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Rick
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Julian
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Ah OK, didn't realise it was a problem. I note that you've changed a word in a post of mine to ''P*keys,'' is that word acceptable, if not what word is please?
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47p2
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Surely you don't expect anything else from someone who would do this to a Land Rover though?
| Quote: | It's spent time as a blinged-up street cruiser with chrome wheels, blue neon underlighting, straight-through dragster sidepipes and a pumped-up stereo that could damage your pelvis on loud.
'A lot of my little touches have been fun, innocent and pretty harmless. I have fitted chromed accents on the dash and commissioned back seats bearing my daughter's names. |
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Bitumen Boy
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| I think the word has undergone something of a shift in meaning - here in the Valleys it's applied to thieving wee scrotes in general, the vast majority of whom are locals. Still, there's always a chance of minorities getting a few bob out of being offended, isn't there? |
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Peter_L
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This is in no way any criticism of Julian, who has made some very interesting and informative posts, but I for one agree with Rick.
No post is enhanced by swearing or using offensive words.
However offensive words are a bit of a moving target, one only has to look at what happened to a certain shade of brown, collecting little paper cutouts from certain preserve jars, refering to the people that cowboys used to always be chasing around ( if you think the travellers have problems with a word, then think again, I live in Manitoba) and of course the change of use for just having a " old time" |
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47p2
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We are all too sensitive to words today
Whatever happened to 'sticks and stones'? 
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Peter_L
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| 47p2 wrote: | We are all too sensitive to words today
Whatever happened to 'sticks and stones'? |
Regrettably, just like the cars we love, your "sticks and stones" belong to a bygone age.  |
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Rick
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| 47p2 wrote: | We are all too sensitive to words today
Whatever happened to 'sticks and stones'? |
Pistonheads (Haymarket) had aggro last year with regard to the "p" word, and have banned it. Yes some people are chronically over-sensitive, but hey it's just me sat here and I've more things to get on with than risk getting embroiled with legal stuff, however petty.
As for swearing, well, only the other day I set up a forum userid for a teacher who is going to discuss some of the topics that are raised on here with his pupils. Children are exposed to all manner of bad things out in the big bad world, TV, computer games etc, but I see no need to add to it.
Fortunately it's not really an issue with the good members of this parish 
RJ
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ukdave2002
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I think that *^>@@*(( should %%&$!<and><!&&^%
That's my last word on the matter
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exbmc
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:04 pm Post subject: P*keys |
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Well i have to admit, to not noticing the word in use on here. When i saw Rick's comments, i sat for a while, looking at the keyboard,and wondering what you could do with the P- keys that would cause offence to anyone!  |
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Peter_L
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: P*keys |
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| exbmc wrote: | | Well i have to admit, to not noticing the word in use on here. When i saw Rick's comments, i sat for a while, looking at the keyboard,and wondering what you could do with the P- keys that would cause offence to anyone! |
In this day and age, it is very easy to offend someone, somewhere.  |
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Bitumen Boy
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:47 pm Post subject: Re: P*keys |
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| exbmc wrote: | | Well i have to admit, to not noticing the word in use on here. When i saw Rick's comments, i sat for a while, looking at the keyboard,and wondering what you could do with the P- keys that would cause offence to anyone! |
My first thought was that they were some kind of tool that I'd never heard of before... |
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Julian
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:57 pm Post subject: Re: P*keys |
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| exbmc wrote: | | Well i have to admit, to not noticing the word in use on here. When i saw Rick's comments, i sat for a while, looking at the keyboard,and wondering what you could do with the P- keys that would cause offence to anyone! |
Please tell me this is true and you're not winding us up? I too spent ages this morning wondering what was up with my (or people's) 'P' key too.. oh and also the * key.
To my mind it really is a sad reflection on society today when we can't mention the thieving robbing urchins than pinch the brass plaques of war memorials, con the elderly to part with their savings, steel the tools people need to do their jobs and ruin people's lives as a consequence. Bless their poor little cotton socks, let's get a bleeding hearted liberal in to go and give them some well deserved counselling 
I think I'm going to check out living in Australia for retirement!
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