Not Safe for Work: Difference between revisions

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== This phrase can take many forms: ==
* [[NWS]]: Not Work Safe.
* [[Brain Bleach|NBS: Not Brain Safe.]]
* [[NSS]]: Not Sanity Safe.
* [[NSFS]]: Not Safe For the Soul/Sanity.
** Either of these can be said of something that's technically work-safe but completely insane.
** Alternately, Not Safe For School.
* [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=221 NSFH: Not Safe For Humanity.]
* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/03/27/episode-400-not-safe-for-work-school-or-anywhere-you-can-get-in-trouble/ NSFWSOAYCGIT: Not Safe for Work, School, or Anywhere You Can Get in Trouble.]
* [[NSFP]]: Not Safe For Parents.
* [[NSFK]]/[[NSFM]]: Not Safe for Kids, or Not Safe for Minors.
* [[NSFBS]]/[[NFBSK]]: Not Safe For British Schoolchildren/Not For British School Kids.
** [[Snopes|Snopes.com]] uses this phrase to denote its sex-related entries.
* Bikini pics are often flagged as "Mildly NSFW", since they aren't outright porn, but it would still look like you are slacking off if the boss sees them.
* [[NFYOSS]]: Not Fourteen-Year-Old Sister Safe—for anything you wouldn't want the hypothetical sister to see. Mostly used on the ''[[User Friendly]]'' [[Message Board]], but sometimes seen elsewhere.
** Although some fourteen-year-old sisters know things from the conversations in the girls' bathroom at school their moms would be SHOCKED to hear.
* [[NSFW]]: Not Safe For Wife, as many married men know.
** The Lancashire Hotpots song "Esc, Alt+F4" references this.
* [[NSFS]]: Not Safe For School.
* [[NSFA]]: Not Safe For Anyone/Anywhere/Anything.
* [[NSFL]]: Not Safe For Life/Lunch.
* NSF56K: Not Safe For 56K, though this is a different matter regarding content that will take forever on a slow connection.
** 56K Warning and similar messages mean the same thing.
*** Is the page (or website) known for containing a lot of images? Assume it's a 56K Warning.
* [[NSFRW]]: Not Safe For [[Moral Guardians|Republican]] Work (or just the far right ones, moderate ones likely wouldn't care).
* [[NSFW]]: Now Show Friends and Workmates.
** [[NSFW]]: Now Show ''Family'' and Workmates.
* [[xkcd|"Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors)."]]
** And [http://xkcd.com/631/ vaginas] (NSFW, obviously).
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* SFW: Safe For Work. Generally used to inform the web user who may be wary about clicking on a link that it is safe.
** The website "How F***ed is the T?", which uses live data to determine average subway wait time, has a "SFW version" called "How's the T?", where descriptions such as "The Red Line isn't very f***ed" are changed to "The Red Line looks just fine".
* NSFG: [[TV Tropes/The Situation|NSFG]]: Not Safe For Google.]]
* [[sNSFW]]: ''So'' not safe for work.
 
== NSFW In Fiction ==