Overzealous profanity filter bans paleontologists from talking about bones

[laylalex 7,285]

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Participants in a virtual paleontology session found themselves caught between a rock and a hard place last week, when a profanity filter prevented them from using certain words – such as bone, pubic, stream and, er, beaver – during an online conference.

The US-based Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) held its annual meeting virtually this year due to the pandemic, but soon found its audience stifled when they tried to use particular words.

Convey Services, which was was handling the conference, used a “naughty-word filter,” for the conference, outlawing a pre-selected list of words.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/16/profanity-filter-bones-paleontologists-conference

 

VJ needs to up its game!!!!!  

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

Just now, laylalex said:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/16/profanity-filter-bones-paleontologists-conference

 

VJ needs to up its game!!!!!  

They were talking about this on KFI today and everybody was laughing about it

[laylalex 7,285]

Just now, Cyberfx1024 said:

They were talking about this on KFI today and everybody was laughing about it

It really is completely absurd -- I think we get off relatively easy here because we can at least talk about boobies:

[TBoneTX 45,308]

"Ban members, not speech"*

   *bumper sticker

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

Mostest fav of all time

Open shot of Bart Simpson 

Writing on chalk board

 

" I will not use pork as a verb "

[laylalex 7,285]

I will. And I have.  

[Steeleballz 7,550]

   

    Reminds me of my favorite add campaign of all time.

 

 

[TBoneTX 45,308]

In a past life, I went into a 31,000-flavor ice cream parlor, looked at the choices, and said, "Whaddayou mean, you don't have pork?"

Edited October 18, 2020 by TBoneTX

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

15 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

In a past life, I went into a 31,000-flavor ice cream parlor, looked at the choices, and said, "Whaddayou mean, you don't have pork?"

Urr me god. It was so hard to rep that, but you held up your end of the bargain

 

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OPC #1

[Steeleballz 7,550]

58 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Urr me god. It was so hard to rep that, but you held up your end of the bargain

 

signed

OPC #1

 

  Is it talk like a pirate day already?

[laylalex 7,285]

10 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  Is it talk like a pirate day already?

I lived in the Southwest of England for a year and people sound like pirates there. Very weird to be greeted with "awright me lover" by the driver when you board a bus.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

4 minutes ago, laylalex said:

I lived in the Southwest of England for a year and people sound like pirates there. Very weird to be greeted with "awright me lover" by the driver when you board a bus.

 

  My aunt and uncle lived there and when I was a kid, I accepted that they were speaking English, but hell if I ever knew what they were saying. 

[laylalex 7,285]

Bristolian was ranked 50th out of 51 regional accents in Britain, which seems sad: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/aint-gert-lush-babber-bristol-348797

[Steeleballz 7,550]

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“Daps"

Translation: “Plimsolls"

 

   So "Daps" actually mean "Plimsolls" huh?  That doesn't really solve anything. Now there are two words I don't know.

[laylalex 7,285]

1 minute ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   So "Daps" actually mean "Plimsolls" huh?  That doesn't really solve anything. Now there are two words I don't know.

Trainers.