Now we all want to know what profanity was supposed to end this comment before the Guardian protected our delicate ears (uh I mean eyes)

Classic comedy

That sentence surely ended in "should fucking do it". Works as intended!!

"Edit". That sounds like effort.

I see what you did here 🤣

I love irony...

The poor thing would have melted if you watched the first 3 minutes of Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Lol that's great that they gave up on it rather than just shut it off for the movie

Lol

Sometimes people get what they deserve. This seems appropriate.

No, it just starts muting everything that _isn't_ a profanity.

@@michaldvorak1 the cuss cut

You damn right.

No, it enhances the profanity

What about if you're watching TV and someone on the TV is speaking German or some other non English language? What if they swear, does it only understand English?

I REMEMBER "HE TOUCHED THE TAIL" 😂 I watched so many movies with this thing but the songs in Bambi were being muted constantly because the birds kept using the word "gay" lol

Such palpable irony

callsic americano style *chef kiss*

That only happens in cartoons.

I love having gay [hugs]!

@@youngwang97 I love [driving] thick [cars]

"Hugs, Lies, and Videotape"

They had no consideration for the opposite hugs….

Leaving you wondering why your mother and father would want you to "sex" your cousins goodbye when leaving the family Christmas party.

nice

Well, "virgin" ironically IS a common p*rn category.

Good old Scunthorpe Problem.

haha that was hilarious

Aren't colleges meant to be where adults find their feet? If you don't get exposed to the world, how else do you learn to navigate it?

Hahaha, yeeaahhh... that has also always been my feeeling with song lyrics being censored. If it hadn't been censored, I probably never would've picked up on a lot of them, haha

ye ol' Streisand effect

It warms my heart to know that LGR watches Technology Connections

I find this thing and idea it typically American 😅

You also had to decipher some non-curse words. For example, the word "pass" became "ptush."

I'm Dutch, non of the profanities are beeped out. Especially with music, the radio version is just so lame compared to how a track was meant to be. From adding beeps or, in Gravel Pit by Wu Tang for instance, animal sounds and the like. Some whole lines are just inaudible. It's not that our youth swears more or less than in other countries that DO bleep out. Plus, most child targeted stuff on tv/radio doesn't have profanity in it anyway.

What was the answer?

​@@nlx78 I believe radio is censored throughout Europe, at least within the countries I've driven in. It's stupid, especially because the profanities are often in English (there's not as much cussing in songs of other languages) so children wouldn't understand the words, and the radio station could just... avoid broadcasting particularly egregious songs. We still get a song called " 'Nigerian gas' in Paris" to this day on radio, and it's a half-mute fest.

@@leonrois it actually called nigerian gas in paris or is it still called niggas in paris?

@leonro I hate that song tbh it's so annoying

Hahaha 🤣👍

Based.

You have a good father.

😂😂

sounds like an oldschool guy my dad is the same 😂👍

why would it replace "cock" with "clown" lol

Lmao 🐥

That's hilarious

Some silent movie Charlie Chaplin level stuff

The Scunthorpe problem.

*“He touched the tail”*

German version would censor the ''tail'' :D

@@lkrnpk I'm German, for the life of me I can't figure out what you mean, help me please!

@@simonro9168 i see your schwartz is as big as mine

@@simonro9168 "Schwanz" would get censored

Yeah - except that today basically all UKpostsrs are forced to "voluntarily" censor themselves exactly the same way. How much the US has progressed!

I'm [WILLY], The new sheriff in town!

​@@OGuiBlindaorichard for the new cowboy

"We'll take the 10AM train to Sushugs"

@@twiceineverymoment "Eshugs is an alright county I guess"

@@twiceineverymoment I'd love to know how it dealt with Scunthorpe

@@binky_bun Or the "buttbuttination" of JFK

@@binky_bun Penistone

Now that's ... one hell of a buffer overflow!

Do you know what program it was? I tried to Google it but came up with nothing.

And that, kids, is why you always use memory allocation.

This is the funniest thing I read in a while

I have heard about this somewhere before but I can't recall the game. Anyone know?

