• spearz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    I think I know what it is. You can buy them in the supermarket. It’s slang for a gay man, rhymes with maggot.

    • Schal330@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Ah yes, I understand why they remove it as I don’t think it’s often used in its other contexts. I do prefer to use it to describe a bundle of sticks

    • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Ah so similiar to the german translation of the instrument bassoon?

      • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        And Norwegian. It’s hard to converse with countrymen on a platform running word filters for another language.

        Not just playing the instrument “removed”, but discussing school classes with friends and family as we would say “hvilke fag tar du i år?” to ask which classes you take this year. Luckily Lemmyworld isn’t that aggressive, but many online chat services and emails clients have started screaming at “fag”.

        Encountering such filters on a school computer that blocked my emails was particularly frustrating.

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Someone has a word that shares the f-slur for a benign food product? Holy shit that’s unfortunate.

    • Magrath@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      My dad used to talk about them. He’d call it faggots and peas.