Scottish Comedian Leo Kearse on trans joke ban
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- Опубликовано: 12 мар 2022
- My latest video is about a campaign by a trans activist to ban jokes about trans people following a joke a comedian told at a comedy club in London (I've included footage of the joke so you can make your own mind up as to how transphobic it is).
Fortunately it doesn't look like the campaign - #NoJokesOnUs - took off. Maybe people have slightly more pressing issues on their mind right now?
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Everybody should be a viable target for humour, to leave people out is discriminatory.
I tell people all the time, if you ever see me trip or fall, you better laugh. Because if you don't, that means I'm officially old.
Thank you.
@@markzuckergecko621 honestly, watching children fall is the funniest thing ever
HA !
Exactly,that is what comedy is.... poking fun at ourselves and others .
There's a 100% chance that the activist was only at the comedy show in the first place to go hunting for something to be outraged about. Everyone knows activists don't like comedy, or anything fun. It's the only possible reason they could have been there.
Yeah, but outrage is a form of recreation for them. It's why they go to places like comedy clubs in the first place. So... it seems like they got their money's worth from that show.
@@ericdodson2644 imagine hating life so much you go out of your way to go to a comedy show, just to find something to be outraged about. They're like a health department weasel that audits restaurants, but is really looking more for a lapse in paperwork or arbitrary procedure than any actual, immediate health risks. Except the inspector is at least getting paid by an employer, and food safety can actually harm people if not done properly. The outrage auditors are just self employed freelancers, and their currency is social media clout. We are a silly culture.
@@markzuckergecko621 Yeah... but I'd also say that our culture is only as silly as we let it be. We could just *ignore* all of the outrage merchants, just like we ignore obnoxious toddlers. But for some reason, everyone is taking their petulant tantrums WAY too seriously... which of course only produces even more of the exact same behavior. And so it goes.
@@ericdodson2644 well, one of the inherent weaknesses of liberal philosophy, and valuing individualism over collectivism is that we suck at being collective. And the leftist hive mind is obsessively collective. So whether or not people like you and I ignore it, it's going to have social effects. A lot of people are just going to go along with it because they don't want to be called naughty names.
Got to get the two minutes hate somewhere
I went to a comedy club I got up to get some beers and the comedian made fun of my shirt. When I told him that he couldn't afford it he told me it looked like it was made from 99% polyester 1% Chinese children's tears. I went home, cried and posted an angry twitter message.
Oh no wait..... Sorry I thought I was 12 again!
In a nutshell, David.
It's funny, and true, and I haven't ever seen your shirt! I bet the comedian was so relieved that his straight man had turned up, but there were probably plenty of other substitutes in the audience. Doesn't really matter but was it in Shoreditch, by any chance?
99% polyester is fake, its just so unnatural. Ban fake yarns. Increase the quota of Chinese tears to reduce sweat and itching.
I wont mention cotton as just triggers BLM.
@@spudpud-T67 And THAT is why Aspirin bottles have been banned.
This is offensive to 12-year-olds! You evil man!
"I am actually gender fluid and identify as a woman when it helps me to win arguments on the Internet and get government grants" - I admire your bravery, Leo, and also your honesty.
To win an argument: let your opponent set the terms of engagement then beat them with their own rules.
There's no such thing that's a fact to say it is you first need to know what the mind of a man and woman is and nobody knows anyone else's mind you are born with male or female DNA it's in every cell of your body so impossible to be born into the wrong body you are the same as when you're born but Google feral kid's you'll see it's not nature it's nurture the kids raised by dog's act and think they are dog's it takes year to change them back and they never fully do after the brains wired wrong they chew bones etc it's not a one off plenty of examples
If you start "literally shaking" not from laughter after hearing a joke, you probably need to see a doctor.
Only my own.
The word "literally" means "metaphorically" these days, though how you could shake metaphorically is a little beyond me. Whatever words these people use, we know it's all lies.
I find it hard to believe this person chose to go to a comedy club if they were left "literally shaking" hearing a joke. Did their carer take them ?
Literally is the new "in" word. People shoe-horn it into every bloody sentence these days.
Just so long as they weren’t physically shaking because someone with Parkinson’s disease might take offence.
@@thespian1961 It literally makes my blood boil when they do that, but it isn't new.
