to think people shouldn't use words if they dont understand the meaning

[elmoandella]

i am fed up of the term hun being used on this site is an example. it is being used to offend people who buy and sell on prams in another thread.

where i come from this term originates (and still stands for) an offensive term a catholic uses to say someone is a protestant.

therefore it is extremely offensive to call me a "pram hun"

why use a word if you dont knows its meaning.

Ye ees, Captain, but it can also mean something else >

< Transmits other rude meaning telepathically >

sperm

but the real word is smegma
which is just a vile word lol

Em, have we been had?

Oh

no, that wasn't what I was meaning at all Trinity.

I thought it was called jiz

bloody newbies missing the context.

'hun's is used on mumsnet in the way it is because people who only used to post on buy and sell used to call each other hun all the time (as a term of endearment). The same people used to discuss prams and buggies at lot.

Hence pram huns = a group of people who come onto mumsnet only to discuss buggies.

Read the archives if you want a full explanation on the use of the word hun on this particular website.

tnog

you are kidding right??

[wank]

I thought it was the cheesy stuff that, erm, accumulates - rather than the stuff itself IYSWIM?

sorry

I meant

[wink ]

(hello Tfrog)

what??!!!!???!!!!

are you suggesting something we could do to pass the time till the op returns?

smeg cant mean wank

a wank produces smeg

[Hello, 2poos]

roffle tnog

PMSL you are priceless

Trinity, what a dirty mind you have

< innocent >

provincial is right

but its still a world away from expensive fridges lol

cheesy stuff, definitely, swinehunt.

I thought this was going to be an interesting thread which had somehow escaped from the pedants threads. Instead, it's some blue-nose from Glasgow who can't see past his or her sectarian nose.

straight to the point and poetically put, old lady

old lady. wrong on all points. pmsl. not from glasgow. not a "blue-nose" as you so nicely put it. although that is rather offensive too.

i'm not religious at all.athiest(excuse spelling have lo on lap.

you are obviously an extremely racist person yourself to come out with that remark.

If it is any consolation OP, if you are being called a 'pram hun' then the person probably is insulting you, only they are implying you are a nut who gos through 50 prams a year rather than calling you a protestant.

Is gos even a word? It doesn't look right somehow.

its interesting to see the most of the responses on here come from the ones who are actually using the term on the other thread and have been told they are being offensive. yet it is still being used.

is it too much to ask when your on a thread and someone states they find a term offensive that they stop using that thread for the remainder of that thread at least?