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That explains my ban too then. I was previously banned for a bad word, but it was just an aggressive filter that made an innocent word into a terrible word!

Thank you Merlin

Thank you Skuz

thank you Skuz

Have a GREAT birthday!!!!

Unfortunately - probably these

Yo @BUDMAN Time to start drinking more beer!!! Americans aren't drinking anymore. Alcohol giants are scrambling to manage the fallout. Cold beer on a Friday night? Maybe non-alcoholic. Only 54% of drinking-age Americans consume alcohol today, according to a recent poll from Gallup, the lowest proportion since the survey began in 1939. Even those who do drink are partaking less, by a factor of nearly half. The US is drinking less, and cultural connotations around alcohol consumption have shifted. The number of Americans who see drinking as bad for their health has increased every year since 2016, according to Gallup. These changes are hurting the country's biggest alcohol producers, forcing them to find ways to adapt to what might, according to several experts, be the early stages of a tobacco-like sea change for alcohol. On Coors-maker Molson Coors' (TAP) most recent earnings call, an analyst buzzed in to ask: Could consumer behavior get worse before it gets better? Or was the distributor seeing any bullish signs? "Candidly," CEO Gavin Hattersley said, "we have not seen an improvement in overall consumer confidence or behavior." When the country's drinking giants released their latest earnings, they reported slowdowns in volume growth across the board. Among the largest names in the industry, Molson Coors and Corona distributor Constellation Brands (STZ) took the hardest hits, recording volume declines of 7% and 3.3%, respectively. Anheuser-Busch (BUD) and Sam Adams parent Boston Beer Company (SAM) fared slightly better, with beer volume declines of 1.9% and 0.8%, respectively. "The industry," said Bottle Raiders vice president of marketing Amanda Paul-Garnier, "has never faced as much pressure as it does today." Alcohol's Big Tobacco moment? In the 1960s, smoking was deeply embedded in American life. Ads selling cigarettes were regularly slotted into commercial breaks on TV. Restaurants, airplanes, and even hospitals were filled with smoke. Nearly half of the country were regular smokers. That all changed in January 1964, when Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report that would almost overnight shift Americans' tobacco habits — the first to make a direct link between smoking and cancer. It turned out to be a watershed moment for Big Tobacco. Within five years, Congress had passed a series of laws that required warning labels on all tobacco products and banned cigarette ads throughout broadcast media. The percentage of Americans who smoked had dropped by 5%, according to the American Lung Association. The alcohol industry is now having to contend with the same health-conscious movement that hit tobacco. In January, former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a damning report linking alcohol consumption to cancer risk and calling for measures including warning labels on alcoholic drink containers, just like the ones adorning every box of cigarettes sold in the US. Consuming one drink per day, the report found, raises the risk of alcohol-related cancer by 19% in women and 11.4% in men. Having two drinks per day bumps those figures to 21.8% and 13.1%, respectively. According to Peter Monti, a professor at Brown University who studies alcohol use and addiction, the public hadn't previously appreciated that link, but he sees the possibility for that to shift. "We've really reversed attitudes, beliefs, and behavior with respect to tobacco in a way that I think we could for alcohol, as well," Monti said in January. Moderated drinking, Monti told Yahoo Finance, is "more popular now than ever before." Cases of beer are stacked in a Milwaukee liquor store on Nov. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Ivan Moreno, File) Boston Beer, which co-founder and chairman James Koch told investors is "operating in a challenging and unpredictable macroeconomic environment," reported perhaps the starkest numbers. The producer's Beyond Beer portfolio, with brands like Truly seltzers, now makes up 85% of the company's volume, outperforming beer, wine, and spirits. "To be honest, yes, three years ago, we probably didn't look at anything outside of alcohol," Koch said. "Now, our innovation team is starting to poke at opportunities." Cigarettes being sold at a Manhattan kiosk. (Mary Salen via Getty Images)

My bad, you both had bans in the past - AI changed some code for 'Active Bans' and didn't get the expiry dates right so your previous bans were reapplied. Should all be good now.

is this fly paper

They say 'the machines of the future' will be as smart as people… OK, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.

Thanks Skuzapo!

Thank You Skuzapo!

Thank-you skuzapo

Thank-you skuzapo

There has been some renewed interest in playing CTF with some modifications. IP: 149.56.146.79:28960 - server is ranked so custom classes can be made - no auto rank so you need to gain rank and weapons unlocks; can be changed if preferred but where's the fun in that haha - no dogs, no tanks, artillery available - best 2 of 3 rounds; 10 min each; 3 min OT if needed - no spawn protection; so get moving when you respawn; (done for other purpose) - Rule: No camping the enemy flag; nothing like getting shot as soon as you spawn (see above note) Initial map rotation map mp_agx_ameland map mp_agx_port map mp_amberville map mp_ambush map mp_dome map mp_burma map mp_carentan map mp_cw_brecourt map mp_kokoda map mp_little_village map mp_rostov map mp_toujane map mp_wolftown map mp_xi_shima map mp_dawnville map mp_matmata Any other suggestions, post here.