tonyh29 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 needless to say I still dress in the dark It shows... well I didn't want to wake you .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 ^^ keep thinking Padders is back with us whenever you post Tone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 yea but the heat only lasts for about 5 seconds. Plus, I prefer putting 'cold' clothes on, because it wakes you up more. Ooh no, can't stand any sudden shocks on dark winter mornings. I have no trouble waking up (as documented in previous threads), but I'll have no truck with cold clothes, cold water or bright lights. I get dressed in the dark, and only have low lights on in the kitchen. No radio or TV either, just silence. Has to be a very gradual process, with minimal discomfort. Its the same in the tamuff household, however, the reason being the mrs will rip my bollox off if I wake the baby up at 6am when I go to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Woohoo, payday! Just paid off another chunk of Football Aid, got £100 left to raise by December so I might start canvassing work colleagues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 The word filter on VT is the single worst thing about this site. I can understand wanting to make things a bit more friendly but when it is used to fuel unfunny self indulgent pap that the moderators want to thrust onto everybody then really, what is the point? x 10000000000000000000000000000000 Word filters are for little primary schools so little jonny does not see a bad word. We watch the Villa FFS, a certain amount of horror, pain and disappointment is assumed so a naughty word won't kill us, kills a sentence though but is so very clever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 27, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted October 27, 2011 The word filter on VT is the single worst thing about this site. I can understand wanting to make things a bit more friendly but when it is used to fuel unfunny self indulgent pap that the moderators want to thrust onto everybody then really, what is the point? x 10000000000000000000000000000000 Word filters are for little primary schools so little jonny does not see a bad word. We watch the Villa FFS, a certain amount of horror, pain and disappointment is assumed so a naughty word won't kill us, kills a sentence though but is so very clever.Thing is, it's not the mods who are being puritanical, it's the advertisers. They won't buy ad space if they (however misguidedly) think that the language might alienate some people. hence the filters. VT needs the money. I agree however, that some of the more "witty" substitutions should be binned - I'd rather just see a row of asterisks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 F*ckin' aye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted October 27, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted October 27, 2011 I quite like the word filters. Does that make me weird? Or just a clearing in the woods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 word removed and clearing in the woods are the only ones a like. They are pretty engrained into VT now and they worked wonders on the honeytrap thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 What I don't understand is (Advertisers avert thine eyes...) I can say ****, shit and bollocks. But I can't say clearing in the woods, want and word removed. Surely the F Bomb is about as offensive as we can get..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted October 27, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted October 27, 2011 Shit Piss **** word removed Cocksucker really bad person Tits (with fart, turd, and clearing in the woods added later) wiki"] During one of Lenny Bruce's performances, he said he was arrested for saying nine words: ass, fart, balls, cock, word removed, ****, whore, piss, shit, tits. In 1972, George Carlin released an album of stand-up comedy entitled Class Clown. One track on the album was "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", a monologue in which he identified these words, expressing amazement that these particular words could not be used, regardless of context. He was arrested for disturbing the peace when he performed the routine at a show at Summerfest in Milwaukee. On his next album, 1973's Occupation: Foole, Carlin performed a similar routine titled "Filthy Words," dealing with the same list and many of the same themes. Pacifica station WBAI-FM broadcast this version of the routine uncensored on October 30 that year. John Douglas, an active member of Morality in Media, claimed that he heard the broadcast while driving with his then 15-year-old son and complained to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that the material was inappropriate for the time of day. Following the lodging of the complaint, the FCC proceeded to ask Pacifica for a response, then issued a declaratory order upholding the complaint. No specific sanctions were included in the order, but WBAI was put on notice that "in the event subsequent complaints are received, the Commission will then decide whether it should utilize any of the available sanctions it has been granted by Congress." WBAI appealed this decision, which was overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The FCC in turn appealed to the Supreme Court, which in 1978 ruled in favor of the FCC in FCC v. Pacifica Foundation. This decision formally established indecency regulation in American broadcasting. In follow-up rulings, the Supreme Court established the safe-harbor provision that grants broadcasters the right to broadcast indecent (but not obscene) material between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am, when it is presumed many children will be asleep. The FCC has never maintained a specific list of words prohibited from the airwaves during the time period from 6 am to 10 pm, but it has alleged that its own internal guidelines are sufficient to determine what it considers obscene. The seven dirty words had been assumed to be likely to elicit indecency-related action by the FCC if uttered on a TV or radio broadcast, and thus the broadcast networks generally censor themselves with regard to many of the seven dirty words. The FCC regulations regarding "fleeting" use of expletives were ruled unconstitutionally vague by a three-judge panel of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on July 13, 2010, as they violated the First Amendment due to their possible effects