Having read all of this , I see how right Graham was to squash the subject last year. Can we return to being a motorcycle club please.
John
John
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Graham Smith
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Thanks for saying this John.
Unfortunately, if I had said it, I would have come in for criticism like I did last time.
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Eddie Saxton
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Censoring swearwords
If bad language is not censored then we shall know who is not capable of writing decent English without swearing. They might then like to reflect on other's probable opinion of them. Things then can only get better.
If bad language is not censored then we shall know who is not capable of writing decent English without swearing. They might then like to reflect on other's probable opinion of them. Things then can only get better.
Britons need protected from themselves? Really?
But Eddie, if we discover that we can do this ourselves, it would lead to a disastrous drop in civil service numbers. We need therefore to be persuaded that "government experts" are necessary to do things for us, because otherwise, they'd be out of a job. Have you thought this through? That income tax might have to fall? MP's being no longer able to claim for moat cleaning to keep it up?
Of course if the question asked implies that a no vote means you approve of foul language, then no big surprise of most votes are for yes. But as a prime mover in all of this, my original question was "do we need an American software program to hunt out the dirty bits of "scrapyard" to protect us from ourselves?". Well, do we? If we do, shame on us.
But Eddie, if we discover that we can do this ourselves, it would lead to a disastrous drop in civil service numbers. We need therefore to be persuaded that "government experts" are necessary to do things for us, because otherwise, they'd be out of a job. Have you thought this through? That income tax might have to fall? MP's being no longer able to claim for moat cleaning to keep it up?
Of course if the question asked implies that a no vote means you approve of foul language, then no big surprise of most votes are for yes. But as a prime mover in all of this, my original question was "do we need an American software program to hunt out the dirty bits of "scrapyard" to protect us from ourselves?". Well, do we? If we do, shame on us.
Just a reminder that Grahams original question was 'certain swear words'.
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Graham Smith
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OK, I think it's clear that democracy has spoken, so we should ban certain words.
How about we just ban the following...
****, ****, ****** and *****?
How about we just ban the following...
****, ****, ****** and *****?
OK, I think it's clear that democracy has spoken, so we should ban certain words.
How about we just ban the following...
****, ****, ****** and *****?
Sounds a ********ing good idea to me.
John
Originally Posted by Graham Smith View Post
OK, I think it's clear that democracy has spoken, so we should ban certain words.
How about we just ban the following...
****, ****, ****** and *****?
Is this a competition to find out what the words are?
peter
OK, I think it's clear that democracy has spoken, so we should ban certain words.
How about we just ban the following...
****, ****, ****** and *****?
Is this a competition to find out what the words are?
peter
I would have prefered to rely on peoples sense of decorum and dignity.OK, I think it's clear that democracy has spoken, so we should ban certain words.
How about we just ban the following...
****, ****, ****** and *****?
the occasional "bloody" or "crap" or on occasions "bastard" may be uttered in my odd post but while there are undoubtedly those apalled by such words they aren't terribly blue to my way of thinking and usually i'm not out to generate shock value with them.
the four letter breeds are best left out in my opinion by the user themself. if like on other forums i frequent you have to consider your words (homonyms for example) before saying that you "pricked your finger with a splinter", then thats a bit sad but i'd hope that won't be an issue here as it's a deal less loud and bawdy than most places. from viewing, the bulk of the threads here are well moderated by the posters anyway. i err to your dicsretion mr smith. vote's in the no category from me.
the four letter breeds are best left out in my opinion by the user themself. if like on other forums i frequent you have to consider your words (homonyms for example) before saying that you "pricked your finger with a splinter", then thats a bit sad but i'd hope that won't be an issue here as it's a deal less loud and bawdy than most places. from viewing, the bulk of the threads here are well moderated by the posters anyway. i err to your dicsretion mr smith. vote's in the no category from me.