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  1. I bet you could find plenty of Barbara Cartland books in their though. It is like how Fifty Shades of Grey was openly read without issue, even though it just a Twilight fan fiction revolving around a poor BDSM relationship. That was fine to read in public but looking at a copy of Nuts or Zoo would have been seen as disgusting.

  2. As an atheist, one of the many, many, many, many…. ….many, many, many things that I don’t get about religion is why you’d want to be god fearing. Surely you want to look up to your god, not cower from them.

    Edit: Thanks for all the responses!

    I guess when you take into account archaic meanings of the word “fear”, it gives it a little context. Though I would still counter that, like me, most people would still use the word in line with its current definition. He did (if interpreted literally) commit global genocide by flooding the earth, after all!

    And nothing against believers of any faith – each to their own and all that.

  3. Some people take anything “rude” especially serious.

    I had a couple of friends: one of whom was a kitchen designer, the other was planning her new kitchen. Just because he tended to be a little bit humorous, the designer gave slightly rude nicknames to all the different styles of kitchen. Thus “Huckleberry” (a type of “Shaker”-style affair, very popular at the time), the kitchen my friend preferred, became“Hucklefucker”.

    Eventually, my friend decided that she liked the Huckleberry style, and took our friend’s list of cabinets to the local kitchen supplier to see what the company had in stock.

    The owner of the company spoke to my friend about the kitchen (in the most normal way), for about 6 or 7 minutes, then disappeared into his back room with the kitchen components listed on the piece of paper. A few minutes later, he reappeared with a face like thunder.

    Telling her that his was a “respectable establishment” that “didn’t take filth lightly”, he thrust the list back to my bewildered friend and ordered her to leave his shop. She was in shock: she had no idea what the problem was and there were other customers in the place-staring at her.

    As a small businesswoman myself, when I heard from my friend all about what had happened, I was very shocked to hear about the kitchen supplier’s reaction.

    I couldn’t imagine turning away thousands of pounds of trade, just because the word “Hucklefucker” had been substituted for “Huckleberry”. Utterly, utterly ridiculous overreaction.

  4. Is it weird I read the village name as Corn hole me? Which does sound like something perverted and sexual 🤣

  5. When Christians don’t know how to Christian ‘youre creeping me out, just fuck off over there, you’re unsaveable’.

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