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* Forumer (a free internet forum provider) decided to update their TOS to become more child and general audiences friendly. They also decided to run a program that changed all sorts of words on ''every single Forumer forum'' to "work safe" alternatives. The change was based around cooking - for example, 'fuck' became 'bake'. But some of them were just bizarre. 'Little' was auto-changed to 'cilantro', 'video' was changed to 'recipe', 'girl' was changed to 'steak'... |
* Forumer (a free internet forum provider) decided to update their TOS to become more child and general audiences friendly. They also decided to run a program that changed all sorts of words on ''every single Forumer forum'' to "work safe" alternatives. The change was based around cooking - for example, 'fuck' became 'bake'. But some of them were just bizarre. 'Little' was auto-changed to 'cilantro', 'video' was changed to 'recipe', 'girl' was changed to 'steak'... |
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* ''[[Psycomedia]]'' uses Freud as a substitute profanity, to highlight that [[All Psychology Is Freudian]] is not true. |
* ''[[Psycomedia]]'' uses Freud as a substitute profanity, to highlight that [[All Psychology Is Freudian]] is not true. |
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* This very wiki. Robin Williams didn't say "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Getting ''Crap'' Past the Radar]]". |
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