What's wrong with this?

[violetblue]

Can anyone suggest why I have had the word '*********' bleeped out on one of my replies? Maybe you won't be able to tell me because this word will be bleeped out again in this question... C-O-C-*-*-*-*-E-D maybe the censor has been working overtime>

[jno]

I'm guessing because the missing letters are nooc backward; this is an offensive word. Also a misspelt one (if that is indeed the word) - just two single Cs, not a double one. Sorry if I've got the wrong word altogether.

[violetblue]

It's happened again. I've been trying to say the verb which stems from the noun beginning with c, the thing insects make to wrap themselves inside whilst the pupa is hatching.
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[violetblue]

Thanks jno you guessed; I did put a double 'c' in first time, I don't know why as I know it's wrong. Oh yes, I see what you mean, in that case I'm glad it was bleeped.

[jno]

the censor bots are a little over-imaginative at times. I believe night-watch is now acceptable to them, but sorry to see your word isn't, it's really pretty harmless

[DeNiro]

PC gone bl00dy mad AGAIN !!

[Catso]

I may lead a sheltered life, but I haven't heard that word used for years and years.

Reminds me of that funny-at-the-time-but-now-unimaginably-dreadful 'sitcom' of the 70s, With Jack Smethurst, was it? With 'neighbour' in the title?

[crete]

******** was banned the other day

[crete]

they have done it again it is not an offensive word it means idle and lazy often used in ireland why ?

[violetblue]

No, Catso, I haven't heard that horrid offensive racist word for ages either, thank God, which is why it didn't occur to me. As jno correctly sussed, he was referring to just a part of my word, the missing letters of which, I now realise, caused the censor to pick it up.

[Grunty]

Catso, I think the programme you are thinking of was "Till Death us do Part" and it starred Warren Mitchell, Tony Booth, Dandy Nicholls and Una Stubbs. There was a lot of language from Mitchell that would not get past the the censors today. Mitchell used to take a delight in telling people that he was not having a go at the minorities. He was having a go at the people who thought he was having a go at the minorities.

[luckyeight]

Personally I think it's an absolute joke that 'the censor' picked up a part of a word and banned it. Cocooned is not an offensive word. It should not be banned. The middle part of the word is, but that wasn't being used. :/

[DeNiro]

I agree, luckyeight. Where does it stop? Hence my earlier remark.

The programme Catso is referring to is "Love thy Neighbour" (couldn't stand it myself - nothing to do with its content - thought it a load of rubbish).

The writer Johnny Speight, (Till Death Do Us Part) was so anti-racist, his character Alf Garnett highlighted what he hated about bigots in this country.

[Don Quixote]

What does the censor do with people from the town of Scunthorpe? And in case it's blanked out - it is the iron and steel town in Humberside, west of Grimsby, near the mouth of the River Trent.

[naz_nomad]

I beg to differ ... a

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is an american wildcat ...

[jno]

well, luyckyeight got the word through; he must know somebody. Scunthorpe used to be on the blacklist but now isn't. Maybe cocooned has now been removed too.

[jno]

PS it's also short for raccoon in the USA - not exactly a cat, naz, I think, but more sort of foxlike - not sure what family it actually belongs to as all my books are heaped in the middle of the floor while the room is painted.

[naz_nomad]

jno ... I was referring to the Maine C**N ..a breed of cat ...

[jno]

sorry, naz, you're right, though I don't think they're wild. Named because they look like raccoons (kinda), but not related.