I just tried posting a comment to a Microsoft blog. Denied - the offensive language filter had found something it objected to. I realised that I used the phrase "thrust upon", so I changed it and resubmitted. Still offensive language, apparantly. So I looked further, and found where I refered to the root account on Linux. I changed it to "superuser". Resubmitted. Still too offensive.
By this time, I was thinking "Have they really blocked the word Linux from this Microsoft blog?". Finally, I removed the sentence "If any Mac users are sniggering, then don’t; your whole operating system is full of these kludges". Resubmitted. It went through fine.
I thought the offensive word was "kludges", but looking back I realise that "snigger" was the offensive one because it contains the word nigger. How dumb; snigger is a word, and not one that’s in the least offensive. (in America I’m sure they’d say "snicker").
But yeah, I bet Friendster lets me put the word "Nigger" into this post. Nigger. Niggers. Sniggering.
"He called me a dirty bitch, a cheap-ass whore, and a dick-sucking slut. And then he called me the N word!"
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