How do it right without doing wrong?

[tara20]

I had a post banned for the first time because I used an expression ( in use since the 17th century) meaning, according to the Phrase Finder, "a fanciful and unbelievable tale". I can't even circumscribe it in case that's not pc either. Now I'm all for banning profanity but where do you draw the line? It was the 3rd post on question 354414.
I even left out letters or was that the mistake? Even the BBC have recently used this as a film title. Any suggestions how not to fall into the trap?

[vidkun]

the Ed warned in the editor's blog, recently.

if the 'banning' is 'computer generated, then the process is only as good as the software!

don't worry about it - its not a personal summation on your choice of word .... just be more careful in the future!

[naz_nomad]

what was the word?


type it with ''s p a c e s'' in between so we can see what you're on about ...:-)

[naz_nomad]

ah, got it ... co ck & bull ... yeah I know ...it's the pathetic world we live in unfortunately

[tara20]

now I don't feel quite so bad. Thanks to you all. Maybe the future lies in a category 'Guess what I'm on about.'' Full marks for the right answer naz :-))

[Athley]

I was having an innocent conversation about mascots the other day and talking about the Spurs one Chirpy the C o c k r e l and that got zapped!!!!

Male chickens are not popular. Neither are Mrs Slocombe type of cats either by the way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[IggyB]

ahh i remember the fuss that was caused when no one could say ********* - the robot zapper was relaxed a bit after that though

[IggyB]

cricky i really can't say that then!
its a flipping english place name

s c u n t h o r p e .... ed i know it doesn't come up in conversation very often BUT come on we must be able to say that

[tara20]

Yep, sometimes robot software is, like the law, an a s s (n.b. as in donkey!)

[Katie~77]

But surely that shouldn't have been banned. They were the names of two pubs. People used to go from one to the other with gossip and add their own bits and that's why that saying describes "fanciful & unbelievable tales"! Tut!x

[Octavius]

Someone on here had a whole web-link blanked out with asterix because the link had the word �story_ id� followed by a number (but without the hyphen shown here for demonstrable purposes).

By sheer elementary we could deduce amongst us that with a fine magnifying glass and a fair amount of lucidity or perhaps creativity that the middle of the word contains a potentially anti-Semitic derogatory word for people of a Jewish persuasion.

I am not sure that you can do it right, just be creative, by try to stick to the rules. Perhaps an auto-warning before you post might be an option, who knows.

[eddiebun]

I tried to have a conversation about what wood The Ark was made out of - I reckoned SH_TTIM wood but couldn't post it

[WaldoMcFroog]

What happens with Sc_unthorpe..? Let's see...

Scunthorpe...

[Panic Button]

Yes, I typed **** and bull once and it was replaced with asterisks, but when I talked about my daughter's question "Dad, what is a penis" it was printed in full.

Lets see what happens to this one, which I have typed in full.