Bondee
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Post by Bondee on Jul 23, 2024 10:14:34 GMT
I seem to remember something on usenet in the late 90s about some ISP's - possibly AOL - filter causing consternation among the punk rock fans of the world. Not only did it block anything about the Sex Pistols1, it also blocked any mention of their record label2, and one of their more popular songs3.
1 Sex, obviously. 2 Virgin Records, again, a word that often appears in searches for pornography. 3 Anarchy in the UK, "extreme" politics.
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Post by amanda on Jul 23, 2024 11:18:24 GMT
While my laptop didn't seem affected last Friday at the outage which occurred around 3-4pm originally my time, tonight the Microsoft based solitaire games on the laptop kept shutting down, then other things.
Then I got the blue screen of death.....but it was just the latest update, thankfully.
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Post by suze on Jul 23, 2024 12:16:58 GMT
I seem to remember something on usenet in the late 90s about some ISP's - possibly AOL - filter causing consternation among the punk rock fans of the world.
AOL was renowned for that sort of thing!
A forum aimed at British people who wanted to give up smoking, which banned the word fags. A forum about film musicals which banned both Dick and Dyke. There were others.
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Post by amanda on Jul 23, 2024 12:29:59 GMT
Fags was a name of lolly in Australia in the '70's/80's when I was a kid. Came in a little box and were coloured white with a small red dot in the centre of the round end.
Due to its likeness to cigarettes and the increased bans on that advertising, it was renamed Fads. Though in my local history groups, very few people who had this lolly remember being drawn to the real item as such.
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Bondee
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Post by Bondee on Jul 24, 2024 23:28:26 GMT
Fags was a name of lolly in Australia in the '70's/80's when I was a kid. Came in a little box and were coloured white with a small red dot in the centre of the round end. We had them here in the UK too, they were imaginatively named "sweet cigarettes".
And every December, junior smokers kits would appear in the shops. They contained cigars, pipes, ashtrays, matches and, of course, cigarettes. Everything the young smoker could possibly need, but made of chocolate.
I don't know why we can't get them anymore.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 24, 2024 23:32:19 GMT
I seem to remember something on usenet in the late 90s about some ISP's - possibly AOL - filter causing consternation among the punk rock fans of the world.
AOL was renowned for that sort of thing!
A forum aimed at British people who wanted to give up smoking, which banned the word fags. A forum about film musicals which banned both Dick and Dyke. There were others.
A chap I was working with in the late 90s had an AOL e-mail address. I sent him a message with "ArsehOLes" in the subject line and it was bounced back to me. I never did find out if it was an overly sensitive filter or some other technical bobbins.
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Post by tetsabb on Jul 25, 2024 11:27:26 GMT
Was he from Scunthorpe?
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Post by Bondee on Jul 25, 2024 18:53:29 GMT
No, but he was a bit of a cu... never mind.
That's a lie for comic effect. He was one of the few genuine people I've ever worked with. |
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Post by amanda on Jul 25, 2024 22:59:56 GMT
No, but he was a bit of a cu... never mind.
That's a lie for comic effect. He was one of the few genuine people I've ever worked with. 'CU' in the NT' was a catchphrase used by the Northern Territory government here to promote tourism, I've seen tv ads. I'm not sure if they realised what they were actually saying or if it was one of those deliberate things, like the catch phrase years ago for Australia generally uttered by model Lara Bingle 'Where the bloody hell are you?' |
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Post by Bondee on Jul 26, 2024 5:22:26 GMT
I'm sure they knew exactly what they were doing. As I understand it, calling someone a cunt is a term of endearment in Australia. While I'm here, I must mention this recent video from the divine Prof. Hannah Fry. |
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Post by amanda on Jul 26, 2024 7:54:20 GMT
Bondee wrote:
It's actually the opposite, meaning the rudest form you could imagine. That's what all the kid gangs in my area call out as they rob people. I hear them talking to each other and the more times they can get this word in, makes them cooler.
F--ing cunt' is used in DV by some men.
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Post by amanda on Jul 26, 2024 10:33:23 GMT
I clicked on the original link and it worked for me.
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Post by tetsabb on Jul 26, 2024 15:41:15 GMT
I have deleted my post, as I see now tgat Bondee's did.
I blame my poor colour vision
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