They are sent there to find anything to complain about it’s so obvious it’s funny
The carer was obviously cis and should be sacked immediately from planet earth
You know you're in trouble when you take jokes seriously.
You know you’re in trouble when you take the news seriously
@@dixienormus6941 When the news is "Russia is coming at you with tanks," I'd take it seriously.
Jokes aren't funny, bigot!!!
"One day, speaking the truth will be an act of bravery." - George Orwell . That day arrived long ago... 🙊
Lol!
When you talked about the insult that rhymes with "Grannies", I immediately thought you meant "Fannies", not "Trannies".
People get called "Fannies" all the time in Scotland.
Hadaway and shite, yer fanny.
Chewin the fat “ ahh ya couple of fannies” 🤣🤣
I thought exactly the same. I thought I was going to have to tone down my insults, I'll just stick with hoofwanking bunglecunts.
@@JtB72 Lol! I'm gonna use "hoofwanking bunglecunts" - never heard that one before.
I've heard a clip from a movie (I think it was either John Cusack or Dan Ackroyd) saying "Cock-juggling Thundercunt", that's another beauty!
Same here lol
That was bloody HILARIOUS!! I almost spit my coffee through my nose, it was that funny! 🤣😆. And you just know the idiot who stormed out and complained, had already sat through, and laughed at, jokes about other people and situations and never bothered. Yet as soon as they were “triggered” by that one issue, they get the virtue signal out!
Pathetic.
Let's be honest, to be offended was why likely why they were there.
@@stevenesbitt3528 It’s a cert.
"I want to be a woman and have babies".
"You can't have babies Stan, where's the fetus going to gestate? Are you going to keep it in a box?"
Everything they/ them refer to now was in that film .....very prophetic.
Loretta ;)
I am a woman, so to be called a cis women is offensive to me, but who cares. The joke was funny, some people just want attention.
Correct, do not use the language of your enemies who only seek to divide and destroy the west. You are not CIS, you are SuperStrait.
Like I get where you are coming from . Cis just means you are happy in being you as yourself in the sex (female) that you were born. Nothing changes you being a female so calm down.
We don't refer to a dog that has 4 legs as a 4 legged dog, or a quadraped or anything like that, the assumption is that a dog has 4 legs. If a dog has 3 legs you might call it a tripod, or some other reference to it having 3 legs, because it goes against the assumption of a "normal dog". And that doesn't mean you hate dogs with 3 legs either, it's just an observation that they're abnormal.
@@valeforedark they shouldn't use cis gender they should say normal.
These activist trans are more concerned about power then their gender issues, they want to be 'special'. That's why they use terms like 'cis' instead of just saying women or when the discussion is relevant specify that someone is a straight women. They want there own language, to control your speaking and in effect your thinking and to use a political movement that has no opposition to it. Anything involving politics and trans people is BS and some kind of think tanks developed psy op because it is effective as we can all see for the last half decade while at the same time we ALL know it's bullshit.
People should lighten up. Thought the joke was funny
I absolutely loved Adam's joke. What a punchline!
Not my fault someone finds a word hurtful, slur or not. All words should never be censored or sanctioned.
In fact, no words should be censored.
@@jesperFrost except THAT one, you know
I used to be pretty tolerant about everyone and everything, but shit like this has turned me incredibly intolerant.
It's meant to.
I've been hearing about Transnistria recently. It's a part of Moldova, but it identifies as Russian.
The real joke here is that a trans activist attended a comedy show...
Aye you hear about the trans activist went to a comedy show? It was a transformative experience.
Years ago I had a full red/ginger beard & was at a Comedy Club in Golders Green, London. I got some stick from some of the comedians but I'd expected it as I was sitting at the front with my gorgeous looking girlfriend. After the show was over a couple of the comedians came & thanked me for being such a great source of material for them & apologised if they'd upset me. I told them I was too busy laughing to be upset. Plus why go to a Comedy Club, sit in the front row & not expect to become part of the act/material?
“Humour is the very essence of a democratic society” The prisoner 🖖🏼
Be seeing you.
I had experience of this. A guy got up as the comedian was telling a joke, instantly got a rebuff off the comedian. To which the guy said he was just going for a piss before the comedian comes on... which I thought it was very funny.
And don't get me started on improv shows. They asked the audience for a topic for the next improv, saying it should be something annoying. I yelled from the very back of the hall "improv shows!"
