Foul language on Mumsnet…

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Foul language on Mumsnet?

Having newly registered with Mumsnet I am dismayed, after perusing uTube and other forum sites where obscenities constantly pop up, to note use of foul language on this ?family site?.

I reported the swearing, specifically, where ?arseholes? was utilised as a reference to political parties.

The return I got from Mumsnet HQ was ??we don't think we
should be the arbiters of what people should find offensive and what
they shouldn't.? and ??We generally find it's better to let the boards self-
police??

May I engage you all in a quick survey?

Hands up all those that deem ?ARSEHOLES? as an offensive expression that should not be used on these boards??

Thank you?

Hands up those that deem ?ARSEHOLES? inoffensive??

Thanks?

Looks like the arseholes have it!

idontlike it said peepee.

Oh to be a SAHM and sit here all day making up rubbish and posting vulgarities to be in a clique thats made up of rude people.

Well, for a non-SAHM you seem to be doing a fine job of posting quite prolifically on here, idontlikeit (typing your name without the apostrophe offends me, as it happens)

do you want to join the clique, idontlikeit

be nice and we might let you

Aw someone's upset they didn't make the team...

TheWorldFamousKewcumber
'I'm a professional (with a degree and a post degree professional qualification if, as we seem to be, comparing education is important)...'

You wrote:

'I think its so twee'

'littel sence'

"Blimey's" and "damn's"

I feckin' despair and I hope you are not a teacher. FFS, get it right if you want to tell us you are a professional with a degree.

MumsieN gets out her feckin' big red Biro to correct your homework Kewcumber. Tsk!

"'I'm a professional (with a degree and a post degree professional qualification if, as we seem to be, comparing education is important)...'" = sarcasm, as so many of the swearing objectors were claiming to be better educated than other people. Personally I think there is unlikely to be a correlation between your education level and your level of education.

"FFS, get it right if you want to tell us you are a professional with a degree" - I am a professional not a typist and there is no requirement on an internet website for me to proof-read my posts thankfully or it would be pretty joyless.

If my intention is not clear becasue of a typo I correct it, otherwise I don;t bother and you appear to be a reasonably bright girl so I'm sure you did actually understand what I typed even if you choose to engage in my method of delivery rather than my point.

But thank you for timewasting attention.

thumbwitch I am a working mum not a SAHM who watches JK all day and daytime trash which is probably where the offensive language comes from.

Oh and ever heard of a BlackBerry? You can use the internet on the move, you should get a job and get one too, they are great for winding up numpties on here who take offense at someone else disapproving of foul language.

incidental typos are so common becasue a qwerty keyboard was designed to use non-dominant fingers to type the most frequently recurring letters to slow typing down as early typewriters couldn;t cope with the speed that typists were acheived with an A-Z format.

If keyboards were redsigned to have frequently recurring letters typed by dominant fingers then I would more than likely have few typos and sound like the professional that I claim to be (though I am in fact a pole dancer)

I have spurned balckberries they are the spawn of the devil

{and now I'm not correcting typos just for the hell of it!)

I'm not a SAHM but you've been on here more than me today idontlickit.

lol!@idontlikeit.

You are so a bored student eating cold beans out of tin and still wearing your dressing gown. Chauffeur my arse.

Actually I am a 30 something mother and student (part time) and have a successful business but thought I would have a nose here and the first discussion that caught my eye was this one, I was intrigued and shocked! Anyway like I said, its only the SAHMs who use forums such as this when JK is finished!

Use of the word 'numpties' noted idontlikeyou

Careful, you are letting that facade slip.

What is JK?

I don't know what JK is. Is this student lingo?

"Chauffeur my arse." is that an offer or a command?

as i ponder how does one chauffeur an arse?self drive?slow clutch control?

priceless

you clearly can't read either, idon'tlikeit - I said you were a non-SAHM. Don't fancy your chances much of becoming a high-flying legal eagle with that level of attention to detail.

As it happens, I am in Australia so it is early morning here - go forth and make some more random and completely unfounded accusations again - another useful legal skill (NOT!)

PMSL at MrsMattie!

This is too funny! Please stop!
My face hurts, I need to move on with my life,I've neglected the cat,I've just realised frikkin' Judge Judy (maybe you know her idontlikeanyoneit) has been on the TV for 20 mins and I've not noticed.

TheWorldFamousKewcumber
I swear I wasn't being sarcastic.

No my dear - I was being sarcastic mentioning my education/profession follwoing the earlier education comparisons.

sorry to disabuse you dont but I'm not working too never been a SAHM

I wonder if my motehr described herself as "a succesful business woman" guess she did, no reason why not, a sweet shop is a business.

idontlikeit

it was me who suggested that you might be in a room giving a PP presentation to middle managers. Not for one second do I believe that you are that important because you are so desperate to force your own importance on other people.
I have done myself an injury laughing at your ridiculous posts

Let me get this right, you claim that by swearing a bit on a forum that our children do not see we are in fact being bad parents and describe an SAHM as someone " who watches JK all day and daytime trash" yet if I read your posts correctly you run your own business, are also doing a fulltime course, you spend your free time in the car flinging insults on an internet forum...um when do you do your parenting?
It's a work of fiction and was boring after chapter one.

Oh and don't call me 'darling'