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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by reaperducer on Thursday November 22, 2018 @04:10PM (#18512576)
it appears that the term is somewhat less offensive in the US.

A lot of ordinary British things are seen in the U.S. through a filter of... let's call it "quaintness."

Swear words. Thatched roofs. Music on AM radio.

So, yeah. Whatever offensive word you heard probably didn't have the same impact on the other side of the Atlantic. There's probably some reciprocity, too.

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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by millak on Thursday November 22, 2018 @04:59PM (#18512836)
My experience is that this doesn’t apply to the see you next Tuesday word, at least here in Canada. It’s seen as very offensive according to the Canadians I know. Speaking as a Brit, that word is thrown around quite casually in the UK!
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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by reaperducer on Thursday November 22, 2018 @05:07PM (#18512872)
That's what I meant by reciprocity.

Brits have their own quaintness filter for some of the words that NorthAms see as out of bounds.

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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by acct1771 on Sunday November 25, 2018 @03:27AM (#18525981)
For clarity's sake, and as a demonstration against censorship: "cunt"
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