'bloke'

[thatbloke]

Hi,

In personal messages and posts, mentions of my name seem to get automatically replaced with the word 'bloke' or 'blokes' when I hit submit, which kind of makes me look a bit weird if I sign everything "bloke".

This also happens in links if the same word is part of the link, breaking the links which is probably a bit confusing for the recipient.

I wondered if maybe whatever is doing this is designed to stop swear words and was being little too overenthusiastic. Is it possible the word g-u-y (without dashes) could be whitelisted?

Thanks,
bloke <-- I will forever be 'bloke'

This is not a complaint about the site, I just wanted to be someone other than "bloke"

[UK_Vstrom650]

How about Frank then?  

[Hugo Magnus]

Sorry about that bloke
 it can't be helped, it is done to avoid Americanisms

[thatbloke]

How about Frank then?  

We could all be renamed to Bruce, having different names just causes confusion...

[Juvecu]

No need to sign your messages, everyone can see your name on the side already

If you want a name change, message an Admin and we'll sort it.

[mr_diver]

the americanism filter is a bit of fun, that Fat Rat came up with years ago to make us all use the queen's English.

always funny talking about bloke Martin  

C-A-N-D-Y# gets turned into sweets and one of the older bike colour names is C-A-N-D-Y# Red  

At one of the Meets the was a member there that was called G-U-Y# and we called him Bloke all weekend  

[Ptarmigan]

...always funny talking about bloke Martin  ::

And who could forget Bloke Fawkes (5th November) and Bloke ropes (camping).....  

[Juvecu]

Bloke ropes was the best!

[greywolf]

Contact the BBC and tell them how much you liked "Sir bloke of Gisborne".

[Jacko]

Blokes and Dolls.

[mjc506]

This also happens in links if the same word is part of the link, breaking the links which is probably a bit confusing for the recipient.

This probably shouldn't happen, right? I'm sure there's millions of potential links with one of the verboten-words out there

http://www.bloke-cool-hooker.com

edit: nope, that works OK

[frez]

Maybe the replacement should use phonetics, then Girl Guides could be changed to Girl Blokes.

[frez]

Just thought of a hilarious April fool for Fat Rat next year. Instead of bloke, replace g-u-y with "lady boy", and some of the other americanisms could receive a similar treatment.

[thatbloke]

This also happens in links if the same word is part of the link, breaking the links which is probably a bit confusing for the recipient.

This probably shouldn't happen, right? I'm sure there's millions of potential links with one of the verboten-words out there

http://www.bloke-cool-hooker.com

edit: nope, that works OK

I was using a link to a charity site and my name was part of the url but instead it chopped out the g-u-y and everything after it, so it came out as

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/blokes

[thatbloke]

ha! Thanks to copying someone elses sneaky workaround (which I think someone else has already patched), I can now say bloke

This includes
Sir bloke of Gisborne
bloke Fawkes
bloke Ropes

Your forum will now be destroyed by Americanisms!

Thanks for the help blokes

Cheers
bloke

[Juvecu]

All I see is "bloke", was that supposed to say "guy"?

[tallpaul]

Another loophole closed!

[Brucey]

Hello, Bruce is a cool name. Lets all use it!

[mjc506]

[Brucey]

Did my 'cool' get changed to 'cold' by the filter, or was it a typo??

Me, make a mistake? Surely not.

In the words of the famous philosopher, Homer, (Simpson), DOH!