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The license says 9PEN155. I think it says PENIS. The driver was a man. Did this guy win the license plate lottery? Or did he pay for a vanity plate that was subtle enough that it got through the censorship?

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[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Since Idaho is a racist hellhole that can’t even admit the existence of the Spanish language, a friend was able to get a license plate reading:

JODIDO

by making up a story about Jodi and how she ‘do’.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Google tells me this means “fucked” or “fucking”

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Lost, confused, mixed up, fucked up, that’s how Jodi do!

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 month ago

A55 🍊 RGY

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Paying for vanity plates is too expensive. It was cheaper to legally change my name to "PJR 567".

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If that went through a censor, they need a new censor.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Big fan of "openness", not a big fan of spelling.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that got through the vetting process, which I thought existed in most places.

Here in the UK, potentially offensive plates are altered or just plain skipped. There was a sitcom in the '90s that used one such "illegal" plate as an end-of-episode visual punchline, which had, up to that point, only been referred to as a "pornographic number plate". There's no way it would have made it onto the road in reality. P one five five OLE as I recall.

To give you some idea of how stringent it is here, back in 2007, one region had one of their region codes temporarily changed to TN from SN so that their plates wouldn't start with "SN07", i.e. "snot". Something similar almost certainly happened in 2017 for the SH region code, but I don't remember any news stories about that.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

California does also have a rule against potentially offensive vanity plates. I was also surprised this got through.

I thought this was a Tesla at first and I hoped he'd gotten a free vanity plate from a clever DMV worker.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Do California license plates normally come in the format 1AAA111?

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

yes and they won't let you buy a vanity one in that format either.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kind of match with their climate and forest fires.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What does the license plate character format have to do with climate or forestt fires?

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You get to shout Ahhhhh!!!!! it's burning or super dry! Just my dark joke guess people did not get it lol.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, a friction burn joke. It might have been a little :ahem: dry.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

That's the true Naga 🐍

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

🎶 Penis nine-to-five ... 🎶

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

“more like 5AM”

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

🎵 what a way to make a livin’🎵

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

♬♩ barely getting by ♩♫

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It clearly states he has 9 penises

[–] theluckyone@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

I get the impression he's saying he's not compensating.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

That's his "number."

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

A man with 8 sons.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My theory is that it is saying to "9 to 5 penis"

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 month ago

Dicking around work? Could be legit.