TECH, please can we have a facility to hide posters who...

[PestoLovelyMonster]

we feel have very offensive names?

I don't want my dcs looking over my shoulders and seeing certain nicknames and asking what they are.

Thank you please

Wasn't me, honest guv!

oh, FGS, even my MIL says CUNT.

We women should reclaim it as a usable word. There used to be streets called GropeCunt alley and such.

ANd QS - worry about yourself love, not the poster in question. There is no evidence, nor any suggestion that she would post on a DV thread.

And I agree re censorship. It is up to the poster to change her name, not be demanded to change it. THough if I were her, I'd keep it out of indignation at the bullshit being spouted about her, for what seems to have only intended to be a fun namechange.

I'm not particularly offended by it, although if there are an overwhelming number of posters that are then the poster in question should name change. That is just nice manners, which never go amiss (greasing of the wheels of civilisation and all that).

Personally I find the name (and any others that set out to shock or offend) very attention seekery, in the same vein as sweary t-shirts or men on stag dos with viking hats.
Not funny, just silly, and I am given to a good hard internal judge of the poster, regardless of what they are saying in their actual posts.

[Joyce Grenfell]

I tend to agree slubber - it IS just manners

If it were a group of teenagers, I would smile fondly and remember my own years of rage and rebellion

It being middle-aged women, I feel that such an overspill of rage would be better directed in more hours on the PTA or something instead

I have self-censored. Not sure the PTA would welcome my rage though

Quite MP!

Several people have said that they find they find this language offensive. Other posters then pile in, saying that the the words aren't important or it's only a larf or they are reclaiming the language or some other such self-justification.

What they don't seem to be addressing is that they are purposefully and unnecessarily offending people and don't care that they are doing it. Thanks for that.

am with slubber too

What slubber said

Are they doing it purposefully? Sorry, is this a thread about a thread then?

Senua - I've never purposefully offended someone on here - and am curious as to when you think it's necessary to be offensive?

PMSL @

"No Fuck in names, leading to no shit in posts, leading to no bollocks, no arses and no buggery."

well what would we talk about on MN if all of the above were banned

I have to say that I can't see any need for cursing in posts or titles. If you can't get your point across without cursewords, you are simply showing what a poor vocabulary you have.

Curses as names are simply beyond the pale.

"but this is a parenting site....i don't want to see fuck"

yep - and in order to become the parents that post on the site we all fucked someone

There is no need for insinuation either. No one need mention banana.

think you'll find that posters with these names would send you to sleep in RL....like dull men who have to wear socks with mickey mouse on them.....just to prove they're a bit "whacky"...

I'm sorry Kerry but ' no need for chocolate' . I find that deeply offensive and I will report your post [catsbum mouth]

so would this name be ok then? On a dv thread?

What else might you be a mother of? (just out of interest)

freedom of speech and all that.

Or a rape thread?

God?

Now you're losing the argument by resorting to extremes.

What is a DV thread? Feel I might be missing out on something great.

Why does resorting to extremes mean you lose an argument?