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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who: RTD in the Radio Times.
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:22:41 -0000 (UTC)
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The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> In article <v4rlnp$19qpo$1@dont-email.me>,
> The Last Doctor  <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>> The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
>>> In article <v4p8ql$l86u$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> The Last Doctor  <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>>>> solar penguin <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> The True Doctor Pangloss wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 17/06/2024 00:38, Hornplayer9599 wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If you are telling us that Doomcock's numbers are the most accurate, 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Since they are the only numbers they must be the most accurate.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Good of you to be so candid with us. Or do I mean ‘Candide’?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Either way, this best-of-all-possible-worlds optimism is an
>>>>> interesting change from you.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve done a quick fag packet estimate for Disney+ based on iMDB
>>>> interactions for episode 7 in another thread. If we assume that people
>>>> rating 3 or more probably watched the episode, even if people rating 1 or 2
>>>> didn’t, then to date Disney+ has racked up about 2m viewers worldwide so
>>>> far for The Legend of Ruby Sunday - or about the same as the U.K.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Do not swear.
>> 
>> I didn’t. 
>> 
>> In actual English, that is, in the English used in the England that
>> developed and still evolves the core version of the language, “fag” has
>> three well-known meanings : an informal term for a cigarette (“get us a
>> packet of fags while you’re at the shops mate”), to become fatigued (“I
>> can’t go on. I’m fagged” - this one derives from “fatigue”)
>> and an archaic
>> term for younger boys at public school who essentially valeted for the
>> older boys (“Venables Junior was the Honorable Tim EntitledAndDim’s fag at
>> Eton”).
>> 
>> Other meanings may have originated in the colonies but they are not in
>> common use in the U.K. and I’m not from any of those upstart neo-states.
>> None of the usages in English (as opposed to the bastard child American
>> English) is swearing. Oh, and a “faggot” is either a meatball or bundle of
>> sticks to be used as a flaming torch. Also not rude, though the contents of
>> the meatball are often pretty disgusting (warning - often contains offal).
>> I used to think they had cow brains in them as well when I was a child, but
>> it transpired that was just the brand name (Google “Brains Faggots”).
>> 
>> A “fag packet estimate” is a perfectly ordinary and common English term for
>> an outline solution simple enough to be written on the back of a torn open
>> cigarette box (twenty’s, typically), for instance when bringing about an
>> end to world poverty in the pub over the third pint.
>> 
> 
> Now a days considered a "Homophic slur"

Not in the civilised world, it’s not. The parochialism of Americans is the
problem here. What will they do when they realise that “Fanny” means vulva
in English, and not arse (or “ass” as that ass Webster bowdlerised it for
no good reason) as they imagine?

Kindly stop censoring innocent English words because you want to
manufacture outrage by acting like a prudish American. They are NOT
entitled to dictate the meaning of words in real English.

-- 
“Most of the Universe is knackered, babes.”  - The Doctor