We had one growing up. Parents got it for typical Fundie Christian reasons. Now I'm Atheist. Maybe I should start blaming this thing when people ask why I'm not religious anymore.

Fantastic!

​@@nasonguy That must have sucked. England is a secular country, by and large, so we never had to deal with this sort of brainwashing. Even though my mum went to a convent school she made up her mind to never pass any beliefs she may have had to her kids. Wish more people were like that.

@@Blitterbug and thus, she passed her beliefs to you. Lmao

@@glovepro1256 what?

Came here to say this! I'd love to see that list.

Why would they not be ascii text

just a set of lines that all, continuously like an ourobouros, censor one another for their foulness

@@JussiPeltola these are pretty much synonyms in this case. like a plaintext file would be ASCII

@@JussiPeltola so that other manufacturers can't easily steal your word list and all your substitutions.

It's been done.

@@Kaczynski66 funny, that's the video that's about to autoplay next

That video brought me here.

Yep

Change innocent words into swear words!

Yeah, considering what they had to work with, they did a remarkable job.

I wonder if Oppenheimer would agree 🤔

​@@classicDropwig Oppenheimer is a fraud. There's no such thing as a nuclear bomb.

What's the basis for assuming the engineers had some apprehension towards working on this product?

@@yukiminsan as stated above.. IMHO it’s an “absurd concept”, that could never work properly at that time

It must be a perfect month for that long delayed Teletext video.

"Not Exactly 'No Effort' November"

Hasn't been since he hand painted Christmas lights

What do you mean?

@@sandy-lo UKposts doesn't explicitly censor expletives but it can demonetize the video or get it suppressed in the algorithm so far less people see it, and depending on the subject matter also get it age restricted. This of course has the effect of video creators avoiding them if they want the videos to do well. So not outright censored but still heavily suppressed, which is just another form of censorship.

@@Toastybeessandy still doesn’t understand.

@@Toastybees no, youtube does outright censor profanity in the youtube comments. try calling someone a few bad words and you will quickly find that your comment quickly disappears after about 17-30s. how much profanity you can use depends on how much profanity you have used in your past (kind of a "trust system"; negative feedback loop; the more profane you are, the less profane you can be), and sometimes it reaches absurd levels. in fact you cannot even post links to well known sites such as imgur or pastebin or whatever else. for as far as im concerned, the only links allowed are the ones that remain within youtube. your comments also get removed if you post too many of them or they are """suspicious""" in other ways. heres the problem: you dont get notified of this. the comments get deleted silently and you have no idea of knowing other than to refresh the page after about 30s passed since you posted your comment. worse yet, sometimes it may appear as though the comment is still there, but if you look at it when youre not logged in (ie from an incognito window), its not there. you may look this up on youtube, a tech youtuber by the name bisquit made a video about this. fun fact: bots bypass this system and post comments with malicious intent and these comments stay up for months or years at a time. bonus fun fact: google censors many sites from its search results. it is a very trigger-happy company when it comes to censoring content.

@@c0smo709 Well I did specifically talk about censorship in videos.

The snark is strong in him!

As a straight man, I can't stand guys who talk like this...

@@joeblow229, is "eloquent" the word you're looking for?

@@joeblow229 you really won't shut up about this LMAOO

​@@joeblow229 You prefer the company of men who speak in other ways?

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Uncensored captions can also indicate the tone of the person who spoken, you can most likely tell on captions if someone is pissed

Sometimes auto captions systems remove bad words not to censor the content but as a fail safe from adding bad words where there are non by mistake.

Here’s a bit of context on UKposts caption censoring: it’s a way for creators to get their content through over eager UKposts filters. At least this was the thinking at some point (algorithms may have updated since). If the creator over-rode the auto-generated captions, they could get the occasional word through. So, kinda like the TV Guardian, UKposts is/was relying on captions for filtering.

I remember seeing a vídeo about the old series code lyoko, its a french animated kids show, and one of the characters is named sissy. It was censored everytime it was said and the show is rated E

Isn't technology great?!?

