EU court tells prudish IP office to fack off for balking at 'fack ju' trademark application The phrase "fack ju" can be registered as a trademark, according to an EU court which overruled a group of offended trademark lawyers. Despite the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) declaring years ago that the title of the film Fack ju Göhte (that's Goethe) was "vulgar" and in "bad taste," the European Court …
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To be honest I actually thought that the complaint would have been for another reason. As this phrase could easily be misread/translated two more that one possibility.
To each his own, so I won't make judgement but personally I wouldn't have chosen that phrase as the possibility for offending one group or another is quite obvious...
Spending your life tiptoeing on eggshells because a phrase *may* offend one group or another is not realistic, nor sensible. Lots of things offend lots of people. The reality is, context and intent always matter - and this wasn't intended to be offensive in either of the ways you or the IP office took it to mean.
"Spending your life tiptoeing on eggshells because a phrase *may* offend one group or another is not realistic, nor sensible."
Although I mostly agree with what you state, there are limits that even the Far Right, Far Left agree should not be surpassed. What would be the point in a full on slur pointed at anyone. It would be neither intelligent nor useful, some subtlety would be far more desirable..
You often read in the comments that “you owe me a new keyboard”
I’d never ACTUALLY spat out my coffee, personally, until just now.
Watching that Fucking video on my tablet.... when the presenter delivered his “here is the Fucking school” he caught me just so in he humour dept, I chuckled once but caught the coffee in my mouth, and then, it just sprayed out all over my tablet, my tshirt, and the floor.
So thanks for posting that Fucking video!
Brute Force's take on it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NuaQetsDbk
You'd have to be a king-sized snowflake to get offended at that.
Additionally, does anyone here know (there''ll be someone) if the French phrase "Baisez-moi" can be used in both contexts as with English.
Fuck Me - a sexual request. and
Fuck me, (have you seen the size of that?)
Only the first context would apply for this sentence.
For the 2nd context, you would use the versatile expletive "Putain" (French for "whore"), which is the equivalent of fuck/fucking and can be used to express a wide range of emotions such as surprise, anger, contempt, annoyance...
What about the ancient Scottish martial art of Fu Kyu Tu?
We had a Failure Analysis branch, creatively named "FA" on org charts. A very well respected, highly competent, but slightly mischievous engineer took over the branch and titled himself "The King of Fa".
When you entered his office for a consult, he would ceremoniously don a purple robe and crown, raise a staff (fountain pen) in welcome, and say in a booming voice, "Welcome, stranger! Please tell me, what is your FA KING PROBLEM?"
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