List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by Tenhundfeld » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 8:22 PM UTC

astrodust wrote: post #59

belltyler wrote: post #3

Just an obvious heads up, this is NSFW.

Pretty sure the description is a warning enough, plus it's just words, not ASCII porn.

Yeah, serious question: Is this really not safe for work?

Are there workplaces where you'd be reprimanded for looking at a list of vulgar words, especially in this context? (More than you would for any other "unproductive" activity, like say, reading HN.) And if it's just about getting flagged by some monitoring software, I'd think this thread would be just about as likely to get you in trouble.

I get that NSFW is inherently subjective and context-dependent, but for me personally this is not NSFW, i.e., totally SFW.

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

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Post by Chris2048 » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 8:29 PM UTC

xlm1717 wrote: post #43

teddyh wrote: post #9

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...

>In 1992, I co-founded a company with Chip Morningstar and Douglas Crockford named Electric Communities. Oh wow, it's really that Douglas Crockford. Embarrassed to say I only knew of his Javascript work.

Chip Morningstar! :-) What a name!

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

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Post by Chris2048 » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 8:37 PM UTC

teddyh wrote: post #9

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...

We need AI that can generate these 0_o ... Think of the possibilities!

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

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Post by ARussell » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 8:45 PM UTC

There are so many words here about sex, but none that I can see about violence. Sometimes I am so puzzled by American culture (assuming this list was compiled by an American).

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

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 9:57 PM UTC

thinkt4nk wrote: post #40

cormullion wrote: post #8

Hilarious. See if you can find: - a word from the 10 commandments - a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock - a James Bond film - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination

easy. - a word from the 10 commandments: blumpkin - a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock: two girls one cup - a James Bond film: donkey punch - the surname of a US presidential candidate: yiffy

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

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Post by JBReefer » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 10:13 PM UTC

c3534l wrote: post #57

Pitarou wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a fun and educational quiz! Thank you. And the answers are: - a word from the 10 commandments ass , of course. An easy start. - a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock Today I learned that Herbie Hancock is a jazz musician who made an album called Mr Hands. I also learned that there is a video of a man being buggered by a horse called Mr Hands. Thank you for enriching my life. - a James Bond film And at this poin…

Mr. Hands died in that video, hence why it's kind of legendary.

Well,he died later at the hospital. It's not strictly a snuff film, to be pedantic.

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

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Post by walrus01 » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 1:15 AM UTC

The people who live in Dildo, Newfoundland will be disappointed.

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

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Post by greggyb » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:03 AM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #30

greglindahl wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ;)

Where possible I use "sofa king" instead of "fucking".

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

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Post by derefr » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:11 AM UTC

greglindahl wrote: post #36

potatolicious wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ;)

That isn't filtering suggestions, so no, that's not what I was talking about.

He's talking about text autocomplete, which is a suggestion mechanism. Autocorrect knows full-well that "fucking" is a word, and doesn't put a squiggle under it or anything. But autocomplete—the thing that happens if you write "fuc" and then move the insertion cursor—will skip right past that word in the Autocorrect database give you "duck" as the best-fuzzy-match.

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

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Post by flashman » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 5:25 AM UTC

Tenhundfeld wrote: post #58

teddyh wrote: post #9

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...

So true. People will always find a way to talk euphemistically. And on the other end of spectrum, you can't really filter out borderline-offensive phrases. Reminds me of a system I worked on where we generated temporary passwords for tens of thousands of invitations to a big event. Somebody tried to be clever and generate "user-friendly" passwords by combining words from a public 1st grade vocab list. It seemed like…

Tangential but related: Toontown Online had two communication systems: "speed chat" and "secret friends". Speed chat is basically safe, prefabricated messages. Secret friends is unfiltered text chat, but only between people who have swapped friend codes. Since the game didn't support swapping friend codes, they were trying to make sure you only connected with people you knew.

However, players figured out a language to encode friend codes using speed chat phrases. So you would send a series of speed chat messages, the other player would send some back, and then you'd have each other's friend codes.