One good reason to use a list like this is to filter suggestions. If a user types 'cun' into a search box, almost all websites will not want to suggest you-know-what as a completion.
Edit: and alas, at Blekko they never let me ship an April-fool's "Did you mean: Mother trucking son of a blintz?" module. No sense of humor.
So true. People will always find a way to talk euphemistically. And on the other end of spectrum, you can't really filter out borderline-offensive phrases.
Reminds me of a system I worked on where we generated temporary passwords for tens of thousands of invitations to a big event. Somebody tried to be clever and generate "user-friendly" passwords by combining words from a public 1st grade vocab list. It seemed like overkill for a temporary password, which had to be changed upon initial login, but whatevs, we had extra time on the project. It looked good in testing.
Within hours of sending out the first batch of invitations, we started getting complaints of people "not comfortable" with their passwords. I don't remember all of them, but some great examples were things like "donkeybanana1014", "drunkgod9488", "devilboy4593". It wasn't a huge PR problem, mostly just caused some laughs and little support scrambling, but I filed it away as yet another example of someone getting burnt by trying to be clever.
Made me snigger. Incidentally, you can't use that word on many forums: snigger.
I live near a town called Scunthorpe. Scunthorpe residents tend to use the nickname Scunny when they're on-line, because the full name gets blocked so often.
Today I learned that Herbie Hancock is a jazz musician who made an album called Mr Hands. I also learned that there is a video of a man being buggered by a horse called Mr Hands.
Thank you for enriching my life.
- a James Bond film
And at this point I lose all respect for the compiler of this list. Octopussy is a James Bond film. That is all. Any other usages are just silly.
- the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination
Santorum! Santorum! Do people actually use that word, or is it just a running joke?
> - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination
That one is a bit of a special case. His name is a swear word because it's his name. As a protest against him, people decided to make his name into a dirty word, and seem to have succeeded.
"Huge tits" but not "huge melons", "nigga" but not "niggaz"? Who wrote this thing? I think this is about 0.1% of the "naughty" words out there, and it's futile anyway (former school sys admin here, I know what I'm talking about ;) This is before we get onto the desirability of blindly blocking words like "nigger" which have different meanings depending on who is using them, ref. "my nigger", or "tits", ref. "blue tits are eating the nuts again".
There are so many words here about sex, but none that I can see about violence. Sometimes I am so puzzled by American culture (assuming this list was compiled by an American).
my favorite story on this was back in BBS days this one board would change the f word to "gently caressing" and it really changed the tone of heated arguements.
Why was the swastika included in the Japanese list? While it has pretty bad connotations, particularly in the west, in Japan it retains a pre-World World II meaning of holy and sacred.
Protip: if your list of words doesn't include Carlin's Seven, you're not trying hard enough.
Seriously: "splooge moose" gets an entry but "cocksucker" doesn't? Even Urban Dictionary, usually a canonical source for profane euphemisms, doesn't have a definition for that first one...
I wouldn't blindly use this as a blacklist for spam etc, lots of words here like "vagina" might be OK on a medical site or even some racial slurs if a news agency is reporting a quote etc.
Definitely a good list to use as a starting point.
Escort really shouldn't be on there, nor "jelly donut," and words like "hardcore" and "neonazi" are really quite questionable. And yet it's missing words like condom, scrotum, and labia.
[+] [-] teddyh|10 years ago|reply
“I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny.”
http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...
[+] [-] greglindahl|10 years ago|reply
Edit: and alas, at Blekko they never let me ship an April-fool's "Did you mean: Mother trucking son of a blintz?" module. No sense of humor.
[+] [-] Tenhundfeld|10 years ago|reply
Reminds me of a system I worked on where we generated temporary passwords for tens of thousands of invitations to a big event. Somebody tried to be clever and generate "user-friendly" passwords by combining words from a public 1st grade vocab list. It seemed like overkill for a temporary password, which had to be changed upon initial login, but whatevs, we had extra time on the project. It looked good in testing.
Within hours of sending out the first batch of invitations, we started getting complaints of people "not comfortable" with their passwords. I don't remember all of them, but some great examples were things like "donkeybanana1014", "drunkgod9488", "devilboy4593". It wasn't a huge PR problem, mostly just caused some laughs and little support scrambling, but I filed it away as yet another example of someone getting burnt by trying to be clever.
[+] [-] xlm1717|10 years ago|reply
Oh wow, it's really that Douglas Crockford. Embarrassed to say I only knew of his Javascript work.
[+] [-] Chris2048|10 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Pitarou|10 years ago|reply
I live near a town called Scunthorpe. Scunthorpe residents tend to use the nickname Scunny when they're on-line, because the full name gets blocked so often.
[+] [-] jasoncartwright|10 years ago|reply
[+] [-] cormullion|10 years ago|reply
- a word from the 10 commandments
- a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock
- a James Bond film
- the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination
[+] [-] Pitarou|10 years ago|reply
And the answers are:
- a word from the 10 commandments
ass, of course. An easy start.
- a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock
Today I learned that Herbie Hancock is a jazz musician who made an album called Mr Hands. I also learned that there is a video of a man being buggered by a horse called Mr Hands.
Thank you for enriching my life.
- a James Bond film
And at this point I lose all respect for the compiler of this list. Octopussy is a James Bond film. That is all. Any other usages are just silly.
- the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination
Santorum! Santorum! Do people actually use that word, or is it just a running joke?
[+] [-] lmkg|10 years ago|reply
That one is a bit of a special case. His name is a swear word because it's his name. As a protest against him, people decided to make his name into a dirty word, and seem to have succeeded.
[+] [-] thinkt4nk|10 years ago|reply
- a word from the 10 commandments: blumpkin
- a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock: two girls one cup
- a James Bond film: donkey punch
- the surname of a US presidential candidate: yiffy
[+] [-] m0nty|10 years ago|reply
[+] [-] rschuetzler|10 years ago|reply
https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...
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[+] [-] verbatim|10 years ago|reply
U+1F595 REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED
[+] [-] ARussell|10 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] stoic|10 years ago|reply
What do you mean I'm banned?
[+] [-] paul_milovanov|10 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] al2o3cr|10 years ago|reply
Seriously: "splooge moose" gets an entry but "cocksucker" doesn't? Even Urban Dictionary, usually a canonical source for profane euphemisms, doesn't have a definition for that first one...
[+] [-] jejones3141|10 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] BorisMelnik|10 years ago|reply
Definitely a good list to use as a starting point.
[+] [-] BooneJS|10 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] peterwwillis|10 years ago|reply
I'm especially fond of bearded clam, and i've actually used 'gleet' in a poem.
[+] [-] frank0631|10 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] mstrcnvs|10 years ago|reply
- burro (donkey)
- cerveja (beer)
- inferno (hell)
- torneira (water tap)
- frango assado (roasted chicken)
- aranha (spider)