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Kiwi
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Jan 05, 2008 - 02:18 PM |
 
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How about the moderators remove the idiotic auto-censor on the word 's-l-o-p-e-s'?
I suggested this twice already in different threads, including the recent thread on suggestions for improving the site.
Here is a thread demonstrating the stupidity of this auto-censoring.
http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/index.php?name=MDForum&file=viewtopic&p=7 83793#783793
There have been other similarly innocent threads.
I'd have thought the majority of uses of the word were innocent. A slope is a fundamental concept that occasionally needs to be discussed. Auto-censoring this word is RIDICULOUS.
I'd really love to know who thought this was a good idea in the first place. I won't ask though.
It seems like I've been ignored so far in asking for this stupidity to be stopped. I'll ask one more time.
Can somebody please fix it up? |
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lodi
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Jan 06, 2008 - 10:37 AM |
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CoffeeHawk_0
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Jan 06, 2008 - 01:15 PM |
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yeah, because there's so many people that want to start threads about skiing. |
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Andreas
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Jan 06, 2008 - 01:16 PM |
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| yeah, because there's so many people that want to start threads about skiing. |
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sbergman
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Jan 06, 2008 - 09:12 PM |
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Excuse my ignorance but, aside from an inclined plane, what is a s-l-o-p-e? |
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Andreas
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Jan 06, 2008 - 10:07 PM |
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No ignorance at all from your side. I didn't get it either. |
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sbergman
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Jan 06, 2008 - 10:34 PM |
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Found it -
Offensive Slang. Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or descent.
That's a new one for me. |
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Andreas
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Jan 06, 2008 - 11:18 PM |
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Well, seems we are never too old to learn. That one was new for me as well. |
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leidelaohu
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Jan 08, 2008 - 09:35 PM |
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| Andreas wrote: |
| Well, seems we are never too old to learn. That one was new for me as well. |
Grab a copy of the Sand Pebbles. Not a bad movie, actually. Short for slopeheads, iirc. Term probably fits several of the new crop of posters. Does one have to fail an iq test to get a job in shanghai nowadays ? |
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SnappySammy
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Mar 14, 2008 - 05:00 AM |
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slopes they fixed it. Nice work |
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SnappySammy
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Mar 14, 2008 - 05:18 AM |
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oh now I guess they need to block it again |
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bougie
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Mar 14, 2008 - 06:17 AM |
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you are all dirty slopes .. all of you
(goes off to look up slopes) |
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CoffeeHawk_0
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Mar 14, 2008 - 07:25 AM |
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I prefer to be called an incline |
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mat
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June 02, 2008 - 11:35 PM |
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I think it's an Aussie term for Chinese people. Derrogatory of course. |
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bougie
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June 03, 2008 - 07:03 AM |
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Yeah it refers to the kinda side-ways vagina |
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ThomasCaron
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July 15, 2008 - 10:35 PM |
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Christopher Walken uses it in "Pulp Fiction" - "He'd be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright." - and it crops up in the Do Lung Bridge scene in "Apocalypse Now" - "Got slopes on the wire, man." It's a disparaging term for Far-Eastern Asians in general and Vietnamese in particular. "Slope" is a synonym for "slant" and it's a reference to the shape of Oriental eyes. |
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