to hope that bad language would be considered offensive?

It has absolutely nothing to do with self control and self respect, if folk choose to swear here it is their choice to do so and not yours to impose your wishes and opinions on them.

People have very different social styles, upbringings and values, I think it is important that all are welcome on here. The internet is a strange beast in that respect and in my experience if I don't like what I see I WOB, walk on by and move on to the next poster who is more in my style.

why should it be here because you do? swearing is impolite always has been and always will be just because a lot of people do it does"nt make it right.

Again, grandmaagain, this is your opinion and you are entitled to it as I am to mine.

I don't like posts about people having affairs, I don't like posts about religion, I don't like the pedant posts who criticise how other people speak and write english, but it is not up to me to pass judgement in an open forum on those posts just because of my personal opinions - so I tend to keep those opinions to myself and join in on the threads that do interest me and I feel that I can usefully contribute to. There are those who use communities such as this to take every opportunity to criticise others, their actions, opinions, spelling, language and any number of other things, for me life is too short and I have too many other things to worry about. If I don't like it I can ignore it.

My Mum is going to LOVE it on here.
Can't wait to sign her up

The more the merrier!

Diva, you make some really good points there. Being a grown up, I struggle a bit with people trying to influence my behaviour and responses.

I have never understood the comment on MN when people say "I like swearing" Why?
Swearing is usually an expresion of anger or frustration. Do people actually like being angry or frustrated? Or, if it is not an expression of anger / frustration then why choose swearing? Why deliberately choose offensive language (and then laugh at those who are offended)

It's not big and it's not clever. I really hope that the bad language stops at MN and GN is a bit more civilised.

Perhaps (and I hesitate a little before putting this down in words) those of us who have found our way here via Mumsnet are older and wiser and somewhat more inclined to express our frustration in other ways than with swearing, although I have to say that some times I feel the need to swear long and loud.

I'm old and wise

I swear because I'm a grown up and this is a grown up forum

hi, i'm new to this, (joined today) i'm a very proud grandad, as regards to foul language, really hope i dont see any on here, i,m growing older gracefully, and i certainly would not like to see and swear words from people of my generation.

then I have a sneaking feeling Micky you may be disappointed

Don't worry trickymicky there will be no fowl language because there is no chicken keepers topic.

OOOOH yes, where are the chicken topics going to go.......

chicken keepers?? am i missing something???

no we are missing it on Gransnet, we will have to put a request in...........

cant we just start our own (chicken) topic??? still getting my head round this site...

Fuck

why??

Because I can

very subversive!

trickymicky

How old are you?

Why not try growing old disgracefully?!

usual it is not huge and it is not witty!

Yeah it is

Oh oh. Another Internet forum nurturing nasty asides, the more immature the better...........Yawn

These are hardly nasty asides!

And why immature?

Why not put forward your own view about swearing instead?