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Can we ban the poxy word "brigade" on AH?

  • 14-05-2013 09:46PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Seriously though, banning the word "brigade" would run considerable interference on a lot of lazy argument. Also, it might stop me from having an aneurysm. Come on lads, it'd be amazing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    What happens if you need to relate a story involving the fire*******?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Great.. its the "banning words brigade"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Seriously though, banning the word "brigade" would run considerable interference on a lot of lazy argument. Also, it might stop me from having an aneurysm. Come on lads, it'd be amazing.

    Oh look, it's the anti-brigade brigade.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 485 ✭✭Play To Kill


    I hate the ban everything brigade.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭muff03


    The fire brigade brigade? I don't get it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Ha. A ban thread titled with the word they want to ban. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    OP is definitely a member of the high horse brigade.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    We will need an appropriate substitution for 'PC Brigade' before we can allow this.

    Plus there could be health and safety implications - we wouldn't be able to say 'quick call the fire brigage, such and such is on fire tonight.'

    Back to the drawing board I'm afraid, OP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    You'll have to run it past the Brigadier general


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    You'll have to run it past the Brigadier general

    Nice try...:(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    What happens if you need to relate a story involving the fire*******?

    Call them firemen. Then the feminists can complain without fear of being accused brigadery


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Ha. A ban thread titled with the word they want to ban. :D

    I should have included a series of mimes to explain which word I meant, perhaps?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭LOI Stats


    I propose banning the use of "poxy".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    LOI Stats wrote: »
    I propose banning the use of "poxy".

    Would you allow epoxy?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭LOI Stats


    Would you allow epoxy?

    Maybe, sticky subject with some.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    I should have included a series of mimes to explain which word I meant, perhaps?

    Yes you should have. Naughty naughty bodice ripper, saying the banned word:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    How about outlawing everything in OP's thread title?

    Then it would be;
    " "

    Much nicer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Orim


    Stop! Stop, will you?! Stop that! Stop it! Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand?! Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say 'brigade'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    How about outlawing everything in OP's thread title?

    Then it would be;



    Much nicer

    Easier to ban the OP...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    Seriously though, banning the word "brigade" would run considerable interference on a lot of lazy argument. Also, it might stop me from having an aneurysm. Come on lads, it'd be amazing.

    whats next ? book burning :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    Can we ban the word "poxy" instead. Awful word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Orim wrote: »
    Stop! Stop, will you?! Stop that! Stop it! Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand?! Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say 'brigade'.

    But all I said was that piece of halibut was good enough for a whole army brigade.:pac:


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nee Naw Nee Naw Nee Naw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Orim


    Nee Naw Nee Naw Nee Naw

    Are there any women here today?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    If we keep banning words, then we'll have none left!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Yellowblackbird


    br you'll only succeed in becoming a member of the new 'PC Crowd' or the new 'Liberal Shower'. You can't escape.

    Someday you may actually miss the brigade. Being in the brigade. "Wasn't it a lovely brigade" you'll say. It wasn't so bad after all. I miss the brigade.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    br you'll only succeed in becoming a member of the new 'PC Crowd' or the new 'Liberal Shower'. You can't escape.

    Someday you may actually miss the brigade. Being in the brigade. "Wasn't it a lovely brigade" you'll say. It wasn't so bad after all. I miss the brigade.

    Sounds more like the Borg.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Nee Naw Nee Naw Nee Naw
    You sound like a blind doctor trying to hit a Donegal man with a reflex hammer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,952 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    be careful. If we ban brigade, it'll turn into clique.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    If we keep banning words, then we'll have none left!

    What happens if you ban 'ban' first, how then would you ban the rest of the words.

    Does banning a word ban any synonyms or are they still allowed? Are we allowed to create new words to replace the banned words or are they banned the instant they're conceived of?


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