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miss_corerupted

aau1 wrote: »

That's probably about to be put to the test...

I'm preparing myself

Savvybuyer

aau1 wrote: »

I think it's safe to say tbw wanted to say "they shot themselves in the foot" but their finger slipped and they inadvertently replaced the "o" in "shot" with an "i"

The site therefore replaced it with !!!! because you're not allowed to use the word they mistakenly typed out

Don't you start!:rotfl: You have my wrath now for using four exclamations:rotfl::rotfl:.

But my point or rather thought was that they said they didn't type that but that they did type it correctly, so it puzzled me as to why it then happened.

We all know however that you only need a couple of extra letters as that's allowed and it's perfectly fine to see the word like that:rotfl:!

Tinyshoes

99p wrote: »

Evening mad squad,

This year I'm running the Christmas dinner gauntlet, I've not bought my turkey yet and I'm playing the waiting game so it could be known as the the Elite Turkey Awaital:D, I've not bought a turkey and will be hoping to get a reduced one tomorrow, I've not seen it mentioned and I don't think there's been a list for a while so I'd like to start the ETA list

ETA CLUB 2015

1. 99p

Feel free to join the club :rotfl: and give any hints or advice

Sorry 99p that's not a list I can join this year, have been very extravagant and had a Christmas dinner box delivered today.

I get far too stressed and if I left everything to the last minute I would start to panic but love hearing the tales of those that are brave enough. Hope you have a few people joining you for tomorrow. :cool:

Tinyshoes

I am nearly caught up and just wanted to say....

Squigs sorry for the loss of your lovely Paddy. :heart2:

QoC :j it's official you are free. :T

Snap wonderful news about your dear dad. :A

Miss corrupted so :mad: for you hun hope it's not as bad as it sounds. x

And are Rosie and Snap on their final countdowns?

Hope I have not missed anything important in my skimming.

I hope FC gets her bike tassles for xmas.

Tinyshoes

I have missed something :eek:,

Sarahdol that is just the most wonderful news to hear for Christmas I am so glad Mr Dol has had the all clear. :T

miss_corerupted

On a lighter note we are getting out puppy tomorrow afternoon. Prepare to have the page stretched with pictures

Sarahdol75

Tinyshoes wrote: »

I have missed something :eek:,

Sarahdol that is just the most wonderful news to hear for Christmas I am so glad Mr Dol has had the all clear. :T

Thankyou, it certainly is xxxxxxx

miss_corerupted wrote: »

On a lighter note we are getting out puppy tomorrow afternoon. Prepare to have the page stretched with pictures

Oh how lovely, cant wait for pictures.

aau1

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Don't you start!:rotfl: You have my wrath now for using four exclamations:rotfl::rotfl:.

But my point or rather thought was that they said they didn't type that but that they did type it correctly, so it puzzled me as to why it then happened.

We all know however that you only need a couple of extra letters as that's allowed and it's perfectly fine to see the word like that:rotfl:!

I don't give a shot

Savvybuyer

miss_corerupted wrote: »

Or is it that you don't like swearing Savvy? I'm not sure now is the unknown?
Sorry if you don't like swearing. We probably shouldn't met up as I swear every other word

:rotfl:No problem.

Don't apologise to me for allegedly not liking swearing though:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::rotfl:! Anyway, you used the "if" apology so that's fine:cool::rotfl:.

I could write a whole book to answer your question actually. I'm not sure people would want all that information, discussion or detail on this thread, so it's not the time.

I've considered this - boy have I considered it - over previous weeks, months and years - and it's been a problem for me throughout my life in certain situations but no problem at all for me in others. Not strictly my entire life. The first time I heard a word and didn't know what it was - I was fine though - the problem arose the second time I heard it: after my parents had made it what it was.

These days I actually like the swearwords, in certain circumstances. They can help break the ice and make an environment informal and friendly. When you are with your friends for example. It can make a place informal and relaxing. I don't like them in other places, in which they cause me offence.

Actually, I don't have any problem with them in normal life. I think I heard four different people swearing today in Morrisons - in fact everyone that ever opened their mouth around me! I quite like it. It's not RL but it's been broadcasting that I have the problem with - and then only ever before 9pm! The creation of the watershed has done, in retrospect, so much damage for me as it's then created an environment in which I then am, potentially, caused offence. People may generally have this problem though - such as those that complained about use of a certain word on Eastenders recently, that must surely hear the same word in normal life or in their home, even where Eastenders itself plays, and yet have no problems with the RL use but instead have a problem when it is broadcast on the TV:huh:. There's nothing magical about 9pm.

So, I don't have any problem with them (Live 8 on daytime television for example did not cause me any offence) and yet in some places I do. I had no problem with Eastenders - I didn't see the actual broadcast but don't think I would have had a problem. My problem with swearing is a more unusual one maybe. I have a problem bringing myself to say any of the words even in situations in which everyone else is doing so (and doing so acceptably to me). Even when I am with close friends, I cannot bring myself to say them. I just find it impossible. I don't like this: this is not the person I am and not who I wish to be. I sound odd and formal, and this is not of choice but is because I physically can't do it. And society's suppression of the words - the fact you are not able to say them out loud in front of the bank cashier for example - compounds this problem for me even more. I wish the whole thing never existed and that the words were never considered swearing or made that or disallowed in the first place. It is a whole illogical concept (because the English language itself is illogical). It has caused me so many problems throughout my life: when people said something decades ago and, depending on who was around, when I felt uncomfortable. Yet it's also been funny and comical (in other situations).

