Orange wont let me access the locostbuilders site on my phone unless I confirm with them that I am over 18.
It's blocked by an automated websense type system. It is possible to request a real person review the status of the website and lift the ban if
the site is legit, which I did. 10 minutes later I got a text politely informing me that this site was definitely adults only!
I know I can just confirm with them my age, but still..whats going on? Am I missing the naughty section or is it just Flak Monkeys avatar?
its becuase of the naughty avatars!
forums are sometimes considered as adult, as anyone can post anything. depends on the filtering.
is it complicated to prove your age?
In so much as it gives no information how it could be done!
I imagine its a case of just ringing them and giving them some card details or something. Alternatively I can see it has a sign that I really dont
need to be on LCB when I'm at work, at home AND on public transport.
which phone are you using ?
MATE YOU NEED HELP, addiction is very dangerous, im getting worried about you!
i'm going to start insisting we have NSFW plastered all over the login page just in case we ever have a picture of a girl in a short skirt posted
on here
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Originally posted by omega0684
MATE YOU NEED HELP, addiction is very dangerous, im getting worried about you!
, tbh I have so little going on at the minute that my time is spent between my job and my car! All my mates have
finished uni now and gone home, so theres nothing else for me to do! I'm on T-mobile and had a similar problem recently when I wanted to check the national lottery results - blocked as a gambling site. All I had to do was contact them and get the bar lifted, as the account holder they didn't need any further proof of my age or anything.
hell no! it fills the gap between simpsons on channel 4 and sky 1. i started watching it when all the hot ones like louise were on lol
they're all dead now 
like all the women in my life (wtf? i come out with some nonsense sometimes)
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Originally posted by cd.thomson
haha, you are on here as much as me
Yep...sadly..avatars, some stuff in Madhouse...(which is accessible by the public).....also some of the titles of threads.....although the word
isn't there in full,..... as mainly asterisked out, or abbreviated to text speak ie 'WTF', the intent is there.....
It is only the extreme minority to be fair....but sadly that is all it takes......the ones with the 'I say/post what I like, and I like/post what
I say' attitude.
Sadly. because of that, we don't get many schools able to get involved with LB these days....
I can only do so much, it takes all of you 'good eggs' to say your piece within the offending threads/titles too!
This is NOT a web site designed for male, over 18's, it is a website designed for anyone and everyone, young, old and in-between, male,
female or whatever... with a common love of building cars....
Aaah well, best get on with me day job!
Fozzie......Admin
If it's anything like Vodafone (and I suspect they use the same software) then it's based on a whitelist rather than a blacklist, sadly this
means only popular sites that are backed by big companies are opened up to the world by being put on the list.
They do it that way around as it's pretty much guaranteed safe so they aren't going to get sued.
Amusingly I had to get my company SIM opened up for dodgy sites so I could diagnose some error reports of websites not working that were blocked
(nothing special, though one of the graphics guys had to do some debugging in a locked room as a jpg was found that didn't decide on our software
and they couldn't find a non hardcore example that failed in the same way *cough*)
The software for general network blocking used a blacklist and was fine with only the real dodgy sites were blocked.
so do you you not think your avatar could be found to be offensive by some people then fozzie...
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I use an Orange sim card to get mobile internet on my laptop. It will let me get onto the first page but blocks opening up any of the topics. If you
phone orange they will unblock apparently.
I frequent a number of car forums, and I can tell you Locosters look pretty tame compared with some of the 4x4 boys, but Locost is the only one
blocked
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so do you you not think your avatar could be found to be offensive by some people then fozzie...
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Originally posted by cd.thomson
I'm jusing a sony ericsson k810i, its not full internet, but I used to be able to get on here with it.
)
I'm with Orange and had the same problem, give them a call and they change your account so that you can view.
Then you'll be able to search for p*rn as well 
Mark.
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so do you you not think your avatar could be found to be offensive by some people then fozzie...
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so do you you not think your avatar could be found to be offensive by some people then fozzie...
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last time that came up it was revealed that the chap was confirming his order for 'two' bacon butties.