I’m appalled that “Belgium” is still allowed.
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I was in one political forum where “Cialis” was filtered out as spam, so if you typed the word “Socialist” your post would disappear, too.
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"I’ve got to be a Hamdinger
So I can swing out in the grooove… "
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Context is everything, it’s only a problem if it’s used gratuitously in a serious screenplay.
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Oh, fiddlesticks…
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I once tried to type Herbie Hancock in a forum and it got censored.
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This.
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How about a bot that converts any swears on the forum block list to ned-flanders swearing…
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“Backsides and drums!
Fritters and beans, and caraway seeds!”
(From a B-list fairy tale. I forget which one.)
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I use “Oh, my stars and garters” a lot.
On another note, happy to see I could mention Roger Corman’s least successful film Cockfight without a problem.
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I was in one where “Dean Koontz” was hardcoded to be a banned word. There was no way to get rid of it without a code change.
It was a horror forum.
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Booby trap
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Is dickweed a swear?
Yes! No!
No! Yes!
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Apparently Discourse agrees that dickweed is not a swear!
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and yet t.e.e.t.s is. Go Figure. (that whole joke is just lost)
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I suppose Rifftrax’s Behavior of Domestic Pigs is right out, with all that talk of parturition and teats.
Flagrant!
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I probably don’t have a real dog in this fight (I’m an adult, I can deal), although, my instinct is “this is a slippery slope.” My first reaction to the forum was … it would be kinda’ cool to follow Joel’s rules for the bots. Sure, we all like a good curse now & then, but the cool thing about MST is that it can still make you laugh without going down that road. Shouldn’t we keep that same environment here?
“Y’know, you two are getting just a little too saucy.”
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For shame! Only a flairndip, p’takh, or veruul would use such language in public.
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That is probably true. There’s always a good old XOR code as well.
Although I don’t find it challenging to maintain the Rule of Joel: in fact, it’s somewhat amusing.
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My heart’s in the same place as yours here. And so far I feel it’s going really well here. A swear here and there is sometimes just what the doctor ordered, but as a whole I think us MSTies inherently know that less is more.
I’ve come to appreciate that RiffTrax beeps the swears in their own riffs – I really think it’s funnier that way. Years ago I bought a Family Guy DVD season, and one of the touted extras was uncensored audio tracks. I gave it a whirl, and it was kinda cool at first just for shock value (no other adult animation was doing such a thing at the time), but it wore thin. Something about the beep punches up the joke and makes it funnier, at least to me.
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