This was cited by the reddit admins as the reason they have just banned my account, instantly for this single thing, I've never had any other problems on the account.
It was a joke. A funny one at that.
It is absurd because "nonce" is barely a bad word. Equivalent to "dummy" or "shite".
Reddit is so shit.
EDIT: My appeal just got rejected. Landlords are officially an immutable identity akin to lgbt people and gender according to reddit. Also "nonce" being equivalent to "wanker" is apparently meaningless to them.
I'm quite annoyed.
Yeah for real, that's a playground level insult. Even some of our most respected politicians and princes are nonces!
....Wait
It's pretty funny how mild it is given its origins. It comes from Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise which prison officers used to refer to prisoners who'd get knifed if they mixed with all the others - usually because they were in for being kiddy fiddlers.
But yeah, it's a comparatively very mild insult considering it comes from "You're a pedo"
that sounds like one of those false etymology backronyms, like how fuck stands for Fornication Under Consent of the King because old timey people needed to get the king's permission to fuck.
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Yeah it's possible to be honest. I am going by how my dad's family used it and quite a few of them were in prison at one point or another.
Slang is hard to pin down I guess. I've heard a tonne of ideas about where the word chav comes from.
Wow didn't know, didn't even know it could be interpreted as very rude but given the original meaning it makes sense