That's something so weird about the US. In Europe people were (and to an extend still are) much more focused on children not seeing brutality and violence. The obsession by the US with banning swearing also leads to swearing being much impactful...

@@cyan_oxy6734 The US has also always been more focused on banning sexuality than violence, which I always thought was backwards too. Like, god forbid the children learn about how life is created; but they can learn early how it's ended.

@@Xatzimi the original American settlers were big puritans and that attitude still somewhat sticks around today

@@cheeselord8153 'were big puritans' is that why so many americans are fat today?

same here. the whole swearing being a nono thing in my house dropped when i was like 10 because my parents stopped giving even the SLIGHTEST shit about it. i still knew what the swear words actually were either way lol

Just curious if you grew up without language being a thing how everyone communicated. Was it via interpretive dance?

@@falxonPSN we aggressively shit. We had stomach problems so we used that to our advantage. We developed 138 different variations of squelching sounds from it alone.

Because once a kid hears a word he will say it. That same kid isn't going to shoot someone because he saw it in a movie. Kids do have consciences, just not as advanced and adults

Just opposite bringing up our kids. Our first we didn't censor much and sure enough we caught them saying things they shouldn't have along with a sense of entitlement. Our other child we didn't swear really at all around and didn't watch shows or movies with bad language and you can literally tell the difference in how they hold themselves. Many of their friends were allowed to watch adult movies when young and sure enough many of those kids have issues today. I'm sure that's not always the outcome as you've pointed out but that was our experience. One other thing I'll add is our child that we didn't swear around and censored what they heard when around us or at home has an excellent vocabulary while our other child doesn't have the same motivation to use or learn more or better words to use.

lol

Nothing wrong with a good Christian side hug. Unless there's a pandemic.

Jurassic park was the one that made me laugh

@@CTimmerman that's a terrible reason not to hug a loved one

@@matthewrease2376 You're kidding, right? I didn't even get within six feet of my grandmother (who lives across town from me and i see once or twice a month to help when she needs something done around the house) until she'd gotten the vaccine, and we were both completely fine with that, because if i gave my grandmother a virus that killed her, i'd lose my mind.

@@ShuRugal Yeah, but I don't think you would have been hugging your granny anyway ;)

Yes. Shame on UKposts for doing it with auto-captions.

I do transcription work and they really hammered this in during training, I’m glad he mentioned it

Same for me that's a secret

Sounds like there are more issues there than learning to cuss. I couldn't imagine yelling at my wife, let alone cursing at her (or vice versa).

@@Vykk_Draygo Doing so around the children . . like oh my 🤬why would you. Seriously though it WAS not *NORMAL to swear in front of your young children. If you mention "what shit did you buy" it isn't quite as bad as the following: "what the F is wrong with you." Or . . . "you b-witch" . . . "wh_re " . . . "being a jack🐎" and so on I don't even want to spell them. Married couples should not be using cuss words to describe each other.

This

@@NPC-bs3pm this

Great Scott!

Aw dammit you beat me.

Connect 88 of those in series and you can time travel, of course without any vulgarity.

This is heavy

@@kfin45 Is there a problem with the gravitational pull in the future?

That's dedication

I had an uncle that did the same. Northern west Michigan. Betamax was involved.

I’m right there with you. Headphones help me hear a bit better but it really bothers me that they can just do that.

@@L-sillybrained I've complained but never got a response. If there were some deaf people that got the ACLU involved we could maybe get actual accurate text translations but until then, I'm not holding my f---ing breath lol

UKposts should professionally create CC by hand for all videos above a certain amount of views (250k views?) and then let the viewer decide how they want to censor the text.

@Lime Which option is that when you upload a video?

I remember this being a baked in feature for their speech detection API so I had to resort to recognize_google(audio).replace("f***", "fuck")

@@wishunter9000 you can hardly make a general rule from his parents. People are different.

@@wishunter9000 my mom was born in the 70's, was a nurse and only now she got used to doing computer stuff because she's studying. Meanwhile my dad was born in the 60's and made circuit boards, made T-shirts for our city's Worker's Party and now just hangs around modifying whatever electronics he finds. Some people just don't care about technology and ask others to deal with it lol

@@wishunter9000 Funny, right? I mean since it was Boomers and older who invented the high tech industry, PC's and the internet.

