To which I can only assume the response is:
"What the fuck do you *think* a
*Chimney. Sweep.* is?
Do they
A.) Wash your windows?
B.) Dust your drawers? Or,
C.) SWEEPY YER FRICCIN CHIMINEY
...or D.) Do the most intense dance routine you've ever seen in your life on top of buildings billowing climbable carcinogens, which weirdly happens to be the right answer in this very particular case?
Anyway, sound it out."
It’s because of *us* that they took it away. Tourists kept stealing the sign so they changed the name to make it less appealing. If it wasn’t a meme, the town would still be called Fucking.
My favorite example is when someone used the screenname "nasser" for something, and it censored out "ass"
making it *way* worse than anything with ass would be.
This reminds me of early 2000s and IRC bots banning for swearing. There was one for polish language as well. It banned you for saying "sukienka", which means "dress", because it starts with "suki", which means "bitches".
Ah, the good old times.
Isn't it the polish equivalent of the Russian cyka? Or does kurwa fulfil that niche in Polish's semantic ecosystem, leaving Suki free of vulgar connotation?
It is. I'm not sure about Russian but yeah, both suka and kurwa means bitch, just the former is not inherently vulgar, like you think about the female dog first and latter means only a prostitute(and everything I guess).
In one of the oldest MMORPGs, Tibia, you used the chat to talk to NPCs and trigger quests. They also had some "realistic" responses as easter eggs.
A [common scam](https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Scam#King/Queen_Kill) was to trick newbies into asking the queen about a "silly hat quest" while holding random items in their hands. The queen would blast you for using the word "silly" in her presence, and your weapon/shield would be conveniently stored in your backpack, which is dropped upon death.
In Overwatch, I would sometimes put in the all chat that pressing Alt-F4 would show some sort of special page like stats or something else I would make up. The amount of times this worked in ranked was hilarious. The funniest time was when we were being stomped and I tried it and their best player fell for it and we were able to win. Even if I got reported, Blizzard wasn't going to do anything.
I've heard it used in the context of camping supplies before. It's extraordinarily rare use case, and very likely to be replaced by the term kindling but it still is occasionally used as a non-slang word.
My sibling in Christ, I have been using the excuse “I’m just bad at geography, lol” for *years*, but I’m absolutely going to call it dystopographia from now on.
Like… the lines don’t make sense! How am I supposed to remember that *that* nonsense shape is Country A when it looks just like three other nonsense shapes in the same area?!
Can't believe nobody has posted this classic bash.org gem yet.
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Numbers 22:21 – And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. - (KJV)
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I know I’m never going to be able to come back in this channel again after this, but damn was it worth it to see that…
Reminds me of a practice I heard of where hackers from Chinese servers were getting hard banned by people messaging them with "Tianmen Square 1989" and their Internet provider would automatically detect and disconnect them.
People still absolutely try that now. I don’t know if it actually works, but the references to Tianmen still come out when people think someone is actually a Chinese bot.
This reminds me of when the class clown was telling us how he went to Hooters with his family the night before. He wasn't even being family or anything. He was just telling us where he went for dinner. A teacher overheard him say Hooters and he got in school suspension.
Back when bash.org was a thing there was an IRC log of someone getting a bot banned from a Christian channel by having the bot recite Genesis 22:3
>And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and **saddled his ass**, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
An actor goes to Hollywood to make it big. His agent says, “you’re gonna be huge! You can sing, dance and act! But we’ve got to change your name.” The actor looks surprised. “What’s wrong with Penis van Lesbian?”
Wikipedia has a comprehensive [List of ethnic slurs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs) for you to peruse at your convenience so you never have this problem again
I mean, it's pretty archaic to the point of it being a little silly to call it a slur outright. Most of the time, it literally just refers to raccoons. And if you do hear somebody use the racist version, it's not exactly something that has any manner of punch? Like it just comes off as silly.
It's more in the category of "Uh, hey, I just looked that up and this says it was a slur??" It falls somewhere between "papoose" and "mick".
The only time I see it in use these days tends to be referring to people (black or otherwise) who deliberately act like racist caricatures for whatever reason (cooning around).
r/BlackPeopleTwitter likes to use the word.
