Spyke
lemmy.world

Censoring the title makes the word worse than it is. Change my mind.

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Psythikreply
lemmy.world

Find a new instance. Lemmy.ml is pro-tankie. That alone is a good excuse to jump ship.

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Some instances have automod for certain words. OP was just trying to post without getting caught in the filters. Be angry at the instances, not the OP.

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Agreed. Also why didn't OP censor every mention of it in the picture. I'm deeply offended /s

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programming.dev

I think in a way thats the point.

Here in middle east/Arabic counties ppl call black people slaves and dont mean just as an insult. it is so common that as i kid i thought it was a name of a tribe

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I think it was originally a racist thing but it got so ingrained into our culture it kind of isn’t anymore.

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sh.itjust.works

Thinking it over it's kinda shocking that we had play cigarettes. Then again David Lynch started smoking at 8.

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lemmy.world

"Going out to smoke a fag" means a VERY different thing in the UK to the US.

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I always internally chuckle when my British friend says he's going out to have a fag.

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lemmy.world

Yep, I remember when they stopped calling them candy cigarettes and just changed them to the candy sticks. They also had candy cigars, but I don't remember trying those myself.

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lemmy.nz

In New Zealand we had Space Man Candy Sticks and the art on the little box is amazing!

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I like the taste of the fun dip sticks and the taste of candy cigarettes from when I was a kid :c

Oh no, I might be a beige millennial. Help.

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lemmy.world

I think I remember these. They were a low quality chocolate stick wrapped in paper. I didn't like them. I think I got that they were preying on kid's desire to ape adult behaviours but I may be conflating a decade of memories.

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egretsreply
lemmy.world

I think you're thinking of a different product - these were white candy sticks made from corn starch and sugar/syrup. Your comment on the behavior is dead on, though!

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Maybe so. I don't remember the packaging half as clearly as I do the crappy chocolate.

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Without looking at the thumbnail, I was wondering if it's Fag, Feg, Fig, Fog, Fug, or really F*g.

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Yeah I remember eating fags during dinner break at school with my mates, some of my mates like to suck on them and savour it, but I just swalled them quickly so I could have more. And we had to find somewhere secluded to do it so the dinner ladies wouldn't catch us.

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lemmy.world

These were renamed to Fads at some point. I grew up with the latter.

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I remember, vaguely, that a lake resort my aunt runs (ran?) had something similar, and we aren't even in a backwater, middle of nowhere area of the US. Candy cigarettes in the 2000s seems insane looking back. Hell, pretty sure one of the last times I was there in the 2010s they still had them for sale.

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In Canada it was a slur for religious people but I think that’s gone out of favour and been replaced with the American meaning of gay

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