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Well further down the hill we slide
Posted Nov 7, 2006
This was going to be a journal about the sexy gay doctor in Doctors and just how sexy he is and yet his boyfriend looks like a gimp. However it's not going to be that. Instead it's going to be about this site.
In the last few months, or maybe even the past year, this place has turned to sh..poo and it seemed to have, as a major contributing factor, a bbc policy seriously affecting our right, as protected by European law, to freedom of expression. I used to be proud to be a member here, but now I'm feeling less pride and more antipathy.
Friends have left because they can't be bothered with it anymore, friends have left because they've been forced out by those in charge, friends have left because they've fallen out with other people, friends have left because they've been made to feel unwelcome by people who should know better and friends have left because People who joined following the BBCs advertising campaign for the place have been nasty, rude, abusive, just plain anti-social.
I have a short story on here, which I wrote for a college course, which contains a reimagining, credited to the original source, of a scene from a Mel Brooks film. It had that in as when I wrote it I was on limited time and I needed something to do what that scene did. Anyway I recently rewrote it to remove that scene and when I tried to update it on here the stupid profanity filter blocked me from reposting after I'd finished editing it.
This profanity filter has also upset some friends of mine because it, alledgedly, not only blocks posts which it doesn't like, but also trawls the site looking for anything which could be a rude word and then yikesing that post. Now I'm sorry, but surely the whole point of the yikes button is that if someone sees something which they find offensive they can use it to complain, so why on God's green one is there any need for the profanity filter in the first place? Especially one which so helpfully points out that your post/article may contain a word/words which someone else may find offensive. Yes, but which words? I mean come off it, any word could be deemed to be offensive to someone, personally I don't like the word kumquat...or persephone.
I've been a member of this site for quite a while now, this is my second account as I hardly used my first one and forgot the login details a long time ago....y2k I think, or maybe 1999. Anyway in those many years this site has had a profanity filter for naught but a handful of months and yet shockingly civilisation did not fall, people did not go around constantly hurling abuse at one another and people did not take the parent company to court because their mother fainted after reading something on here and serverely injured herself. In fact it seems that the only thing that the profanity filter is doing is causing more work for the moderators and causing grief to a significant proportion of the population of h2g2.
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Latest reply: Nov 7, 2006
Woah there, now that's a big graphics file
Posted Nov 2, 2006
I was working on a photo earlier, for putting on dA and stuff, and when I'd finished I saved it, as you do. However it took ages to saveso I thought I better check just how big it was... it was 1.34 Gb!!!!!! I'm gonna resize it befor I post it on dA...and I'll stick it on a DVD for long term storage.
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Latest reply: Nov 2, 2006
Holy Flurking Schmitt, they've done it again!!!!!
Posted Oct 27, 2006
Right, this is starting to reek of racism. as many of you may know I like to put quotes in my name. However for some strange reason every time, and I do mean /every time/, I use a quote from a japanese band it gets yoinked out of exsistance and I become U170182 again. It's getting beyond a joke. Now if I used japanese lyrics then I could understand it, but I don't I use english lyrics, always. I'm getting just slightly peeved with the whole thing
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Latest reply: Oct 27, 2006
Did I maybe go a bit far d'you think?
Posted Oct 21, 2006
On the IMDB boards I was brousing the board for one film when I came accross the following litterary masterpiece.
>>Re: So I guess this is the only CGI movie not targeted for kids?
>>by - zeroevildarkcool on Fri Oct 6 2006 13:28:26
>>ALL PREJUDICE AGAINST CHILDREN IS WRONG. ABOUT THAT GUY UP THERE BEING REALLY AGEIST. HE SHOUDL STOP BEIN
>>AGEIST. ITS SAD WHEN A PERSON HAS TO TAKE THE NAME OF A RESPECTABLE PERSON AND USE IT TO GET ATTENTION BY
>>ACTING LIKE AN ASS.
>>
>>CGI EVEN MAKE UP 10% OF MOVIES BACK IN THE DAY SO U ONLY HAVE PPL WHO WERE UNTRUE TO THE GAMES THE MOVIE IS
>>BASED ON TO BLAME
So I replied to that with
"Wow! There are letters, what appear to be words and it looks like English, and yet it fails to parse every time I try to read it. Would you care to translate your post to English, for those of us who don't speak Zeroevildarkcoolian, please?"
The best bit was that, assuming I correctly guessed what Mr. Illiteracy was trying to say, it bore no relation to any previous post in the thread.
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Latest reply: Oct 21, 2006
Ok, I need help.
Posted Oct 17, 2006
It seems I can't even watch Bargain Hunt without my baser instincts taking over, yes that's right Bargain Hunt. I was was watching it today and Pippa Deeley was one of the experts and the thought primarily going through my head all the way through the program was "That Pippa Deeley is one fine lookin lady, I wouldn't mind her having a look at my 'valuables'", or one very much like it anyway...Anyone know where you can buy bromide?
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Latest reply: Oct 17, 2006
T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly.
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