When I was teaching I tried to explain to the kids, who in their general conversations swore at least once a sentence, how swear words lost their effect of used all the time. Of course they looked at me glassy eyed. I then went into a diatribe using several expletives for two or three minutes. Jaws dropped and I even got a few On I see what you mean now at the end of the lesson.I don't swear, never swore at work I've worked there for over 30 years, or home, my work colleagues swear all the time, I just chose not to, it doesn't offend me one bit, it would if it were aimed at me but not in normal conversation
I don't understand why people would want to swear all the time, infront of people, on here, but each to their own
Personally I find it offensive to be censored, as a proper Teeside engineer for 40 years why wouldn’t i speak on here as I would at work. All adults and all purveyors of the Teesside language.
Since i also speak Spanish and have dual keyboards it’s easy to f*** over the rules, but I’d rather not, I’d rather be treated as an adult.
Personally I find it offensive to be censored, as a proper Teeside engineer for 40 years why wouldn’t i speak on here as I would at work. All adults and all purveyors of the Teesside language
What has been a proper Teesside engineer for over 40 years got to do with anything & if you carried out a HAZOP meeting in a room full from operators to managemnet, why would you want to use swear words
When selling the fanzine outside matches I noticed dad's giving the fanzine to their kids like a comic. There were never many swear words in the fanzine anyway but I decided to use an asterix from then on. Almost always.
I suppose that is the benefit of selling as well as editing you can get to see the readers. With the website I wanted to be as inclusive as possible really and why not make it follow the fanzine ways/methods?
But also google are exceptionally strict. We were the first football message board to be allowed to sign up thanks to the recommendation of a mate and Boro fan. But their robots trawl back through past pages. And they look for words that are deemed profanity in US. They might not be so bad here.
I have had to go back and edit really daft words before from 5 years in the past.
Hopefully, they are not so strict now but am not going to experiment
Once you are kicked out it is very hard to get back in and they are almost bigger than all other online advertisers added together.
Remember being in a plant control room with a German engineer when someone returned to report on a problem ............... "the f**king f**kers f**ked" he declared. The German looked at me and asked "what would be the English language without the word f**k?"Personally I find it offensive to be censored, as a proper Teeside engineer for 40 years why wouldn’t i speak on here as I would at work. All adults and all purveyors of the Teesside language.
Since i also speak Spanish and have dual keyboards it’s easy to f*** over the rules, but I’d rather not, I’d rather be treated as an adult.
It is inevitable sadly. But I already had a swear filter installed because I wanted the message board to mirror values of the fanzine - and from selling the fanzine I know there are many young people that read both. In some cases very young indeed. I would therefore feel I was irresponsible to allow swearing.That started off well Rob but I think it's a sad sign of the times that you have to doff your cap to corporate giants like google.
It's your site, not theirs.
It is inevitable sadly. But I already had a swear filter installed because I wanted the message board to mirror values of the fanzine - and from selling the fanzine I know there are many young people that read both. In some cases very young indeed. I would therefore feel I was irresponsible to allow swearing.
That's a great quote, heard that many times & always brings a smile to my face, as I mentioned I don't swear & it doesn't offend meRemember being in a plant control room with a German engineer when someone returned to report on a problem ............... "the f**king f**kers f**ked" he declared. The German looked at me and asked "what would be the English language without the word f**k?"
Massive fail on my part there, ****!that's more offensive than calling me a F***ing ******