When the comic asks someone in the front row what they do, you should shout out, if your not in the front row, "I'm a ventriloquist"
Works well😉
"The greatest prison that people live in is the fear of what other people think."
This is very true - and the greatest censorship is self censorship
“I am actually gender fluid, and identify as a woman when it helps me to win arguments on the internet, or get government grants.” 🤣
I feel this activist goes to comedy shows HOPING something such as this happens so they can gain clout by reporting it to the mob.
It's the compensation culture victim mentality.
I'm surprised some opportunistic compo lawyer hasn't jumped on it yet
I actually thought that the word Leo was referring to that rhymes with “grannies” was “fannies”! Lol! In some ways that word is even more appropriate in the circumstance!
I've been writing a comic for for the trans community, it's about a group of special trans individuals banding together to take on the evils in the world.
I call it " Ex-Men".
As a straight, white, old man, I find trans people hilarious.
When at High school in the seventies in Scotland I'm pretty sure we had a trans person but we where so niave we thought an actor from the school play had arrived?
That should be "trans" people. Nobody is really "trans" -- whatever it's supposed to mean.
I went to a comedy drag show in Benidorm for my mates birthday celebration. I was the last one to get served at the bar and the show had started when I went to find my seat. The star of the show really took the piss at me and when I sat down insinuated I was gay because I had white socks on. It was so offensive, and I laughed like fuck. Later I was chosen to take part in the show as a stooge because of that, and that was great, and I and my mates were called up on stage for the finale. After the show, the club owner gave me a bottle of wine as a thank you for being a good stooge.We had a great time and I would have been so disappointed if I had not had the piss taken and got a chance to help make the audience laugh. That's what comedy is about.
"Man, I feel like a woman" - Shania Twain.
Doot, do do do, doot doot
I feel like a beer.
What am I supposed to call my transistor radio now?
The 1930s want their radio equipment back.
Ah forget about it just get a superheterodyne radio
Call her Sara. She's your sister.
My Trans Sister might do.
When did the word trannies become a slur?
2 yrs after you were born 😅
When people stopped saying the other things they said were offensive so they needed something else to cry about
@@jacquelinewatt1241 pfffff yeah ok
@@MF-rtard89 did you read the user name I replied to??
@@jacquelinewatt1241 yes. Russian bot 1982. Obviously not a bot, just a sarcastic username. "Trannies" was not a slur in 1984 was what my "pffff yeah ok" comment was alluding to.
Most people have no idea what a "phobia" is let alone what it feels like on either end.
Also, most people aren't aware of the difference between phobias and simple disgust.
Quite. A phobia, first of all, is a psychologically diagnosed medical condition. Thus, asserting that somebody else had a 'phobia' is the equivalent of asserting that somebody else has, say, a broken leg without examining them. Secondly, a phobia means 'an irrational fear of.' I have to confess that I have heard of people being afraid of heights, spiders, snakes, rats, open spaces, etc. I have never met anybody who was terrified of a man in a frock.
You should call it real fear they are brainwashing kid's many of whom commit suicide or end up sterile and deformed
I'm 44, 45 this year and in my rollercoaster of a life I've had so far; (apologies if I've offended roller coasters), I have come to a tragic conclusion: millennials and especially Gen Y or whatever they're called grew up indoors, never played outside, never fell out a tree or rode their bikes through abandoned railway tunnels. I know I did.
Their parents said: don't go outside, there's bad men out there. I went out after breakfast, came in for lunch and dinner then came back in when street lights came on.
Modern kids haven't lived, grew up online playing computer games, not socialised or made friendships that lasted the test of time. It's all very sad. 😞😢😒
Anyway, love the channel and keep up the good work. 🤘😊🤘
Ancient Chinese proverb say "if aunty have balls, good chance uncle too!" 🙃
Bravo Scott, you hit the nail fully on the head with your assessment and reasons for the "rott"!! I'm the same age mate and its heart breaking to see what's happening to the youth of today. I expect you led a similar childhood to me, in the fact that I was rarely inside and had to be literally begged by my folks to come in and eat! Being outside and playing with your mates, climbing trees, fishing, exploring on bikes and on foot and occasionally lighting a few fires, especially as a boy, is what's happened throughout human history until extremely recently and like you I believe its crucial for healthy development but parallel to the incarceration of children inside due to media led paranoia and even more insidious is social media, I think the "mob" can make them act contrary to how they really feel most of the time. Sadly I can't have children but if I could I would be teaching them to get out there, be street wise and find themselves because the real truth is that life comes with a big risk, without facing that head on sadly means you haven't actually lived.