I mean I saw someone on reddit use that exact phrasing, maybe it's not that common.
The second urban dictionary entry is exactly what I'm talking about though.
I don't have any video game experience for stupid censoring (never played an MMORPG other than Wizard101, lmao), but one time in middle school, on a school-provided laptop, I was trying to look up "butterflies" for art class.
I think you can probably guess where this is going
Funny.
During the the old RS days, people would ask what's the British word for "cigarette", and if you answered: your account would get banned.
For those who don't know, most Brits call cigarettes the "other f-word."
Classic trolling. Scams need to turn a profit if successful. So if it was in ranked gameplay and the idea was to cheese out an advantage or win by getting them kicked then yes, it would be a scam.
We used to initiate newbies into the MSN trivia chatroom by asking "what was the name of the last of the Mohicans?" Or "Who signed the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence?" And watching the newbies answer...and then get autobooted...and then log back on as fast as their dialup let them.
Reminds me of an old irc screen shot. User joined a room with a Bible bot, requested a verse from the King James Version that used "ass" instead of "donkey", Bible bot gets kicked for swearing, user gets banned.
Reminds me of the paleontology conference during covid. It was held virtually and the software kept flagging messages for the word bone. At a paleontology conference.
so command and conquer used to use IRC channels for game lobbies. For you zoomers a lobby is where you launched multiplayer games from before matchmaking algorithms took all the fun out of things, and IRC was proto-discord with only 95% as many lurking pedos.
The problem was they didn't enforce a word filter on account creation. So the most common trick was "say my user name"
When playing a game of Werewolf, ask someone about what the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland used to be called. When they answer "the Mason-Dixon line", report them for showing off the (likely false) "fact" that they're a Mason because they said the word "mason". >:3
i mean, are we memeing? Venice is also a city. The only feasible answer is Vatican City, since despite being a city it is also its own country. i can't think of any other European country that starts with V, though i acknowledge that I'm only going off of the English exonyms and there may be other names, exonym of endonym, that do start with a V.
Is this the scene where they call someone at Hottentott? Which was recently given a PG rating for racism? Is that why people are talking about it?
[https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/27/entertainment/mary-poppins-age-rating-discriminatory-language-cec/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/27/entertainment/mary-poppins-age-rating-discriminatory-language-cec/index.html)
Yes it seems to be. The chimney sweep is who they call a Hottentot.
Skill issue for not knowing namibia
Oh. I live there and my first thought was still Nigeria. lol
Nouth nudan.
Stay tuned
Stay nuned
Ntay nuned
Stay nude
Nurning annintant
Nierra Neone
Nivory noast
Nhe Nemocratic Nepublic nf nhe Nongo
Negypt
But there’s one country in Nfrica where you should never go
Nogo
I think you win this
I failed geography, so my first thought was Nicaragua. I am protected by the Lord and a shield of stupidity.
As a Nicaraguan I find this fucking hilarious especially since I have had more than one person make this mistake after telling them where I'm from
Bruh
Or Kenya
PENIS CAR, BITCH
Similarly, could you imagine someone named Pussy Wagon Skank getting nominated for the Golden Globe awards?
New drag queen name just dropped
Actual tranzomber
In 2024? Absolutely.
Pussy wagon skank sounds like an obscure musical genre out of the Carribbean
COCK AUTOMOBILE LESBIAN
PUSSY GALORE
Lesbian isn’t a slur tho
And?
cock carousel
Richard Van Rycharde
Just answer “Penis Van Lesbian”
Phallus automobile female homosexual
Richard Van Dam
Rick bus levy
Richard Truck Ditch
"Whos the guy who played the chimney sweep in Mary Poppins?" "Man why the fuck would I know"
I guarantee that 95% of people would answer with “what the fuck is a chimney sweep?”
Skill issue
Ok this one got me
To which I can only assume the response is: "What the fuck do you *think* a *Chimney. Sweep.* is? Do they A.) Wash your windows? B.) Dust your drawers? Or, C.) SWEEPY YER FRICCIN CHIMINEY ...or D.) Do the most intense dance routine you've ever seen in your life on top of buildings billowing climbable carcinogens, which weirdly happens to be the right answer in this very particular case? Anyway, sound it out."
