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"Please read this, all of you"

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.

Hybrid Valves wrote:
> I'll have a photo of that he he!

Just out of interest... were you giggling like a girl ("hee hee") or wheeze-laughing like a muttley/sweaty-handed-man hybrid ("hey hey")?

Mystique wrote:
> Hybrid Valves wrote:
> Staff powers my friend, i can also see through walls!
> ******
> *Puts on lead bra*
> ;op

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I'll have a photo of that he he!

> Although it started out meaning the same as the 'C' word, the meaning
> changes depending on the context.
>
> Personally, I don't see why people take offence - they are just words,
> after all. Why is the 'C' word taken as any worse than 'v****a'? It
> refers to exactly the same thing.
>
> It's all down to the sound of the words, in my opinion. I mean, if
> someone called you a 'love-making v****a', you'd probably be too busy
> laughing to take offence. But 'effing C' sounds far more agressive,
> even though technically it means the same.


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. Then later applied to men as an insult.

I have been brought up to belive that this word along with the 'C' word are the worse swearwords that you can use, they are Particuly offensive to women, and particularly as they were introduced by men in the first place

Bored now.
ummmmmmmm

Lets. Get. Naked!

Drunk Cow wrote:
> "tries jumping through computor"
>
>
> OUCH!


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Maybe you should perfect your spelling of computer before you try jumping through one?

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> But 'effing C' sounds far more agressive,
> even though technically it means the same.

It's exactly that. F is a hard fricative sound that can be really spat out, and, well, other words just can't be said as aggressively.

However, If everyone embraced these words into common usage, they would become less offensive. The only reason they offend is because there's such a taboo attached to using them. After all what is any word but a random collection of oddly shaped characters?

er-yes wrote:
> I second that notion....


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WITH A VENGENCE!!!

One time I walked through a wall. It looked like a real wall but it was actually made of jelly or something. I passed through it a coupl of times becuase it was really fun. I felt like I had power over the wall.

Take that Newtons law of matter!!


"tries jumping through computor"


OUCH!

er-yes wrote:

> I second that notion and move to strike.

Did you order the code red?

Darkus wrote:
> I agree

I second that notion and move to strike.