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A Poor Choice of Words?

May 28th 2011, 12:10 PM
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Absolution
Peasant They/Them
The Dark Lord of the DN. 
May 28th 2011, 12:52 PM
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merder
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
The Voice in the back of your head! 
That is called subtext. not my kind of subtext but that clearly was on purpose I bet if you go outside and meet her husband you see how innocent the tinkering actually is. I've seen even worse kind of innuendo in games while they mean something else.
May 28th 2011, 06:56 PM
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I often tinker with my junk in my bedroom.

No seriously, I don't see any innuendo there. Junk isn't one of those words that's lost its original meaning (like fabulous), maybe if it had some context you'd have a point, but it's still a perfectly normal word... around here anyway. I dunno, maybe it has completely lost its meaning (or gained a new one) in some places. Humanity's going down the drain
May 28th 2011, 08:31 PM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
Love! True love! 
Nice bananas Sparrow. +10 Dink Points for you.
May 28th 2011, 08:56 PM
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Fireball5
Peasant He/Him Australia
Let me heat that up for you... 
Junk = Genital areas ("Man-package")
May 28th 2011, 09:22 PM
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MsDink
Peasant She/Her New Zealand
Tag - Umm.. tag, you're it? 
GO fireball!! Seems we are of one accord - means that here too heh
"Man-package" LOL
May 28th 2011, 10:26 PM
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Sparrowhawk, you're a junkie.

And I also approve of your plastic bag bananas.
May 28th 2011, 10:49 PM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
I asked Oxford English Dictionary 2009 what he thought of all this:

Junk
N. Old cable or rope material, cut up into short lengths and used for making fenders, reef-points, gaskets, oakum, etc.

N. transf. Any discarded or waste material that can be put to some use: cf. junk-dealer in 5. Also, second-hand or discarded articles of little or no use or value; rubbish.

N. Any narcotic drug, esp. heroin; also, such drugs collectively. Also attrib. slang (orig. U.S.).

N. = junk food (sense 5 below). orig. U.S.

N. transf. orig. Naut. The salt meat used as food on long voyages, compared to pieces of rope; usually with epithet, as old junk, salt junk, tough junk.

N. Whale-fishery. The lump or mass of thick oily cellular tissue beneath the case and nostrils of a sperm-whale, containing spermaceti.

N. A name for the common type of native sailing vessel in the Chinese seas. It is flat-bottomed, has a square prow, prominent stem, full stern, the rudder suspended, and carries lug-sails.
   The name is now applied to Chinese, Japanese, Okinawan, Thai, and other vessels of this type; early writers applied it still more widely to Malay, Javan, and even South Indian native vessels.

N. A local name for a joint in the bedding of slate or other rock.

N. Surg. A form of splint, originally stuffed with rushes or bents (cf. quots.).

V. To treat as junk or rubbish; to discard, abandon; to ‘scrap’.

Bananas awsome.
May 28th 2011, 11:19 PM
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Urban Dictionary is a better one to check in cases like this.
May 29th 2011, 06:53 AM
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I know it means that

I just meant that that is still a less common usage, unless it's in context. Unlike certain other words which have almost entirely changed in meaning.
May 29th 2011, 07:38 AM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
Yeh, I've seen worse.
May 29th 2011, 07:52 AM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
I suppose some moron read this "Junk: Whale-fishery. The lump or mass of thick oily cellular tissue beneath the case and nostrils of a sperm-whale, containing spermaceti. "