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To ask where this awful word came from?

216 replies

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 21/06/2015 22:42

Fanjo.
Even my auto-correct doesn't like it. Fan jo.

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gamerchick · 22/06/2015 20:37

The Vulva brigade take the voice of a zebra finch. Any thread that crops up mentioning female genitalia they pop up to correct whatever word has been used. Then more zebra finches join and in the end all you can here are the voices of zebra finches.

Take a vulva corrective post, turn every word apart from Vulva to 'meep' and say it out loud.

You still understand exactly what it means.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 22/06/2015 20:41
Grin
GerundTheBehemoth · 22/06/2015 20:45

Zebra finches go 'beep', or 'bip', not 'meep'. Except singing males which go 'squickity-beep-bibble-bibble-ippity-ipp'.

gamerchick · 22/06/2015 20:45

*hear

gamerchick · 22/06/2015 20:46

Right, replace every word aside from vulva with beep.

Still perfectly understandable Wink

MargotLovedTom · 22/06/2015 20:48

I don't mind fanjo really, but I love 'VW bonnet' for the mons pubis Wink.

MrsEmmaPeel · 22/06/2015 20:52

I hate 'front bottom' too bertsdinner You defecate from your bottom, not your vagina.

Penis pouch and cock warmer Hmm are also offensive terms I've heard used by men. Angry

GerundTheBehemoth · 22/06/2015 20:53

Also surely a zebra finch would say 'cloaca'...

SarfEasticatedMumma · 22/06/2015 20:55

im going to use this from now on 'squickity-beep-bibble-bibble-ippity-ipp'.
"Yes - I have a sore and itchy 'squickity-beep-bibble-bibble-ippity-ipp, do you have any Canesten?"

SarfEasticatedMumma · 22/06/2015 20:56

No! My 'cloaca' even better. Lots of cloak and dagger gags...

gamerchick · 22/06/2015 20:58

You can use it as much as you want but on here someone will always say vulva.

GerundTheBehemoth · 22/06/2015 20:58
Grin
Princess28 · 22/06/2015 21:35

There are fanjo chairs!! www.aflair.co.uk/fanjo-chair.html

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 22/06/2015 21:37

They are actually nice

GrumpyOldBiddy2 · 22/06/2015 21:37

Not a MN thing, my dh was using it for years before I even started coming on MN

ProcessYellowC · 22/06/2015 21:59

Oooh fanjo chairs are awesome.

And as fanjoforthemammaries has had a bit of a bollocking testicling over her name, I need to also say that it is an awesome name.

Would never use fanjo in real life, in fact generally try not to have to say anything at all, but it is a perfect replacement online for female genitalia which may or may not be referring to the vulva specifically but also labia, clitoris et al.

Vaguely remember the hairy banjo song too from being a kid, and the insinuation that it was referring to a "front bum" as we thought fanjos were called at the time.

gamerchick · 22/06/2015 22:05

I like fanjos username, it suits and it's comforting when the name joins a thread.

Vulva or whatever in its place wouldn't have the same ring to it.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 22/06/2015 22:09

VulvaForTheBreasts is the grown up version.

gamerchick · 22/06/2015 22:16

funny as though, have to admit.

I can hear the meeping now Grin

drinkscabinet · 22/06/2015 22:42

This thread is really making me want to say CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT.

And sigh...

Don't mind Fanjo on here but have never used it in real life. I quite like Fanny since it mirrors Willy but when DD2 pointed at her external genitalia and said 'what's that' I discovered my inner Guardian reader and said 'That's your vulva'.

mrstweefromtweesville · 22/06/2015 22:54

I 'see' your CUNT and raise you one VULVA!

CactusAnnie · 22/06/2015 23:06

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CaminanteNoHayCamino · 22/06/2015 23:11

Away with your fanjos and cunts (not you, Fanjo). Surely everyone knows it's a growler?

MrsEmmaPeel · 22/06/2015 23:46

Growler? Nope I don't have an MGM lion between my legs.

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 23/06/2015 00:23

Oh no.
Looks like I was U to ask Sad
Sorry

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