Who mentioned swear words?
YOU maybe an adult this forum is open and others may not be.
THAT was my point from minute 1 you all just got so up in arms at the injustice of it all that you seemed to miss that point, Also as others have noticed the fact that swearing isn't happening has given the board a nicer feel even if you dont want to admit it.

It does mate,its just that its a bit quite on there.

I've got something similar from Barclays, I resisted as long as possible. Takes about ten minutes to get in to my account now, would probably be quicker and easier to just go and rob them.

I do miss a bit of swearing, as I like a bit of swearing, I rarely swore in anger, just more to emphasise a point or just to be silly.

I think you're probably right that the board does have a less antagonistic feel to it, so, well done on the pogrom.

Ah, that.

No, it's "black and white" who claims to be a chemistry teacher even though he's 65 and can't string a coherent sentence together. I doubt if he's any of the things he says he is - least of all a Hull fan - so asked him the question about the periodic table groups. He never replied, needless to say, despite my pressing him for an answer on several occasions.

Nowt to do with English, though. The atomic numbers within the groups can be equated into musical chords of the most perfect harmonies, apparently, according to my chemistry teacher at school. Not rehed, though, this is the first time I've ever tried to explain it, not very well, probably. I do love the English language and am an appalling snob about the "right" words as opposed to imported ones (grass is "correct", lawn isn't, well done pmh), but veered towards the sciences and engineering in education.

Am fond of scrabble. Xi is a good word. Read a good sci-fi story the other night called "The Xi Effect" which told of how the universe is shrinking, not expanding. People only became aware of this when the colours changed and eventually the world became dark. The universe had shrunk to be smaller than the shortest wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum. Scary story.

It's terrible, I got a letter that read "please find attached your new securekey... ...you [imay[/i opt out but will then have to do your banking either in the branch or by telephone". There was nothing wrong (in my eyes) with the "please enter the fourth digit of your security code".

I've just managed to put my first screen protector on my phone with no bubbles, Go me! Seems to make the touch slightly less responsive though.

Anyone see this as anything other than a square - 

No. Donkey iphones.

I didn't mean the chemistry part was rehed, I meant your rant regarding the English language and use of words, like above.

I had an English teacher with a similar passion. He once made me teachers pet for choosing the word "Jalopy" in a little assessment about our favourite words, was a random dictionary stop and not the favourite word I'd claimed it to be, the first attempt at a random word returned "Sputnik", didn't want to write about that, though.

You really have never heard of the expression "tongue in cheek", have you?





MY point is it's not the swearing It's your inconsistent, schoolmasterish policing of the policy when most other mods tolerate or even manipulate the swear-filter themselves that gets people's backs up.

Take YOUR overbearing finger-wagging away and you'll still find that we all, whatever age, are capable of being civilised...

...THAT is the reason there is a nice feel to the thread, 'cos we've got to know each other a bit, nothing to do with not swearing, so don't flatter yourself.

I am very worried about this "rotary drier" trend that has suddenly materialized. NO NO NO. Horrid suburban things. The only thing that should be pushed into the grass is the Swingball set. Washing lines every time, please.

I love "Jeep". Just Enough Essential Parts - so succinct. I prefer Landrovers, though.

In America, they do something funny with quotation and punctuation marks. I've always put punctuation outside of quotation rightly so, I was dumbfounded when my new copy of word underlined it in green and suggested I change it.
"some text here". - My way.
"some more text here." - American way.
Odd, aren't they. All was well once I adjusted the language.

I have the support of the mods on this board over this and I have been consistant.
What other mods do on other boards is up to them.

Strange that the change in feel on this board happened at a similar time then eh!

Your reply all in all isn't very suprising

Oh and just for WiH.
Here is the first part of the AUP just for you.

1. Prohibited Content

1.1. Messages that contain a level of profanity or sexual content that exceeds the moderator's definition of acceptable are prohibited.
* In practice this means content that would not be allowed on television before the 9pm watershed is unacceptable on this site.
* This applies not only to content posted directly on the site but also to websites addresses that link directly to such material.

If you dont like that you can put in a complaint to Admin.

You're [istill[/i missing the point. I'm not bothered about swearing. Read my posts. I don't generally feel the need. This isn't about swearing, it's about you being bossy. People don't like feeling they have to dodge the blackboard rubber when they post.

It causes resentment and an inevitable backlash of childish behaviour. It makes you [iwant[/i to swear so you can trump the strict headmaster. (Look [iI[/i did it then. I could have said "triumph over" but I said "trump" instead because it sounds a bit rude and you bring out the badness in me

. )

Rueful shake of head.

No I completly get YOUR point.
YOU don't like the fact YOU can't do what YOU want and so YOU are having a paddy over it.
I am sick of giving you far more latitude than I would normally give out when you complain about mod issues.

This swearing business,maybe we should take a leaf out of Lister`s book,and say "smeg."

I would love for folks to think outside the box like that.

Is this box you refer to a sci-fi thingy then

But I've already said, I don't [iwant [/ito swear. AAArgh!!



(Sigh) Can we go back to George Lucas?

No that was the Borg

I have a whole array of Farscape sweariness I could start using if you like. One of the few series to bother inventing alien profanity.

Don't need them I am happy with prat & bugger..RW allows those 2

....I can use the special one's on our board