Swearing in Threads

Rich_Ellis said:
Haha - cool! It worked....I can see hours of endless fun coming when I'm bored! This answers the how but It still begs the question tho as to the why?
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I'm a member of the Ford Focus Owners Club & forum........ if you type in "Vauxhall" it changes it to "Whizzhopper" :lol:

Maybe the admin on here should do the same if you try to type Nik**n? :p
 
Russ77 said:
I'm a member of the Ford Focus Owners Club & forum........ if you type in "Vauxhall" it changes it to "Whizzhopper" :LOL:

Maybe the admin on here should do the same if you try to type Nik**n? :p
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Haha. If I was to make a new car I'd call it WhizzHopper!

Nik**n, is that a new make of camera as well? Is it Nikron or Nikorn or Nikunn or.....hang on a minute, I've just got another idea for a new thread!!!!
 
Rich_Ellis said:
Everything crossed! Probably be a fired up Mitchell Johnson steaming in.
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Starc is knackered after battering for hours but he can still bowl Cooke out for 7 on a pitch that is now favouring the bat

It could be more like 10 pin bowling than cricket ...... if England do their "usual" and bat like ........... Cooke, Bell and Trott

why is Johnson not bowling to scare the sh1t out of the England early order?
 
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Russ77 said:
I'm a member of the Ford Focus Owners Club & forum........ if you type in "Vauxhall" it changes it to "Whizzhopper" :LOL:

Maybe the admin on here should do the same if you try to type Nik**n? :p
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I used to be a mod on an F1 forum and had "Ferrari" changed to "Cheating Red Team" (or similar).
 
Rich_Ellis said:
This is just an observation really as I have done it before myself in threads but... Why is it ok to fill a 'swear' word with asterisks but leave enough letters so everyone knows what word you are using but it isn't ok to use the actual letters?

Do we delude ourselves that we aren't actually really swearing or is it purely the 'rules' of the forum not allowing us to swear so therefore we get around it with asterisks?

I'm not really sure who it protects. If there is a no swearing rule, why do a few asterisks make it ok? Who decides how many asterisks are necessary to make it ok? Why can't we just use the swear words if we want to?

Its a slow day today, just saw the Cecil the Lion thread and it got me thinking about swearing.....
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Absolutely :clap: ... Let's have complete asterisks, even replacement words as we did in the past.
Some people here have such a poor vocabulary that they find it Impossible to type without swearing ... Absolutely no need, let's please see it gone!
 
I like the idea of word substitution, perhaps with brackets {} or square brackets [] around the word to highlight the substitution.

The substitute words could then be replaced periodically for amusement value. It could even be used as afford of public censure - misbehave and have your username used as the replacement for male genitalia for a week.
 
gramps said:
Absolutely :clap: ... Let's have complete asterisks, even replacement words as we did in the past.
Some people here have such a poor vocabulary that they find it Impossible to type without swearing ... Absolutely no need, let's please see it gone!
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Whilst I agree there is no f*****g need for it :) and would prefer it when the f*****g c***s wouldn't f*****g swear all the time. However to me a world without censorship takes preference over some w****r who can't write without f*****g swearing. It is something that happens f*****g deal with it.

:) :) :)
 
Who invited Malcolm ******* Tucker to the thread?
 
gramps said:
I hope they don't have children or grandchildren!
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No idea, but I guess they aren't there all the time, if they have ;)
 
Cobra said:
As Tracie quite rightly pointed out, that was dropped some time ago ;)


I don't recall ever hearing a Vicar or Nun swear TBH
(Although I guess they may ;) )

But to put things into a little perspective, this is the Admins house,
and they treat it as they would their home, would you allow a stranger to enter you home and start mouthing off?
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It all depends on ones perspective. To some saying; oh [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER] sweet Jesus I don't ker, can be highly offensive ;)

Seriously I'm certain I've heard various priests swear at times.

I think it is unimaginative and to me it demonstrates lack of command of the language. But then again frustration can cause odd reactions by people. All I ask is that people don't swear in front of my children, although they are now of an age they know worse then me.
 
Oh that is funny the Irish version of [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER] is not allowed whilst w******s is. I wonder whether as ofcom has cleared the use of pikey this week whether that is now allowed?
 
Cobra said:
LOL thats dangerous ground lets not go there eh? :D
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Oh no it was totally innocent at church parties in the hall in our local Westminster dioces.
 
gramps said:
Absolutely :clap: ... Let's have complete asterisks, even replacement words as we did in the past.
Some people here have such a poor vocabulary that they find it Impossible to type without swearing ... Absolutely no need, let's please see it gone!
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Never understood this logic. Extra words can't possibly demonstrate a lack of vocabulary!