@@artdonovandesign Not to mention the amazing TV Guardian itself.

@@wishunter9000 i know people who can hardly figure out how to plug in a HDMI cable and power cable. Something even simpler than the old three cables from back then

I presume said parents just want their kids to get jobs in the IT security sector, as penetration testers. That assumes that these parents don't immediately go nuts at the mentioning of "penetration".

Presumably the AIDS awareness campaigns were advising you to have safe hugs, too. That is one of the dangerous effects of prudish censorship. And, on a more frivolous note: did it also use "hugual intercourse" or "hug intercourse" as a euphemism?!

Ah yes, the dream product of the puritan america who doesnt realize how inneffective puritanism actually is.

legendary gymnast mary lou retton endorsed it. yes that mary lou retton.

That's outrageous! Everyone knows the proper replacement phrase is "special cuddles". =:oO / =;o]

Veterinary receptionist: And what hugs is your dog?

bahaha

That's great😂

Great story of fiction 💀🤣🤣

My friend did something similar with his central heating, put a wireless controller inside an old dial type control box and every time his girlfriend complains about the cold he lets her "turn the heating up" knowing full well it does nothing.

That could only go on for so long until she'd ask for a new box.

No clue but a 7yo could 'pick' the rear cable box lock with a pair of fingernail clippers.

Do you see what happens? You see what happens Larry? This is what happens. You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?

yippie kai yay mr falcon

Funnily enough avgn just released a video talking about all of those censors

I worked on a project once where we wanted to detect incitement to violence or other harmful stuff in text for book publishers. We had to gather so much material to train the models that we always joked that any day now, the authorities had to knock on our doors.

Imagine being the guy told to compile every word in the English dictionary known to be profane.

@@andreibaciu7518 I've been that guy. It was called the "Carlin List" on our project. The real problem comes with phrases. "Porch" and "Monkey" are both innocuous words, and are used in appropriate conversations in children's programming. But put them together ...

I'm loving the mental image of a company spreadsheet with one column being an exhaustive list of naughty words.

I mean that's basically what happens now

Your joke makes little sense.

@@JohnCena-ce5sp break dirt minecraft classic speedrun

@@brightblackhole2442 yes...

@@JohnCena-ce5spit makes perfect sense

read it a little slower lmao@@JohnCena-ce5sp

Teletext was i ternet before internet wad a thing.

I played a lot of puzzle pirates back in the day. I don't normally care for auto censors and generally turn them off, but I always left PP's "Pirate-ify" setting on because it made me smile.

cabbage you cabbage you are cabbage cabbage your cabbage. RSfilterr did that one time whee all swear AND NON-swear words wer e"cabbage"

@@nightmarerex2035 🥦🥬

And this reminds me of Neopets infamous Day of SIn. Where, after the NeoPets site had begun to fall apart, something went wrong, and basically the filters stopped working one day in 2015.

BLISTERING BARNACLES!

I feel really sorry you had to live through that bullshit

Damn she was unnecessarily strict. Ig she was extremely religious too because prudes seem to usually be in that category

so are you an ordained saint by the catholic church yet?

@@akiraigarashi2874 please don't say the beaver word it is a bad influence

@@kazooduck 😂😂😂😂😂

Oral hugs lol

Yes!!! I still think about instances of that one!!

Good one : D In poland there is a voicover but they make it with a slight delay to original actor voice so you can hear english right before polish translation. As in your example translation was heavily censored and modified but since we could still hear the original, the difference between the two was often quite funny.

