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List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination That one is a bit of a special case. His name is a swear word because it's his name. As a protest against him, people decided to make his name into a dirty word, and seem to have succeeded.

Who was this?

Rick Santorum IIRC

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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post #18
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination That one is a bit of a special case. His name is a swear word because it's his name. As a protest against him, people decided to make his name into a dirty word, and seem to have succeeded.

Who was this?

(Rick) Santorum, as coined by Dan Savage, in recognition of his services to the cause of LGB bigotry.

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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post #18
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination That one is a bit of a special case. His name is a swear word because it's his name. As a protest against him, people decided to make his name into a dirty word, and seem to have succeeded.

Who was this?

Rick Santorum

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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post #18
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination That one is a bit of a special case. His name is a swear word because it's his name. As a protest against him, people decided to make his name into a dirty word, and seem to have succeeded.

Who was this?

[deleted]

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was this list written by a guy?

I'm not sure, but the inclusion of "vagina" would not seem to indicate it, as "penis" is included in the list as well. This seems to be a list of sex related words, without additional considerations.

Who uses the word "vagina" for obscene purposes anyway?

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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"Huge tits" but not "huge melons", "nigga" but not "niggaz"? Who wrote this thing? I think this is about 0.1% of the "naughty" words out there, and it's futile anyway (former school sys admin here, I know what I'm talking about ;) This is before we get onto the desirability of blindly blocking words like "nigger" which have different meanings depending on who is using them, ref. "my nigger", or "tits", ref. "blue tit…

You can check the README. It's from ShutterStock, and it's their list of words to filter image suggestions.

https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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For anyone thinking of using this: You will never be able to make people not say “bad” things. “ I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny. ” http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...

One good reason to use a list like this is to filter suggestions. If a user types 'cun' into a search box, almost all websites will not want to suggest you-know-what as a completion.

Edit: and alas, at Blekko they never let me ship an April-fool's "Did you mean: Mother trucking son of a blintz?" module. No sense of humor.

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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For anyone thinking of using this: You will never be able to make people not say “bad” things. “ I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny. ” http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...

One good reason to use a list like this is to filter suggestions. If a user types 'cun' into a search box, almost all websites will not want to suggest you-know-what as a completion. Edit: and alas, at Blekko they never let me ship an April-fool's "Did you mean: Mother trucking son of a blintz?" module. No sense of humor.

I agree in spirit, but then you end up with aggravating cases where Apple refuses to let me write "fucking" and replaces it with "ducking" instead ;)
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