Like a twat.....

[Ihavenoclu]

Really? Like a twat you have choosen style over substance again?!!! Just awful. Surely it breaks 'talking guidelines' no?

Swearing is allowed here.
Personal attacks aren’t, but this doesn’t look like one.

How does it break talk guidelines?

Can we not say swears now?

"Twat" is mild really.

You can swear on here. You can even say "cunt" if you feel like it.

Have you only just joined MN @Ihavenoclu?

Of course we can. No personal attacks but general swearing is acceptable.

Eh? We're adults.

I don't think you understand a) Mumsnet and/or b) Talk Guidelines @Ihavenoclu

In the East Midlands where I come from, Twat is no stronger than idiot or fool or berk. In the North West where I now live, it's up there with cunt. It's caused me issues on more than one occasion when I've basically sworn at someone without intending to.

Samw here - south east - twat really isn't offensive

How do you think that breaks talk guidelines?

Did you choose rubbish oven gloves and are now taking this personally? 😅

I've never related more to a review in my life!
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Totes. Some really cunty oven gloves right there.

Like a twat really made me laugh.

Locally it is interchangeable with twit, fool, berk, donut. In polite company/at work, I would hesitate with the twatting but in casual convo, in online chit-chat, bring on the twat. IYSWIM.

morning all, easy on the pile on 😅. I stand down. English is my second language and I was told twat means cunt so I reacted.

Enlightening to see the responses tbh. Thanks for clearing it up for a 'forrener'

Even if it did mean cunt it's still not breaking talk guidelines because simply using profanity is not against talk guidelines.

Shit bugger bollocks piss fart twat fuck cunt

See?

Now, if someone was to reply to my post and say IncompleteSentenc you are a pious prick-faced tit-toothed, fart-arsed wanker... That would be against talk guidelines.

I think people who voted for ukip are fucking twats - not against talk guidelines
You voted for ukip? You fucking twat - against talk guidelines

It does mean cunt where I'm from ( North West). I still don't find it offensive really, but a bit strange they would use it in an advertisement.

Twat is synonymous with wally where I'm from. In the same way as berk (which also means cunt).

It's an insult here, up with cunt. Berk is a shortening of cockney slang for cunt - Berkshire hunt.

East Midlands here, I use twat on a daily basis. Covers everything!

I agree. ‘I felt a right twat’ would mean ‘I felt silly/foolish’ whereas ‘I felt a right cunt’ (which I don’t hear people say) would mean ‘I’d been incredibly mean to someone’.

Twat does mean cunt where I live in the UK. Both can be either very, very offensive or used as a term of endearment. 😂

Where I’m originally from, both twat and cunt would always be extremely offensive.

Crap and shit both mean poo, but crap is a milder swear.

It's the same with twat and cunt IME - they refer to the same part of the anatomy, but twat is milder.

Regardless, any and all swearing is allowed on here, so even if the post said cunt it would be allowed to stand.

For me, twat is also a term that evokes ye olde MN. It used to be widely used back when the whole site was smaller and more like a recognisable group of posters with a shared vernacular — I’m thinking like 17-odd years ago. Maybe that copy was written from that headspace 😁

I still remember a thread titled ‘I am a twat, I am a twat’ (but can’t remember what it was about). Might be in Classics

Another non brit here. Interesting. I have had many posts deleted for referring generally to 'Karens' which is a misogynist term and highly offensive, according to talking guidelines. But twat and cunt is ok? In advertising copy?🤔

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Thank you 😅!

Clear as mud 🫡