Newcastle University's email system just quarantined one of Fester's because it contained the word "bollocks".
Currynapper
Only one of Fester's?
Sheamus
Murphy Balls
Kippa
My sister had the US car number plate
"bollocks" for quite a while before the State twigged its British
meaning
Bentonbag
Yes Curry, surprisingly this is a first. They must have lowered the
sensitivity bar because it won't have been the first time he's typed it. Which makes me think…
Sheamus: you might know the
answer to this.
How do they decide which words to bar?
Is there a committee - and if so who's on it?
Does some poor soul have to sit and type them
into the system?
How do they choose a
person who won't be offended/upset about what s/he is typing in?
And what about words like balls or tits which
have both rude and innocent meanings
("tits like coconuts but they also
like fat balls").
Can I volunteer? Or can I volunteer my friend Mrs
Lasagne, who shocked me with some of the things she
whispered in my ear in a PTA meeting before we landed on "Knits and
Bits" as the name for a bric-a-brac stall that had loads of handmade stuff
on it?
Kippa: half a century ago Bigsister and a
college friend (then in their early 20s) hitch-hiked across Europe to Greece. They had an early ferry to catch and caused
some consternation to a couple of American lads when she asked them "Could
you knock us up in the morning?"
Mr
Brown Never
mind the testicles.
Sheamus
Murphy Filtering
likely to have been outsourced to third party. Maybe they've installed the school option. I'm sure Fester isn't the first academic to
use such language!
Dulcima Mum told me once that her brother, instead of saying
"balls", once, said "Great hirsute male genital appendages"
- a possible alternative?
Bentonbag
My mother
used to say rowlocks (you have to say it out loud to get the proper effect). She also, in moments of stress, used to shout
"Oh for crying out loud" and I've only recently begun to suspect …
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