Cockshoot Dyke

[Scotty]

Not to sure if anyone is interested but I read this article in the sun a lovely mooring and a nice walk through down the dyke itself

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16154156/picturesque-waterway-banned-by-facebook/

[petersjoy]

So Facebook should be banned due to the violent implication of been hit round the face with a book.!!!!.

[Vaughan]

I have just been reading about it.

I guess it wasn't Facebook that banned it, but the swear filter on a computer.

The name refers of course to Woodcock, which were prolific on the marshes of the Broads in the 19th century and before, long before boating holidays came here.  Serious commercial wild fowling was the way of life on the Broads, hence the number of places called "decoy" where huge nets were put up at the end of a dyke (oops) to capture Mallard duck lured in off a broad by gun dogs.  They were caught hundreds at a time.  There is a decoy broad near horning and there was one on Ranworth inner Broad, among dozens of others. Remember also the Norfolk gun-punt.

These names are a vital part of our history, which would be lost if we just allowed them to be cancelled out by some blasted electronic ROBO - MOD.

[Vaughan]

Reading a bit more, it seems that Facebook's filters do this because they are based on "American English".  Those two words do not go together as American is not English.  It is an insidious mangling of our language.

As long ago as Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer wrote that we are two great nations : separated by a common language.

[marshman]

Now I know why I cannot be a***d with Faceache!!!!!

[TheQ]

Which reminds me just when are they going to reopen Cockshoot broad which was closed "temporarily" about 40 years ago?

[Smoggy]

I recall a story about a swear filter being introduced at scunthorpe council and they couldn't work out why they got no emails all of a sudden, surely certain combinations can set as exceptions.

I'm with marshman on my faceache attitude, same goes for twatter and instacrud.

[Andrewcook]

This is Crazy of Face BOOK BANNING this place called Cock Shoot dyke as this is printed on all Broads Map so has Face Book gone insane bah

[Vaughan]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

Which reminds me just when are they going to reopen Cockshoot broad which was closed "temporarily" about 40 years ago?

When Blakes gave up the lease on it.  Luckily they didn't do the same on Malthouse Broad or that may not have stayed open either.

[Vaughan]

1 hour ago, Smoggy said:

surely certain combinations can set as exceptions.

I haven't yet managed to persuade this forum's checker to accept the word staithe without having to re-type it every time (including this time) so perhaps we have a long way to go?

[webntweb]

How long before Broads have to be renamed?

[ExSurveyor]

Staithe

Works for me.

It might be your spillchecker

[Smoggy]

2 minutes ago, webntweb said:

How long before Broads have to be renamed?

Like 'broads national park' or similar?

[YnysMon]

3 hours ago, psychicsurveyor said:

Staithe

Works for me.

It might be your spillchecker

I don't have any problems typing staithe either. Not sure about spillchecker though!