But here's the problem - kids need to be kept indoors now more than ever because, now, there are plenty of very strange 'men' in the outside world - and we're expected to celebrate them!!
The year is 2422 Nicola Burdon ,the forever minister of wokeland, publicly pardons the heretics burned for misgendering.
Banning words never ends well. ‘Trans - gres’ I see what you did there
I've been going to comedy clubs for decades and don't remember there being trans jokes until recently. The recent surge in trans jokes is simply because trans activists are so ridiculous that it begs ridicule.
We are at a societal juncture and need to decide whether we keep the ridiculous in check by ridiculing it, or whether we become ridiculous too. I know what I am going to do.
The thing I find hard to take from them is that they think everyone is so supportive of them , I hate to burst their bubble most people think that they are weird . A grown man dressed as a woman with a massive beard looking like king Louis from the jungle book . Sorry but it is wrong .
We've gone from tolerance to forced acceptance.
You have to at least pretend to be supportive or you risk getting shit on. Basically we have a system of social blackmail.
I had some tickets for the City Comedy Club next week, think I'll give them away after their spinless, pathetic response to this. I want and need comedy to constantly take the piss out of anything remotely divisive, it's what comedy is so good at, taking a subject too spicy to talk openly about and making a joke about it
If you give the tickets away the venue will likely make more money on drinks/food sales to the replacement guests. They'll make less money if you just frame the tickets and put them on your wall to commemorate the time you stood up against cancel culture.
@@WeighedWilson Exactly
You should refund it.
No, burn them
Demand a refund for their attack on comedy. They'll only learn when their pockets get hit.
I thought trans women were real women, so surely it's impossible to joke about trans women.
Yeah. It's like a real trans teenager when they turn 20. Woops, I also transgressed, sorry.
I`m new to all this buffoonery,are there trans men?,if not why not?
@@ufoclips1 Your query might be inDike-ative of perfoomery. Only kidding.
@@Mrbobinge Oooh matron,really!!!
Not with you bud. The grannies have this wee dangly thing...
What the hell are our teachers doing to the kids? We're turning out unemployable wimps who cannot cope with reality. They're in for a massive shock as they get older.
Nothing and no one should be “off the table” as far as comedy is concerned. ESPECIALLY when the authorities are getting involved! That’s the road to fascism.
comedy clubs that force bans on topics should be forced to change their name to talking club as they have removed the comedy
My daughter told me the other day that a 10 year old friend of hers at school asked her mum if she could be non-binary and she said no, so she's decided to be bisexual instead.
A 10 year old? 😢🤮🤢🤧
Another week - another word you can't say. I'm 'taking this matter VERY seriously'. All this censorship & authoritarianism is really helping to get me on side. 🤣
"If you're easily offended, I suggest that you take a look at the world around you and shut the fuck-up!"
The late, great Bill Hicks.
If you want to know who’s in charge, just look at who you can’t joke about.
Putin in Russia the ccp in China
Just so everyone understands I’m far left and agree 100% with Leo.
Also I get the impression Trans activists go to comedy clubs especially to walk out and make a point.
the whole thing is like small children fighting at a pretend tea party lol
"We are taking this matter very seriously."
Comedy should not be serious; it should allow room for jokes.
You may have seen this joke.
"I'm fat but identify as thin. I'm trans slender."
Good, but I thought I could match it.
I'm thin but identify as chubby. I'm trans fat.
I'm beer but identify as fortified wine. I'm transport.
I'm broken but identify as mended. I'm transfixed.
I'm a thought but identify as a deed. I'm a transaction.
I'm a mail van but identify as neuter. I'm a Transit.
I'm a sealed box but identify as a bass reflex speaker. I'm transported.
I'm an irrational belief but identify as proof. I'm transubstantiation.
I'm prose but identify as poetry. I'm transverse.
I'm digital but identify as analogue. I'm non-binary.
Finally, for electric guitar enthusiasts:
I'm an explorer but identify as a jaguar. I'm transfender.
A bass reflex speaker? That one went out in the weeds a little. There are like, seven speaker manufacturers who will enjoy that joke.
