Swearing. Why?

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I'n not averse to the odd 'FFS' or whatever, but it seems to me that the use of the C word is now commonplace on every thread nowadays. And i don't like it one bit.

It never used to be like this. Why the cultural shift? I never hear it spoken out loud so why is it suddenly ok to plaster it all over MN?

Is it suddenly 'en vogue' to sound like a drunken navvy? Words like cunt, snatch, twat etc are just vile. Can't we reign it in a bit?

I'm not suggesting that it should be family friendly. I realise it's a site for adults. I don't let my children read it. Sometimes the subject is much more inappropriate than the words used, so I am careful about which threads I open when they are at home.

Everyone is either a good cunt or a cunt where I live. So... there you have it!

I don't like minge or moist or people asking for advise when they would like advice or the trolls, or the ex banned posters but please just leave the fucking cunts alone.

Where the hell did that dragon come from?

Oh yes, St George. Bugger, forgot.

I swear IRL far more than I do on MN. IRL it just falls out my mouth, on MN I have to think about it.

But then I am surrrounded by foul mouthed Squaddies and Civil Servants, so I'm in good company

I really don't understand someone that joins a community, of their own free will, and then complains about that community. Especially when that community has been running sucessfully for over 10 years. Surely when you join a sucessful community you try to fit in or you leave, you don't try to make it conform to your own ideals...

well I've seen The Hobbit Tee and yes you do have a point. I think it's the British dragons that can't actually fly

That could be Jardin.

I'd much rather say cunt than "en vogue".

I don't think there's anything wrong with swearing on here. And I can't see why 'what black people are offended by' is relevant to the discussion.

Swearing. Why not?

To answer the actual question in the OP's title.

Before I was a SAHM I worked with people with mental illnesses and also people with addictions.

I heard and was called regularly Cunt, Snatchbitch, HairyFishFanny, Bastard, FatTits (34A) and one particularly memorable Christmas when my rota fell to me working a double shift on Christmas Day, You Fucking Cunty Christmas Cunthole.

MN by comparison is a walk in the park. I don't even blink.

If you don't like swearing fair enough, but what on earth makes someone place so much value on their own opinion that they think an entire site should change to accommodate them?

More importantly who would have the arrogance to ask such a pompous question, and then get the arse with HQ when they very politely answer?

I mean honestly, words fail me!

Oh Eskimo it's really not funny but You Fucking Cunty Christmas Cunthole. just made me snort

You Fucking Cunty Christmas Cunthole

That is the best festive insult I've ever heard thank you for that nugget

You fucking cunty Christmas cake hole!

Cunt hole even. Bloody hell, that's quite something!

Eskino - that is some creative use of 'cunt' that you were exposed to. I may have to save it up for the festive season.

Incidentally, the kids around my way use this sort of language all the time. I'm not saying it's right, but I have heard a string of expletives from the under 10's in the local playground.

I try not to swear in front of DD who is only a toddler, but when she's out there in the real world, she's going to be exposed to it. Doesn't offend me, but as I said upthread, the usage has to be appropriate.

(Sorry btw, i'm sure it was less funny at the time. My mum used to work with old people and was called all sorts of people. Apparantly when you reach a certain age you just swear a lot there was one woman who could only say a few words which consisted mainly of variations of the words cunt, wanker & bastard and you knew she was warming to you if she called you a nice cunt. No joke. I bet OP is wishing she hadn't started this thread if she's not a fan of swearing as it's full of filth already).

I just knew there's end up being a lot of swearing on this thread!

Irresistible & (with apologies to Eskino) I must admit I too loved the festive cunt epithet.

OP, you're reigning on my cuntymingefelch parade.

If all we used was regular vocabulary, the world'd be a boring place. But a place where surely words such as 'moist' and ''catflap' and 'shunting the fulcrum' could be the naughty words?

Vagina means 'sword sheath'. I find that rather distasteful, I'd rather use cunt.

Fetid Fucktruck is my swear phrase of choice at the moment.

Some dragons can't fly Tee. Chinese dragons only have ornamental wings apparently. I know thats true as my 9 yr old say so. It is part of the National Curriculum apparently.

I swear in real life and I like MN cos swearing is allowed. If that makes me immature that so fucking what.
And race ya to the festive cunty name.

I read an excellent book by a very admired american midwife the preface to the book is about the english language and how we choose to be offended by certain words most of which are for the female genitalia, to put this right she uses a different wor deverytime she mentions a vagina throughooout the book, now did I state this is a midwifery book so the word vagina is used a lot, it is called a cunt, a yoni and many many other things. It is quite unusual reading the word cunt in a medical context, but you know what I agree with her wholeheartedly, reclaim words and people cant use them against you.

Cunt doesn't fuss me. Even if it is a word for a vagina I used words that are connected to the male genitalia.

Such as:

Dickhead
Dick
Cock
Scrote/scrotum
Bellend
Cheesy bell
Jizz stain
Silly bollocks
nob jockey
nobhead

There is possibly more but cant think of them.

I heard a kid in the back street call another kid a 'fanny flap' though.

fanny flap is an excellent phrase.