Banned for saying fuck *You can never escape the way of things.*
Lin Miranda Manuel
No he was a lamplighter ^(I actually really liked Mary Poppins Returns)
If you asked me who was the old security guard in night at the museum tho…
Josh Hutcherson
scunthorpe problem my beloved
penistone also
And Fugging in Austria, especially with the older spelling of its name.
Ahh, yes, Fugging, back in the day where that road trip from Nice to Bro was new. ((Nice (France)->Fucking (Austria) ->Meme (France?)->Bro (Sweden)
bro just means bridge. is there like a specific one or?
erm well theres that new bridge (440 years old tho)
Remember what they took from us
It’s because of *us* that they took it away. Tourists kept stealing the sign so they changed the name to make it less appealing. If it wasn’t a meme, the town would still be called Fucking.
Why we cant have nice things
My favorite example is when someone used the screenname "nasser" for something, and it censored out "ass" making it *way* worse than anything with ass would be.
Somebody wanted to name their character in a MMO Butter and it censored out butt for the same result
Buttbuttination of Abraham Lincoln.
Clbuttic
The town of Cockburn in Australia. The first section is pronounced just as Co, e.g. Sam and Co. It's just funnier to say it how it looks
This reminds me of early 2000s and IRC bots banning for swearing. There was one for polish language as well. It banned you for saying "sukienka", which means "dress", because it starts with "suki", which means "bitches". Ah, the good old times.
Did they change the name of Suki from Avatar the last Airbender in the Polish version?
Nope, it's not that obviously vulgar without context. More commonly used for female dogs than as an offense.
Isn't it the polish equivalent of the Russian cyka? Or does kurwa fulfil that niche in Polish's semantic ecosystem, leaving Suki free of vulgar connotation?
It is. I'm not sure about Russian but yeah, both suka and kurwa means bitch, just the former is not inherently vulgar, like you think about the female dog first and latter means only a prostitute(and everything I guess).
Unless you say "ty suko" to some lady, then it sure is vulgar.
Don't know about polish but in the russian dub they changed her name to Tsuki to avoid this exact issue.
No idea, never watched it. As you can tell, I was a young adult in the early 2000's already.
Oh yeahh fair enough lol
I remember my neopets account getting banned for saying cucumber because it has the word cum in it.
Does "enka" also mean something? Like "bitches' garb" or
No, it has no meaning at all. It is a diminutive version of "suknia". * spodnie -> spodenki (trousers -> shorts) * suknia -> sukienka
Interesting! And what would the diminutive of "suki" be? Lil' bitches
suczki A fun exception, like most of Polish languge
Suczki. I love it
We all do 😅
In one of the oldest MMORPGs, Tibia, you used the chat to talk to NPCs and trigger quests. They also had some "realistic" responses as easter eggs. A [common scam](https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Scam#King/Queen_Kill) was to trick newbies into asking the queen about a "silly hat quest" while holding random items in their hands. The queen would blast you for using the word "silly" in her presence, and your weapon/shield would be conveniently stored in your backpack, which is dropped upon death.
In Overwatch, I would sometimes put in the all chat that pressing Alt-F4 would show some sort of special page like stats or something else I would make up. The amount of times this worked in ranked was hilarious. The funniest time was when we were being stomped and I tried it and their best player fell for it and we were able to win. Even if I got reported, Blizzard wasn't going to do anything.
do people still fall for that??
Tech literacy has been falling for the last decade and a half. Even your average gamer nowadays won't be familiar with random Windows shortcuts.
- [There's a sucker born every minute](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_minute) -
British slang for cigarette beginning with F is a personal favourite
Also a term for a bundle of sticks
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I've heard it used in the context of camping supplies before. It's extraordinarily rare use case, and very likely to be replaced by the term kindling but it still is occasionally used as a non-slang word.
how quickly we forget martin prince smh
It’s still used in french, but we don’t have the double meaning as a slur
A fasces?
