking offense to the national fucking trust. Sorry national trust, so sorry.

So AIBU to think that this is just a piece of shit journalism and that no advertisers would really give a fuck at the actual content of our posts as long as we keep creating it?

Was just thinking today how much I have been swearing lately. I blame Mumsnet

Bollocks to the advertisers

Ah. That's the problem. People think that those of us who don't like swearing very much are shocked or distressed by it.

Certainly not! I was so careful to phrase my last post so that I hoped it would be clear I do not think that about “all of us who don’t like swearing”.

I don’t see ‘people who like swearing’ and ‘those who don’t like swearing’ as two distinct groups tbh. It would all a bit needlessly partisan to get divisive over it. Some people who don’t like it will be fine hearing it, while others won’t be able to stand it and everything in between.

I do think people who are shocked, distressed, upset by swearing, (for clarity THAT’S NOT YOU BERTRAND, but I know a few who at least claim to be), are missing out on some things. Like the enjoyment of movies where people swear. I know people who just can’t watch them without going all cats bum. For me that would be very difficult and tiresome as some of my favourite movies and novels have sweat words in them.

Swear words, not sweat words! autocorrect.

Doesn’t the NT advertise in the Daily Mail? So it would rather be associated with hate speech than swearing?

I can't see the point of most of the swearing on MN. Presumably people who swear in every post don't use this language in real life in day to day conversation.

Honestly it’s like a bunch of teenagers thinking they really are so grown up and cool because they can swear.

Slow hand clap op. Good for you. You swear on line just because you can.. Youre just so cool.

Like we give a fuuuuuuck.....

Oh and disahster is a bit hairy handed

Aside from whether or not anyone cares about the swearing the whole argument is backwards....

The NT and other companies pay MN and in return MN put adverts for NT and others on the MN site. Plus endorsements, product testing etc.

So by definition the people who SEE the adverts and associate them with MN are rose people ALREADY USING MN. I.e. we sweary fuckwits.

So essentially what they’re saying is that because we are all too sweary and we are filling all the threads with too many sweary rants, this means that when we see their ads on this site, they think that we won’t approve of the connection between the companies and won’t use the NT because we will be offended by the language that we are using.

What total and utter bollocks.