Could GNHQ please tell me why............

Is bloody a swear word?

Greatnan I've read that it's short for 'by Our Lady', so perhaps it's blasphemous - or might once have been thought so.

I can remember being shocked, in an admiring kind of way, when a friend said 'bloody hell' when the chain came off her bike. We were told not to say 'Gosh' or 'Jiminy Cricket' at my very strict school.

Just shows how things have changed.

Shite me Greatnan! What do you call swearwords?!

B****cks! (Just testing!)

Did it work?

Yes!

bunch of comediennes

bl**

See!

I have!!! (a prim and proper puter)

I typed blstarstarstarstar.

And only two stars came out.

Night night. On this very starry night.

Looks as though your computer doesn't like swearing, and mine doesn't like priapic statues, jingl...

Nothing to do with us is it Anagram.

Definitely not our fault.

I seem to have cured mine of its aversion to Roman frescos, though.

I typed 4 stars i.e. * + 3 more. on another post not as a substitute for swearing but as in 4star hotel. Was amused to see it didn't print I wonder if I leave spaces * * * *

ahhh! that worked

Well, I just tried 4 stars on their own and I got "Sorry, you may not add a blank message" in red. It wasn't blank. How did it know it was only 4 stars?

They do like their red at HQ. I think they might have been teachers in another life.

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Worked for me! (with spaces)

Which is silly, because that's a blank message as well, surely? (according to GNHQ)

I posted a really blank message, ie several spaces and nothing else. It failed to post it but without comment. Then when I composed this, it had the spaces in position at the start. After this one I'm about to try a lot of spaces, followed by a star.

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It missed out the stars at the start but posted the star. Will now try a star followed by half a dozen spaces then another star.

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