Still, it's a very funny list! Thanks for sharing! ♥
I am gender fluid... I identify as transatlantic
I think it’s sadder that Leo had to explain how a joke works.
I have no more tolerance. Tolerance is the Devil's Lie that led us HERE.
I identify as +. I've always been a very positive person.
Your point about exclusion from jokes being another form of othering is spot on.
Watching and listening to Karen Dunbar bending over and apologising to the woke for her 'previous' brilliant humour was like listening to Freddy Mercury apologising for having a great voice
Kudos as always for your level headed approach to this 👍🏻
I like the phrase"you cannot give offence,it can only be taken"....sounds right to me.
I went to a Jon Lovitz show a few months back. First off, he’s a master as good as Chappell. Second, he spared no categories including trans. My face muscles were getting sore from laughing. I will seek him out again and see him. He ended the show by playing and singing at the piano. He did a medley changing the words of various famous songs about Bob Saget being gay. Bob died the next week. I am sure that Jon was good friends with Bob.
It’s do refreshing to hear a (presumably) heterosexual man talking about this. So many straight guys have stayed out of the conversation out of convenience, but I never understood that. This affects y’all too. Anyway, thank you for being one of the few. ✊🏽♥️
I will say what I like when I like and know one will tell me otherwise last I knew we lived in a free country.
I’m afraid you don’t.
Oh? When was that?
@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle a few years ago when it was decided that you can’t say what you like any longer! Try saying you hate homosexual or transgender people in a public place and see what happens.
There are no free countries now that tech companies think they have the right to censor.
@@raftonpounder6696 I was alluding to the fact that this country has never been free. Freer, but never free. Never mind, eh?
‘Trans women are women’ As my favourite streamer says ‘GO AWAY NOW’
"F*** off film!" Heh.
Brilliant Joke. Brilliant defence and commonsense again Leo.
👏🏻 👏🏻 cheers Leo.. keep up the great work. :)
As a short ,tight alcoholic ,red haired Scot I agree. Please stop the jokes
Here's a thought: when you enter a comedy club, try leaving your god damn politics at the door.
Nice suggestion. But I think it's beyond the comprehension of the people who need to understand it.
@@ericdodson2644 Possibly, but comedy clubs need to start thinking this way if they want to survive. Harmless, politically correct, always-punching-up comedy is just so tedious and predictable.
@@thejedsterYT ... I agree. But of course that means learning to ignore people's petulant tantrums, rather than taking them seriously and giving-in to their demands.
Keep up the good fight Leo, you are helping true comedy stay alive. Like it or not, you're on the front lines. Say hello to George Carlin up there for me would ya?
Thanks again Leo. You are the master! Adam Riley's joke was very funny and as you say, very mild and not anti trans. He was making fun of himself, not trans people. It seems these days you could say "1-2-3-4- Trans 5-6-7-8" and some trans activist will insist you are guilty of heinous hate speech". How spineless of City Comedy Club. Their statement is basically an ad for their club saying "Come to City Comedy Club for the most bland, boring night of your life"
Its a joke. Its not a hate crime. The fact that there was a police investigation says everything that you need to know about modern british society.
The joke was funny. If there was such a thing as a transgender comedian then I'm sure they would see nothing wrong with making a joke about a straight person.
It would seem there are a lot people out there who are either unable or more likely unwilling to make the distinction between hate speech and the noble art of taking the piss out of everyone and everything
❤
Two people walk out of a comedy club offended. Everyone else laughs (say about 250 open minded people). Comedy club sides with the two offended people and bans "all offensive language"
Next night the comedy club has two people in the audience. One week later comedy club closes.
The irony of a comedy club 'taking something seriously'... 😂🤣
I got pulled up the other day telling some younger colleagues about watching the program about the stray dog, The Littlest Hobo when I was a kid. I was told that saying Hobo in any context is as bad as any racial slur. I had no idea?! What a bigot I am! Who'd of thought it🤷!
Don't worry. Just call them racist and deflect any criticism back on them.
That person is making it up as he goes along just for the sake of one-upmanship. 'Hobo: A person who travels from place to place looking for work, especially on farms.' As defined by the OED. 'Person' can be white, black, pink, one-legged, trans, etc. There is no connection at all with any of the protected characteristics as outlined in the Equality Act 2010. In short, next time you meet him, tell him to shove it.
