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Hi, this is Ali, back from my holiday and a bit worried about the state of the forums. There's been a few bannings, of which a few of you are upset about, but a few ground rules need to be set.

Swearing, in any form is not allowed. This is a family forum (believe it or not) and we don't want young people coming on here reading foul language, or indeed, parents coming on here and seeing the kind of language that some of you post. The swear filter is there for a reason, and that's not for you to try and beat it with s p a c e s or 'quote marks'. If we find any swearing, of any kind, it'll be deleted, and you may be banned.

Being offensive to one another is something we will also not tolerate. As you all know, someone was banned last week (in my absence, I might add) for calling someone a dirty homo, or something like that. This just ain't acceptable I'm afraid. Just as bad is topics like the one saying things like 'so and so likes hairy men' - it might have been a joke, but some people don't have the same sense of humour as you, and din't find it funny. We're not saying stop having fun, but topics like that serve only to annoy.

Some people have accused us of favouritism in the past ie. certain people get away with saying stuff without a warning, and some don't. From now on, there'll be no swearing at all, BY ANYBODY on the site, whether you've been here a day or 3 years. Posts with swearing or offensive writing in them will be deleted, and depending on the severity of the post, will be warned/banned. This means everyone.

This shouldn't be hard to do, the vast majority of you are adults, or at least are mature enough to behave like civilised people. These are our forums, and you'll post on here by our rules, whether you like it or not. If anyone has any problems with this, let me know, but I'd like this to be a new start for these forums, with no stupid slanging matches between users, no *starring out* offensive posts and no deliberately getting people annoyed. If you've got something you wanna get out of your system, do it someplace else.

I hope you can all agree to these rules.

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> True. I mean, just take 'bastid' (deliberately mis-spelt). It is a
> perfectly legitimate word with a properly defined and non-offensive
> meaning, yet for some obscure reason has always been considered
> swearing.


I'm sure you know what the dictionary def. of bastid* is. In times gone by, being a bastid* was tantamount to being the lowest form of scum imaginable.

Hence, an accusation of being a bastid* was not one that was taken lightly.



*not actually spelt this way

Mystique wrote:
> Rosalind wrote:
> No comment from Mr. Snuggly yet
> *****
> You're probably going to have better luck getting a responce from him
> in the thread he did in life or movies...this one has just turned into
> a farse.
> You could email him but I don't know if that will annoy him even more
> or not.
>
> *Feels guilty*

I think I've made a nuicence of myself. I just happen to feel strongly over this one. I usually keep out of things like this, now look what I've done arrrrg.

*Ros gets off her high horse*

Rosalind wrote:
> I think I've made a nuicence of myself. I just happen to feel
> strongly over this one. I usually keep out of things like this, now
> look what I've done arrrrg.
>
> *Ros gets off her high horse*
******

I wouldn't worry about making a nuicence of yourself, least you do it over something you feel stongly over.

BTW, thats a very nice horse you have.

Has a topic ever had this many replies in so little time?!

Mystique wrote:

> You're probably going to have better luck getting a responce from him
> in the thread he did in life or movies...this one has just turned into
> a farse.
> You could email him but I don't know if that will annoy him even more
> or not.
>

I don't really want to move my objections to a different thread because that would just cause more trouble but I would like an answer from Mr. Snuggly.

Rosalind wrote:
> No comment from Mr. Snuggly yet

Sorry, pretty busy. His name has actually been changed, to Scouse Twit of all things. But like I said, don't lets get all Sunday school about this, and start reporting people for saying things like 'boobs' or 'poo-poo'. We're all adults, and as such, we can chat in a mature fashion.

Rosalind wrote:
> I see your point, but what you have to keep in mind is that this is a
> word coined by men to be a crude (derogatory) word for the female
> genitalia.

But meanings for words change over time. 'Cool' and 'bad' for example.


> they are Particuly offensive to women, and particularly as they were
> introduced by men in the first place

But it is *just* a word? How can it harm anyone? Supposing things were different and it was the official term for female genitalia? No-one would bat an eyelid.

When I first heard the term 'coccyx' as a kid, I assumed it was a swearword, but it's not - and to me it sounds more vulgar.

Mr Ripper wrote:
> dctionary.com's idea of tw@t:
>
> 1) Vulgar Slang. The vulva.
> 2) Offensive & Vulgar Slang. A woman or girl
>
> So, it's either a vulgar way of referring to female genetalia, or a
> vulgar and offensive insult.
>
> A word like that has no place on a family forum.


I have never understood it to mean 'woman' or 'girl'!

As I said earlier, though - it is just a word that someone made up on the spur of the moment as an insult. When I was at school, I'd never even heard of it. The term then was 'p***y', among a few others. The T-word is fairly recent.

And who decides it's 'vulgar' anyway? It's just a word!

I'm not saying they should be allowed here, because I don't think they should - I'm just saying I don't know why people take offence to simple words.

I do swear myself quite frequently, but never on here. Many of my friends also swear, and when we're in a group we're always swearing at each other using all of these words. Do we take offence? No. Because they're just words. We don't think it's big or clever, it's just the way we speak.

But we don't swear in public or shout it out in the streets, simply because we know that people find it offensive - even if we don't understand why - and we respect other people.

I hear kids outside my house yelling out these words, and it does shock me - not because it offends me, but because they seem to have no self-respect. I knew many of these words as a kid, but never yelled them at people. It's largely a question of self-respect and respect for others, neither of which many of the kids today seem to have.

Mr.Snuggly wrote:
'boobs' 'poo-poo'.


*

OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMAH!

Mr. Snuggly wrote:
> Sorry, pretty busy.

I saw you post in the other forums ;)

His name has actually been changed, to Scouse
> Twit of all things.

Thanks

But like I said, don't lets get all Sunday school
> about this, and start reporting people for saying things like 'boobs'
> or 'poo-poo'.

I don't think you can call me sunday school for complaining about that word.

We're all adults, and as such, we can chat in a mature
> fashion.


I hope that you don't think that I was immature about this. I tried not to be. Thats why I have kept my objections to this thread