Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/16/sweary-truckers-observe-paper.html
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Oh, the humanity!
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No-one
Okay, I’m in the crowd of wanting to make “no one” into a single word, but this hurts my brain. “Let’s make it one word and then split it with a hyphen!” Ahhhh!!!
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i’d say, considering the circumstances, that was exactly the appropriate amount of fucks.
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I have talked to some operators at a similar facility and their comment was that if that happened and nobody was hurt, then they knew something was very wrong.
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I guess Its time to order and install that fscking bidet.
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Wow, and I thought the toilet paper shortage was already bad enough.
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Remember when “mercy” was the only “swear word” you’d hear on CB radios? What the fuck happened to those more innocent times?
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Video link for the BBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAKso45nYtg
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Can you blame them? Pretty sure if I die in an accident, my last words will be unprintable.
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Could go with New Yorker style and use diaeresis for repeated vowels: noöne.
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oh god how i love that movie.
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Otherwise it’d seem like the Peter Noone from Herman’s Hermits is making cameos in random articles, and that’d hurt my brain.
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When the paper mills blow up, pretty much everything’s unprintable.
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They keep saying “paper mill”, but as I understand it, it was a digester that blew up.
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FTFY. I love the Mainer accent.
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Back in my day, it was all “my land” and “good land”. And if the CB operator was particularly vexed or astounded, he may exclaim, “for land’s sake!”
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it was a digester at the Androscoggin Mill in Jay, Maine, where paper products are made. Everyone in that neck of the woods calls it the paper mill, or the Jay mill.
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