Reply to: Plymouth Hoe

[SueEllen]

I got one of these for XMas.
Perhaps the £multi-gazillion marketing outfit could buy themselves a copy?
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Since I've had to tell British retailers who sell online "Middlesex" doesn't exist as an actual county there is absolutely no chance....

[NigelJK]

I got one of these for XMas.
Perhaps the £multi-gazillion marketing outfit could buy themselves a copy?
Map

[Whorty]

I must have led a sheltered life, because I can't for the life of me see any part of "Motcombe" which is rude!

Mind you, if it was spelled Mottcombe, it would contain an anagram of "bottom"

For the risk of being banned for a day, let me explain ....

Mott

Yet another word for a big, unkempt hairy vagina.
Like growler, it's a dirty old matted jungle of a thing.

Urban Dictionary: Mott

So by definition, it probably needs a Comb

[SueEllen]

Yet "mother****er" seems quite popular in the local lingo, if Samuel L. "Mother****er" Jackson is to be believed.

And how could anyone be offended by faggots & peas (with onion gravy of course).

Not to mention all those gardening implements.

Don't ask them for a fag....

[OwlHoot]

The village of Motcombe always brought a childish giggle to me and Mrs W

I must have led a sheltered life, because I can't for the life of me see any part of "Motcombe" which is rude!

Mind you, if it was spelled Mottcombe, it would contain an anagram of "bottom"

[DoctorStrangelove]

Words people in the UK don't see as rude due to the historic context of them, are seen as rude in other English speaking countries.

For example people from North America don't say "I'm going to the toilet" or "I'm going to use the crapper" as they think "toilet" and "crapper" are rude words.

Yet "mother****er" seems quite popular in the local lingo, if Samuel L. "Mother****er" Jackson is to be believed.

And how could anyone be offended by faggots & peas (with onion gravy of course).

Not to mention all those gardening implements.

[Whorty]

The village of Motcombe always brought a childish giggle to me and Mrs W

[Whorty]

Scunthorpe.

Mate of mine used to work for Vodafone - their email filter used to flag up that. Oh the fun I had sending him emails about the East Coast seaside resort

It also flagged up the term 'spick and span' .... I think I was selling my flat at the time getting it ready for viewings.

[SueEllen]

Devil’s Dyke is hardly rude. Only makes it there because it offends some hand wringing liberals. That's more a sign of the tulip times we live in rather than amusing.

Words people in the UK don't see as rude due to the historic context of them, are seen as rude in other English speaking countries.

For example people from North America don't say "I'm going to the toilet" or "I'm going to use the crapper" as they think "toilet" and "crapper" are rude words.

[northernladuk]

Too rude for Facebook: the ban on Britain's historic place names | Facebook | The Guardian

Lots of potential for mirth

Devil’s Dyke is hardly rude. Only makes it there because it offends some hand wringing liberals. That's more a sign of the tulip times we live in rather than amusing.

[ladymuck]

Too rude for Facebook: the ban on Britain's historic place names | Facebook | The Guardian

Lots of potential for mirth

[SueEllen]

Meanwhile, all users living in Twatt Scotland are wondering why they have been banned

Just like those people in tulipterton, Dorset.

[Paddy]

Meanwhile, all users living in Twatt Scotland are wondering why they have been banned

[GJABS]

To be fair I have some familiarity with the hoes of Plymouth.


.. a decent selection on sale, at the Plymouth Garden Centre:

Plymouth Garden Centre

"From the basics such as spades, forks, hoes and rakes to shears, loppers and secateurs."

[ladymuck]

Watch out - I have less character than that...

FTFY