I've occasionally posted this on the other site, but never on fedi.

The finest document ever produced by Australian public servants.

@NewtonMark good to see any and all promotion for Turn of the Screw shall be deemed offensive.

@NewtonMark shit, somebody better tell https://www.smoo.com.au/ what "smoo" means.

And then, uh, me.

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@Hyperlynx @NewtonMark I'm obviously completely out of touch with the youth of 1992 because I have no idea either.

@Hyperlynx @NewtonMark I've been informed by @ThePingMachine that SMOO is female genitalia, or just the whole vague, general area down where that whole business is going on.

I'm impressed by his knowledge.

@mike @Hyperlynx @NewtonMark @ThePingMachine does anybody know Norks though. Is it a noun? Singular or plural?
@NewtonMark I wonder what made John Dickie pick this career path.
@NewtonMark @mike That ETC. in HORNY-HORNBAG is doing some heavy lifting.
@NewtonMark this explains why frack was used in Farscape.
@carbontwelve @NewtonMark and fracking is much worse in real life...
@carbontwelve @NewtonMark I’m guessing that was to get it a PG rating
@NewtonMark the board recognises that ordinary words can sometimes be rude in context, which is why we've limited this list only to gross obscenities such as … checks notes … uh, "root" and "beaver".
@nicklockwood @NewtonMark i remember a story that a Unix vendor renamed the root account in Australia for this reason. Or was this an urban myth?

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"context can render even an innocuous word offensive"

wrote censor "John" "Dickie" while polishing his golf balls.

@NewtonMark @cmddx tag urself I’m “HORNY-HORNBAG ETC.”
@NewtonMark I learned some new words :S
@NewtonMark written by John [redacted]ie

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My fondest John Dickie,

Your enclosed dissemination received with thanks. I hereby approve. Splice the mainbrace.

Sir Muff Horny-Hornbag, Governor, New South Wales.

@NewtonMark I'll admit, Nunga is a new one on me, google search suggests that it's one of the names of the tribal groups from Adelaide area

Though that raises even more questions as to why it was included

@NewtonMark Shouldn’t that be John ****ie?
@NewtonMark "Signed: John Dickie" hehehe 🍆

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Shit, piss, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. (Sorry - I know it by heart.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyBH5oNQOS0

George Carlin - 7 Words You Can't Say On TV

YouTube
@NewtonMark @davidgerard Imagine the meetings and the committee that led to this shortlist

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I'm pretty sure Frig, Norks & Smoo are all either smurfs or trolls

@NewtonMark Never fails to remind me of Carlin’s classic Seven Words You Can’t Say On TV bit.
@NewtonMark there’s a certain F word and a certain N word that are notably absent