“I’m preparing a big juicy kebab for you tonight.”
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Actually that’s just one of nearly 1,700 English and Urdu words that have been banned from texts by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority in what is, ostensibly, a wild over-reaction to spamming. Highlights include random words like Jesus Christ, gay, and Wuutang, not-necessarily-lewd terms like period, hole, tongue, harder, and premature, patently ridiculous masturbatory terms like beat your meat and flogging the dolphin, and “17 variants on’ tit’ and 33 on ‘cock.’” The ban might make sexting in Pakistan more difficult, but it won’t kill it outright. People will just have to be more creative, e.g., “Can’t wait to bowl all over your wickets.”
