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Re:UK National Lottery's Twitter PR Disaster by hacktothefuture on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:02PM (#15020033)
Can you explain this one please?
Re:UK National Lottery's Twitter PR Disaster by petepete on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:36PM (#15020402)
Basically it means "your dad sells Avon". Avon is a cosmetics brand distributed by an army of (usually female) representatives.

Suggesting that someone's father has such a non-masculine job as delivering nail polish is so childish and stupid that it's funny.

Re:UK National Lottery's Twitter PR Disaster by moron4hire on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:07PM (#15020102)
I found a video on YouTube when I googled for it, that was kind of homophobic. Let's just say "Da" is short for "Dad".
Re:UK National Lottery's Twitter PR Disaster by lin_lin on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:53AM (#15027045)
> Let's just say "Da" is short for "Dad".

Wait, would you really not cop that right away?

Re:UK National Lottery's Twitter PR Disaster by moron4hire on Thursday August 17, 2017 @11:56AM (#15037907)
"Da" is not common in the US. If I saw it on its own, I would almost certainly assume it was the Russian word for "yes" before I drew connection to "Dad". Most people still say "Dad" without dropping the ending, or "Pa" if they were raised by heathens.

Also, when I first saw the image, I read it as "Yerda", which I assumed to be something like a female given name of some sort of Scandivanian origin.

Re:UK National Lottery's Twitter PR Disaster by petepete on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:40PM (#15020460)
I don't think it's homophobic but it's definitely sexist.
Re:UK National Lottery's Twitter PR Disaster by ThePadawan on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @02:00PM (#15020676)
I'm only sort-of aware of the background on this one, so bear with me:

Avon is a brand of cosmetics being sold door-to-door, so it became a favorite of many transvestites in the UK, many becoming Avon salespeople themselves.

So "Yer da sells Avon" could also be meant to imply "your dad is a transvestite".