Why? A hobo was a tramp. Read Kerouac. Or was your pal a bit deaf?
@@RodFleming-World Indeed. He could have suspected his friend of having Hobophobia (an irrational fear of itinerant workers). Linked with ergonophobia, the fear of work. A phenomenon often encountered in comedy clubs.
A comedy club that bans comedians surely shouldn't be allowed to call itself a comedy club.
I've got a lot of time for Leo - he doesn't always get it right in the heat of the moment - who does? At least he's out there slugging away, with bayonets drawn or should that be broadswords? He's the William Wallace of Comedy! (use the slogan if you like) Freedom!!
@@01r1sh My Scottish Mother dressed me in a kilt when I went to children's parties, but I wasn't allowed to wear a dirk, even though I was twenty-seven at the time.
I think 💭 it’s brilliant that we have trans for people like me to laugh at , surly they expect it .
Of course all comedians who still believe in free speech could refuse to play at that venue. Not sure how long a comedy club without comedians will last
I've been mute since 2017 to avoid offending people. Now I just nod, smile and avoid critical thinking. It's great.
👀 …..I genuinely think you’re a genius
Thanks Leo. You're so much braver than most. Do NOT give up, you do so much good
Alex
Anyone who considers themselves so self important that they demand to be beyond criticism become target number 1.
Anything and everything is funny and is fair game for comedy. The only rule is that someone somewhere must find it funny.
Its like the definition of 'hate speech' in UK law; Anything and everything can be considered hate speech if someone somewhere finds something offensive.
If I find something offensive, I ignore it. If I find something isn't funny; I don't laugh.
The 'trans activists' really are going out of their way to make themselves less popular than dog sh*t flavoured ice-cream with their 'treat us differently but we want to be treated the same' moronic ideology.
If you identify as a 'Trans activist' you have truly failed as a human.
What's with all this sensible logic of yours. Try to keep up.
As an ugly old man who enjoys a joke myself, I am left shaking with indignation at the uglist-ageist slurs posted on Twitter by all those SJWs.
But are you 'literally' shaking?
That supposedly trans activist deliberately went to the comedy show to get "upset" and then insult the guy and demanded that he be censored like a good fascist.
Crazy that we pander to those who choose to ignore biological FACT
I DEFINITELY WILL GO TO SEE ADAM......he's hilarious😀😀😀
Someone told Christopher Hitchens he'd offended them. The great man replied ' I'm still waiting to hear what your point is'.
I actually know someone who will be super relieved that trans women are women. He tells me about it sometimes when we get really drunk.
Tell him to get over it. As long as he was driving, no homo.
There's a slur that rhymes with grannies? Is this a new thing?
Oh, now I see. It's a completely normal word that was in common use by LGBTQABC people, including on television, and now someone decided you can't say it anymore.
1920s Prohibition - alcohol goes underground, Al Capone becomes a rich man
2020s Cancel Culture - comedy goes underground, Leo Kearse identifies as a woman and can afford to shop at Aldi
Life is hard for a lot of us, not just the 'protected' groups among us. Often humour is the one thing that makes life worth living. I feel particularly sorry for people who lack a sense of humour, because they lack one of life's great coping mechanisms.
Spot on!
No one is going to stop me calling my Ford van a word that rhymes with Grannie God speed you beloved algorithm
There's a special term for comedians who never offend anyone: Unfunny
In several hundred years the Scottish government will issue an apology to comedians who have been cancelled over a joke as cancellation is the modern equivalent of burning witches alive by an hysterical mob. But cooler.
I laughed so hard at Leo reporting that comment to IG!
Even a month later that joke is STILL hilarious!! 🤣😂😜
I laughed at the joke. I’ll take my lashings and see myself out.
At first i thought the word began with 'f', before seeing the text. Nice one Leo
My daughters, granddaughters, and I love you Leo. Thanks
Finally a mention for the 3 Speech podcast! Well worth a listen.
So in regional dialect I am no longer able to use the a term to refer to...
A portable radio,
A device to convert electrical voltage,
The UK's most popular van,
And a gearbox.
Builders use this term daily to refer to a least 4 items...
When I were a lad we used to show our compassion and understanding towards tetchy and self-righteous persons (children and adults) by responding with the word "diddums". I don't think it's on the "banned-words" list ... and it seems so appropriate today..