If all you moaning minnies had just ignored and .....

[AnyFucker]

kept your outraged and offended fingers away from the complaint button, all this silly sweary name shenanigans would have been tomorrows chip-paper by now.........

As it is, there is now going to be ream after ream of this daft arguing about fuck-all

it could rival Moldie-Gate you know, and that is not a ^good6 thing

Why thank you custy [preen]

This was going to be my bonfire night name anyway.

hehe

No that's much funnier

Strangely, I do not find AnyFucker offensive (name or poster) but others I do. I'd be sad to see your name go AF.

What I actually said was "Why don't you fck off and set up cntsnet.com then? You can have whatever nickname you like then." It was not telling anyone to f*ck off, it was a jokey suggestion that the sweary nicknames go and set up their own website. You know, jokey in the same vein as the so-called "jokey" nicknames.

I didn't say "Fck off BIWI" so you can, er, fck off with your accusations and mock horror.

I also said (frequently) that swearing in posts was not a problem at, all only in nicknames and thread titles, so don't make out that it is in any way ironic for me to say something like that. I've always taken the stance in these debate that swearing should be allowed completely uncensored in posts.

Please try to get your facts straight and stop twisting them to fit your own meaning.

Oh, there was meant to be a after the word "horror".

And, in case it isn't clear, the "why don't you f*ck off..." wasn't directed at a single poster.

Well it sounded like it was directed at a person - either me or CENSORED.

How could it not, SoupDragon, when you said "why don't you ..."?

I wasn't twisting the facts. But I did, actually, find it quite upsetting. There was no mock horror last night, I can assure you.

i read soupy's post as directed at the general melee, biwi.
love your new name, queenie, it's much funnier imo.

Oh dear....

I agree with the last few posts made by MorningPaper.

biwi, I did not take what soupdragon said as directed at you. It was so out of character I assume she meant it is a joke directed at Censored.

QUEEN, Love your new name, it is even prettier than the last.

I though soupy's was a rhetorical argumentative device

or something

I would like to apologise retrospectively if my DailyMail name (quoteTHISyaFuckers) caused any offence.
I felt a little hypocritical yesterday realising that I used and enjoyed using that name but I did cringe at CW's name.

To be honest there was a lot of fuck off, you cunts etc going on yesterday - all got a bit heated...

I am like Soupy I don't mind swearing in threads, your eye kind of drifts over it, but in titles and names it just wacks (no pun intended) you in the eye and thats why I objected. Nothing to do with small children/MIL/cleaner/dog reading over my shoulder....I just find it all so unnecessary

Well, I can't help if it I'm a sensitive little flower.

I don't have any problem with grown-ups swearing in posts, thread titles, names, whatever, as long as it is done in GOOD HUMOUR.

I'd only have a problem with swearing if it was delivered with genuine aggression or malice. (So actually it would be the aggression or malice that's the real problem, I suppose).

As far as I've noticed, swearing doesn't tend to happen in anything other than a good humoured way on MN (whether you'd find particular instances of it amusing is entirely subjective of course).

So I do find it odd and a bit sad that posters are having their knuckles rapped about it - that really does seem to have had the effect of dragging it down to a rather depressing playground level.

wow, that's the first time anything ive said has been discussed in quite so much detail

for the record, i find humour clever. the names AF and QOFE made me laugh when i saw them... hence is see them as clever names.

i didn't say they were intelligent names, i said clever:

clev·er (klvr)
adj. clev·er·er, clev·er·est

1. Mentally quick and original; bright.
2. Nimble with the hands or body; dexterous.
3. Exhibiting quick-wittedness: a clever story.
4. New England Easily managed; docile: "Oxen must be pretty clever to be bossed around the way they are" (Dialect Notes).
5. New England Affable but not especially smart.
6. Chiefly Southern U.S. Good-natured; amiable.

not intelligant;

in·tel·li·gent (n-tl-jnt)
adj.

1. Having intelligence.
2. Having a high degree of intelligence; mentally acute.
3. Showing sound judgment and rationality: an intelligent decision; an intelligent solution to the problem.
4. Appealing to the intellect; intellectual: a film with witty and intelligent dialogue.
5. Computer Science Having certain data storage and processing capabilities: an intelligent terminal; intelligent peripherals

I'm still annoyed that AnyFucker and QueenOfFlaming/FuckingEverying are basically being bullied into namechanging and have to admit i'm resisting the urge to namechange to PinkFuckingTulips myself in purely for divilment

I'm sorry you found it upsetting, BIWI.

"How could it not, SoupDragon, when you said 'why don't you ...'?" Fairly easily - because the "you" was a plural "you" meaning all the whining "freedom of speech" fans.

this is why the irish vernacular is so much clearer, 'you' pluralises to 'ye'

i didn't say you said they were intelligent, so far as i'm aware, PT, and i know what the word means, thanks, so that was a bit of a hijack there i think.

using your own c&p def of clever, however, a year after a good joke anyfucker is none of these things, and queenoffuckingeverything also doesn't bear repeating when queenofflamingeverything is ten times better.

for the record, i don't think they've been bullied in any shape or form. here's a def of bullying to cast your eye over, seeing as you like that sort of thing...

v. bul·lied, bul·ly·ing, bul·lies
v.tr.

1. To treat in an overbearing or intimidating manner. See Synonyms at intimidate.
2. To make (one's way) aggressively.

no-one's been bullied. truth is, the subject has come up and it's given those of us who've cringed a bit at the sweary names the opportunity to voice our opinion. the fact that somebody's opinion differs from yours does NOT make them a bully.

Really, you think no one at all over the last few days has been at all overbearing on this issue?

QueenOfFlamingEverything makes me think of a monarch with pyromaniac tendancies... maybe because flaming just isn't used over here so it doesn't automatically sound like a fake swear to me

sorry QOFE

OK. I accept that, Soupy. But please then don't make it worse again by saying I/we are/were whining.

I was expressing my view and making an argument, therefore taking part in a debate.

To say it is whining is unreasonable.

really really, PT. tbh if i was to identify anyone as having been over-bearing it would be the 'you are all moaning minnies (and worse)' contingent.

i do think that society is going to the absolute fucking dogs here if we are at each other's throats over the right to call yourself cuntwhacker on a parenting site designed to make all our lives easier. too many rights these days, not enough responsibilities...

AnyFucker: "wannabe, of course you have the freedom to be offended by a word < sigh, its just a word >

but if you would like to exert control over what people call themselves on an open adult forum, I do not call that freedom of speech

I call that censorship"

Hear, hear. For the record, I am one of those people who generally doesn't swear, so when I do I tend not to use the stronger words. However I have never had a problem with your name, and I think you in particular are marvellous (but then you already know that, dont'cha?!). I don't especially like the name 'cuntwhacker' (is that an actual MN name, then?) and tbh I think it's a cheap imitation of yours. But to complain about it? Purleeease.

< checks in >

hellooooooo, MMH

nice words there lovey, but I am of the opinion that if there is a rule to be made then it should be the same right across the board

so, nobody allowed naughty names, no swearing at all, all bad words must be bleeped out

so most of MN will look like this...

me : "so I said to my t*t of a psing DH, if you speak to me like that ever again, I will have your b*s on a f*king plate, matey"

MN friend; "yeah, what a dhead

and so on...

and everyone will have a variation on the username susan4638264945174