Caraca! Os tiras estão chegando

@@driveslow48 calhorda!

lol

Very interesting. In Germany, which has no law mandating dubbing, but it's done anyway with virtually everything, because the German-speaking market is large and profitable, there was a period from the 1960s to the late '80s when serious foreign movies were turned into comedies by creating more "humorous" scripts and then use those for the dubbing. They had free reign and changed the nature of many films, especially Westerns, completely. Audiences absolutely loved it and many still do to this day, but much of this humor is very infantile and dated. The people behind the originals were also usually not asked and often shocked and surprised when they learned what their films had been turned into. Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill buddy movies were the most affected by this. The duo is extremely popular in Germany, mainly because these dubbed versions (which nobody knew were different from the Italian and English language originals) precisely hit the pop culture zeitgeist of their time. Both did however also make more serious movies, like Terrence Hill in the stunning Western "My Name is Nobody" by Sergio Leone (and with one of the best soundtracks of all times by Ennio Morricone). In the original, Nobody is a tight-lipped anti-hero, barely uttering a word in most scenes. This is still a comedy in its original dub, but it's comparatively subdued. In the German dub on the other hand, they used every opportunity to turn him into a witty comedian, constantly uttering little jokes and remarks. They often have him speak when he has his back turned to the camera and was silent in the original. One scene from this movie I vividly remember from a time when I watched movies first in German, then in English with German subtitles, then in English with English subtitles and finally without subtitles in order to increase my English vocabulary (which worked brilliantly, except with these movies) was a scene where he's arrested and walked towards a building clearly labelled "Jail". Since this word doesn't exist in the German language (it would be "Gefängnis"), they had him ask if he was led to the building where "Jail" lived (pronounced like a German would, so "yail"). This joke only works if you understand English enough to know what it actually means, making this one of those rare bilingual puns. As for cussing, there's much less of a hysteria about protecting children from it (it's usually not a factor with age ratings) and the German language isn't very colorful in this regard. Dubs try their best to somewhat emulate the severity and style of the originals, but there are cases of films, TV shows and games turning it down, for marketing reasons. It often doesn't work and the finer aspects of language, especially word plays, are routinely misunderstood and butchered, to the point that I think most people writing translated scripts aren't very well versed in the English language. A friend of mine, who kind of infected me with the idea of watching originals instead of dubbed versions, alerted me to this and I haven't stopped noticing it since. Luckily, this was right at the time when the DVD began to take off, which usually had at least two audio tracks, the original and the dubbed version, so I could easily switch to the original audio track. Except of course with movies that omitted them for space or cost-cutting reasons. Lots of films also retained on-screen translations in the form of subtitles for e.g. signs and text on screen, which is an issue that still exists on modern streaming services even if I switched everything to English.

My friend with one of these had fond memories of watching “Jerk Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” every year

tell me some of the stuff from the looney toons censorship's the box spat out

@DeviantOllam in the comments of a Technology Connections video? Just when I thought my UKposts subs were in two totally different worlds...

Honestly I'm not that surprised to see you here, this is one of the finest obscure tech channels to geek out to.

I feel like that is a joke because warranty void stickers were found to be illegal by the FTC.

How do you not have a check mark by now?

holy shit it's DeviantOllam

I guess no effort means no magic of buying two of them :(

That’s kind of a running joke with his no effort November videos.

All he needs to do is drop the contrived attempt to be “funny”, as he was better like that (when he first started) and all will be well.

@@unlokia Nah

Someone needs to do a data dump of that eeprom that would be really interesting to see!

What amazes me more is how stupid and clumsy modern programmers are. Mouse driver 1991 - 30KB. Mouse driver 2022 - 130MB. That's over FOUR THOUSAND times bigger for.... the same functions.

@@lambertovitali3152 nah, now you need that in Dotnet that runs a browser that runs your application in Javascript. 😏

5:35 that sounds like a job for @foone

@@BastetFurry May as well be writing BASIC and passing it through the interpreter built into a TRS-80 BIOS chipset...

There was in fact very limited use of teletext in the US back in the day. I encountered it a couple of times on the in-house channels at hotels I stayed at in other cities, with pages for things like schedules for the hotel's meeting rooms and other events, lists of useful extension numbers like the front desk or room service, descriptions of local tourist attractions, etc.

I don't know why you talk about it in the past. It is still transmitted and fed with new content, can still be used to receive CC and I know a few people who still use it.

