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spessx said:
Willy_Voet said:b/c "P O O F" has some negative conotations in anglophone countries besides the US.
Cerberus said:It hasn't been hacked. The pro-lance site is the .com one (which has been taken down), this one is a s**** - not a hack.
ETA: Apparently S P O O F is a bad word acccording to the autocensor. I can't for the life of me see why.
Zoncolan said:I believe it's derogatory towards African-Americans.
Zoncolan said:I believe it's derogatory towards African-Americans.
Damiano Machiavelli said:That is a spook. P00f is a British term for gays. Both are slang terms which are not overly derogatory.
Zoncolan said:OK. My bad. English not my first language.
@Bobs ***: thanks for the clarification!
bobs *** said:Once you get into your 40's, the urban dictionary is pretty much indispensible to understand what people are talking about sometimes.
bobs *** said:Sp00phf from the urban dictionary - I will edit as appropriate:
in Australia, spoo- means xum, jixx, sperm etc. etc... we always find it funny when americans use it to describe a parody (see def. 1) hehehe. btw, to get the accent, the 'oo' sound is the same as in 'book'
she doesn't like the taste of xxoox....
I have a feeling this will be deleted by mods. I get it, and you are right but for the 3 people who wanted to know, you could at least leave the link after deleting.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=s****
Damiano Machiavelli said:That is a ***** (edited by G57). Both are slang terms which are not overly derogatory.
fatandfast said:Neither word should be used.
Granville57 said:Yup, and I was just going to add:
Try it on the streets of Boston, Hartford or New York and see how it plays out.
TeamSkyFans said:what on earth are you on about. Its the last four letters of the word that are censored. Due to be it being a very tame swear term relating to a homosexual male.
I very much doubt the forum censor has banned the word Spoo, apart from the fact none of us (even the mods) would know what it means, it would also reek havock, there would be no spoons, spooks, or spools
JMBeaushrimp said:I prefer the term 'merry'... Not that there's anything wrong with that...
fatandfast said:spook is an immediate beat down word in the black community. You should hope after saying it that fists are all that will be used to make the correction to your vocabulary. **** will result in the same result when directed at gay men. Neither word should be used. In lots of gay neighborhoods in NYC you can see that lots of guys are in awesome shape, no body fat and hours in the gym, the **** comment would end in disaster.