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Personally, I wouldn't worry... even though I now have an even worse phobia of statues than I did before after watching Blink. You'll be fine!

Oh, and you will notice that I have replaced swearing with asterisks. Please watch your language. Thank you.

Is there a reason for this Katy?

There's nothing I can see in the Guild Rules sticky about swearing, and McPhallus's post is well within the TOS of Gaia-at-large.

Couldn't it be left up to people who don't want to read the effin' and jeffin' of others to just turn Gaia's language filters on?

If not, maybe you should consider updating the Rules sticky so that people know the mods have an anti-swearing policy here.

On-topic : McPhallus, maybe you should start ******* dreading the whole of the next ******* season?

We don't have a strict no-swearing policy here on the basis that you'd get into all sorts of debates about where the line is drawn - but we have had various (admittedly short) mod and member discussions about it in the past and we generally choose to filter it at our own discretion.

I view swear words in posts more like I view spoilers; I'm not against them myself since I don't pay enough attention for them to have any effect, I just think some people might not want to wander into masses of them with no fore-warning as soon as they click on a thread.

As a person who swears a LOT in real life I'm being a complete hypocrite. But who cares?

But back onto topic again... I'm really, really looking forward to being scared by the next episode. There's nothing I like more than spending the whole night jumping at shadows! biggrin

Thanks Roobarb!

I am one of the people who doesn't want to wander into masses of expletives! I don't mind mild swearing, but stronger stuff (eg, F-word/P-word/S-word) I feel is inappropriate.

I very rarely swear myself (ie only when I've properly lost my temper or I am in absolutely agonising amounts of pain).

...I just realised... I have an exam in between the two episodes.
If I mess up because I'm scared, I am blaming Moffett. I will hunt him down for it.

Rose returns in Episode 11, Turn Left, written by Russel T Davies.

Personally, I don't swear here simply because pretty much no one else does. And there's the fact that as an EDA reader, I associate Doctor Who with not just a lack of cursing, at least on the Doctor's part, but the antimatter to cursing's matter. Fitz's and Anji's, not so much, although Fitz is startlingly polite at times, in his way, and has been known to say "Gordon Bennett" when surprised. But the Doctor says "sugarmice", "fiddlesticks", "gobstopper", and "flapdoodle", bless 'is hearts.

But the rules don't seem to forbid cursing. Maybe we should add a rule that says more explicitly that we don't really do cussin', but you won't be hung, drawn, and quartered if you do, or even in any real trouble.

And also I'm glad to say that scary episodes honestly only scare me for about a day. If I saw an angel statue, I'd be quite comfortable blinking in front of it.