To cringe when middle class women swear

[dopaminego]

On Mumsnet at least they use embarrassing words like 'cockwomble' and think it's edgy. Only working and upper class people sound right swearing.

Well you deserve to be punished if you didn't harvest spectacular in season wild garlic from your own dappled woodland for this dish. Purchasing a ready made from a supermarket? Shudders.

Oh dear. One would hope university lecturers might use a rather less hackneyed expression.
what’s wrong with ‘fuck off, shithead’? Simple and direct.

Very good OP, you can tell someone’s class and what they are thinking from a little bit of writing! How awful to be trying to be edgy while middle class! Even if they are, so what? It’s not a crime.

I also dislike portmanteau words but I have made an exception for shitfuckery as it is so useful in so many ways.

I'm American and according to a LOT of MNers I have no class at all. Does that mean I'm allowed to swear?

Love your user name. Does it work as an incantation?

I know this thread is humourous-ish, but I will note that for some of us our experience is that sweariness preludes a loss of control that ends up in things getting broken and people getting hurt and there are more reasons to be wary of it irl than class sensibilities.

Why does “need” come into it? There’s no “need” to use so-called interesting language either.

I don’t know why you think people have to justify their choices on this.

What’s wrong with lower class?

Do you have a head injury? Maybe you should seek help. 🙄

Now fuck off and when you get there fuck off from there too.

I didn't say I don't swear so maybe you're the dim one!

I do very much hear you on this, but I've always thought there is a difference between, "Shit, I dropped the pan" and, "You fucking piece of shit, I'm going to fucking kill you".

Obviously if it's a trigger, it's a trigger, but generalised swearing is not the same as swearing at someone.

Errm if you need to be told then that's a problem.
Think about the definition of lower or get a dictionary.

I prefer shithousery.

It's very cringe but I've never thought of it as edgy (quite the reverse) or middle class or something that particularly women say.

I reckon anyone who identifies as any class these days is cringe, certainly in the western world. There is poverty bracket; unemployed bracket; and low income bracket; middle income bracket; and high income bracket

🎶 I’m middle class
And I’ll swear if I want to,
Swear if I want to,
Swear if I want to.
You would swear too
If you were middle class too 🎶

(Whispers) You know the word portemanteau is actually portmanteau itself?

You can cringe all you like - why would anyone care what you do?

Fucking hell. I must be identify as Bloody Royalty.

Agree & appreciate your comment.

I can't get worked up about harmless mumsnetisms like cockwomble and twatbadger. I quite like the creativity.

Thank fuck I'm not a sweary Mumsnet poster. 🤔

Ah so there are rules to this malarkey. Can you provide the rules? Are your rules the official rules?

1. cockwomble is not swearing and I don't think anyone thinks it is.
2. how do you know if someone is middle class?
3. sometimes a swear word is the entirely appropriate word and not cringy at all.
4. you seem to be making some logical errors - that some posts are cringy - that they are cringy because of the language used - that the language used is half heartedly offensive - that Mumsnet is middle class - therefore middle class people who swear are cringy. Very poor reasoning skills.

The only rules I have are that I waited untl my kids were at least 14 before I stopped watching my language around them. Have obviously reinfirced the ‘time and place’ rules - not in front of teachers, the MiL, or in a job interview etc, but otherwise swear words are generally just a collection of hard consonants, glottal stops and assigned meanings that, in a thesaurus, have a dozens alternatives that we all understand. Is ‘fuck’ any more offensive than procreate/ copulate/ reproduce, really, on any fundamental level after all? Or ‘bollocks’ any more offensive than male genitalia/ or testicles?

As an English graduate who has observed that most swear words are in print in well respected literary texts eg. Chaucer (the Wife of Bath had serious potty mouth), I feel that the educated middle classes are almost more entitled to swear on the basis of the literary heritage of many of these words.

"orff you piss" works for me in a middle class voice.