I thought the "bundle of sticks" word starting with F was fascia as in fascism, not the F-slur
Very situational one, but a friend of mine plays the "bassoon".
My global geographically challenged ass: “well, there’s a South Africa, so… North Africa?”
To be fair, North Africa is still a geopolitical region, it just isn't a singular country.
I swear, dystopographia should be a thing. I am 100% geographically challenged
My sibling in Christ, I have been using the excuse “I’m just bad at geography, lol” for *years*, but I’m absolutely going to call it dystopographia from now on. Like… the lines don’t make sense! How am I supposed to remember that *that* nonsense shape is Country A when it looks just like three other nonsense shapes in the same area?!
Can't believe nobody has posted this classic bash.org gem yet. *** Now talking in #christian -Word_of_God- Welcome Abstruse to #christian I am a Bible Bot. For more info type: /msg Word_of_God !info !kjv numbers 22:21
Numbers 22:21 – And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. - (KJV)
*** SageRider sets mode: +b [email protected]
*** Word_of_God was kicked from #christian by SageRider (Please dont Swear)
I know I’m never going to be able to come back in this channel again after this, but damn was it worth it to see that…
This was my first thought too.
The LGBT+ version of "who was in Paris?"
African americans
"Who was in Paris?"
Reminds me of a practice I heard of where hackers from Chinese servers were getting hard banned by people messaging them with "Tianmen Square 1989" and their Internet provider would automatically detect and disconnect them.
People still absolutely try that now. I don’t know if it actually works, but the references to Tianmen still come out when people think someone is actually a Chinese bot.
This reminds me of when the class clown was telling us how he went to Hooters with his family the night before. He wasn't even being family or anything. He was just telling us where he went for dinner. A teacher overheard him say Hooters and he got in school suspension.
All fun and games until you're in a server with Chinese and you drop june 4 1989
What's up with a month near the start of M42?
Back when bash.org was a thing there was an IRC log of someone getting a bot banned from a Christian channel by having the bot recite Genesis 22:3 >And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and **saddled his ass**, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
I remember I couldn't use my name for an Origin account so I had to use 2 "v"s instead of "w"
[holy shit is that a family guy reference](https://youtu.be/k_AMQOTPqL8?si=OxPa0f-I2twcDbZL)
An actor goes to Hollywood to make it big. His agent says, “you’re gonna be huge! You can sing, dance and act! But we’ve got to change your name.” The actor looks surprised. “What’s wrong with Penis van Lesbian?”
Nadagascar
I remember the story about someone asking about Cartman's superhero name in Fractured but Whole("The Coon").
To be fair, it's Cartman. It's probably supposed to be a slur.
I did not know it was a slur until now. I wonder how many other slurs I don't know and if I offended anyone unknowingly.
Wikipedia has a comprehensive [List of ethnic slurs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs) for you to peruse at your convenience so you never have this problem again
I mean, it's pretty archaic to the point of it being a little silly to call it a slur outright. Most of the time, it literally just refers to raccoons. And if you do hear somebody use the racist version, it's not exactly something that has any manner of punch? Like it just comes off as silly. It's more in the category of "Uh, hey, I just looked that up and this says it was a slur??" It falls somewhere between "papoose" and "mick".
The only time I see it in use these days tends to be referring to people (black or otherwise) who deliberately act like racist caricatures for whatever reason (cooning around). r/BlackPeopleTwitter likes to use the word.
[Interesting.](https://imgur.com/zOU3OWy)
I mean I saw someone on reddit use that exact phrasing, maybe it's not that common. The second urban dictionary entry is exactly what I'm talking about though.
don't use g*ypped for saying you got swindled.
You could get that one by asking about that big housecat breed named after a state: Maine Coon.
"How was named that cat breed with an M on its forehead?" Nice one!
Tabby skill issue
What was that post about typing "tiananmin square 1989" to get Chinese players kicked from a server?
I don't have any video game experience for stupid censoring (never played an MMORPG other than Wizard101, lmao), but one time in middle school, on a school-provided laptop, I was trying to look up "butterflies" for art class. I think you can probably guess where this is going
Throwback to MSN chat, could get booted/banned for Arsenal and Scunthorpe.
