Like a twat.....

[Ihavenoclu]

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

Dawn French wrote a book about herself called 'The Twat Files', where I am from twat and twattish means doing something daft or silly.

I think the wording of the ad by MN is perfectly acceptable and accurate as to what it is portraying.

Just add that when I was in America, twat was considered a lot more offensive and definitely on a par with cunt but in a sexual way. Mind you, the word cow in the US is often considered rude.

Karen is a misogynistic and ageist insult and came out of racist insults used in the US.

If you've had "many" posts deleted for using such a slur, maybe it would have been an idea to find out why such language isn't acceptable.

Not that using Karen/cunt/twat have anything to do with English not being anyone's first language either. It's simply a case of some (twat/cunt) not being against the language guidelines of Mumsnet unless being used to insult someone personally (and then, not always) while misogynistic, ageist and racist language very definitely is. Thankfully.

Twat can be offensive or a term of endearment. Much like when I call my husband a knob head, it depends on the delivery.

You must be new here

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That reminds me about the poster who started a thread saying they literally twatted a spider and loads of us clicked through ready to complain about the misuse of the word literally...
Only to find that the op had in fact quite literally twatted a spider.

Karen as an insult is much more offensive than any swear word both for women called Karen and women in general, most specifically middle aged white women for whom the term was coined.
I use twat on a daily basis and don’t even count it as swearing. It’s more like plonker or twit.

I remember that. It gave joy to my pedantic little heart.

I'm American where twat means fanny, but I love using the word on MN. It just so aptly sums up so many people.

@LifeExperience but not Fanny in the US sense of fanny pack. Language is a wonderful dynamic thing. 😀

Hello @Ihavenoclu thanks for posting and we're glad your fellow Mumsnetters have clarified a few points. Swearing is allowed on the boards and there may be the odd profanity at the milder end of the scale scattered in our emails. If you ever think we've crossed a line, though, do let us know.

<Gazes at crap oven gloves like a c*>

Wait, how does this work? Berk is prounounced to rhyme with work, isn’t it, not bark?

I thought it's Berkley hunt not Berkshire hunt.

Thank you for reminding me of this thread!! Might try and dig it out later for the pleasure of readers of this thread 😂

OP literally twatted a spider.

It's Berkeley Hunt not Berkshire
and Berk is probably the same level of offensiveness as twat here - so not offensive at all.

Also east midlands and also use twat interchangeable with wally/idiot etc. I had no idea some regarded it as offensive until a few years ago. Berk is even softer than Twat. More like twit.

I would literally never say the C word though. That is offensive.

When I was around 12 I was walking to school in winter having been forced to wear a white woolly hat. A teenage boy taunted me with a little ditty 'who's that twat in the silly white hat, doodar, doodar'. Despite the intent I found it quite catchy and was singing it at home. Until my mum heard me! I come from the North West and was raised JW so swearing of any kind was strictly forbidden. My naïveté saved me from a slippering.

This reminds me of a book I read several years ago called My Boyfriend is a Twat, A Guide to Recognising, Dealing, and Living with an Utter Twat,
by Zoe McCarthy. It was very funny.

Nope

UKIP twats

Ok ok ok, I'm learning. Still wincing as I think it is really vulgar but as I said this morning. I stand down.

I am very well aware of the origin of that term and I am also comfortable with how I use it. I am not looking to debate that on here, I have done that enough times to last me a life time. And I will reserve the right to interpret how I use terms as someone who is not born and bread here. I don't think I need anyone's permission to state my view and experience.

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This was an enlightening thread.

I am considering Michael Buerk completely differently now.