For being a bit bored and slightly irritated by people constantly being offended by a word!!

[xlr8]

Why is it that a word used by someone from a different..part of the country, upbringing , culture , education or decade offends so many people? Why do we all make such a big deal about not liking a word that someone has used to describe something?
What ever happened to sticks and stones????????

So pissed off it's affecting my spelling...

edam is lovely
fio mn won't delete as it is just opinions.
they don't seem to deem disablist comments as a reason to delete.

mmmm but even on that thread the other week when someone was talking about basically murdering disabled children mn hq said it was just an opium

sorry I can't spell opioun, how do you spelll it. I am doing it so bad spell chck doesn't know what I mean

opinion?

think I will just use onion

I love a quiche want to share one?

one of the boys at DS1's school called his brother a retard.
having brought him up well and being a highly educated and sensitive young man my DS1 smacked him in the mouth and split his lip.
The boy threatened to report DS1. All the boys who witnessed it said that if he did they would report what the boy had called DS2. Said boy knew he would be in a big pile of pooh from school who would not tolerate such a word.

Still not sure how i feel about whole incident except very proud of DS1's classmates - and a little curious as to how great it must feel just to twat someone in the mouth who said something like that instead of having to always be the bigger man. ( particularly when the start the tedious psuedo intellectual 'but it is just a word and language is a vibrant thing blah blah blah'. Actually if they use "PC" at anypoint I think it should just be a free hit. But thats just me.)

(should add that DS1 has never ever hit anyone before or since.

pagwatch i think they just get to the enough is enough stage. ds put up and shut for ages now he just decks them. you can't educate some people and sadly it is their dc's that pay the price, with cut lips in the end.

cunt, fuck, bugger, arse, pig, cock, dick, wank/er shit

None of these words offend me

Words used to belittle people pertaining to disability or race offend me deeply

I'm clapping your ds pagwatch (and yours 2shoes).

lucyellnsmum
go to your room this instant !

Bless you fio, ditto!

FioFio
"and I suggest you fuck off. You dont deserve my intelligence. You started this thread because you have a problem with 2shoes and the whole PC thing about disabilities. I havent got time for you and once again i not 'suprised' mumsnet has not deleted it. They seem to find some kind of joy in this kind of ruck"

I shall say this one more time... I STARTED THIS THREAD DUE TO A DISAGREEMENT WITH A FRIEND, I MERELY USED THE OTHER THREAD AS AN EXAMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It has nothing to do with 2shoes!
And I can't remeber ever saying anything about being pc or disabilities.

Again, my suggestion is that you read the whole thread properly, and don't go making up things in your own head about what YOU think I mean.

Oh dear!

By xlr8 on Wed 04-Jun-08 00:56:46
Well, the most recent example being 'epi'.

Edam, I apologise. I deleted the post as soon as I had read the thread properly. I read the first post and thought, ho hum. Added 2 and 2 and came up with five.

Thanks, Green. Was rather put out to be compared to a poster whose views are nothing like mine. (And who is clearly not a pedant!)

xlr8 why the name change???

i dont see whats so hard to understand; that if lots of people are offended by a word, its just polite/human/intelligent not to use it.

duh.

2shoes you have already asked me about the name change, and I have already answered it.
AGAIN---the name change was due to the fact that the friend that had annoyed me last night comes on MN.