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by astura 337 days ago
For those who didn't understand this comment (like me)

Nonce is also British slang for alleged or convicted sex offenders, especially ones involving children.

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That's why you should call them pervs (per-instance values).
Why not pedos (pedantic objects)?
Makes some discussions with non-technical stakeholders interesting.
I always just call them "n-once" and I read it that way too (which I think is what it comes from right? Number you use once?).

At least that way it stops me from making childish jokes.

> put nonces on form > all spam, normal traffic gone > received e-mail complaint from sex offender registry because i am downloading too many images
I was this close to putting it on a car license plate unaware of the British use.

I've never been happier to just, check, before clicking a submit button.