I’d say it’s a safer bet that what he meant to say was feminine and probably canine in nature, so the filter chose “Ma’am” as a logical substitute. I mean, if he was deliberate enough to bother to find a swear that mapped to “ma’am” then he would have just said “ma’am” himself in the first place.
I don’t think that Nick is so lacking in self-preservation that he would address an actual misogynistic slur to someone who could dock his pay, or otherwise inflict punishment on him, and I do think that the filter may at least sometimes be — prissy? schoolmarmish? not sure of the right adjective, here — enough that it basically says “you will show respect to your employer!” Or maybe it’s trying to apologize for saying “head-toters” twice and contributing to the customer service fail.
Re-reading this, I just noticed: Nick’s “Ma’am” appears to be in the profanity filter typeface…
wonder how long it took him to find one that mapped to ‘ma’am’. I mean, that’s gotta be deliberate.
I’d guess she altered the filter so what ever he says to her gets mapped to Ma’am instead.
I’d say it’s a safer bet that what he meant to say was feminine and probably canine in nature, so the filter chose “Ma’am” as a logical substitute. I mean, if he was deliberate enough to bother to find a swear that mapped to “ma’am” then he would have just said “ma’am” himself in the first place.
I don’t think that Nick is so lacking in self-preservation that he would address an actual misogynistic slur to someone who could dock his pay, or otherwise inflict punishment on him, and I do think that the filter may at least sometimes be — prissy? schoolmarmish? not sure of the right adjective, here — enough that it basically says “you will show respect to your employer!” Or maybe it’s trying to apologize for saying “head-toters” twice and contributing to the customer service fail.
So what I think he said was “dammit”.