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.

Racist?

"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?"

It is if doing so would render it impossible for discussion to continue. It would be more sensible for you to simply leave the thread. Is that too much to ask?

Or if we all just said 'the H word' would that do?

yes

I'm not sure what you're offended by now. Is it this apparently abusive religious meaning of hun (which personally I've never come across before) or people calling you a 'pram hun'?

If you're "not religious at all", in what way are you offended at being addressed in terms to which only a bluenose would object? Is this yet another word you don't understand?

I'm offended that 2shoes threw poo at me.

I'm choosing to turn the other [butt] cheek though.

if someone asks an offensive word not to be used on a particular thread (not this one, just for example another you were on)

would you continue to use it on the other thread i mean.

by all means, continue to use it on this thread for the sake of the arguement?

but what i'm asking is if you were asked to stop. would you continue using it?

I ma offended tha topg calle me 2poos!

YAalsoBU by starting a thread about a thread I might add

[frown]

elmoandella can you link to the thread please as then I can see what context the word is being used in.

OMG

it is not offensive in the context it is being used
GET A GRIP

Heehee

sorry

but...

heehee

you are throwing your toys out of your pram, hun

Like, duh, people DO know the meaning. It means 'honey' as in the kind of sickly idiots who call each other honey on the internet. Still, if it makes you happy to take offence, and that amuses other people, seems a win-win to me.

People have tried to explain this several times now. The term 'pram hun' is just a convenient phrase made up from the way that a lot of the women who are obsessed with prams also happen to call each other 'hun' a lot. It has no religious or racist connnotation.

This is hilarious. My husband is a 'hun'( a Glasgow Rangers supporter, although not at all religious) and he will pish himself reading this.We take sectarianism seriously and find it both offensive and depressing. But this is ridiculous!

maybe we are wrong?

I mean you go on a thread ALL about prams
NOT A SINGLE mention of religion

noone arguing or starting a fight

but obviously if you see the words 'pram hun'

they are actually calling someone a 'parambulator protestant'

hmm of course

NE1 wanna buggapoo in fanjolene puce, with matchin foot muff?

I'd like to swop it 4 a quimmy zapp

Fanx hun

context context context

That's all I have to say, really. Words can mean different things in different context. In this case, it means 'honey.' I think you need to breeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaathe.

lol at perambulator protestant

Especially if you are not even a member of said religion.

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heres the thread babes

Like many, I was persuaded by the title but disappointed by the op.

Did someone actually call you 'hun' or were they amicably chatting amongst themselves throwing in the odd 'hun' and you just find it all a bit offensive?

I have two points of interest to throw into the mix...

On this day in 1967 the first human heart transplant was performed
and
Sunday is the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbour.

I discovered these interesting facts whilst checking the date of the next full moon...

Fascinating innit?