regarding free speech. Some of the words on Carlin's original list have since been used to some degree on broadcast television in the United States. The word tits was uttered on the first episode of The Trials of Rosie O'Neill in 1990, sparking some controversy. It has been also uttered more recently in the popular Jimmy Kimmel video "I'm **** Ben Affleck," in which Ben Affleck utters "Hey, Sarah, he's got bigger tits", which originally aired on the After Oscar special of the ABC show Jimmy Kimmel Live after the 80th Annual Academy Awards, all without incident. The word "piss" (usually used in the context of the phrase "pissed off") has been commonplace since the 1980s. The word shit was heard on rare occasions in the 1990s, for the first time in an episode of Chicago Hope spoken by Mark Harmon, and later in the season eight episode of ER in which Dr. Mark Greene dies. The word "shit" was also spoken in several episodes of NYPD Blue. CBS recently aired the show "Shit My Dad Says" based on a Twitter feed but they spelled it "$#*!" and pronounced it as "bleep". Producers have often implied the word ****, although usually obscuring the word with a background sound effect or a beeping sound. One of Carlin's later additions to the list, fart, is also used frequently. Turd is regularly used on broadcast TV, though in performance Carlin explained that you can say it, "but who wants to?" On March 10, 2002, CBS aired "9/11", a prime-time special featuring first responders during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It contained a number of utterances of the word "****." One notable early use of this word on American television occurred a few years after Carlin made his list, when the documentary Scared Straight!, which included numerous utterances of the word and its derivatives, was broadcast uncensored. The FCC has often looked at the context of the use of a word when judging whether it is objectionable. This has at times led to controversy, such as when a bureau of the FCC deemed the utterance of the word **** (as an intensifier) in January 2003 at the live Golden Globe Awards broadcast by Bono, the front man of the band U2, not indecent under its criteria since they said that under the context of its use it was not intended to describe or depict sexual and excretory activities and organs. The full FCC, however, later reversed the decision in early 2004, though a fine against Bono has not been levied. In December 2003 Congressman Doug Ose, citing the incident, introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives that would have explicitly deemed six of the words profane (tits was excluded but asshole added). In a similar incident on October 31, 2008, Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Chase Utley took the stage at Citizens Bank Park during the team's World Series celebration and said "World champions. World **** champions!" Utley's epithet was aired live on almost every television station in the Philadelphia television market. The FCC took no action. When Norm Macdonald hosted Saturday Night Live on October 23, 1999, during a Celebrity Jeopardy! segment, Macdonald, portraying Burt Reynolds, read "A petit" as "ape tit". This was written in the script. The FCC obscenity guidelines have never been applied to non-broadcast media such as cable television or satellite radio. It is widely held that the FCC's authorizing legislation (particularly the Communications Act of 1934 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996) does not enable the FCC to regulate content on subscription-based services, which include cable television, satellite television, and pay-per-view television. Whether the FCC or the Department of Justice could be empowered by the Congress to restrict indecent content on cable television without such legislation violating the Constitution has never been settled by a court of law. Since cable television must be subscribed to in order to receive it legally, it has long been thought that the ability of subscribers who object to the content being delivered to cancel their subscription creates an incentive for the cable operators to self-regulate (unlike broadcast television, cable television is not legally considered to be "pervasive", nor does it depend on a scarce, government-allocated electromagnetic spectrum; as such, neither of the arguments buttressing the case for broadcast regulation particularly apply to cable television). Self-regulation by many basic cable networks is undertaken by Standards & Practices (S&P) departments that self-censor their programming because of the pressure put on them by advertisers — also meaning that any basic cable network willing to ignore such pressure could use any of the Seven Dirty Words. In recent years, all of the words on Carlin's list have come into commonplace usage in many made-for-cable series and film productions, such as Deadwood, The Sopranos, Weeds, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Skins, Dead Like Me, South Park and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia to name a few examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 When you eat a baguette, finish it and find at the bottom of the wrapper big slices of cheese and tomato that fell out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Realizing it's Saturday, and almost time for kickoff. Surely that's been done before, but what the heck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 friday!!!!!!!! and an extra hour in bed on weekend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmab Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 friday!!!!!!!! and an extra hour in bed on weekend! ^^^ this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LancsVillan Posted October 28, 2011 Moderator Share Posted October 28, 2011 05:45 wife's alarm. Reach up switch it off. She gets out. Rollover to her side, sound asleep inside a minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 I managed to squeeze 'egad' into a game of Scrabble tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Julia Bradbury. Grrrrrrr, you little minx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 4, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 4, 2011 Julia Bradbury. Grrrrrrr, you little minx.I'm surprised, thought she was Old Bloke Totty. I mean, I definitely would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 JELLY BEAN FACTORY JELLY BEANS!!! NOM NOM NOM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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