Britain - The Official Thread

[Dotini]

Prince Charles wants to be known as King George VII because "King Charles is associated with beheading" (and dogs) and to honour his universally-liked grandfather, King George VI.

Who was, of course, called Albert.

"Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"

"Yes"

"Well, why don't you let him out?"

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...eX4y4VjWxQt.;_ylv=3?qid=20090724002241AAWV9Nl

 

[axletramp]

There's only one 'Prince Albert' I know...

 

[playnthru]

Isn't that a piercing on your?

Johnson! What is that up in the sky? It looks like a______........

 

[TheCracker]

There's only one 'Prince Albert' I know...

I thought that was an 'Uncle Albert' - or am i getting confused with an oversized white merkin?

 

[DK]

There's only one 'Prince Albert' I know...

Queen Victoria's husband?

 

[Liquid]

A cock ring.

Move on.

 

[homeforsummer]

"I'm as happy as a Frenchman who has just invented a pair of self-removing trousers"

 

[Robin]

Looking through the history books they could have called him King Cnut II

 

[axletramp]

Nice response from A&A (ISP) to the Governments new internet censorship proposals.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Nice response from A&A (ISP) to the Governments new internet censorship proposals.

Love it.

 

[Youngun]

Court proceedings also granted 2 more sites to be blocked in the UK, on is EZTV.it which i used to watch American TV programs either coming years after in uk or not coming to uk at all. Seems a shame as it wasn't hurting anyone, pay my TV licences but may want to watch US tv shows too.
Thank god for proxy sites

 

[Maccer_42]

Nice response from A&A (ISP) to the Governments new internet censorship proposals.

👍 Hopefully all other ISP's follow this.

 

[DK]

Nice response from A&A (ISP) to the Governments new internet censorship proposals.

TBH, my phone network has a porn block, but I can still access lad's mag sites.

 

[Mark T]

I'm pretty sure that my phone contract with Orange came with filters already activated. It wouldn't allow access to certain sites, even those which were not even slightly pornographic. Luckily the settings were easy to change online rather than having to call a help desk.

On the subject of children viewing pornography, I guess they'll have to go back to the old days of looking through the underwear section of catalogues like Littlewoods. Or they could watch a hip-hop/funky house music video on YouTube and get borderline nudity on there.

 

[Joel]

Some enterprising kids could make good money selling flash drives at school with porn on them

 

[ExigeEvan]

This reminds me, how successful will the filter be?

For example, I'm unable to view a certain pub's restaurant menu on my mobile phone, I suspect because it contains the word "breast" to many times.

 

[The Stig Farmer]

This reminds me, how successful will the filter be?

For example, I'm unable to view a certain pub's restaurant menu on my mobile phone, I suspect because it contains the word "breast" to many times.

Yeah... the internet as we know it will no longer exist... it was good

 

[gtone339]

Why George VIII and not George VII?
Why spectacular?

Like Prince George, Charles has 4 names, Charles Philip Arthur George.

 

[Famine]

If you're in the UK and use Bing to search for images of child abuse, you now get a popup warning that images of child abuse are illegal and are given details of a counselling service.

No, really.

I guess that means paedophiles are just reduced to Googling it now that Bing have cottoned on that it's illegal.

 

[Dennisch]

Does the filter also block the newsgroups or binaries?

 

[ExigeEvan]

If you're in the UK and use Bing to search for images of child abuse, you now get a popup warning that images of child abuse are illegal and are given details of a counselling service.

No, really.

I guess that means paedophiles are just reduced to Googling it now that Bing have cottoned on that it's illegal.

That'll make my publicity poster difficult.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

Some enterprising kids could make good money selling flash drives at school with porn on them

I think somebody did that at my school...

 

[Xenn]

Looks like this censorship's going even further than we thought

 

[Crumpet]

I really don't think a blockhead like Cameron who is always on holiday and has no idea how to run a country should have a say in blocking online porn...

 

[marxlien]

So now in the UK if you type www.somepornsite.com you cant enter to the website? Or just get a warning message?? Or nothing happens??

 

[ScouserInExile]

So now in the UK if you type www.somepornsite.com you cant enter to the website? Or just get a warning message?? Or nothing happens??

If I try to go to Pirate Bay, I get a message saying "virgin media have blocked access to this site" then I go to one of the million proxy sites. I imagine this will be the same.

 

[ExigeEvan]

So now in the UK if you type www.somepornsite.com you cant enter to the website? Or just get a warning message?? Or nothing happens??

Nothing has changed yet. Kleenex sales are still buoyant.

 

[Famine]

So now in the UK if you type www.somepornsite.com you cant enter to the website? Or just get a warning message?? Or nothing happens??

Nothing's been implemented yet. Generally it has to get further than a half-baked idea unsuited to combat a problem in the head of the Prime Minister - making into law, for example - before anything happens.

But if it does make it into law somehow and you do not opt out of the filter, then you're likely to get an ISP-specific "page blocked" message.

 

[DK]

I wonder if the Daily Fail intended the porn ban to extend to forums.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

So, help me understand, how far has this idea actually come? Is it just Cameron spouting ideas or is it actually a bill in the house of commons?