Is the word “Nazi” banned at RHP

@torunn said
I wouldn't use the word 'nazi' in any other way than I have learned about it. I think it is a terrible word. We should be careful with words.

I agree. I have been called a nazi several times. I would never use the term grammar nazi, even.

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It was NOT an anagram.

How is Nazi Suzianne an anagram of Suzianne?

Stop squirming.

@fmf said
The "soup nazi" in Seinfeld was a very strict and aggressive chef who, when miffed, would refuse to serve what he saw as disobedient customers. It's one the series' iconic scenes.

Maybe it is. In one of John Cleese's parts of Fawlty Towers there were jokes about it too, Hitler especially - I don't think that is funny either.

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Not at all.

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I was speaking my mind.

@torunn said
Maybe it is. In one of John Cleese's parts of Fawlty Towers there were jokes about it too, Hitler especially - I don't think that is funny either.

That was satirizing British manners and repressed prejudice, sent off-kilter by a concussion. It was culturally self-deprecating humour. I'm told German audiences thought it was hilarious.

@suzianne said
It was NOT an anagram.

It was.

@moonbus said
Just google it. Two spellings are common.

Moreover, Churchill pronounced it with a soft sz, not a hard tz.

But only one spelling of the Indonesian word for cooked rice is correct. It's the one they themselves use, it's pronounced with a sharp s, not with a soft let alone a German z, and it's spelled with an s as well. "*Nazi goreng" is, no two ways about it, simply wrong.

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Yes.

Only Americans find them funny.

@fmf said
The "soup nazi" in Seinfeld was a very strict and aggressive chef who, when miffed, would refuse to serve what he saw as disobedient customers. It's one the series' iconic scenes.

And one good reason why Seinfeld, together with Friends and Sex and the City, make that era of USA television one of the most unpleasant, cringe-worthy of all.

@torunn said
Maybe it is. In one of John Cleese's parts of Fawlty Towers there were jokes about it too, Hitler especially - I don't think that is funny either.

That one's different - that was more joking at the uptight way some (some!) Englishmen still behaved as if all Germans of all times were Nazis. (Frankly, some still do. Looking at you, Clarkson!)