We even had like these porn stuff on Teletext in Netherlands where you could lets say call a girl for sexy talk. hahaha On those pages you had these graphics of sexy looking girls on teletext. How typical. (Mostly late in the evening.) Teletext today is still used, many Dutch people go to a website that gives teletext and then read the news from there. Because they are used to do like this a lot. Like regular news, sport news etc etc. It's still heavily used here hahaha. Mostly by older people.

It was always 888 in the UK if I'm remembering correctly.

🤣

"He pulled out his jerk" is just beautiful.

Could even have the device passthrough at a second or two delay so it has time to process input and correct as needed.

@@GambitsEnd Heck you could make the delay way longer, minutes if needed.

It's a mystery to me why this company which still exists hasn't gone that route. It would be very easy. Many existing repositories for transcription of spoken word exist. Plug in your word database and pass through the video feed with enough delay to process it all and it would work near perfectly.

And I could also totally imagine projects being developed to do the reverse - to take bleeps and "vege swears" like heck and frick, and recreate a swear to match. Deepfaked audio could even be used if you have enough cpu grunt.

@@Mrcaffinebean That wouldn't be terribly user friendly though, with that much of a delay.

And most of the time take more effort than his regular videos.

When I read that I thought you'd censored the word _nut_ 😁

@@AnotherDuck Well, he never said he'd go to any special effort to go to no special effort.

@@Meshamu I hate how that makes sense.

I've always wondered how he distinguishes between No Effort and Regular, for that very reason! Now that I'm working on my own channel, with deep dives into queer history instead of technology, I think I get it. The throw-away comment at the end here, about how he'd look into it more but it's No Effort November, makes it all make sense to me now. I start researching a topic, and end up needing to do a good ten videos on associated topics, expand the video I had started, and.... go finish something else that's a little closer to done. (And then YouCut eats it, and then I have to redo all the editing while resolving never again to use YouCut... but at least I thought of several UKposts shorts to create along the way. On... a... nearly completely unrelated topic.)

Yeah I was going to use a TED talk about country flag design for a class where we were designing some thing and talking about designs. I was going to have the library to myself with my group but that didn't end up being the case so I mentioned to the other group that in case I miss muting the words (which I almost wasn't going to do). that sometimes you hear words that aren't meant to be repeated and I know all these kids knew all the words anyway. Like one of the other teachers said to me a couple of kids looked up classic art and their eyes just about came out of their head when they realized they were nearly looking at po.. (naturally shaped individuals) on the school computers, it was something along the lines of they're gonna find it anyway I have it in a controlled environment and they will also realize the standards have changed throughout the years of what was deemed acceptable and what wasn't. I wish I could remember exactly what she said to me as she leaned over when this happened in the library.

Absolutely. I’ve gotten myself in a lot of trouble in my friends groups over sexual related stuff, coming off teenage years of: you guessed it, speeches about no sex before marriage

Even if we had a million of those installed in the living room tv , it wouldn't help at fucking all. I got in so much trouble for swearing but not in the "hey fuck you" insulting way, more like "shit i forgot the book in my fucking locker" but even when threatened to be expelled, i just continued as it just felt more natural and better to express my thoughts more effectively and so i did

Yes that is exactly how that works.

While probably true, it doesn't make it any less immoral.

I'm going to guess that it was a function of "find and replace all"

lol that same thing happened to me when I tried to type the word “spicy” into a game chat at the tender age of 15.

He patched up your exploit.

yey

That's clever for the developer to be present while the public tries to circumvent the product's intended use!

LMAO he literally went: Ain no way im lettin this slide

live QA, lol

Dude saaaame 🤣🤣 My wife thought I was joking around at first when I told her I had one of these growing up because she had never heard of it before

Ah yes, taking hopeless efforts to avoid reality and overreacting when it slips trough seems to be quite accurate depiction of living in Christian environment.

Jesus loves you John 3:16 Romans 8:35-39

That's hilarious lol

@@michalgrbk Christian censored environments are more toxic than normal ones where you won't go to hell already for just saying f*ck once.

Wimps in boots….

"WOW HER RIGHT IN THE WIMPSY!"

Pray for mercy from... WIMPS! In Boots.

