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by YeGoblynQueenne 2797 days ago
"That's a load of old bollocks."

In the UK I'm free to say this in public, following a magistrate court's decision in a public obscenity case against the Sex Pistols, caused by their album, "Never mind the bollocks (...)" that the word, bollocks, means "nonsense", not "testicles"; and is, therefore, not an obscenity.

And that is how free speech is protected, in the UK, and other modern democracies.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Mind_the_Bollocks,_Here%...