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  • gromituk
    gromituk Posts: 3,087 Forumite
    Come on now. Whoever has written naive routines to censor what is written on here has surely heard of a town in Lincolnshire called S****horpe - the asterisks are not mine!!

    And a **** is a male hen, you know. And when you do things wrong you make a **** up - that is a c-o-c-k up, not a somethingelse-up, which could indeed be unacceptable language.

    This is the silliness I have discovered so far, but I'm sure there are other examples. Are the site operators really so worried about depravity that they have to over-react in this way? In the latter case, I can imagine that people presumed I was using, or implying, the f-word. I was doing neither.

    If you have to censor people's postings, you should at least warn them about it when it happens.
    Time is an illusion - lunch time doubly so.
  • sra
    sra Posts: 4,676 Forumite
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    gromituk - just merged your thread straight into this one

    my personaly fav is walle****ch :D
  • gromituk
    gromituk Posts: 3,087 Forumite
    Thanks for that - sorry I didn't spot the other one.

    Where does this list come from? The US? In this country, c-o-c-k is usually not a rude word. And blocking only full words wouldn't solve that one.
    Time is an illusion - lunch time doubly so.
  • Gromit - before you jump in with both feet to criticise those who have "written naive routines to censor what is written on here" , you would do well to learn a little bit about vBulletin Administration functions and the limitations of the supplied word blocker, or at least to read the copy of the instructions provided above. The vBulletin software that these boards run on has its limitations, such as not having the functionality to allow Administrators the luxury of " If you have to censor people's postings, you should at least warn them about it when it happens."

    Of course, I am sure you could come up with the code to add the functionality you require??? ;)
  • Hmm - What about placenames? (Links are to MapQuest of the places concerned:

    S****horpe

    Peniston

    Hmm - having previewed that, it only got one of them ;)

    "I went to S****horpe to watch Alladin and Widow T****y, and couldn't stop s******ing all the way through..."

    Silly blockers. :)


    reading through this thread, I made a connection. :cool:

    You clearly need good Penistone to become a clithero!

    (Spelling mistake is deliberate in this case).
    Just for one moment, thought I'd found my way.
  • Martini
    Martini Posts: 607 Forumite
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    My cousin (hello Sue) lives in Penistone and has a photo of the Post office after someone nicked the T out of the name (no not the word post). :)
    Keep Smiling
    :) Site member number 24 :)
  • charlotte3
    charlotte3 Posts: 625 Forumite
    reading through this thread, I made a connection. :cool:

    You clearly need good Penistone to become a clithero!

    (Spelling mistake is deliberate in this case).

    I think this website has the top award for best title!!!

    www.penisland.net

    (It's not what you think by the way!!);)
    Sexkitten

    Good things come to those who wait......... but the best will be taken by those who got there first ;)


  • MSE_Martin
    MSE_Martin Posts: 8,272 Money Saving Expert
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    I have just changed it so that walletwatch and scunthorpe and a few other equivalents should now be fine
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  • Paul_Herring
    Paul_Herring Posts: 7,482 Forumite
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    MSE_Martin wrote:
    I have just changed it so that walletwatch and scunthorpe and a few other equivalents should now be fine
    Spoilsport :D
    Conjugating the verb 'to be":
    -o I am humble -o You are attention seeking -o She is Nadine Dorries
  • Marigold123
    Marigold123 Posts: 1,164 Forumite
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    I know I've posted this before, but it cracks me up. On the Marks and Spencer jan sales thread there was a blouse called the !!!!!bow, which of course you could never post without asterisks. It would never OCCURRED to me to think of it in those terms! Scunthorpe and Weightwatchers were my favourites though. :p

    The new smilies are cute, BTW. :j :beer:

    You have included too many images in your signature or in your previous post. Please go back and correct the problem and then continue again. *weightwatchers* ;)
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