enjoyer

Someone who enjoys something (particularly a work of art), quite simply.

Not to be confused with a fan. An enjoyer is entirely different from a fan, and the difference is what they gain from the work. A fan will appreciate a work for the sense of community it gives them, even if the work is low quality, whereas the enjoyer appreciates the work on its own merits. This is why fans are many magnitudes more likely to be toxic than enjoyers.

All of these MCU fans squabble with each other, whilst we Josh Trank's Fant4stic enjoyers are content to sit and appreciate the fact that we have patrician taste.

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naturist

Someone that you wouldn't want to see naked, but who gets naked anyway.

Upon seeing his elderly neighbours Dave and Doreen at a local naturist meet, Stevie proceeded to head home immediately and apply bleach to his own eyes, in order to scrub the mental scars away from himself.

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Nuck Figgers

"Nuck Figgers" was originally the name given to a community of European-born Canadian people who lived on the island of Nuck, just off the northern coast of the province of Manitoba, Canada. These people largely lived off the land, harvesting crops. And since the only crop on Nuck was figs from fig trees, they made everything out of figs. Their food was figs, their clothing was figs... Everything was figs. And hence, they became known as the Nuck Figgers.

As you'd expect from such an isolated island community, though, the Nuck Figgers were terrible racists. They'd accept white outsiders into their community (as long as they liked figs), but as soon as a black man came around, they'd mob up to tear him limb from limb. This continued until the more progressive-minded children of their parents got tired of hating people with other skin colours and left Nuck forever. The Nuck Figgers community died out in 1973, the last dying of malnutrition at 81.

However, the legend of the Nuck Figgers lived on. So fierce were they in their hatred of dark-skinned individuals, that "Nuck Figgers" became a byword for hostility towards black people. Even today, calling out "Nuck Figgers" will scatter any African-descended persons around, as it indicates to them that you are willing to act in the manner of the Nuck Figgers of old, and so they will be unwelcome around you.

The fact that the words "Nuck Figgers" are a spoonerism for an expression involving the N-word is just a coincidence.

When in Compton, I found myself threatened by the crowds around me, so I shouted "Nuck Figgers" and they backed off.

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