YouTube buys BDOTGNZA filter

**Hitcher** · 14th October 2008, 10:11

Originally Posted by vifferman

Isn't frisson a type of french pudding (probably made from whipped escargot)?

Mrs Bond will be along shortly to concur. Or not.

**Phurrball** · 14th October 2008, 12:15

Originally Posted by vifferman

Tell us more, perhaps about the types of ways one might laugh appropriately, in amongst the piles of books, and studious students therein.
Perhaps a nice polite, dusty cough-laugh?
A tentative titter?
A snot-snuffling snort or two?
Do tell...

I think you imply correctly - there is no appropriate way to laugh in the lib...

Usually desperate attempts to contain the guffaws result in a good impression of choking.

Just don't attract THE librarian's attentions. She has the power to fine...

What a KB thread that'd be - "I was fined for laffing in the lib by the revenue-gathering librarian. I demamded proof, and now I'm taking it international"

Originally Posted by Blossom

So the standard answer of "yes you have the right to silence but what you lack is the capability" is not going to work for you huh?

yeah yeah i know

I am similarly bored, diseased brained and I too laughed inappropriately during this thread.

Yep - have been out on SCOPE with the Police. Detained persons seem to lack the ability to remain silent, preferring to dig the hole deeper, and deeper...

Including loud cellphone conversations bemoaning the lack of fairness of it all.

I wish this blardy research trail was that simple. At least it's the very last piece of written work of my degree.

*Sigh* (only a small and library-appropriate one though!)

**skidMark** · 14th October 2008, 12:49

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Breaking news!

YouTube has seen the light and procured BDOTGNZA filtering software.

"Some users and advertisers have shied away from YouTube because of the vitriol, bullying and incoherence that dominates much of the user comments.

YouTube is so reputed for its unintelligent discussions that a software developer has created a Firefox extension, dubbed YouTube Comment Snob, which simply filters out undesirable comments on the site by searching for poor selling, bad language, excessive punctuation and capitalisation and comments with all capital letters."

A frisson of joy momentarily engulfed me.

Ah damn it doesn't automatically filter poor spelling, only poor selling.

**jrandom** · 14th October 2008, 15:44

The xkcd strip, published a few weeks ago, that started it all:

**Swoop** · 14th October 2008, 18:52

Will it censor words like these?

**Winston001** · 14th October 2008, 19:05

Originally Posted by Swoop

Will it censor words like these?

Ooer nice link, very cool.

**MidnightMike** · 14th October 2008, 19:07

Am I the only one around here who doesnt know what that all stands for?

**Swoop** · 14th October 2008, 19:11

Originally Posted by MidnightMike

Am I the only one around here who doesnt know what that all stands for?

BDOTGNZA?

Big Dave Offers The Greatest NZ Accessories (bike related, of course).

Simple really.

**skidMark** · 14th October 2008, 19:35

Originally Posted by Swoop

BDOTGNZA?

Big Dave Offers The Greatest NZ Accessories (bike related, of course).

Simple really.

you cant tell me after all this bullshit that is what that means.

**Madness** · 14th October 2008, 19:49

Originally Posted by Hitcher

A frisson of joy momentarily engulfed me.

I hope you had a tissue.

**Winston001** · 14th October 2008, 19:53

Originally Posted by MidnightMike

Am I the only one around here who doesnt know what that all stands for?

Nooooo......but you are probably the only one innocent enough to say so....

Incidentally, "doesn't" has an apostrophe in it.

**Winston001** · 14th October 2008, 20:00

Originally Posted by Phurrball

How did poor Dr H's thread expounding a vision of utopia become transmogrified into a discourse on leg-humping gay French puddings?

The power of language never ceases to amaze me...

Ach liebling, English is a living language, aswirl with the motiffs and discombobulations of the lexiphane warrior, don't you know Dicky old chum and having lots of toads in the hole and Welsh rarebit.......

**Phurrball** · 15th October 2008, 13:44

Originally Posted by Winston001

Ach liebling, English is a living language, aswirl with the motiffs and discombobulations of the lexiphane warrior, don't you know Dicky old chum and having lots of toads in the hole and Welsh rarebit.......

^^^Ah yes, I love our lively discombobulated bastard of a language, begat by sundry cheeky neighbours clambering into her mother's bed.

Like all the best mistresses, a real bitch to live with on occasion, yet we're inextricably intertwined into her fate – most of us through geographical accident of birth…

(However, some extant mutations are best surgically excised for the greater benefit of the whole - all praise to the BDOTGNZA creed of lexiphane warrior - cutting a broad swathe of linguistic purity through cyberspace!)

**Winston001** · 15th October 2008, 19:58

And now a short intermission to allow patrons to refresh their dictionaries and grammars.......

Highly recommended reading is "The Mother Tongue" by Bill Bryson which details the history and epistemology of our wonderfully obtuse and lyrical language.