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Thread Author: Iffy	Replies: 39

New Sat 15 Jan 11 14:58   Another word deemed offensive - Iffy

Following on from the Dire Straits/faggot thread, another word has fallen foul of the word police. tinyurl.com/6k5arbh I'm as easily offended as anybody, but 'panties'? Surely not. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 15:02   Another word deemed offensive - Ian (Cape Town)

"It is PC gone mad" I say, in my Meldrew voice! Recall that Korean chappie who offed all the kids at Virginia Tech a few years back? Bizarre. We are allowed to know that he had tooled up and blown a lot of kids away BUT we weren't allowed to hear him say F*** and S*** on the video he'd amde before doing so! So... offing people is offensive, we can report that. In gory detail. BUT saying F*** is an absolute no-no... in case it offends somebodt! Oh. Life imitates Art. Fry and Lawrie did a thing ~20 years ago, where the Countdown conundrum was "Sloblock". Last edited by: Ian (Cape Town) on Sat 15 Jan 11 at 15:04 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 15:11   Another word deemed offensive - L'escargot

>> "It is PC gone mad" I say, My PC often goes mad when I press the wrong keys. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 15:14   Another word deemed offensive - Iffy

...My PC often goes mad when I press the wrong keys... There's a few PCs on here who go mad if you question any of their posts. :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 16:35   Another word deemed offensive - Armel Coussine

I am still grumbling a bit over censorship of the word 'b****iness' when I used it last week, while the word 'b****' was not molested in another thread. One law for the polemicist and another for the dog lover if you ask me... Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 16:37   Another word deemed offensive - Pat

AC, can you just do one post without a word in it that I have to Google please:) Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 16:38   Another word deemed offensive - Armel Coussine

I see though that this happens automatically as in the other place. Did the dog lover get it reinstated by dint of special pleading? I think we should be told. :o} Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 16:41   Another word deemed offensive - Zero

I dont think b**** ( b i t c h) is rude, offensive or any form of swear word. It should be removed form the swear filter. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 16:45   Another word deemed offensive - Pat

It's quite easy to do......I've removed a lot on our forums and although the other trustees were against it, I waited a few days and they haven't even noticed yet! That was two years ago:) We also have the facility to have the offendin word replaced with a different one. We had a vote on this among the members and they asked for SAUSAGES So a post will now read I've had a sausages bad day today. Pat Last edited by: pda on Sat 15 Jan 11 at 16:47 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 17:47   Another word deemed offensive - Stuartli

>>I dont think b**** ( b i t c h) is rude, offensive or any form of swear word.>> It's not what you say, but the way you say it, and that applies equally to this word. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 18:07   Another word deemed offensive - Ian (Cape Town)

>> >>I dont think b**** ( b i t c h) is rude, offensive or any >> form of swear word.>> >> >> It's not what you say, but the way you say it, and that applies equally >> to this word. >> Are not most perceived swearwords the same? You silly b*****... Last edited by: Ian (Cape Town) on Sat 15 Jan 11 at 18:08 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 16:48   Another word deemed offensive - Ted

I remember some years ago when one contestant came up with W*nkers. The other guy got it too and just said ' We're a pair of w*nkers ' It wasn't edited out, the word was legit and no-one bothered. I'm going to need more tissues to dribble into, if Rachel and panties come up in the same sentence ! I can't see why the swear filter here doesn't like the word used when evacuating wind from the lower bowel ! Surely no-one's offended these days . Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 17:03   Another word deemed offensive - Focusless

>> Following on from the Dire Straits/faggot thread, another word has fallen foul of the word >> police. Well... 'Numbers girl Rachel Riley was left blushing and host Jeff Stelling was left smiling as the rude word was produced yesterday.' 'Viewers sat with bated breath waiting to see what the two contestants would go for - and were stunned when the naughty word popped up.' So not quite the end of civilisation as we know it :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 18:03   Another word deemed offensive - BiggerBadderDave

"I'm as easily offended as anybody, but 'panties'?" I'm not normally offended but would prefer "panties" to be removed swiftly in this case. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 18:10   Another word deemed offensive - Ted

There goes the thread !!! Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 18:20   Another word deemed offensive - Bigtee

It's hard work should we want to talk tools i have a fine collection of Bas***d (fatherless) files in my garage. A (b i t c h ) is a female dog is it not? Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 18:32   Another word deemed offensive - Armel Coussine

THE GLASS OF BEER The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there Nearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass of beer: May the devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair And beat bad manners out of her skin for a year. That parboiled imp, with the hardest jaw you will ever see On virtue's path, and a voice that would rasp the dead, Came roaring and raging the minute she looked at me, And threw me out of the house on the back of my head. If I asked her master he'd give me a cask a day; But she with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange! May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten and may The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange. Some brilliant Irish chap. Chapeau! Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Sat 15 Jan 11 at 18:34 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 18:45   Another word deemed offensive - Armel Coussine

