06 May 2009, 5:37 pm
06 May 2009, 5:44 pm
This is aspie fun. I was angry, but now i roll on the floor laughing, ass they say 
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06 May 2009, 5:46 pm
It's nice to know we're good for something.....
No, wait....
It's excellent to know we're good for something!
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06 May 2009, 11:05 pm
What an excellent example of why it's so ridiculous to apply the filter to this word.
I'm of the school that believes that the "r-word" is every bit as bad as the "n-word", but only in certain contexts. There's a big difference between saying something is "so rihtahrded" and saying that a substance "rihtahrds growth".
The r-word issue is one that should be handled by mods, not a filter.
06 May 2009, 11:57 pm
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07 May 2009, 12:09 am
Well, that explains why when I followed the link from the email notification for this thread, I was sent to a thread titled "Orwell being naughty" with an error message stating that it didn't exist.
I wonder if the mods were aware that their temporary title for a thread would show up like that.
07 May 2009, 12:19 am
Of course it does not exist, because Orwell would never be naughty.
In fact, Orwell has never been naughty, and reports to the contrary are just lies spread by doubleplusungoodthinkful thought criminals. It may have just been the link to that specific post. Which is gone now. My post on the previous page has also been edited.
07 May 2009, 1:12 am
Cut the Newspeak crap. The Ministry of Love is on your arse, and I don't think that they're bringing flowers.
07 May 2009, 2:12 am
Ok then, I won't be facetious. I think the swear filter is ret*d.
07 May 2009, 5:25 am
*Quatermass turns into a hideous chimera of O'Brien and Don Burgess*
Wrong answer.
*Buzzer sounds, and Orwell is stretched on a rack ala Winston Smith*
I know that you're saying 'excellent', but are really using a synonym for 'to hold back'.
*Leaving Orwell on the rack, Quatermass goes to camera, switching out the Don Burgess part of his chimeric nature for a generic televangelist part.*
But seriously, I do think that using that word, provided it is in the right context, may be a necessity on this forum. That's why I'm calling for donations. Call 1800-AVON CALLING* and send your donations today.
*Yes, I am being facetious about the hotline, as well as doing a pun based on my avatar.
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07 May 2009, 10:18 am
07 May 2009, 10:45 am
I think that the problem is, that some people (I can't say who) are afraid to, or afraid to allow us to, handle reality _as_it_is_.
They think that they can make problems disappear, by not saying the "word" for it. You constantly have to call things something else, every time something is considered bad or unclean.
It is a game of hide-and-seek.
I can only quote Jack Nicholson: "You can´t handle the truth!"
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07 May 2009, 11:46 am
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07 May 2009, 3:34 pm
This is worse than George Orwell's newspeak! I use the word excellent quite a bit. The problem now is everyone has to double think posts where the word is used in case the poster is being facetious and really implying the ret* word 
Whoever put that particular word transposition filter together did an excellent job!