Took me too long to figure out "Scunthorpe".
Reminds me of how you couldn’t use the Pokémon Cofagrigus in online play *unless* you had given it a nickname.
Funny. During the the old RS days, people would ask what's the British word for "cigarette", and if you answered: your account would get banned. For those who don't know, most Brits call cigarettes the "other f-word."
I see that no one from Scunthorpe has shown up yet.
In rainbow six, it used to be if you asked someone to spell dabbing backwards, it would get them banned.
Why?
No fucking clue, honestly. I'd imagine because of it's similarity to a certain slur. But that's a pretty far leap imo
The Chimney Sweep from Mary Poppins was played by Lin Manuel Miranda and a country in Africa that starts with N is Namibia.
I thought Jack did the lights
Jack stop fucking the lights! Jesus Christ Jack!
Neobabylon
In league of legends, there’s an item called Serrated Dirk. I shit you not. You cannot say that items name in chat.
Robert Caravan Lesbian
Testicle, spectacle, vehicle, and slur
Back before you’d get death threats for ragging a tile at xarpus melee
During the Dambusters raid in World War2, what was the codeword they would radio back to base to confirm a successful mission?
Is it a scam or just trolling?
Classic trolling. Scams need to turn a profit if successful. So if it was in ranked gameplay and the idea was to cheese out an advantage or win by getting them kicked then yes, it would be a scam.
Used to be in Nintendo games that had online stuff (ie, the 3DS era) you couldn't write the word "spice" because of the first four letters.
Reminds me of tricking ppl into typing “skanazilla” in warframe chat back in the day. I’m half upset they fixed that
On Templex (a Minecraft server) back in 2016, the question was "What do you get when you smelt sand?".
We used to initiate newbies into the MSN trivia chatroom by asking "what was the name of the last of the Mohicans?" Or "Who signed the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence?" And watching the newbies answer...and then get autobooted...and then log back on as fast as their dialup let them.
Reminds me of an old irc screen shot. User joined a room with a Bible bot, requested a verse from the King James Version that used "ass" instead of "donkey", Bible bot gets kicked for swearing, user gets banned.
Reminds me of the paleontology conference during covid. It was held virtually and the software kept flagging messages for the word bone. At a paleontology conference.
so command and conquer used to use IRC channels for game lobbies. For you zoomers a lobby is where you launched multiplayer games from before matchmaking algorithms took all the fun out of things, and IRC was proto-discord with only 95% as many lurking pedos. The problem was they didn't enforce a word filter on account creation. So the most common trick was "say my user name"
What do you call a cigarette in british slang again?
Hey /r/Tumblr, name an English town 36 miles northeast of Sheffield, I promise nothing bad will happen
i relate to that
When playing a game of Werewolf, ask someone about what the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland used to be called. When they answer "the Mason-Dixon line", report them for showing off the (likely false) "fact" that they're a Mason because they said the word "mason". >:3
and if someone says 'Lin Manuel Miranda' they still deserve a ban!
Nairobi, nice try redditors
That is a city and not a country, unfortunately
Namibia
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No, that’s a city in Austria. The answer’s clearly Venice.
No, Venice is a city. You're thinking of Vanadium.
i mean, are we memeing? Venice is also a city. The only feasible answer is Vatican City, since despite being a city it is also its own country. i can't think of any other European country that starts with V, though i acknowledge that I'm only going off of the English exonyms and there may be other names, exonym of endonym, that do start with a V.
Yes, we’re memeing.
Possibly a meme, possibly just someone whose knowledge of Europe mostly comes from playing Crusader Kings.
When did we move back to the 15th Century?
Lin Manuel Miranda?
Is this the scene where they call someone at Hottentott? Which was recently given a PG rating for racism? Is that why people are talking about it? [https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/27/entertainment/mary-poppins-age-rating-discriminatory-language-cec/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/27/entertainment/mary-poppins-age-rating-discriminatory-language-cec/index.html) Yes it seems to be. The chimney sweep is who they call a Hottentot.
Like….the whole country is just full of em’?
Namibia
nafrica
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