Giraffes appear to be on a path to joining the ranks of Winnie the Pooh and Peppa Pig on Beijing's internet watchlist

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Giraffes appear to be on a path to joining the ranks of Winnie the Pooh and Peppa Pig on Beijing's internet watchlist
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Now I need to know what it is. My first thought would be Spotted Dick, but then Dick is a name. Maybe Pork removeds? That one I can understand being removed.

I think I know what it is. You can buy them in the supermarket. It’s slang for a gay man, rhymes with maggot.

Ah yes, I understand why they remove it as I don't think it's often used in its other contexts. I do prefer to use it to describe a bundle of sticks

Ah so similiar to the german translation of the instrument bassoon?

And Norwegian. It's hard to converse with countrymen on a platform running word filters for another language.

Not just playing the instrument "removed", but discussing school classes with friends and family as we would say "hvilke fag tar du i år?" to ask which classes you take this year. Luckily Lemmyworld isn't that aggressive, but many online chat services and emails clients have started screaming at "fag".

Encountering such filters on a school computer that blocked my emails was particularly frustrating.

Someone has a word that shares the f-slur for a benign food product? Holy shit that's unfortunate.

My dad used to talk about them. He'd call it faggots and peas.

Why the fuck is this showing up as "Pork removeds" for me?

I feel like that guy on Reddit who accidentally set his device's language to Spanish and asked for help in Reddit, and everyone pranked him by writing their comments in Spanish