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[klondike]

Sometimes the filters can ignore spaces too much to the annoyance of anybody discussing Scunthorpe.

Anyway here is a little tool you can use to get yourself banned on as many forums as you like.  A small selection of Cryllic letters that you can substitute for the equivalent letters you'd get by typing. Just click a button and that letter will be put in your clipboard. Paste it in where the want it instead of typing that letter....

https://letschat.club/extras/trustee.php

[Dextrous63]

а

I just did that and the result was the letter a, as seen above 🤷🏻�♂️

[klondike]

Exactly but it isn't the same as the a on your keyboard. No need to call somebody an @rse on a board that blocks аrse you can just go with аrse.

I'll put аrse in the profanity filter and you can try it.

There now. I dodged it in the above.

[Dextrous63]

Ah!  Gotcha.  So, in effect, the character will look the same but the software recognises it as a different code.

[klondike]

Yes. All the characters are just numbers to a computer. The standard ASCII character set uses a single byte so number between 0 and 255.  For fancy things like the Cyrillic characters  or emoji two bytes are used. They couldn't just use ASCII characters even they they look the same because then the computer wouldn't be able to alphabetically sort words in alternate alphabets. There are more capital letters look the same for some reason. Not usually any need for those as luckily most of the vowels can be substituted and to defeat a profanity censor you only need change a single letter and it no longer matches.

[Dextrous63]

ASCII.  That was the term I was looking for.  Happy days when using those to put symbols and wingdings into word documents.

[JBR]

a e i o are all supplied, but not u.  Why not?  I think u could be quite useful.

[klondike]

Indeed it would. Most inconsiderate of those Cryllic buggers not to have one. Just can't trust Johnny foreigner.

[GrannyMac]

I was born and bred in the UK 🇬🇧 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 until I was a young adult, then England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 for over fifty years.  I see nothing wrong in using the term.

A Reform councillor in Scotland was reported to the police for saying she was born and bred in Falkirk.  Some anonymous person submitted a 22 page report accusing her of racism.  It was dismissed, no charges.  

The world has gone completely mad, and I fear the left in the UK is a major part of the problem.

[klondike]

This was done the other day in General. It didn't contain the update that the police decided not to pursue the case as there was no crime so I'll merge the threads.

Hmm - I see it wandered off topic slightly so no wonder you didn't spot it Mac....

[JBR]

Regarding police activities, in the news this morning the police have arrested a man in North Yorkshire for putting up Union Flags on lamp posts because, they said, it was upsetting 'some people'.

I wouldn't have thought that there would be many third-world muslims in North Yorkshire.

[Michael Rolls]

Regarding police activities, in the news this morning the police have arrested a man in North Yorkshire for putting up Union Flags on lamp posts because, they said, it was upsetting 'some people'.

I wouldn't have thought that there would be many third-world muslims in North Yorkshire.

Totally and utterly bloody ridiculous!

[Alex]

Lots of flags in Ellesmere Port & Cheshire Oaks, but go 4 miles towards Chester, there aren't any.