WHY THE #### IS THE WORD "####" FILTERED OUT?

[Craig]

For #### sake PetRescue, sort it out :w00t:

[Guest Daniel]

Its not the best word to be using on a public messageboard, on alot of sites every swear word is filtered, for ****s sake.

[davieG]

For #### sake PetRescue, sort it out :w00t:

44302[/snapback]

Maybe because there are lots of more intelligent alternatives:

As a VERB 1

Synonyms: -be intimate, breed, copulate, fool around, fornicate, go all the way, go to bed with, have sexual intercourse, have sexual relations, lay, make out, mate, procreate, screw, sleep together

As a VERB 2

bamboozle, beat, beguile, bilk, bleed, bunco, burn, caboodle, chisel, con, cozen, crib, cross, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, do, double deal, double-cross, dupe, fast talk, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fudge, gouge, gyp, hoodwink, hose, jerk around, milk, mislead, ream, rip off, rook, rope in, sandbag, scam, screw, shaft, short, shuck, skin, stiff, sucker, swindle, take, take in, take out, trick, trim, two-time, victimize

As a NOUN

Synonyms: - bluff, charlatan, chiseler, con man, confidence man, conniver, cozener, crook, deceiver, decoy, defrauder, dodger, double-crosser, double-dealer, enticer, fake, hypocrite, impostor, jockey, knave, masquerader, pretender, quack, rascal, rogue, scammer, shark, sharper, shyster, swindler, trickster

As an ADJECTIVE

Synonyms: -affronted, annoyed, antagonized, bitter, chafed, choleric, convulsed, cross, displeased, enraged, exacerbated, exasperated, ferocious, fierce, fiery, fuming, furious, galled, hateful, heated, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, impassioned, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriated, irascible, irate, ireful, irritable, irritated, maddened, nettled, offended, outraged, passionate, piqued, provoked, raging, resentful, riled, sore, splenetic, storming, sulky, sullen, tumultuous, turbulent, uptight, vexed, wrathful

Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

[Ric Flair]

f u c k off

[shen]

for fox sake, fcukety fcuk fcuk, fecking hell, faark...etc. etc. etc. ..lot of alternatives

besides, some posters won't even realise that '####' was misspelled :w00t:

[Jonesy_rules]

there's no need to swear in posts anyway!

[Cat Burger]

Does #### still work

[Cat Burger]

Nope c##ting ####

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People have expressed a disliking of that word, naughty chap

[Ash]

There's no need for swearing really

[Cat Burger]

How dare you Cobbo this is an express violation of my human rights!

[Guest Daniel]

Why the ****s everyone trying to swear and failing?

[Lukeh]

You stupid ****!

Edit - Silly Lukey