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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Feb 3

    My mum just told me abt a mad thing that happened to her 80 yr old friend, Dick. He tried to send his sister some flowers signed 'Dick' & was informed they couldn't print that &asked if they could put 'Richard.' He said 'No.' His sister received a card that said 'Much love, D*ck'

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      2. Laced Up For Lucy‏ @LacedUpForLucy Feb 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose @CathyYoung63

        how puritanical! We have a Canadian man who is all of a sudden no longer to renew his personalized license plate he's had for years because the Crown report says it 'supports sexual violence against women' . It's his surname.http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/grabher-licence-plate-feb1-1.4514486 …

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      3. goyo‏ @gschmittmusic Feb 3
        Replying to @LacedUpForLucy @HPluckrose @CathyYoung63

        Lol. It’s a pretty unfortunate surname, though. You gotta admit...

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      4. Laced Up For Lucy‏ @LacedUpForLucy Feb 3
        Replying to @gschmittmusic @HPluckrose @CathyYoung63

        I've seen worse, lol. It became an issue only after a certain President in the neighbouring country had his comments from Access Hollywood released.

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      5. goyo‏ @gschmittmusic Feb 3
        Replying to @LacedUpForLucy @HPluckrose @CathyYoung63

        Jesus. I bet.

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      1. Fraser Galbraith‏ @frgalbraith Feb 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        In computer programming, filtering out profanity while avoiding false positives is known as the Scunthorpe problem:https://youtu.be/CcZdwX4noCE 

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      2. Dangel Angello‏ @DangelAngello Feb 4
        Replying to @HPluckrose @RangaRob2

        I worked in a mental health home. It was spotted dick for dessert. A lady originally from Romania couldn't bring herself to tell the residents what was for desert. She thought we were having her on.

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      3. (((Hapless Robyn)))‏ @RangaRob2 Feb 5
        Replying to @DangelAngello @HPluckrose

        Lordy that's funny! I can see why she would be skeptical. We had a refugee had back a "bath bomb", thinking we were giving her explosives for Christmas. She thought we were daft calling a fizzy smelly thing a bomb. Poor Love, scared the life out of her

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      4. Dangel Angello‏ @DangelAngello Feb 5
        Replying to @RangaRob2 @HPluckrose

        😂😂😂

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      1. Jorah‏ @jorah Feb 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It was redickted

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      1. Geri McLean  🇯🇲 😎‏ @gerimclean Feb 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Kinda silly. It’s just a name FFS

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      1. Chris Corbett‏ @ChrisCorbett3 Feb 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Was his sister's name "Fanny", by any chance?

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      1. Darcy Brown 🇨🇦‏ @brown_down Feb 4
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        15ya I would have called BS on you, but our snowflake society has gone overboard with stupidity so that doesn't surprise me bunch of #Dicks or is it #Richards

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      1. Mr. Ó hAnluain‏ @steve_anluan Feb 4
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        My wife tried looking up Little Tikes toys at work and her company's computer would let her and reported to IT that she was looking up porn. Politically correct bullshit IMO.

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      1. Fi‏ @FiJustaperson Feb 4
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        And here was I thinking 'dick' was a fairly benign word but it's happened where I work too. Orders came down from on high and now the 'spotted dick' on the menu has been replaced by 'sultana sponge'. Not traditional but I suppose it does at least describe what it actually is.

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      1. Garth Godsman‏ @GarthGodsman Feb 4
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        No! No, no, no, no!

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      1. Geoffrey Hedger‏ @Fruitbat_44 Feb 4
        Replying to @HPluckrose @CathyYoung63

        It's a bit like doing an internet search at work and getting the results, Banned Content, or similar. When you're searching for Scunthorpe . . .

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      1. (((Just a Flâneur))) [All Hallows’ #Blockchain]‏ @EnlightFundy Feb 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Getting your dicks in a row, I see.

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      1. Paul Coddington‏ @PaulCoddington Feb 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        There was a guy some years back who could not get a drivers license because the system had been programmed to not accept surnames with fewer than 3 characters (why someone would make such an arbitrary and thoughtless limitation is beyond me). Perhaps this was a similar problem?

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      1. James Burnett‏ @james_burnett_ Feb 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        F*ck that.

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