>> Some brilliant Irish chap. Chapeau! James Stevens, 1882-1950. Apologies to the shade of a great polemicist. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 19:25   Another word deemed offensive - Stuartli

>>A (b i t c h ) is a female dog is it not?>> Several meanings. See: dictionary.reference.com/browse/b**** (just add the obvious missing letters; section three is the one that applies in this instance in the case of being offensive as I would know it). Last edited by: Stuartli on Sat 15 Jan 11 at 19:27 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 22:28   Another word deemed offensive - R.P.

The swear filter here is a "Legacy" of the Backroom, we'll sweep it out one day come the re-fit. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 15 Jan 11 23:04   Another word deemed offensive - Bromptonaut

Panties? offensive? Might get a giggle but even my Granny would have used the word. She's have been mortified to know the King used all those words in overcoming his stammer!!!! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:21   Another word deemed offensive - Chris S

Who exactly decides what is 'politically correct' or not? Are they accountable to anybody? Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:24   Another word deemed offensive - Tooslow

.********* John Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:27   Another word deemed offensive - Tooslow

!!! All I did was report what the guy at Sea Life World in Hawaii asked for! :-) He wanted people to (ahem) "throw" fish to the seals. So he wanted "throwers". Well not exactly. Am I being too obtuse in my efforts to circumnavigate the swear filter? Obviously I should have complained about him but SWMBO and I decided to settle for a good giggle instead. John Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:29   Another word deemed offensive - paulb

If it's a word beginning with "toss", I fell foul of it earlier. I don't know who the delicate little flowers are who get offended by words like that, but maybe they should stick to Sunday school and WI meetings, and leave the real world to the rest of us. Last edited by: paulb on Sun 16 Jan 11 at 16:29 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:32   Another word deemed offensive - Iffy

...If it's a word beginning with "toss", I fell foul of it earlier... paul, I thought your earlier word began with a 'w' - and I was surprised you wanted to use it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:38   Another word deemed offensive - paulb

>> I thought your earlier word began with a 'w' - and I was surprised you >> wanted to use it. >> Well, no, and this is why I got so grumpy about being denied the use of it. Besides, the common assumed meaning of it is incorrect - doesn't refer to disciples of Onan, but to dipsomaniacs. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:30   Another word deemed offensive - Iffy

...Am I being too obtuse in my efforts to circumnavigate the swear filter?... Yes. Throw, chuck, lob, sling, ah, toss, is that it? Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:34   Another word deemed offensive - Tooslow

Paul got it. I think you're being coy Iffy. But I won't carp. John Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:45   Another word deemed offensive - Ted

If you have a copy of Hell is a City, filmed in 1959, illegal gambling features strongly in the form of tossing schools on the moors above Oldham. Often raided after a tip off...The tosseur threw a couple of old pennies in the air and bets would be taken on the heads or tails result. Nothing vulgar, crude or non-PC about that ! Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:53   Another word deemed offensive - R.P.

as I said earlier the swear filter will be re-visited at some point. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:55   Another word deemed offensive - Runfer D'Hills

About ****** time. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:57   Another word deemed offensive - R.P.

Oh yes remember to remove Espace from it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 16:59   Another word deemed offensive - Runfer D'Hills

Now that was below the belt. Nurse !!! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jan 11 17:05   Another word deemed offensive - Zero

wouldn't fix that with a red elastic band could we humph. ( I love the feel of a knife being twisted) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 17 Jan 11 12:48   Another word deemed offensive - L'escargot

>> Who exactly decides what is 'politically correct' or not? I don't even understand why the word "politically" is used in that phrase/description. Where does politics come into it? Wouldn't "socially acceptable" be a more understandable phrase? Last edited by: L'escargot on Mon 17 Jan 11 at 12:49 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 17 Jan 11 13:12   Another word deemed offensive - Cliff Pope

>> Where does politics come into it? >> It doesn't. The word comes from "politic", not "politics". Politic means something that is expedient and acceptable to the intended audience. Politics is the business of pedalling expediency on a big scale. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 17 Jan 11 14:58   Another word deemed offensive - Tooslow

peddling. Sorry. Couldn't resist. :-) John Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 17 Jan 11 15:09   Another word deemed offensive - Clk Sec

Pedantic posts on the forum seem to be acceptable, as long as they're accompanied by an apology. .....And a smile. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 17 Jan 11 15:49   Another word deemed offensive - Cliff Pope

I'm sorry too :-) Last edited by: Cliff Pope on Mon 17 Jan 11 at 15:50 Reply to this message | Report message