Ooooo.... Tin of worms as anticipated...
Requoting Ye Olde Poste Original Number One of this thread...
Grumpy git time and tee'ing myself up for potential abuse.... 
OOF is primarily a blokey site for talking assorted 'dangle berries' about Omega and other Top Geary style things, there are also a number of female and junior members who also enjoy the cameraderie and banter.
Without going down the granny knows best/PC route, we request that members use language here that does not potentially offend.
A swear filter is inbuilt into OOF but, as we all can see, its easily circumvented by use of fly letters and other symbols. Without wanting to impose draconian swear filter measures again, can we please use the language of common decency?
Not all who frequent here live/work on building sites or workshops where foul language is the norm. At the same time, they know its there, and just prefer to talk in a decent adult fashion without resorting to playground emphasis.
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The highlighted part is the nub of the matter.
The use of no holds barred 'cussing and blinding' in the workplace is very much one thing but would you say the same things in the High Street or in the middle of Tesco's, still at a sufficient volume so that anyone who was passing could still see/read what you said?
Effectively, thats what you do by posting here.
I am in no way a prude and can join swear words into a sensible sentence with the best of them - 7 years at sea in the merchant navy and a career thereafter in the polis has learned me well.
Debs - agree with the thumb/hammer bit. Done it myself more times than I can remember. I try to reduce the number of times I type such language into a forum page though, particularly not taking the time to use assorted wild card letters to circumvent any inbuilt swear filter.
Guy - I really do see where you are coming from. You personally do not (overly) swear in posts, despite being a gobby chap thats not shy at getting his point across. Your type of historic comments are not those that rattled my cage.
What does annoy me ( and numerous others, judging by the content of the PM boxes of myself and other admins) is that very limited few who appear to go out of their way to cause general offence, either by their use of explicatives or other genarally abusive, in yer face, love me or leave me language.
I find the latter wholly against the spirit of what we attempt to achieve here (and have done, I think....) whilst retaining a balance thats
acceptable . By that, I'm not talking about what you should whisper in church but ask that we use language that is acceptable in the standards of
common decency.
Like others have said, I also frequent other forums where an 'anything goes' attitude by the admins is the norm and, frankly, its like standing outside the boys lav in a secondary school at breaktime and listening to the weekend heros giving it large, thinking that they are superheros as they can join sweary words together or make it rhyme so as it sounds like they are not, if you follow?
All I attempted to do was to ask that we, collectively, observe a wee line drawn in the sand as to thread content so as not to come across as either abusive, aggressive, or downright lacking in words such that swear words of the stronger variety, are deemed a requirement to get a weak point across.
regards
H21
ps - Doog - I also think your avatar is very much treading a thin line mate.... But thats a personal preference, not an admin one. There are other admins who have also viewed it and have left it, so why should I give you grief?
edited for spill chucking pistooks....
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