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Today's electrical tip to stop unwanted questions about the living room ceiling hook. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by Thcgrasscity@lemmy.ca to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 125 points 11 months ago

For safety. Hey, check out my flame retardant ball gag!

[-] felbane@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago

Are you fucking kidding me with that censorship? Did the Minecraft team write the language filters for this instance?

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 28 points 11 months ago

Wait, lemmy.ml is censoring bad words? Or is it your client?

[-] felbane@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

For safety. Hey, check out my flame removedant ball gag!

That's what is displayed on my screen (Jerboa on Android). If it's a client setting, I can't find it.

[-] isildun@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 months ago

Seems like you might have fallen victim to the Scunthorpe Problem. I'm sure you can guess what word they were trying to censor there....

[-] nednobbins@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Didn't know it had a name.
That once stopped me from registering a video game title.

I was feeling silly so I figured I'd go for a nonsensical contrast. "Evil Grape" got rejected. After several failed attempts it eventually dawned on me that some dumb algorithm thought it was a reference to sexual violence.

It kind of annoyed me but I just picked an other fruit. It wasn't until later that I considered that "Evil Banana" was probably more sexually evocative but it was too late by then.

So if you're ever playing a video game and shoot (or get shot by) "Evil Banana", know that, if it weren't for the Scunthorpe Problem, it could have been "Evil Grape," but either way, it wasn't intended as a sexual reference at all.