It would certainly make a porno film very interesting to watch...

I can't imagine watching a baseball game with it on... "Just a bit outside, two tail, two strikes on the hitter..."

Legend

I'm a member of a discussion board where Eric's dad is replaced with "nope" by the profanity filter.

But did your solution solve the clbuttic svulvahorpe problem?

for um science reasons do you still have that file?

@@michealpersicko9531 Unfortunately no, this was like 15 years ago.

Still exists in some countries. Norway is one example.

Yeah, I were too young to have any use of it. But my parents used to to check the weather, news and the lotto on it.

Back in the 90s I had a video capture card in my PC, and it decode all 4 channels of closed captioning and 4 channels of teletext, if present. While flipping through the cable channels in Canada with TT turned, the only time I ever saw text was a crude up-coming programming guide in the CBC French channel. Years ago, my parents elderly friend needed help with their TV: "It has a big black square in the middle of the picture" . I knew right away that they have accidentally activated TeleText display, without any text to show. Just keep pressing the "CC" button on the remote, until it cycles through the multiple closed captioning and teletext modes back into the "off" setting, and everything will be fine.

@@jonathancombe9991 same here in the Netherlands.

I grew up with it in the UK - there were games and joke pages for kids - happy memories :)

I mainly used to use it for "what's playing now and what's next" (page 333 I think) and a full program guide (starting at 303 I believe?). And there definitely was plenty of ads, mostly for certain phone numbers, just on their own pages somewhere 😂

Is was like a one-way BBS that only state-of-the art 80's and 90s TV had here in Australia :P

Sweden calls it Text-TV and uses page 199 for subtitles, but popularity is the same.

888 seems to have been a sort of standard for subtitles, UK Children's BBC and ITV used to sign "888" before programmes that had subtitles for deaf people. The commercial telly version, Teletext, (the BBC had Ceefax) was also one of the major sellers of cheap, drunken holidays to the flesh-pots of the Med.

We had 888 as the subtitles page in Belgium too. I remember often looking up the weather report.

What, did the teacher not watch the video first? 😆

Probs did watch it, but it's a really cool example of how much use you can get out of four chords as well as being a legitimately amazing music medley performance so they decided a single swear was worth the learning/viewing experience.

Let me know if there's a video on tuat

@@andrzej_autko haven't seen video, but i read about it on some Polish portal (but it's mentioned also in English sites) Since, you're Polish, check page 471 on tvp1 (it's also online). At the moment there is an ad with "we wish you that the time will pass quickly" part ;)

Hmmm, Polish AND Prison? Why explicitly mentioning Polish? Is this some effin stereotypes, transported by those for example German idiots[1]?: "The Polish & Theft go hand in hand". Anyway, greetings from Germany, fellow neighbor!:) Teletext is just an established service, a data service embedded and specified by the DVB standards. Teletext goes back to German Videotext, which was presented for the first time with a 400-page offer by ARD and ZDF during the 1977 radio exhibition in Berlin. In 2017, according to ARD (public broadcaster) Trend, Videotext still had more than 15 million daily visitors, 12 million of them on ARD and ZDF alone[2]. News, sports and the program pages are particularly popular, but also the accompaniment of live events (e.g. ESC Song Contest) and specific offers such as the Tatort magazine. In the German Wikipedia on the subject, which is well worth reading, there is unfortunately nothing about your interesting story. Thank you for sharing, qj0n:) [1] joking, I am none of them, you are welcome friend!:) [2] So this is anything but obsolete and forgotten. My father, who is over 85, is a heavy user of sports news via Teletext himself:)

@@dieSpinnt Sad to say we no longer have teletext in the UK: for the BBC (publicly funded), Ceefax turned into "Red Button" with the switch to digital, but they offered a little more than they could deliver when they called it "interactive TV" and it withered on the vine. Plans to shut it down altogether were put on hold in 2020 thanks to protests and petitioning by the deaf, blind and visually impaired communities. The commercial stations, however, contracted their teletext out to a company called Teletext, who mostly shut down services in 2010. So this wouldn't be possible here :(

@@dieSpinnt pretty sure it's just cause he is polish and thus the example is specifically polish prisons because, you know, he's polish. Like how I'd mention you can still send telegrams to American prisons. Because I'm American and that's what I happen to know. I know y'all have some... Uh. History with Poland but not everything has to be in that context

That reminds me of the episode "stop me before I hug again" in the show Limitless. His mind censors all the "bad words people say for the episode as a bit of a gag

hugs not drugs

Killing people is okay, as long as you don't say a bad word. The hypocrisy is astounding.

