Euphemisms

[bunn]

Giving my spam bin its not so regular review, I am intrigued to discover that I have received a number of invitations to expand or improve my 'unit' 'thing' or 'item'.

UNIT? Are there really people who refer to their private parts as 'units'? It sounds very Lego, somehow.

I was briefly most concerned about the email with the title 'Sweep and Mop with One Device' but perhaps fortunately for my sanity, this did actually prove to be someone advertising a floor cleaner.

I also got an offer of 'the only right fix for losing the bricks'. I was intrigued enough to actually read that one, but I still don't know if 'losing the bricks' is a sexual or a financial euphemism...

However, the advice 'to grow thinner, diminish your dinner' was right on the money. The essence of all diet books, distilled into 6 words: I didn't even need to read the email, only the title.

Why is it that Korean and Chinese spam features photos of white non-asian-looking people?

Comments

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Asian spam particularly, but I have noticed that a lot of LadyofAstolat's anime includes people talking and acting as if they're Japanese but looking terribly western. It almost seems like an aspirational sort of thing, or at least that western is cool.

[chainmailmaiden]

UNIT? Are there really people who refer to their private parts as 'units'? It sounds very Lego, somehow.

Now I've got a very disturbing picture of a Lego 'unit' firmly stuck in my mind.

Oo-er, that was badly phrased... *goes off to scrub mind out with soap and water*

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I think we should suggest this as an idea to the Lego people. I'm sure there are millions of adults out there who would secretly love to play with Lego, but are held back by the thought that it's childish. They should start selling X-Rated Adult Lego, in which all the little sticky-out bits slot into... Well, you get the idea.

I'm also amusing myself with silly and inappropriate thoughts involving Central Processing Units, Visual Display Units... and not to mention children learning to count in the classroom, using tens and units...

And I'd better quit this now.

[chainmailmaiden]

Central Processing Units, Visual Display Units... and not to mention children learning to count in the classroom, using tens and units...

*snigger* You're worse than me!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Shocked I am! Yes shocked! At this outrageous ....

Oh hell no one ever believes me ... ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

IS this just an effort to get round ever-wider spam filters, I wonder?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Oh undoubtedly - my most spammish address is filtered and anything definitely dodgy gets deleted direct from the server, so the stuff that goes into the spam bin there is stuff that is borderline, and doesn't use any words that I never ever want to hear. ;-)