h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Jeepers. All I did was type in the subject and the page jumped to the 'house rules'
and I'm sorry but the 'house' doesn't rule
and if they took away the BOF for cleansing I'm suggesting
we start the BOG for boring old geezers.
Filter that!
*remembers vague image of room full of 'readers' - but unable to distinguish between threats made by MM on the 'noderation' page and words by Orwell read so long ago ..and even further removed.
[false removal removed by false remoderator]*
Anyway, once they take that heady step from 'content' to 'context' (ie: from 'bad words' to 'bad attitude') we will have finally arrived back where it all started, blank pages.
Power to the BOG people.
~ jwf ~

It's just not your day John.

"[false removal removed by false remoderator]", I like that.

I haven't been hauled into the Headmaster's room yet despite a few efforts at ..what did you call it? "Pushing the hymenvelope". Never mind, I'm sure I'll get pulled in as well one night after too many cherry brandies.

Anyway, I've discovered it might be quite fun to use asterisks occasionally as you can say anything you want and then come up with something totally different if anyone objects. There's also the wonderful world of double entendres to explore.

The worst problems seem to be the lack of graphics and links. I'm working on a theory that we might get away with posting links if we remove the first 7 characters, and I think there may be a way round the graphics ban (albeit slightly unsatisfactory) that I'm going to try this weekend once I learn some GuideML. External links are allowed on your homepage and will appear in a new window, so it should be possible to link to images or at least pages containing them, and even use Javascript to control the size and position of the new window.

Human moderators will suffer from the same problems the CIA has in its intelligence gathering (euphemism, or just downright silly? ). They'll never be able to keep up, so they're going to have to use software and we all know how wonderful that is.

I'm hoping this "moderation" is just a temporary measure and that eventually the worst restrictions will be put down to overthusiastic donkeylicking of the Beeb, and lifted, but until they start treating us like adults (however mistakenly ).....

...keep pushing and keep your pecker up (which probably has an entirely differnet meaning to a Canuck moderator)

Power to the People, BOG on

A pecker is a pecker is a pecker. By any other name would still smell teat. Peter Piper picked his pecker, but I doubt we had any choice. Yet, rest, assured, that Canadian peckers are as up as any pecker's pecker.
*shaking a funky fingered fist at the 'mod.s', he screams*
"Moderate this!"

I find a quote from Ian Dury perfectly sums up these censors:-

"A*******s, B******s, F*****g C***s and P****s"

OK they don't like Ian Dury

How about "Send in the "

Is that OK moderator?

Is this going to end up a big long line of 'posting removed's? *laughs* That'd be the challenge eh? See who could get the longest disapproved conversation?

Little B.

PS
I would join, but I'm not old... Hmmm... I suppose if you were simply the BG's I'd just spend my time mocking your white suits and shrill harmonies though...

Now that's what I call a good idea, especially if we combine it with the silliest reason for getting a posting blocked.

As for the shrill voice, I think I've got you to thank for that. And every time someone mentions the white suits I automatically think of the scene from Airplane....and my current quarters courtesy of the NHS of course.

We could always be the HeBGBs & the SheBGBs, but this might be interpreted s Big Girl's Blouses, and I just know you'ld object to that.

btw if you don't get your second posting blocked then you'll automatically be expelled from this thread

I bet that's got you worried

OK

Worried? Pfft. Hardly.. Should be a piece of p**s mate..

Little B.

Oh it's been there for more than ten minutes now.. Hmm.. perhaps I should have chosen a more profane word? *laughs* Told you I wasn't very good at it..

Little B. <-- innocent smile

Fifty minutes and nada.. *starts to look a little nervous*

Little B.

Oh dear, oh dear, this isn't looking very good at all is it? You really are going to have to try harder, Ms B or we'll have to put a Ronan Keating link on your website.

Even Neil Armstrong has said, "That's one small step for man, piece o' p**s for a frog"

However as it took me over a day to get my "wings", I can understand the feelings of frustration you are going thru.

Why don't you try telling us about the high life in the Netherlands or something? You do live in a multi, don't you?

