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!

Oh MumsieNonna I love that-there was a joke once about someone getting a duchess to swear and it included making her say,'are soles in season?'
I have an English degree too [what's that about?]

Theres a lot of fowl language in the ChickenKeepers threads.
[wanders off again]

Having a degree doesnt make you intelligent

(psst only intelligent people know this btw )

idontlike
May I respectfully point out that you should have written the word 'three' and not 3. You also need to brush up on your use of apostrophes dear.

idontlikeit, if you re-read you'll see that I wasn't requiring you to obtain my approval, I was asking for the reason mentioned along with my question.

Though I would have thought that a Legal Postgrad Diploma was the obvious way forward for one who wishes to have a career in law and who already has a degree.

Pranma, theres another about a posh lady who wants some cod, and the fishmonger tries to convince her there isn't any, till finally he asks her how many Fs there are in cod:

'My good man, there is no F in cod'
'you've got the message, theres no F-ing cod'.

This joke comes to me courtesy of my octagenarian, daughter-of-the-manse mother.

I agree that having a degree doesnt make you intelligent-some of the stupidest people I know have multiple degrees and one is a clinical psychologist.

Im sure some people are rather bored today, to be so perplexed over slang obscenities.

Bobbiewickham "shitfuckwank!" in our house

Mind you, its not the word itself that makes for good swearing, its the way you do it. For sheer style, the best swearing I ever encountered was in a research lab where recalcitrant software would elicit 'F...fiddlepoops!' with such force and meaning from one particular person. She's a Fellow of the Royal Society, by the way, which surely tops anything other than a Nobel prize

If you don't like it, out you go my Dear.

I get sweared at all the time on here, but i think they are a lovely bunch, What is wrong with OP??

Idontlikeit you're not real are you?

And in case you are - you let your children read you posts? You are very very odd.

FGS... idontlikeit.. I am an LPC lecturer (perhaps I will be teaching you soon?). I'll wave my large 2:1 from St Peter's College Oxford around, if it makes you feel more comfortable? Would my MA help? Perhaps my 6 years in large corporate bollocks law firm.

Intelligence has nothing to do with swearing. I learned to swear as a trainee solictior. I hope you are not such a knob in practice - you won't last five minutes...

Go on rollonfriday.co.uk for an insight into the language used by solicitors when CHILDREN AREN'T PRESENT...

So what do you do for a living to be able to afford a chaffuer and be so up your own jacksie idontlikeit?

Just so i know never to go for that career if i ever feel like a change

oh and why are you studying for an LLB in stead of a GDL?

"Mature mum" or not, the posts are distinctly immature, boasting about chauffeurs and feeling the need to give academic info in attempt to gain kudos

I wonder if the superwoman who is idontlikeit has reached her destination in her chauffeured car and is using her English degree and interesting style of written English at her meeting whilst juggling three children and an undergrad Law course which would take longer for her to obtain than a postgrad diploma.

Or whether she's just disappeared up her own arsehole because she's been outed.

I'm guessing the latter Vallhala

vallhala love your posts.

Well I'm no lawyer but NotBloodyBranston clearly thinks idontlikeit is a bit suspect too so I reckon we might just be right!

lol Vallhala

suspect she is in some boxy room as we type, giving a PP presentation to a bunch of dreary faced middle managers on the merits of self assertion in the workplace

Many law schools have a money making ploy ploy whereby if you complete the GDL (Gradulate Dip in Law) + an extra assignment you are awarded an LLB. But it isn't worth the paper it's written on (and no law firm would consider it to be an LLB)

Or worse, idontlikeit is doing another 3 years at uni?

drums fingers waiting to find out...

But she knows professionals branston, were you not aware?

Intimately?

She knows Bodie and Doyle?