One advertising company is insisting that “Cressida Dick” and “Dick Cheney” are non-allowable pornography. As is the word “sex”.
Sheesh.
One advertising company is insisting that “Cressida Dick” and “Dick Cheney” are non-allowable pornography. As is the word “sex”.
Sheesh.
I like a freshly glazed ring too, dearies.
There is an apocryphal tale of how an earlier attempt at automated censorship converted Dick van Dyke to Jerk van woman with sensible shoes.
Clearly not woke enough. Cressida Dick should obviously be allowed, nay celebrated, but Dick Cheney clearly not.
I sometimes wonder if a partial cause of the tranny madness is the widespread use of ‘gender’ for ‘sex’. I fear some prim civil servant in the 70s saw gender as a way to get the nasty sex word off Britain’s passports…
Sounds fair enough to me.
Shooting a brazilian ‘cos he looked a bit forin’ scores quite high on my obscenity scale.
WhenIwerebutalad we always said “cock”: I’d never heard “dick” used until long into adult life. I can still remember being astonished to hear an English boy say “prick” though it was pretty obvious what he meant.
Could “dick” be one of those words popularised by Hollywood?
I am not a cock.
@ Arthur the Cat
The version I heard was Penis van Lesbian
I had my ad service moaning at me that my comments section is too sweary. I looked at the list of banned words and you can’t even mention the words “sex” or “Nazi”. Pathetic.
MC,
It says “sex” on my British passport. And my German one.
“It says “sex” on my British passport”
Sex: Yes, please.
So sergeant Allcock will be banished to the barracks?
I stayed in a hotel once where the wifi wouldn’t allow Essex, Sussex etc. True story.
I seem to recall that the town of Scunthorpe has fallen foul of these kinds of filters in the past.
The telegraph comments won’t allow dick. You are restricted to a good fart!
Some years ago comments in the Sheffield Star website regarding traffic problems on Penistone Road were all blocked.
Spotted Dick out capezeoli di venere ok
Used to be a game on early chat sites to try and get people to use words like ‘pussy’ or ‘Scunthorpe’ and watch the automatic ban filter boot them out for 5mins for obscene language also a challenge to find new words it would ban
Ivor Biggun gets through OK though
Unfortunately Jeremy Hunt’s still an MP
GAMEcock
“Could “dick” be one of those words popularised by Hollywood?”
Surely not, it was a staple of Carry On films for years before anyone was using it in Hollywood films.
Carry On Dick is one of my favourite Carry Ons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lk0NaWsbko
Ah, smut. One of my favourite things.
@Tim Newman June 14, 2019 at 12:38 pm
No mentioning one of Sweden’s TV Channels then – the one after TV Fem
When I saw it in TV Guide I thought “Wow, excellent”. Sadly it didn’t meet expectations
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@Stonyground June 14, 2019 at 3:25 pm
iirc Scunthorpe was blocked in AOL’s browser.
It is all rather silly really because any idiot can instantly get around these blocks by mis-spelling the offending words in a way that human readers can understand. For example S(unthorpe.
I bet it still allows “Kill Tory Scum”
Dear Mr Worstall
In the good old days Friends Reunited (RIP) used to render Pakistan as P***stan.
No idea how they handled Dickistan, Prickistan or Scunthorepistan. They must exist somewhere in the multiverse.
DP
PS Does it go all the way to 11?