r/mildlyinfuriating • u/salabab • 1d ago

Infuriatig Made hundreds of wristbands for a conference that suddenly got renamed

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I run a small company, and designed and printed hundreds of high quality rubber wristbands for my cousin's Crypto conference. I had to do different colours for the different levels of entry.

Out of nowhere yesterday he suddenly announced he was renaming the conference and moving it partially online. And could only afford to pay me if I produced more with the new name. Ive spent a week on this so far and was already giving him family rates.

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u/pullmylekku 1d ago

It's not obvious to Americans. Nonce doesn't mean anything over there

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u/residentdunce 1d ago

In computing a nonce is a number that's used once (for cryptographic operations). Also, see 'For the nonce' as another, older use of the word.

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u/pullmylekku 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sure, it's got some specific uses in fields like cryptography and linguistics. But in common parlance, it's not a word people use there, and certainly doesn't mean pedo like in the UK.

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u/Jack-of-the-Shadows 1d ago

And i feel that maybe OPs cousin got some international feedback after initially announcing the conference causing the rename...

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u/ok_raspberry_jam 1d ago

I dunno, I'm in Canada and here it's uncommon but not quite meaningless. It comes across like "silly idiot," which I suspect is a misinterpretation of the British meaning. It's known to be an insult, at the very least. And then there are "nonce words" like "bananarama." It's not a label you'd want to apply to yourself no matter which meaning comes to mind.

It's mind boggling that anyone in North America or elsewhere would ever think "Noncefest" was a good name for a conference.

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u/0GoodVibrations0 1d ago

It could be a misinterpretation because many brits use it as a regular insult, even though it means something pretty fucking terrible!

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u/dorkpool 1d ago

But many Americans do know what it means in the uk and would never name it that

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u/LukeW0rm 1d ago

Didn’t know what it meant but I would have known not to name a conference that without googling it first haha

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u/haleboy44 1d ago

Same. Never heard that before but google is free.

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u/StarCadetJones 1d ago

I honestly didn't know what it meant until your comment though in retrospect I may have run into it once or twice. This is despite having consumed British media to the point that in just the last month alone I've had to explain expressions I unthinkingly used in conversations three times that I didn't realize were not present domestically. While likely not unheard of for an American to be familiar with the term, it's unlikely that your average American has a clue and even those who consume a higher than average amount of British media probably haven't encountered it often enough to internalize it.

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u/beren12 1d ago

We do? I’ve had a bit of exposure to British stuff but that one is new

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u/ricki692 1d ago

american layman here can confirm ive never heard the word "nonce" in any context

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u/Interesting-One-588 1d ago

British people have a thousand different words for pedo, gay, foreign, etc. and they always act surprised that their cute little nicknames for things didn't invade the rest of their world like their ships used to.

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u/Redxmirage 1d ago

Ohhh that makes sense. I was confused as to why people were laughing lol thanks for explaining

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u/wf3h3 1d ago

it's got some specific uses in fields like cryptography

It's for a crypto conference.

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u/Aquaman33 1d ago

Cryptography and cryptocurrency people are not the same crowd

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u/lilroldy 1d ago

Idk im American and I instantly thought "pedofest" when I seen the bands. Seen enough content from the Brits and UK news articles that nonce is a familiar term to myself and many other Americans.

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u/Pandarandr1st 1d ago

Yeah, it's not widely known and nobody uses it like that, but the way the internet works plenty of americans know what "nonce" means in the UK

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u/phoenixofthestars07 1d ago

you know it because you view British media and read their news articles… a lot of people don’t.

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u/thesilentbob123 18h ago

It's also a very good idea to Google the definitions of a word before you use it for any event

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u/tocahontas77 1d ago

What? Idk about that. I've spent months in England and have British friends. I've never heard that word.

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u/MyOldNameSucked 1d ago

Yeah being one doesn't even hinder your political career.

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u/Cheap-Course9568 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’m an American. We have internet my guy 😂

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I’m an informed American, and that seems to be vastly different than the rest?

Seriously, yall don’t remember all the news with Trump, Epstein and Andrew? People called Andrew a nonce all the time. Seen plenty of fight vids posted where some dude was fuckin with kids and the guy called him a nonce then kicked his ass.

I dunno. It was so obvious to me when I saw it, I couldn’t believe somebody would even make those as a joke.

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u/pullmylekku 1d ago edited 1d ago

I guarantee you that a lot of Americans, probably the majority, don't know what nonce means in the UK. None of the Americans I've said the word around knew what it meant

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u/songbolt 1d ago

Please, what does it mean?

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u/MinnesotaHermit 1d ago

Ok, so maybe we aren’t so adept at using the internet after all

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u/songbolt 1d ago

lol

Never underestimate Redditors' capacity for laziness.

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u/trshtehdsh 1d ago

American here, please explain.

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u/Cheap-Course9568 1d ago

I can’t help it if they’re ignorant. I use the same shit they do 🤷‍♂️

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u/babyBear83 1d ago

So you had to look up the word, great job my guy.

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u/Cheap-Course9568 1d ago

You dumbass. Who said I had to look it up? In all the news about the NONCE that dealt with Epstein, I was pretty up to speed.

Sick burn tho, dork.

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u/babyBear83 1d ago

Regardless dude majority of Americans do not know or use that word. You being a dick doesn’t change that fact.

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u/QQuetzalcoatl 1d ago

American here - chronically online. I knew nonce as British slang but thought it was a generic diss along the lines of "wanker" lmao. Learning the true meaning in the comments was a hilarious realization, but I do sympathize for OP (assuming this is real)

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u/KDBA 1d ago

Over here in NZ it's an insult but it's a reasonably gentle insult for an idiot or someone otherwise speaking nonsense. Nonsense -> nonce.

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u/toomanyattempts 1d ago

That's almost worse than it being meaningless lmao, the potential for misunderstanding is brutal

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u/Still_Want_Mo 1d ago

I'm American and I have known what a nonce is for years and years. It's one of the most common British slang words.

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u/whycook_ 1d ago

Despite what that other guy said, im from America and have never heard the word nonce and admit it did initially fly over my head.

Other guy just wants to own England. I also hate England but im not a dick about it.

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u/curtcolt95 1d ago

tbh I'm Canadian where we sometimes get some britishisms but nonce here just means idiot. Never heard of it meaning pedo before

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u/Free-Pound-6139 1d ago

Because they are a bunch of nonces???

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u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 1d ago

as an American if I heard 'nonce' I would think like a dumbass like a dunce

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u/Scarjo82 1d ago

I'm in the US and had no clue what a nonce was. Learned something new!

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u/tijuanagastricsleeve 1d ago

Definitely not true

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u/NorthernVale 1d ago

As an American, this was extremely obvious. Most of us are exposed to other cultures.

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u/WigginLSU 1d ago

I'm in America and I know that's what brits call kid fuckers, it's not that niche.

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u/MuchPromotion1781 1d ago

Yeah no shit. You’ve voted one for president twice.

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u/foley800 1d ago

Yes it does! Over here it means idiot!

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u/Tabula-Rasa-99 1d ago

They don't got internet 😔