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Wowbagger

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Plymouth Hoe banned
« on: 27 January, 2021, 12:11:01 pm »
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/27/facebook-apologises-flagging-plymouth-hoe-offensive-term

 ;D

Should we tell them it's where the Pilgrim Fathers went for their relief?
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #1 on: 27 January, 2021, 01:01:15 pm »
Just wait till they hear about Westward Ho!
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rogerzilla

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #2 on: 27 January, 2021, 02:38:23 pm »
Francis Drake liked to roll his big balls on the hoe.  The grass was neatly trimmed.
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Peter

Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #3 on: 27 January, 2021, 02:45:08 pm »

Ho!  Ho!  Ho!  Christmas banned.....
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Kim

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #4 on: 27 January, 2021, 05:39:03 pm »
Just wait until they discover Scunthorpe...
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spesh

Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #5 on: 27 January, 2021, 05:52:02 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 27 January, 2021, 05:39:03 pm
Just wait until they discover Scunthorpe...

Penistone, Clitheroe, Lord Hereford's Knob...  ;D
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citoyen

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #6 on: 27 January, 2021, 06:17:38 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 27 January, 2021, 05:39:03 pm
Just wait until they discover Scunthorpe...

I first came across "the Scunthorpe problem" many years ago when I saw a comedian, a native of that town, who introduced himself as "The man who put the..." - you can fill in the rest.
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Tim Hall

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #7 on: 27 January, 2021, 09:27:23 pm »
Devil's Dyke has allegedly got the same treatment according to an clickbait article somewhere or other that I read the other day.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #8 on: 27 January, 2021, 09:37:32 pm »
I bet Fan Y Big slips through (or everything slips through it)
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ElyDave

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #9 on: 27 January, 2021, 10:09:58 pm »
Quote from: Tim Hall on 27 January, 2021, 09:27:23 pm
Devil's Dyke has allegedly got the same treatment according to an clickbait article somewhere or other that I read the other day.
Which one?
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Tim Hall

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #10 on: 27 January, 2021, 10:26:59 pm »
Quote from: ElyDave on 27 January, 2021, 10:09:58 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 27 January, 2021, 09:27:23 pm
Devil's Dyke has allegedly got the same treatment according to an clickbait article somewhere or other that I read the other day.
Which one?
There's more than one? Is there no end to this filth?

The one in Sussex.
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hellymedic

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #11 on: 28 January, 2021, 02:59:24 am »
Quote from: citoyen on 27 January, 2021, 06:17:38 pm
Quote from: Kim on 27 January, 2021, 05:39:03 pm
Just wait until they discover Scunthorpe...

I first came across "the Scunthorpe problem" many years ago when I saw a comedian, a native of that town, who introduced himself as "The man who put the..." - you can fill in the rest.

Graffiti in Sheffield student bog c1980 << If Typhoo put the T in Britain, who put the cunt in Scunthorpe?>>

Jokes about Penistone had worn so thin nobody bothered with them...
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Snakehips

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #12 on: 28 January, 2021, 09:07:03 am »
How long before that old favourite Wilsford-Cum-Lake gets the treatment?
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citoyen

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #13 on: 28 January, 2021, 09:07:34 am »
Quote from: hellymedic on 28 January, 2021, 02:59:24 am
Graffiti in Sheffield student bog c1980...

1980! There really is nothing new. And it was probably an old gag even then.
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ElyDave

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #14 on: 28 January, 2021, 09:33:40 am »
Quote from: Tim Hall on 27 January, 2021, 10:26:59 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 27 January, 2021, 10:09:58 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 27 January, 2021, 09:27:23 pm
Devil's Dyke has allegedly got the same treatment according to an clickbait article somewhere or other that I read the other day.
Which one?
There's more than one? Is there no end to this filth?

The one in Sussex.

There's one just outside Cambridge as well
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Regulator

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #15 on: 28 January, 2021, 09:43:39 am »
Quote from: ElyDave on 28 January, 2021, 09:33:40 am
Quote from: Tim Hall on 27 January, 2021, 10:26:59 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 27 January, 2021, 10:09:58 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 27 January, 2021, 09:27:23 pm
Devil's Dyke has allegedly got the same treatment according to an clickbait article somewhere or other that I read the other day.
Which one?
There's more than one? Is there no end to this filth?

The one in Sussex.

There's one just outside Cambridge as well

And one in Hertfordshire...
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Giraffe

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #16 on: 28 January, 2021, 09:49:22 am »
Or the times that Glyndwr had his Way with Offa's Dyke. Knighton bald mounting.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #17 on: 28 January, 2021, 11:07:13 am »
There is, of course, Fingringhoe, in Essex.
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Jurek

Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #18 on: 28 January, 2021, 11:14:12 am »
Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 January, 2021, 11:07:13 am
There is, of course, Fingringhoe, in Essex.
I took refreshment in the company of the late Barry Mason in The Whalebone, a delightful pub in Fingringhoe, on one occasion.
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Tim Hall

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #19 on: 28 January, 2021, 02:05:27 pm »
I tried to go to Clitheroe once but had trouble finding it.
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Regulator

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #20 on: 28 January, 2021, 02:46:58 pm »
Quote from: Tim Hall on 28 January, 2021, 02:05:27 pm
I tried to go to Clitheroe once but had trouble finding it.

I bet you were too embarrassed/proud to ask a woman for directions...   ;) ;D
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ian

Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #21 on: 28 January, 2021, 03:59:34 pm »
I like near a Fickleshole which ought to be rude. There is an actual bear there.

Snodland is the rudestly named place in the UK, of course.
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quixoticgeek

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Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #22 on: 28 January, 2021, 04:53:49 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 27 January, 2021, 05:39:03 pm
Just wait until they discover Scunthorpe...

Was about to say...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZdwX4noCE

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perpetual dan

Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #23 on: 28 January, 2021, 07:06:43 pm »
Do they get similarly nervous about people that like to watch the BBC?
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spesh

Re: Plymouth Hoe banned
« Reply #24 on: 17 June, 2021, 01:26:38 pm »
Speaking of hoes, as it were...

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Dear American news website, the rugby union term you are looking for here is “hooker”. You’re welcome.

https://insider-voice.com/tom-youngs-leicester-tigers-prostitute-charged-by-rfu-after-bristol-incident-rugby-union-news/

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https://twitter.com/angrypiln/status/1405108080019451907
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