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Whenever I leave a job, or an office closes down, I print up a few copies of the Kak poster, and leave them hidden around:

https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-dont-campaign-and-...

I've also gotten the Scarfolk book, and it is genuinely a weirdly creepy piece of art.



Just don’t.


Kak literally means “shit” in Afrikaans. Which makes this even funnier for me to read.


That meaning is also understood in the UK.


Seems like they share a root:

cack (slang) faeces (feces); nonsense or rubbish: "what a load of cack" could equally be used to describe someone talking nonsense or as a criticism of something of poor quality. Also spelt "kak" as used in Afrikaans and Dutch. Derived from an ancient Indo-European word, kakkos, cognate with German word Kacke, Welsh word "cach" and the Irish and Scottish Gaelic word "cac" which all mean 'shit'.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_British_terms_no....




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