Cobra said:
I don't recall ever hearing a Vicar or Nun swear TBH
(Although I guess they may ;) )
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I have, fairly frequently, including higher ranks. I should imagine that my grandfather probably did when he discovered that he'd knocked his housekeeper up - he was a priest!
 
I blame the hippies, f***in pinko leftie t***s.
 
Llamaman said:
So, if I were to say "the toilet is full of sh*t", that'd be OK
But if I were to say "Cobra is full of sh*t" I'd quickly get a suspe[account suspended]
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It would be OK to poop on the toilet, but if you pooped on @Cobra, different matter :rolleyes:
 
Change the pink to brown and what does his avatar look like? ;)
 
jonbeeza said:
It would be OK to poop on the toilet, but if you pooped on @Cobra, different matter :rolleyes:
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How is life on the edge these days? good?
:p

Nod said:
Change the pink to brown and what does his avatar look like? ;)
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One p***ed off snake that has not used up his quota of suspensions this month :p
 
Vaffanculo

Oh sorry the filter doesn't work with Italian swear words :D
 
Swissy said:
Vaffanculo

Oh sorry the filter doesn't work with Italian swear words :D
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It sounds so much better though. I've heard it many time said to me by a bella, but their pronunciation and the smile makes me melt.
 
You're like a load of bloody kids :p
 
Cobra said:
One p***ed off snake that has not used up his quota of suspensions this month :p
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Go on then, suspend me until the end of THIS month, I dare you, Mr Ploppy!!! ;)
 
This has always been a thing which has boggled my mind too.

Example today, I think on the front of the 'i' newspaper was a picture of a guy carrying a placard which said "frack off". Everyone knows the word alluded to, but the word 'frack' is fine to write. If on the other hand he had used the four letter variant, it would have been f*** with asterisks. Again, we all KNOW what the word is - the only difference is the asterisks rather than the u,c,k letters. So it can only be the shape of the letters which offends us (since we all know what the word itself is)?

I don't have an issue with any collection of letters (since that's all they are), but I remain baffled by why there's a swoon-fest when four letters are shown in a certain order, yet when they are masked it's fine, despite everyone knowing what is meant.

We're a strange lot.
 
Moadib said:
This has always been a thing which has boggled my mind too.

Example today, I think on the front of the 'i' newspaper was a picture of a guy carrying a placard which said "frack off". Everyone knows the word alluded to, but the word 'frack' is fine to write. If on the other hand he had used the four letter variant, it would have been f*** with asterisks. Again, we all KNOW what the word is - the only difference is the asterisks rather than the u,c,k letters. So it can only be the shape of the letters which offends us (since we all know what the word itself is)?

I don't have an issue with any collection of letters (since that's all they are), but I remain baffled by why there's a swoon-fest when four letters are shown in a certain order, yet when they are masked it's fine, despite everyone knowing what is meant.

We're a strange lot.
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I think you are missing the point, it isn't fine to swear and that is why it is here.

Yet in reality people are doing it, a choice can be to full remove which makes little sense, tone it down (hey it had me thwarted the other day) or do full censorship and just block the whole post.

Personally I think the asterisk substitution is a really good way as it shows what an ignorant uneducated c*** the poster is without exposing people fully to their foul mouth.
 
Any silly s0d can swear & make themselves look like an un educated to55er, it's firkin easy!
It doesn't bother me & tbh find some words quite amusing. B0ll0x, is probably my most used. Obviously not acceptable if used to insult/intentionally offend someone though.

I quite like the idea of the `filter` doing away with the asterisks & substituting something amusing/mildly condescending. eg; (The poster of this message is an un educated tit)
 
I'm glad we have a swear filter. I just don't see why anyone has to swear at all. Swearing is a load of old boIIocks. It just makes you look like an arsehoIe.
 
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Moadib said:
This has always been a thing which has boggled my mind too.

Example today, I think on the front of the 'i' newspaper was a picture of a guy carrying a placard which said "frack off". Everyone knows the word alluded to, but the word 'frack' is fine to write. If on the other hand he had used the four letter variant, it would have been f*** with asterisks. Again, we all KNOW what the word is - the only difference is the asterisks rather than the u,c,k letters. So it can only be the shape of the letters which offends us (since we all know what the word itself is)?

I don't have an issue with any collection of letters (since that's all they are), but I remain baffled by why there's a swoon-fest when four letters are shown in a certain order, yet when they are masked it's fine, despite everyone knowing what is meant.

We're a strange lot.
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Rich_Ellis said:
Yeah that is always the excuse trotted out but my kids learned them all at 6 years old as soon as they went to school!
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I never ceased to amaze me how foul mouthed some parents are on the playground whilst waiting for their children...
 
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