So, I like the words, but obviously don't like them at all in situations in which they make me uncomfortable. My main problem has been when words are hidden: the disguised nature to broadcast material makes me uncomfortable. It's part of the offence that I have in those situations. I never had a problem with bleeping when hearing at home, with my parents. But I once saw a bleeped edition of Big Brother in my hairdressers and felt quite uncomfortable. I actually had clinical depression and eventually diagnosed with Asperger's as a result of being caused offence every single week, over weeks and months on end, in my gym (a place reasonably necessary to attend to carry out normal life activities). I think my inability to swear (even when everyone else is doing so) is an Asperger's thing for me. For most people, swearing is not processed through the part of their mind that considers what they are to say, but, instead, is natural (and suppressing yourself is not). However, for me, I think the words do get processed through the same place. That's why, despite regulatory bodies telling people not to swear, normal people will continue to do so:rotfl::rotfl:. It's now a source of amusement. They actually put up signage in musician's dressing rooms now telling them they are on TV and do not swear! It will not work. Says this wise Asperger. It won't: (a) the normal person won't even see or will ignore such signs, just like they ignore (or appear to have missed or not noticed) speed limit signs on the roads; and (b) they don't process their words through the same part of the brain anyway, so it will continue to happen. Much to my amusement:rotfl::rotfl:.

Only the person with Asperger's will notice signs and only the person with Asperger's will take them seriously and adopt them as a rule. I am the only one that complies with the rule against swearing. So much so, that I physically can't do it (in normal life) and it's not what I wish to be. I do feel I've lost friends due to my inability to swear in the past.

I guess it's been a problem for me, in some places, in the past and the failures at 'censorship' (which doesn't really censor anything) - they can never erase it from a soundtrack of a song as I will always think of it or something at the point in question anyway - just draw more attention to the words and actually are more problematic.

One one occasion, I heard a song in the gym from their own CD rather than their TV or radio, presumably played in error. It was the uncensored album version. I managed - although it wasn't totally neutral - to be okay with it, by pretending that people around me would have missed it and that it was a mild word and people around me would not have heard it in the song and that it was "just like a film" (films at the cinema have never caused me offence*). I had the radio version of that song played and it caused me extreme offence. In fact, that's caught me on four occasions, and all four of them (three of them at home when my father was also in the room) have caused me offence.

So, the Scissor Sisters "Filthy Gorgeous" album version - not neutral, but ulitimately, inoffensive. Scissor Sisters "Filthy Gorgeous" radio edit - grossly offensive (when heard whenever other people apart from my brother of same gender and similar age are around me).

That's not my opinion: it's based on the actual physical impact that things have had on me or not in certain situations. Judged on that, yes, I find the album version inoffensive but the radio version is the problematic one and is offensive.

I have a problem with radio versions. The disguised nature to them, which really hides nothing, when they do not use bleeping but use a different method, makes me extremely uncomfortable/annoyed on top etc. I am okay with bleeping when it is at home but not in public places with strangers. Unless I am entirely alone or listening on headphones, I am not okay with other forms of so-called censorship, such as blanking, reversing etc. (the latter is the worst of the lot - sounds too close to the words for comfort, I didn't realise it was reversed until much more recently but, anyway, now, is totally ineffective since it is too associated with what it means and 'everyone else will know' (to my discomfort)).

Put short (or probably not:rotfl:), the radio version of the song made the first altered word sound like a very unpleasant version of itself - it sounded too close to the word and just added an abrasive element to it, it drew attention to itself, I was extremely unhappy to have the word with myself - in my mind - via that method of communication - felt uncomfortable because of its 'disguised' nature, felt that everyone around me could not possibly not have noticed it, looked around, felt they would know it, felt extremely uncomfortable, the abrasive sound to the material further annoyed me whilst I was already having to deal with the language - real horrible it was, worse than anything could practically ever say it - and then the second word came across later from a gaping hole in the soundtrack that stood out from the soundtrack, announced itself clearly, I looked around, wasn't sure if everyone around me was okay with the language, felt so uncomfortable, and was forced because of it to leave the room and go home, my legs physically shaking. In the uncensored version, which I heard later, which turned out to be the exact word that automatically came across in my mind at the point in the radio version at which technically there is absolutely no sound at all of the word present, in the uncensored original it sounded extremely indistinct, I could hardly make out what it was, even though I knew, I pretended, to my comfort, that it was a different word instead, which it sounded rather like (which isn't swearing) and I stayed at the gym for another hour afterwards. The radio version however, I heard two weeks before (had never heard the original then in my life so not possibly have got it from elsewhere), made the language entirely clear and explicit, beyond any doubt, and completely impossible to pretend it meant anything else. It was also like telling everyone around me "This is offensive" and, doing that whilst broadcasting the word to me via that mechanism, it, therefore, caused me offence.
I do not wish to know that the material is offensive and do not wish to know of the word via that method:mad::mad:.

*Except one: I lie, as I did have one film, that contained a short sequence of bleeping, cause me serious offence. I was then upset for the entire rest of the film (one and a half hours). I lost all context of the film and didn't think of anything but the word that had been bleeped. No-one, of course, noticed my upset (as my body language does not tell anyone) - after the film, I didn't want to speak to anyone and, clearly, then they knew - and it took them some time as I did not want to discuss at all what had upset me.

miss_corerupted

I'm going to be naughty and tell DS it's his Xmas present lol

Hopefully he won't think he's getting anything else and go to sleep at a proper time