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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Censoring the title makes the word worse than it is. Change my mind.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried posting it uncensored but it doesn't allow me

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Find a new instance. Lemmy.ml is pro-tankie. That alone is a good excuse to jump ship.

[–] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

We got maga basement dwellers on Lemmy wtf

[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some instances have automod for certain words. OP was just trying to post without getting caught in the filters. Be angry at the instances, not the OP.

[–] cimmerian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Agreed. Also why didn't OP censor every mention of it in the picture. I'm deeply offended /s

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think in a way thats the point.

Here in middle east/Arabic counties ppl call black people slaves and dont mean just as an insult. it is so common that as i kid i thought it was a name of a tribe

[–] B312@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I think it was originally a racist thing but it got so ingrained into our culture it kind of isn’t anymore.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

It's more like servant no?

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fags contain Glucose, lmao

They’re sweet.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Thinking it over it's kinda shocking that we had play cigarettes. Then again David Lynch started smoking at 8.

[–] Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago


(Yes, that's a real, lit cigarette)

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"Going out to smoke a fag" means a VERY different thing in the UK to the US.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DWin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

The ones we had were wrapped in paper and you could blow in one end to make a little sugar/corn starch "smoke cloud" come out.

https://youtube.com/shorts/fjkqQiV_Has

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

I always internally chuckle when my British friend says he's going out to have a fag.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Candy cigarettes or bubblegum? In the USA candy cigarettes that weren't bubblegum were a weird white sugar stick with almost no flavor and a red tip. If you're younger and American they tasted like the sticks in Lik-m-aid/FunDip

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Dip

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

weird white sugar stick with almost no flavor and a red tip

Exactly right!

[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In New Zealand we had Space Man Candy Sticks and the art on the little box is amazing!

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Popeye up in Canada

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep, I remember when they stopped calling them candy cigarettes and just changed them to the candy sticks. They also had candy cigars, but I don't remember trying those myself.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Candy cigars were usually bubblegum (at least in the US).

[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I like the taste of the fun dip sticks and the taste of candy cigarettes from when I was a kid :c

Oh no, I might be a beige millennial. Help.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to, but I haven't smoked a fag in thirty years.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hate removed's, always spreading diseases through people throats

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

I also hate removeds

[–] CannonGoBoom@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They later renamed these to “Fads”

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] essell@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Seen em around lately?

[–] thirstyhyena@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Without looking at the thumbnail, I was wondering if it's Fag, Feg, Fig, Fog, Fug, or really F*g.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah I remember eating fags during dinner break at school with my mates, some of my mates like to suck on them and savour it, but I just swalled them quickly so I could have more. And we had to find somewhere secluded to do it so the dinner ladies wouldn't catch us.

[–] Hamartia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think I remember these. They were a low quality chocolate stick wrapped in paper. I didn't like them. I think I got that they were preying on kid's desire to ape adult behaviours but I may be conflating a decade of memories.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you're thinking of a different product - these were white candy sticks made from corn starch and sugar/syrup. Your comment on the behavior is dead on, though!

[–] Hamartia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe so. I don't remember the packaging half as clearly as I do the crappy chocolate.

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Playtime is the time for Fags ಠᴗಠ

[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These were renamed to Fads at some point. I grew up with the latter.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I remember when they removed the red bit at the end 👎

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Always reminds me of that clerk's episode

https://youtu.be/SjaDG2G-_go

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

In Canada it was a slur for religious people but I think that’s gone out of favour and been replaced with the American meaning of gay

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I remember, vaguely, that a lake resort my aunt runs (ran?) had something similar, and we aren't even in a backwater, middle of nowhere area of the US. Candy cigarettes in the 2000s seems insane looking back. Hell, pretty sure one of the last times I was there in the 2010s they still had them for sale.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com -1 points 1 month ago