Gransnet forums

Site stuff

Could GNHQ please tell me why............

(32 Posts)
Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 20:58:25

B****cks! (Just testing!)

Did it work?

GeraldineGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 04-Jul-12 20:53:56

bl***y
er, j04, swearing seems to be working here.

b****r
just checking a different number of asterisks. It occurred to me that the html might think it was code for bold.

Could you have a very prim and proper computer?

j04 Wed 04-Jul-12 13:05:21

Shite me Greatnan! What do you call swearwords?! shock

Daisyanswerdo Wed 04-Jul-12 12:31:11

Greatnan I've read that it's short for 'by Our Lady', so perhaps it's blasphemous - or might once have been thought so.

I can remember being shocked, in an admiring kind of way, when a friend said 'bloody hell' when the chain came off her bike. We were told not to say 'Gosh' or 'Jiminy Cricket' at my very strict school.

Just shows how things have changed.

Greatnan Wed 04-Jul-12 12:18:54

Is bloody a swear word?

glassortwo Wed 04-Jul-12 12:17:23

grin

j04 Wed 04-Jul-12 11:51:44

when I am feeling polite and wish to 'use' a swear word without actually printing it, only two *s come out, when I have, in fact, typed in the appropriate number to show the swear word I wish to use?

Is it better to type 'bloody' in full?

Thank you. smile