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AJB Temple wrote: I find it quite interesting how young people, not especially highly educated by and large, adopt words and phrases. For example, most of them like punctuate their sentences with like.
AJB Temple wrote: The young lady in question is absolutely entitled to her personal reaction to any word and had she calmly explained that she had a bad experience of its usage and so reacted badly to it I would have understood. She was actually offensively accusatory to me but that's OK.
AJB Temple wrote:She was actually offensively accusatory to me but that's OK.
TrimTheKing wrote:The word was not “mysteriously edited”, there is a profanifilter (swear word list) built in and that word is, and has been since the forum’s inception (and I know this because it’s I who built it).
I’m not going to get into an argument about the use of that word, but my sentiments are above in my reply to Andy Kev.
AJB Temple wrote:Today I needed a 22mm bit to fit a pair of recessed magnets. Could not find one so as I was out anyway I popped into one of the DIY sheds. Couldn't find what I was looking for so went to customer services and was served by a female. I said I want a 22mm spade bit please and can't find any single spade bits or even sets, am I looking in the wrong place?
This caused major furore with me being accused of using inappropriate and racist language. Apparently, in the sheds now, a spade bit is a flat point bit. I showed the manager who was called, and was about 11, the wikipedia and screwfix and bosch web links will all said spade bit. I asked if they sold spades for gardening and was told that was different, but they were unable to explain why. Spaten in German.
Anyway, they didn't have one. Screwfix did.
Tiresias wrote:I wonder what would have happened if you asked her for a no. 8 screw?
Andy Kev. wrote:I just added a longish reply to Mark's longish contribution and it vanished into thin air. Is there something we need to know?
Richard wrote:I'm also not interested in a discussion or argument about the word. If it's deemed unacceptable here I accept that and apologise for any offence I may have inadvertently caused.
I have in the past, of course, come up against forum filters for such banned words. Normally they are easily spotted because filtering or asterisking shows up at the preview stage or when the message is posted, at which point it's almost always possible to go back and edit to use an acceptable alternative or to disguise the offending word.
I just found it curious that the word had seemingly been edited overnight, and I noticed the edit some eight or ten hours after posting; I'd done my usual typing, previewing and posting routine as described above and didn't see warning flags. On revisiting the thread maybe a couple of hours later to read new comments the word, I'm 99% sure, remained in unedited or unredacted form. This morning, when I read Andy Kev's new comment I became aware that editing had happened.
The lack of red flags at the posting stage, as far as I was aware, and then the delayed edit was the only reason I said "mysteriously edited". In truth, if I'd noticed warnings about potential unacceptable word use I would probably have abandoned posting altogether because my intention was only to add what I thought was a somewhat interesting aside to the original direction of the thread. So, apologies again if I caused offence. Maybe I should go back to primarily lurking and saying little or nothing. Slainte.
AJB Temple wrote:Mark - that is interesting. It has happened to me many times. This may be coincidence, but I suspect it happens when someone else posts slightly ahead of mine - as if their post blocks another submission briefly. The successful post screen does not always come up but sometimes this is not noticed as after pressing send we tend to move on to something else.
AJB Temple wrote:The debate was of course pointless as no one ever changes their mind once an opinion or behaviour is entrenched.
AJB Temple wrote:Triggered is another word that has very recently entered into a similar arena, where people say they are "triggered" by certain things.
Richard wrote:.....I guess they thought looking up the word in a decent dictionary wasn't necessary. Slainte.
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