| onefang | So do we have a censorship policy for mirror domain names? | 01:05 |
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| Xenguy | One would hope not (I'm recalling Debian's brilliant censor of 'weboob') | 01:08 |
| Xenguy | </s> | 01:09 |
| onefang | I'd hate to find out that SledjHamr is a naughty word in some language I haven't studied. | 01:09 |
| onefang | And what exactly is wrong with large guys called Richard? | 01:10 |
| fsmithred | sledge hammer might be in my dictionary of euphemisms | 01:13 |
| golinux | Not politically correct to talk about male body parts? | 01:13 |
| fsmithred | under 'yard' | 01:13 |
| golinux | That name has been brought to our attention at least half a cozen times. | 01:14 |
| golinux | dozen | 01:14 |
| fsmithred | cozen might be in that dictionary, too | 01:14 |
| golinux | LOL! | 01:15 |
| golinux | My mind went to coven | 01:15 |
| rrq | well, on the one hand, I'd agree that in principle it's unnecessary to use words to cause offence | 01:17 |
| rrq | (or "offense" if you ar e american) | 01:17 |
| onefang | Personally I'm against censoring words to avoid offending people, coz people are quite ingenious at figuring out ways to be offended. | 01:18 |
| fsmithred | lol, so true | 01:19 |
| onefang | Dick is a male name, cock is a type of chicken, pussy is a young cat, tit is a type of bird. | 01:19 |
| onefang | I have no idea what sledge hammer is a euphemism for. lol | 01:20 |
| fsmithred | yard | 01:20 |
| fsmithred | sorry, I'm drawing a blank. If I had the book here, I could read you two or three pages of synonyms | 01:21 |
| fsmithred | Mr. John Thomas, arrow of love... | 01:21 |
| fsmithred | sledge hammer might be in there | 01:21 |
| fsmithred | or in a blues song | 01:21 |
| onefang | Make a word naughty, people start to come up with replacement words, that then become naughty themselves. It'll never end. | 01:22 |
| fsmithred | yup | 01:22 |
| fsmithred | can't say "moist" on US tv anymore | 01:23 |
| onefang | I think the name of a certain software company from Redmond should be censored, but that's just me. | 01:25 |
| gnarface | heh, well all that i can think of is that Peter Gabriel song "Sledgehammer" but i just looked up the official music video for it and ... the opening clip has uh... much more suggestive content than i remembered. | 01:26 |
| onefang | lol | 01:26 |
| gnarface | seriously, maybe it's just this music video that is triggering people | 01:27 |
| gnarface | google translate thinks "Sledjhamr" is hindi but won't give me a useful translation | 01:30 |
| gnarface | unless "sladejahar" means something to someone? | 01:31 |
| gnarface | but when i plug that back in, it says it's Slovenian, but the english translation is the same word | 01:31 |
| onefang | lol | 01:31 |
| fsmithred | found the page for yard. Hammer is listed, but sledge hammer is not. (it would be right between sky-scraper and slug) | 01:32 |
| onefang | Since that mirror domain name has been mentioned at least half a dozen times, and we never did anything about it, I guess I can safely assume it passes our non existent censorship policy then. Works for me. | 01:34 |
| gnarface | i'm just curious for academic reasons | 01:34 |
| * onefang wonders about the word "yard" fsmithred is using. Not a large area of grass and garden, perhaps including a tool shed, behind the building you live in? | 01:35 | |
| fsmithred | there's a putz.com, and they're selling email addresses | 01:35 |
| onefang | Or an old measure of distance that is three feet long? | 01:36 |
| fsmithred | yard 1. a one-hundred-dollar bill. Underworld. (U.S. Late 1900's to present.) 2. the penis The work-of-choice for the penis between 1400s-1800.(primarily British) | 01:37 |
| fsmithred | and then follow three pages of synonyms | 01:38 |
| onefang | Ah, before my time then. | 01:38 |
| fsmithred | monosyllable has four pages | 01:38 |
| onefang | One for each syllable? | 01:38 |
| fsmithred | no, just things that are important get many names, like Eskimos have five words for snow. | 01:39 |
| onefang | I think it's funny that monosyllable isn't. | 01:40 |
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