Please.. anything but the Ronan... *staggers* Well I'm confounded. 'P**s' is okay, but 'a**e' is not?.. sounds like some sort of motto.. *laughs* Oh well.. You can't say I didn't try eh?

Little B.

We had some visitors over to the n2g2 (Yahoo refugee camp) and some Greco-Roman wrestling broke out for a bit -- oh right, you were there!
Can't say I even begin to understand why mary had a little lamb by wings got moderated...
But then I don't understand anyone who would try to legislate taste. It can't be done. Never has been done. Never will. Fools rush in where angels have tried to legislate (and failed).
No doubt 'the mod.s' will surprise me again, sometime when I'm least expecting it. In fact I'm going to hold my nose and pretend they don't exist. Inevitably, I'll make a legitimately witty and 'risque' remark, just as I usually do, and 'snip' the hammer of Prudence will fall. Then I will ask for an impartial judgement. But I presently have no further intention of deliberately offending. I tested it. They reacted.
"Risque" - now there's a word we haven't heard much these past few years since sex and sodomy came down off their clothes-hangers and became mainstream media content. It went off the radar around the time RISK the board game came out. Or was it Twister?

*hangs her head in shame*

I shouldn't really be posting on this thread by Wumbe's own rules, but I think that there must be a bit of a glitch.. or maybe people are starting to lighten up and behave like adults eh? *smiles* I really hope so.. I noticed the tiffing on the chat site, but I think I've been dismissed as nothing but a 'troll'. Was I wrong to bring up the issue of the freedom of expression do you think?

Little B.

"Where there are mod.s there will always be rockers - those willing to test the stability of complete resolution"

Well if you're gonna walk around eyes downcast y'might's well keep an eye open for the tuppence I give for moderation.
*inhibited by moderator searchlight passing overhead I resist all other references to Muslim eyeline traditions*
I have been looking for another strange post I made yesterday to see if it got any reaction. After several hours of searching (I can't remember the thread title) I must now assume the entire thread has gone. Should have realised that earlier. I've seen a couple of 'removed's in the 'other conversations' boxes on the left. So I guess I wasn't the only one.
I tried to start a new thread for the n2g2 group at Yahoo but every variation using those letters has been 'reserved' by 'someone'.

"Moderation in all things. At any cost"

Oh my goodness gracious me. Oh ho ho ho. Greetings sahibs (and memsahib). It won't work you know. The great white bwanas will moderate us all out of existence.
Have you any idea how offensive it is to coloured folk to have all you white h*****s (or should that be 'h****s' ?) *waves white hanky*
(hankie) tiptoeing around on eggshells.
The noise is atrocious!

I tested a pet theory at work today.
The girl that brought me my cup of dishwater insulted its colour (as usual) so I turned around and said "But I like my coffee to be the same colour as my skin" and the whole room went quiet.
*WOW, she thought - what next?*
So I looked round at all the nervous faces that were studiously turned towards their desks and commented that all the black s****s and brown people in my family say I'm khaki (pronounced "kakky" up here in the frozen north). (Well the polite ones say "green" and the rudest w**s say "s**t coloured")
Funny the way all the fish-belly folks started talking and laughing too loud and all together. . .
Wonder what the mod.s will do.

Turns out that the 'sambucus nigra' we were discussing 'somewhere' else actually does taste like licorice and the drink 'sambuca' does too. So maybe it is like oooooozo.

I see our discussion about Canuck woodpeckers has been re-instated,
but it could be just a default - there seemed to be a big re-boot across the site a little while ago. I got sent hurtling through six windows - defenestrated as it were - and ended up at the effin eff.
Bits of the BOF seems to be emerging from the Phog, now though.

Oh Poo my post's still there!
*Stamps foot and stomps off to sit on child's bed, catching foot in petlip and falling flat on her face in the process*

TIFFKOK

Well someone's been removed, and it ain't me cos I've got a licence to be silly.

I guess p**s now comes under the wonderfully tight heading of profane, someone's been busy with the asterisks.

To quote William Shakespeare, "Pish"

take note Skakespeare is dead and has been for some considerable time.

...and so's that bard Shakespeare.