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  • aau1
    aau1 Posts: 19,401 Forumite
    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    Bet we're gonna be saddled with horse puns the rest of the night:o

    neigh, we won't
    Apparently, everybody knows that the bird is [strike]the word[/strike] a moorhen
  • Busylizzie
    Busylizzie Posts: 2,988 Forumite
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    poppypopster wrote: »
    just got my 5th amazon £20 voucher today from thesun, I do enjoy taking money of these people.. anyone got a new link to a £20 amazon voucher?

    Did it arrive by email? TIA :)
  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,084 Forumite
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    Thriftygifty wrote: »
    I think in my head I thought it would be like River Cottage all happy and yummy food and trendy chilled happy people. Nope!! Some are friendly the others seem a bit above themselves. I think the world of competative veg growing would be an eye opener!

    You just need to look at the sunflower growers on here for that :eek:
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
  • Savvybuyer
    Savvybuyer Posts: 22,332 Forumite
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    edited 29 July 2014 at 10:13PM
    Thriftygifty wrote: »
    You are correct! I wasnt sure if I was allowed to use that word on the forum. My mind is too clean to know the other words that you thought of before coming to that conclusion :D. P****?!?! how?! :rotfl:

    :rotfl::rotfl:

    That had better be merely a cat, as I can't think of anything else it could be. Plural of a racist word? Oh dear:(:rotfl::rotfl:.

    I think I just post them and then see if they turn to exclamations. I've no idea if any record is kept or any trigger:D flagged for when people attempt to post something that trips the 'filter'. If they turn to exclamations, I then go back and edit so as to use a different word. Then again, I'm very often using different words. (If I end up using asterisks, as a very rarity, it's because no other word would have done and anything else would have failed to explain the matter properly. I wouldn't ever use it in an abusive directed context, asterisks or not.) I like stuff that doesn't trip the filter, if it does then I replace it with something that doesn't (and without trying to get around it, for example, posting spaces in between).

    If the exclamation replacements do trigger an auto-alert to the Forum Team, then I posted a racist word earlier today - though it was in context, in the context of the discussion of offensive language - I decided not to go back and change the exclamations that resulted there as I felt anything else would not be correct.

    Alternatively, of course I remember:eek: every word that does get through and what doesn't, so I avoid problems that way!
  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,084 Forumite
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    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    Bet we're gonna be saddled with horse puns the rest of the night:o

    I know, what a mare! :o
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
  • lookinforabargain
    lookinforabargain Posts: 9,032 Forumite
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    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    Bet we're gonna be saddled with horse puns the rest of the night:o

    Some may think it's a bit lame, but it's a good way to harness creativity.
    ...those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

    PRIDE

    There's a fork in the road, which way will you go
    You standing still or will you step into the great unknown,
    Is yours to decide, this is your life.
  • TrulyMadly
    TrulyMadly Posts: 39,754 Forumite
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    savvy_sal wrote: »
    Check out the meat please savvy.

    Don't forget the prawns for Mary Poppins and bubbs
    To do is to be. Rousseau
    To be is to do. Sartre
    Do be do be do. Sinatra
  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,084 Forumite
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    Come on TM, give us another to spur us on ;)
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,084 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    Im sorry, but I just had to post this, soooo funny (sorry David.)

    pretty-prancing-pony-266x500.jpg
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
  • fairclaire
    fairclaire Posts: 22,698 Forumite
    Don't want to stirrup too many emotions
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