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[–] 78 points 3 months ago (17 children)
  • [–] 64 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    The word or string "ass" may be replaced by "butt", resulting in "clbuttic" for "classic", "clbuttroom" for "classroom", "buttignment" for "assignment", and "buttbuttinate" for "assassinate".

    This is seriously one of the funniest things I've ever read. Like gosh, I'd recommend everyone give that article a full read. I couldn't even get mad at the stupidity. I'm bookmarking this to read again when I have a bad day.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    Can also do this with buzzwords the media likes to use, like the "cloud to butt" extension, or force to horse

    In the current headline writing about politics, I'd love to se a "slammed to fondled" one

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I see this all the time in Elden Ring. So many players want the word "Knight" in their name but it just ends up rendering as "K***ht". Also the substring "ho" comes up a lot and is censored.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Two or three services blacklisted something in my username, Lyra Lycan. To this day I never found out what, why or which language

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Took me a very long time to understand why my go to, Scooter, was being blocked... extra harsh filter catching "cooter" was the culprit. Only discovered because something just * the string so my name was S******

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago*

    In October 2004, it was reported that the Horniman Museum in London was failing to receive some of its email because filters mistakenly treated its name as a version of the words horny man.

    There are a lot of gems in the article.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    All this fucking censorship needs to stop.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Where I live, there used to be an Officer Gay in our police. He retired a while ago, but just imagine the possibilities. There was graffiti. Soo much graffiti.

    Like, this was a legitimate word, once, used for names and such.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The Flintstones theme song....

    "We'll have a gay old time"

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago

    That’s an absurd word to ban in a swear filter anyway.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago

    This reminds me of the recent removal of the Enola Gay in US government history archives because LGBT+ is DEI.

    Forgetting that gay not only has multiple meanings, but only predominately referred to homosexuality in the 1980s.

    I remember looking it up as a kid. 1970s era dictionaries did not include the present definition.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No way. I live in a lttle hamlet called Filthy Cumslut and the same thing happened.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    So if you were having a same sex wedding would you drive there just to send out invites so that the postmark read "Ft. Gay"

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    Hahaha I wonder if they did the same thing with anyone from Dildo, Newfoundland

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Gayming history at its finest!

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    At least its not Cockermouth

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    A lot of events like this not this one but a lot boil down to English centrism like that Shiitake issue or the Quebec website who went by the acronym cum.

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  • I've seen USians complaining about our word for black people, ignoring that calling someone black (like the color) used to be as offensive to us as the N word is to them, while our equivalent to the N word was the non-racist option. Older people who haven't caught up with recent trends might still find referring to people as black offensive.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    Get doxxed by Wikipedia, lol

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