to think that certain posters...

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use words like f*k and c*t just get a reaction? I bet these posters are probably very well-spoken at home.

Or perhaps they are just too inarticulate to think of other ways to express themselves?

I have used f tonight as I am having a really bad time but I would never use c

bollox

they are on the challenge. i rekcon

i swear a lot.
too much

Think I'm the opposite.. I swear like a bastard at home but on here I'm jolly well spoken all the time

Hmm, I think I swear as much here as at home, but I do think some posters swear an awful lot and with typing it's easier to articulate yourself without swearing as a spur of the moment exclamation/exaggeration because you have the time to think of the perfect word so maybe they are doing it for effect.

yabu

who in particular you thinking of....

fck off you c*t

I'm far more fucking well spoken on MN than I am in my house but only when dcs are at school or their Dad's, who of course is perfect and doesn't smoke drink or even say bugger makes me look soo bad

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Woah, take cover!

Was this thread actually aimed at you littleone?
Have I missed something?

I swear more in rl than on here. I'm Irish, it is part of my heritage
Seriously though people in Ireland swear much more than in the UK, even relatively well-spoken people swear as a matter of course. When I first came to the UK I was working in a restaurant and realised people were looking at me funny because I swore too much (staff that is, not even I would casually swear at customers)
When I go home now I really notice it.

being a laydeeeeeeeeeeeee n all, I never swear. Unless I see a 4x4 of course. Or a fruit shoot.

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Swearing is like art to me...

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Some interesting replies there. Mmm, so do you think that some swearing is a good expression of thoughts or emotion? Is there a line? Or should it be a free for all swear-a-thon?

I don't like seeing it in thread titles as my dd has a habit of creeping up on me and reading over my shoulder.

Which certain posters?

Yes of course YABU. People use words like FUCK and CUNT because they are perfectly adequate words. Using them doesn't preclude people from being articulate, on the contrary, sometimes the articulate use of FUCK is just what's called for.

I swear like a trooper in my own head all the time. But not aloud.

It's very nice to be able to swear on MN

Oh FUCK it.

Since both fuck and cunt have been part of the English parlance for at least a thousand years, I don't see how anyone's trying to get a reaction by using them.

Nor do I think it's necessarily inarticulate. It is good to call a spade a spade. It's even better to call a cunt a cunt.