Posted on 01/22/2020 10:12:20 AM PST by Red Badger
A man in South Wales was shut down by Facebook for appreciating a butcher's faggots and posting a review of it on the platform.
“If you're not buying Thomas's Of Morriston the butchers on Morriston Cross' faggots on a Tuesday are you even a monkey?” wrote Paul Lynch, a 55-year-old resident of the Morriston area of Swansea, South Wales.
While the comment posted by Lynch was merely a compliment that was intended to encourage the community residents to visit the butchers, Facebook misinterpreted the comment as a rather offensive one and banned his account stating that his post went against the community standards on so-called “hate speech”.
It is worth noting that the residents of the Morriston community are commonly known as “Morriston monkeys”, which is what Lynch simply referred to them as. The name is derived from the large number of monkey puzzle trees that once existed in that area.
Faggots is a traditional British dish and has long been popular in the Midlands of England as well as the Mid and South Wales.
On the subject of his banned Facebook post, Morriston said that the faggots were very popular among the community's residents. “The faggots he sells are famous to many Morriston residents – especially older residents. He makes them every Tuesday and if you go early enough they are still hot and absolutely delicious,” said the meat lover.
Lynch stated that he was initially under the impression that a Facebook bot might have banned his account as he used the controversial word “faggot.” But then, even after appealing for a review, the account suspension was held, stating that he was guilty of hate speech, causing great bewilderment to the 55-year-old.
“Clearly, therefore, it's not the words that cause abuse, it is the context they are used in. With that in mind, I think Facebook telling me I'm guilty of hate speech is highly offensive and morally wrong.”
“This is absolutely barmy. I recently posted here about Thomas's the butchers on Morriston Cross' famous f@ggots, but it got flagged up as hate speech,” Lynch wrote on Facebook. “I asked Facebook to review the decision as I guess it was an algorithm which flagged it up but, even so, Facebook has since confirmed it as hate speech. Bonkers!”
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“Traditionally, faggots are made from offal, usually pork, and from the bits of the animal that are generally discarded but now tend to just be the liver and possibly, the heart.”
So if you say “I think faggots are simply offal”, would Facebook ban you?
I avoid FB like the plague. Even my friends, people I love, will not leave me alone on it. I wish you luck with your business. Mine requires me to write Hebrew caligraphy with a pen hand-made from a turkey or goose feather on parchment, and I must get back to it. There’s also some journalism I’m trying to get into, for which FB is utterly useless.
EAR WORM!
Send me the YouTube link so I can hear the whole things and get it out of my head.
No kidding
They sell Spotted Dick in cans at my Publix in the English section
I always point it out to wifey...she’s like “wonderful honey reliving your 80s London days again?”
I liked toad in the hole and bangers and mash
My wife does a very good shepherds pie
No question the English mastered fish and chips
I used to go to a little shed near Whitehall overlooking the Thames...they’d make a horn of brown wax paper and dump in 3-4 palm size filets and fries and malt ginger and other condiments on the side
And you’d sit on benches and eat
I’m no fan of some Brit organ dishes though I’ll eat it
Their food is mostly less seasoned than I as a southerner am used to
Great beer though
Good tune.
Would they ban you if you posted, “I love to eat faggots!”?.................
My kids tell me the only people who still use Facebook regularly are pensioners and cops posing as 14 year-olds looking for sex.
Yes, the pseudo “n” word.
Why did this story have to appear on the same day that we lost our favorite Welsh comedian, Terry Jones?
those faggots were great with spotted dicks
A little penicillin will clear that right up...
Ha ha. Reminds me of here in the US that we’re forbidden to use any language that harkens of the days of slavery (e.g. plantation, lynch, cotton), homonyms or rhymes with any words that harken of slavery (spade), rhymes with any words that were once racial slurs (niggardly), associated with any animal that was ever compared to a protected class, etc, etc. All part of the left’s attempts to control our language and our thoughts.
George Orwell told us..........................
You’d be right at home shopping at World Market.
Looks delicious!..................
Lol. Semi-literate millenials. Lol.
They are the smartest people in the world. Just ask one.
Gotta love the Welch!
So, these things are pork scrap meatballs.
Bet they would sell well in the Carolinas.
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