Oh, if you are speaking about the military ... My ancestors in Germany had an even better solution to stop those "bad bad things" from spreading, polluting the race and the ideas of "healthy" citizens: They simply burned that down! Art, Books, Drawings, Science .... oh and later the minds (including their hosts, the people), too. Please excuse my cynical comment (We Germans have good education in that disgusting matter of the past ... that is what happened, related to the topic, in my words), but that is the ultima ratio, the road where ALL censorship will lead you towards. But I don't have to say anything. Let's just cite "One man's profanity is another man's lyric". (= the public saying. better read: As Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote in his majority opinion, “one man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric,” reinforcing the idea that even unpopular speech is protected by the First Amendment. You can read the entire article from The First Amendment Center, search for "40 Years On, One Man’s Vulgarity Is Still Another’s Lyric") I hope your friend is doing well, too:) P.S.: And let's be clear: Not the words made him a good friend, but his actions, his personality and his character. Remember, in contrast, the worst people in history didn't need swear-words in their inciting public speeches that lead to indescribable sorrow. It was the content, the message, the context that broke loose the manifestation of hell on earth. These "specialists" in their field are at their most frightening when they talk so softly and usually about the unspeakably evil of their actions or threats. Who would know? Maybe in a decade or two our conversation will be deleted or censored ... because you or I used a word, that is not tolerable any more. Including all history with their lessons following generations could be learn from. Well, sad, but in that case, they are doomed to repeat our mistakes. Which is a horrible prospect of the future ... but also deserved, if they choose that path. Sorry for being that negative. Forget that rabbit-poo and have a nice day, K P:)

@@dieSpinnt you made a lot of assumptions to go from my comment to that

@@KP-ty9yl Since when are historical facts = assumptions? (WTF???) Or didn't you distinguish between the general and the personal part of my comment? Or did you misunderstand my black humor at the beginning ... well, then I am sorry? Not telling what you actually mean doesn't help. Because, and that is very funny: What assumptions? Should I make assumptions now, about what you mean?:P

@@dieSpinnt I think it’s a bit of a reach to compare the TV Guardian to governmental censorship, is what I’m getting at. And I’m not in favor of government censorship. In fact, I think people should be able to deny that Covid even exists, say that Donald Trump is a Nazi, and call Muslims rapists. I disagree with all of them, but people should be allowed to say them or post them online without legal consequence. But what people restrict in their own home isn’t governmental censorship. And I do see an interesting pattern where those who will openly criticize Christians censoring content for their children are less prone to criticizing Muslims or Jews when they do the similar things with their children :o

and the parents who bought this voted for Trump, and they probably forced to their kids to go places like "Liberty" University for college

Expected a slur at the end of the sentence. Dissapointed.

@BradHook And modest too....

@@stoneofverbosityi agree, but this is way too intense. kids neat to learn the difference between right and wrong, but also there’s been studies that show if they are exposed to violent stuff while they are still really young (like toddlers) they can become violent people. there’s no perfect way to parent, it just depends on the kid. i think this person could have turned out fine because their brain chemicals, but if you had a hands off approach with a “bad” kid it might cause more harm. personally i think you should give the chance to prove that they can be left alone with free reign of the internet

They probably wash his hands with soap after that swearing episode...

yeah, it’s almost as if the device is 50 years old or something

I know UK channels are required to broadcast a percentage of their output with sign language

Ha! I recently saw a video on Mr D and shared the remaining locations with my family! That's the only reason I recognized the Mr D shirt! Cheers!

I was thinking the same

Right?!

not in Murica