Foul language on here.

[Lemondrizzle4A]

AIBU to expect people to use less foul language on here. I’m put off by people using c , f.
Im not a prude and believe me there is many a time I’ve used the F word in conversations but wouldn’t dream of using it on here and never the c word.
Edited as deleted the asterisks - obviously doesn’t like them.

I like that others feel able to use those words here. How else can we economically(ie. in only 1 word as opposed to a whole paragraph, which most cannot be bothered to read) get that strength of feeling across?

I would probably not use those particular words on here but i do irl.

I agree about the c word. Younger people do use it but for my generation it was a no.

So you don't want people to swear when talking online, but it's okay to swear when talking in person? Is there any difference between swearing on a thread to swearing in real life

Depends. Sometimes it works in an amusing way. Other times it comes across as performative "ooh look at how edgy we are.." like when posh kids adopt mockney accents. Or like a weird badge of honour that if you're not (edgy enough?) to appreciate it, you should go to the (despised and lightweight) netmums. Which reminds me of school when you were supposed to be naughty to be cool.
If its the way people genuinely talk and write, fair play, but it sometimes seems a bit contrived.

It takes a special sort of cunt to think that this constitutes a reasonable response.

I do know what you mean, OP. I never used to swear at all - but 22 years of Mumsnet has changed that! There is a lot of swearing on Mumsnet and has been for many years.

Interestingly, I still never swear in print though - and I never (and probably won't ever) use the word c**t.

I’d rather someone actually said cunt and fuck than using twee euphemisms like c bomb.

Yanbu it's unnecessary.

It's the only way to be sure that the post hasn't been written by fucking ChatGPT.

True.

It's an open forum on here really.Many on here need somewhere to vent! idle DH,difficult DC dreadful MIL and so on.Ripe language is often the best way of expressing ourselves. The days of tea and cakes over Bridge, are getting less now. And (thankfully) so are men like the chap from the fifties ,who confiscated his Wifes pearls for daring to say "bloody",for 3 years apparently!

I posted not for the reason you seem to think but because genuinely shocked at how much swearing. I get swearing I do but almost every other word on some threads I don’t. I was interested to get other people’s views and wondering if at my advanced age it was just me.

Sorry Cambridge University Netball Club. Senior moment. 😂

They made a fb group as I recall.

What’s your age and background OP?

I’m interested in people who don’t swear.

Genuinely not bothered by people swearing and I fully understand that swearing is sometimes the ultimate way of showing the depth of feeling you have. My point is that some people seem to resort to swearing in their post almost every other word. I also absolutely abhor the C word. Perhaps that is an age thing.

Didn't Mumsnet used to be known as 'the one with the swearing'?

Don't ever move to Scotland 😆.

Cunt op. Say what you mean, it's far less confusing. Fucking c word.

They’ve asked if you can articulate why you feel this way. You have basically just reiterated that you don’t like it. The question is why don’t you like it?

If a student uses those words at school they go to isolation. But seeing how widely used they are on here, I can only assume it’s picked up from home. It’s very hicky and not respectful. If teenagers swear at school I remind them that most adults do not expect this sort of language, so keep it for home. And then I database. And I database over and over again. So when parents are complaining, just imagine what’s written all over their students database. I have to say most students apologise immediately and realise how inappropriate it is.

The OP would have a conniption at my Friday meeting where I catch up with my team )on Teams) before the weekend. We always finish with ‘cunt of the week’.

The thing that gets me on MN is the posts where people are living lives of such desperation. Where truly awful behaviour has become normalised and children become a silent witness, ready to take that trauma into their own lives, sometimes these lived experiences are on repeat through generations. The swearing not so much.

If you genuinely weren't bothered by swearing, you wouldn't have started a thread about it or referred to it as 'foul'. You said you've used the word 'fuck' many a time in conversation but 'would never dream of using it on here'. Why is it worse to say it on here than in real life?

Sorry to break it to you OP but a recent study has found that people who swear in general conversation LIVE LONGER!

Not the sweary name callers - they get to die as soon as everyone else - but those of us who merrily shed daily stresses by peppering our sentences with a few fucks and the odd shit?....

....Yup, we're counteracting those minutes lost by eating bacon by literally GIVING FUCKS!

Feels good.

You should join us!!!

ONE OF US!

ONE OF US!

ONE OF US!

😁😂