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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 10 hours 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 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Rhusta@midwest.social 3 points 15 hours ago

No, it says 9 penis's

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

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

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It clearly states he has 9 penises

[–] theluckyone@discuss.online 1 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago

That's his "number."

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

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

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

A man with 8 sons.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

🎶 Penis nine-to-five ... 🎶

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

🎵 what a way to make a livin’🎵

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

♬♩ barely getting by ♩♫

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

“more like 5AM”

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

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

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

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

Kind of match with their climate and forest fires.

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

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

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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 21 hours ago

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

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

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

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

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 1 day 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 day ago

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

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

That's the true Naga 🐍