Reply to: Swear filter.

[AtW]

oops, i see this has been moved. no wonder!

Is it because of my avatar?

ah well, squirrels do what squirrels do, eh?

Eating nuts and all that.

[scotspine]

oops, i see this has been moved. no wonder!
ah well, squirrels do what squirrels do, eh?

[AtW]

if you 'really' did, you'd stop your two doing what i think they're doing

It's not what you thinking.

One squirrel on my avatar is massaging the tense body parts of the other to the mutual satisfaction of both parties. If I had any image design skills I'd make one of them red.

[scotspine]

if you 'really' did, you'd stop your two doing what i think they're doing

[AtW]

i thought you'd appreciate his 'redness'

I love red squirrels too.

[scotspine]

i thought you'd appreciate his 'redness'

[AtW]

nope, i think we're all here...!

Nice squirrel photo scotspine!

[scotspine]

Are they on the CUK Moderators piss-up? I bet that's a barrel of laughs.

nope, i think we're all here...!

[norrahe]

Are they on the CUK Moderators piss-up? I bet that's a barrel of laughs.

nah it must be a thread on tourettes

[PAH]

I am pleased that at the moment the mods are extremely busy so you are unlikely to be caught.

Are they on the CUK Moderators piss-up? I bet that's a barrel of laughs.

[BrilloPad]

how come it is not acceptable to say *****

*****

or s*****

tulip

or ****

****

but I can call you a ****?

Seems a question mark on the end makes all the difference.....

I am pleased that at the moment the mods are extremely busy so you are unlikely to be caught.

Interestingly NF offered cuk the chance of introducing a proper swear filter : they really should take him up on it.

[Bagpuss]

What the hell is chunte?!!

It should be Queynte...


****’s literary appearance is as the Middle English word queynte in Chaucer’s ‘The Miller’s Tale’. Queynte has other meanings – sly, extinguished or an elegant, pleasant place, which is just the prudish American English professor’s euphemism for the word ‘****’.

Fil with this yonge wyf to rage and pleye,
Whil that hir housbonde was at Oseneye –
As clerkes ben ful subtil and ful queynte –
And prively he caughte hire by the queynte

The tiptoe-around-the-whole-issue translation is:

Fell in with this young wife to toy and play,
The while her husband was down Osney way,
Clerks being as crafty as the best of us;
And unperceived he caught her by the puss,

A closer translation might be:

Fell in with this young wife to fool around and play
While her husband was in Oseneye
As clerks are clever and crafty
He secretly grabbed her by the ****.


When and, more importantly, why did a word that was used in books, medical texts and on street signs for goodness sake become the most vulgar word that one can utter in the English language? Why did the word cock, meaning penis, enter the dictionary in the 1930s, but Americans had to wait until 1961 for **** to appear in Webster’s Dictionary, while Brits had to wait until 1972 for it to get into the OED? It’s a damned old word. Why could it have taken so long to be recognised? Could have anything to do with Francis Grose’s Classical Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, written in 1796 he wrote that the word ‘****’ is “a nasty name for a nasty thing”.

[SallyAnne]

Twat and Chunte are fine too as they are completely inoffensive to Americans

What the hell is chunte?!!

[Bagpuss]

how come it is not acceptable to say n o r ks

iamaprats

or s h i t

tulip

or f u ck

****

but I can call you a ****?

Seems a question mark on the end makes all the difference.....

Twat and Queynte are fine too as they are completely inoffensive to Americans

[AtW]

Hey I'm only pointing out the flaws in the system!

For that all you need is to look in the mirror