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Originally posted by skeeteri misread it for 'burger' and got hungary, i have no burgers here so i alerted it. enjoy your ban and think before you post words that kind of look like food stuff in the future.
Ooops - the B word is pretty much accepted down here in the media.. But if anyone has a problem with it I'll edit it out.
skeeter
all the edits were from my stupidity, sue me.
Originally posted by trev33It's gone. Sorry you took offence but that word is on billboards 3 metres high down here and it was on a high profile car advertisement screened nation wide. I think you are being a little precious but I have to err on the side of caution.
i misread it for 'burger' and got hungary, i have no buggers here so i alerted it. enjoy your ban and think before you post words that kind of look like food stuff in the future.
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Originally posted by skeeterlol finally someone more at risk of a forum ban than me 😛
It's gone. Sorry you took offence but that word is on billboards 3 metres high down here and it was on a high profile car advertisement screened nation wide. I think you are being a little precious but I have to err on the side of caution.
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i'm on my "last chance" you know.
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Originally posted by skeeternot about the final warning but yes, of course about the bugger/burger thing. thought it was obvious?
ps It's just occurred to me that you could be taking the Mickey ? Hmmmm ?
or have you just gotten a little slow while you were banned?
Originally posted by trev33Probably. I'm a little fragile at the moment regarding posting. Believe it or , I forgot how to even bold and italicise sp?
not about the final warning but yes, of course about the bugger/burger thing. thought it was obvious?
or have you just gotten a little slow while you were banned?
You got me. Enjoy - I'll be back .
skeeter
Originally posted by KewpieThat is pretty funny, but why is it banned in NZ? Does that word have some special meaning there? I don't get it.
I used to love this ad. Toddlers in the cinemas used to recognise it.
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-infamous-Toyota-bugger-ad-banned-in-NZ-temporarily-not-banned-in-Australia
It was only *restrained from showing* for a short time in NZ, then the courts decided that *bugger* was an everyday colloquialism with no particular meaning and it could be shown on TV. In Australia nobody even noticed, it's an everyday expression here, like *bummer* in other places. Nowadays we use *bummer* as well as *bugger*. I think I can use both words here without robomod getting to me, guess I'll find out soon.
{edit} this must be why they got excited.
bugger
"sodomite," 1555, earlier "heretic" (1340), from M.L. Bulgarus "a Bulgarian" (see Bulgaria), so called from Catholic bigoted notions of the sex lives of Eastern Orthodox Christians or of the sect of heretics that was prominent there
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper