Jenny Blackhurst 😯

[maymorganlondon]

The forum is set to censor some words.

However on this thread it wasn't automatic, we had to remove, asterisk out a word as it was offensive and inappropriate.

I've never noticed it before but can see some words in this thread have been asterisked.
On another thread b00b spelled correctly was asterisked. Not sure when that became an offensive word.
If we were ornithologists there would be several birds that would probably be deemed offensive and asterisked out

 

[Sazza]

I've never noticed it before but can see some words in this thread have been asterisked.
On another thread b00b spelled correctly was asterisked. Not sure when that became an offensive word.
If we were ornithologists there would be several birds that would probably be deemed offensive and asterisked out

Yes as I said we had to on this thread due to an offensive word.

As for the automatic censor as far as I am aware is standard within forum software so not sure how much control forum admin have with it. @Tech Admin can perhaps say more.

 

[Craftalot]

I’ll probably regret asking but what are ******?!

Is it as I suspect a derogatory term for travellers?

Apparently it's derogatory. I thought it was a normal word, so there's some learning for me.

 

[Tech Admin]

Censored words have the ****** show in their place.

 

[Peppermint Patti]

Dolcis.
I briefly worked there one shift and never returned.
Got a job a few weeks later at Burtons which was far better.

Me and a friend from school had a Saturday job in Bata shoe shop.

 

[Peppermint Patti]

I've never noticed it before but can see some words in this thread have been asterisked.
On another thread b00b spelled correctly was asterisked. Not sure when that became an offensive word.
If we were ornithologists there would be several birds that would probably be deemed offensive and asterisked out

I've sometimes starred or asterisked words as not sure if the words would offend anyone.

 

[madaunty]

I've sometimes starred or asterisked words as not sure if the words would offend anyone.

I do this too.

 

[candycane]

Apparently it's derogatory. I thought it was a normal word, so there's some learning for me.

Sorry, I used that word too. I don't find it offensive but apologies if anyone did.

CC

 

[Craftalot]

Sorry, I used that word too. I don't find it offensive but apologies if anyone did.

CC

Same here, Candy

 

[Grizelda]

Apparently it's derogatory. I thought it was a normal word, so there's some learning for me.

I'm reading a book set in Dublin, and travellers are referred to as 'tinkers.' They don't have a good reputation and most of them have red hair!

 

[Peppermint Patti]

I watched a program on my iPad last night about the Shein fast fashion brand.Who wears this stuff? Well a huge number of the younger generations! Total rubbish produced by people who endure horrendous conditions.Nothing there to my taste ( that would be a horror story) but even these youngsters think they look great, that’s a problem.At least the amount of fabric used is the equivalent of 2 handkerchiefs.

Are these the same generation from the Stop Oil protest one wonders.

 

[Brissles]

Apparently it's derogatory. I thought it was a normal word, so there's some learning for me.

Speech/conversation is a minefield now. As a child growing up in the 50s we rarely saw black folk on the Kent coast (oh how times have changed ) - but if I said "black" I was told by Dad it was wrong and offensive and to say "coloured" instead, but now the opposite is true.

Honestly? I've never set out to purposely offend, but at 76 I'm certainly not going to carry around a mental dictionary checking whether what I say is appropriate or not. I'm damned if I'm going to be afraid to open my mouth in the winter of my years.

 

[Craftalot]

Speech/conversation is a minefield now. As a child growing up in the 50s we rarely saw black folk on the Kent coast (oh how times have changed ) - but if I said "black" I was told by Dad it was wrong and offensive and to say "coloured" instead, but now the opposite is true.

Honestly? I've never set out to purposely offend, but at 76 I'm certainly not going to carry around a mental dictionary checking whether what I say is appropriate or not. I'm damned if I'm going to be afraid to open my mouth in the winter of my years.

This is it, exactly. Older folk have their speech 'policed' by silly metropolitan kids who are more woke than we are and, thus, better than we are. My parents would have never said 'black' to describe someone because in their time, that would have been considered offensive. They'd have always used 'coloured' - just as you say. To expect them to do a 180° is ridiculous, and no-one seems able to understand context any longer. Funnily enough, people in their 80s and 90s aren't constantly checking their vocabulary with regards to gender identity, race and other identity politics to ensure their speech is 'compliant'.

Anyone with half a brain can understand that an older person saying 'tranny' or 'coloured' isn't trying to be offensive, but just using the word which naturally comes to them and which was perfectly acceptable not that very long ago. If an older person is determined to be offensive, then they sure as hell know which words to use! It's people being professionally offended, and seizing upon anything to claim evidence of 'racism' or 'transphobia' who are the problem.

 

[TheFamousGrouse]

Speech/conversation is a minefield now. As a child growing up in the 50s we rarely saw black folk on the Kent coast (oh how times have changed ) - but if I said "black" I was told by Dad it was wrong and offensive and to say "coloured" instead, but now the opposite is true.

Honestly? I've never set out to purposely offend, but at 76 I'm certainly not going to carry around a mental dictionary checking whether what I say is appropriate or not. I'm damned if I'm going to be afraid to open my mouth in the winter of my years.

When the first intake arrived from the Caribbean they were commonly referred to as "Darkies".
No offence meant, none taken. They were lovely people.

 

[maymorganlondon]

What words are taboo vary between countries too.
A talented South African singer ended up in hot water in the US for describing herself as coloured https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67505674
US worldview is ridiculously US-centric at the best of times, and for anything to do with race and ethnicity, they are dangerously ill-informed about norms in other parts of the world.