Do you really want to ■■■■ everyone off? Or are you going to sort out the stupid ■■■■■■■ swear filter. It’s so ■■■■■■■ stupid that you can’t have a serious discussion about escorting a load from Cumbria to Scunthorpe.
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You’ve saved me a job Stu. I was gonna post about the overly sensitive swear filter. I get that this particular forum doesn’t allow swearing and although I (like many others) swear like a trooper I completely understand the whole idea behind it, but this swear filter is ridiculous, the most innocuous word is blanked out. It’s farcical
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We were all used to the zed-bee filter, I think that’s fair enough, IRL I swear a bit, like most other people do, but I don’t think I need to see it written down constantly, used in it’s place it can be the most appropriate language - Billy Connelly had a famous routing about the applicability of the F-word.
What irritates me is the the “innocent” words that get filtered generically: like es-cort, su-ck, and even f-a-g which was blanked when I made the old comment about rough calculations being “on the back of a f-a-g packet”.
Perhaps we just need to be more creative; yesterday I wrote “b’stard” (thanks for that one to Rik Mayall, RIP) which passed the filter, and the Irish gave us “■■■■” so “■■■■■■ eejit” still works.
Regional accent/dialect spelling variations probably still work; north of Newcastle you could insult someone with “How man shut yer trap, yer a tertle nerb yee ar” which translates as “stop talking, you k-n-o-b”. This also works for overt threats of physical violence “Shut yer trap or ahl pagga yah, y’doyle” meaning “stop talking or I will beat you senseless you idiot”
EDIT: Nope, Irish spellings of the F work are also censored, but “screwed” passes muster.
Cummins was a banned word.
This was pointed out to be an issue to the Mods, and now it is not a banned word.
If someone wants to talk about escorts just point out the issue and I think that action will be taken.
If it takes a while you could always ask for your subscription money back.
Looks like escorts (plural) is not on the banned list, but singular ■■■■■■ (es-cort) still is.
I’m betting it doesn’t work for the f word: singular ■■■■ plural ■■■■■
But Eaton , fuller , crash boxes and 12m tilts should be banded
does that mean you have to hire 2 at once?
According to the forum, it would appear so, 2 = good, 1 is just too naughty.
As we haven’t had crash boxes for approx 100 years, there’s little danger of anyone singing their praises. No need to go banding tilts as they’re sealed.
Little, but not zero… Any particular name come to mind? 
Well, I doubt if even CF has used one! 
Fuller, of course, make constant-mesh 'boxes and more recently some ropey synchro ones. You gave me a good excuse for pedantry 
Weren’t the David-Brown 6 speed boxes, often used with 180 Gardners crash boxes?
A mere half century old now.
The crash box was a pretty primitive affair used from the 1890s to the late 1920s. There were a few still around in the '30s but constant-mesh was a much better development for easier shifts. You still had to double-declutch and match the revs, of course, so David Brown, Thornycroft, Spicer, Fuller, Eaton etc were all constant-mesh.
Some time ago, I tried to alter how the swear filter handles certain harmless words, but once I’d made the alterations… the ‘save edits’ button wouldn’t work!!
I’m taking this up with management next week.
FYI, Cumbria, Scunthorpe and escorting a load from one of those places to the other doesn’t seem to be caught by the swear filter, as in your post and in my reply
The other words you used for test purposes are rightly caught and edited.
Escort escort escort.
Ok, so you are slowly fixing things, thank you. Escort was certainly banned last night when I posted.
I’ve just managed to fix the singular… escort, which should never have been on the banned list.
The difference in the swear filters has to do with a ‘built in’ swear filter that was pre installed in the new platform not being quite consistent with the old TN swear filter that we had painstakingly compiled on the old TN and supposedly had shipped across from the old platform to the new platform.
I’m having a discussion with management about this in the coming week.
Excellent news. Thanks Dave 
Can’t see the need for a swear filter myself, it’s not as if you ever hear lorry drivers swear, is it.?
Seriously though, in a more general forum that I inhabit there is no censorship at all and almost no swearing in it. Only very occasionally and then only if it is essential to what is being said.
Could it be that swear filters actually encourage swearing?
And don’t forget that the extremely offensive and blasphemous curses of yesteryear, like bloody, blimey and crikey etc., are considered very mild nowadays.
And obviously acceptable in this pristeen establishment. 