I say we take a non-offensive word and reclaim it.
Like "bunting".
I'm no linguist, but both bunting and the banned word are nouns. Surely it could just be a simply swap?
Mods need a word filter so that words they don't like get automatically changed to something inoffensive upon posting.
Is GAF too mature to have joke filters?
Is GAF mature?
Gash.
edit - oh shit BGBW rip man
Cockney rhyming slang, maybe?
But "fuck" could become "Fun House" or something a little fun rather than "****"
Then again it isn't hard to bypass a filter. For example ********** and Go​Nintendo.
Mr. Sam you speak like a raspberry ripple.
Isn't the current cockney slang for "the word" Jeremy Hunt because of that one mistake on Radio 4?
Well then, chaps.
Law has been laid down and the term "cunt" isn't even permissible in UK-GAF thread anymore.
From now on, we are to refrain from speaking like proper gents and must conform to this fascism.
Female GAF members (hi, Musha!) are allowed to use the word, but ironically only when referring to their own vaginas, which seems to fly in the face of the reason why the word was banned in the first place. Maybe it was a calculated decision to mock our "it doesn't mean vagina" position. One can but wonder.
"Dick", "cock" and "willy" is perfectly fine as always, naturally. They didn't clarify "twat".
I'm going to go pour a drink out for the English language then retire to my bed.
Isn't the current cockney slang for "the word" Jeremy Hunt because of that one mistake on Radio 4?
What Microhunts did to him would make anyone go over the edge, Scar.Man, J Allard has put on a few hasn't he
I had a BBC post rejected because I used 1337 in the post. It was deemed illegible.
The thing it, my post was all about making a post legible because the person I was responding to wrote in txt speak. I used 1337 as an example of how to not make a post so it was quite funny that the moderator completely missed the point (and clearly didn't read the whole post). Basically I said something like "How can you expect anyone to understand you 'if u tipe lk dis'. If I wrote "|\/|y p0575 1|\| 1337' I wouldn't expect you to understand". Yes I was being a right bastard, but I saw it as me doing my little bit to improve our younger generation's English.