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Off topic but the video of Linus Tech Tips casually mentioning how he used to "drop hard Rs when he was younger" was hilarious to me. For context, he was confused and thought the term hard R referred to that instead of to the N word.
It's one of those dangerously funny jokes. I'll see things starting with R and want to make a callback to that moment by jokingly incorrectly calling it a hard R. But also, it is a pretty niche joke that few people are aware of, so for about a week after it I had to stop myself from doing stupid jokes like calling rye bread "hard R" in public and getting myself cancelled lol. Because what the hell would you do!? Someone just stops in the bread aisle and stares at you then you say "oh, sorry, there was a video recently where someone got hard R mixed up with the R word instead of the N word and I thought that was funny so I was jokingly calling anything starting with the letter R as a hard R to get a chuckle and remind people of that humourous moment of confusion but you didn't see that so you thought I was just referring to it as a synonym of the N word." Yeah, that would go over great!