Cut the crap! - 1 comment

Via Recess Monkey.

As some of you may have noticed, certain parts of this site use an automated swear-word-bleeper, through which we pass anything we pick up (post or comment) from another site and display ourselves. There is one good reason, namely that we send out newsletters based on these posts, and one blogger's casual expletive could result in many recipients' emails being rejected by spam or content filters. The other reason was that I just fancied adding it.

Now it seems the Conservatives have one of their own, except that where ours represents the First Mate of an Arctic trawler in electronic form, theirs is more like a vicar's wife from a vicarage with lead pipes.

How like them to allow: "Diseased Minds: Once again, we see the diseased mind of Socialism rearing its ugly head", but turn (I assume) "the lower middle class" into "the lower middle cl***", and "to scrap the HCI with no notice" into "to s****the HCI with no notice."

For the curious, here's the regular expression we use ourselves (\\b represents the start of a word):

We then simply replace the operative vowel with a single asterisk.