On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2009, at 18:45 , David Golden wrote:
>
> E.g. from his site today: "You might be a redneck if your Christmas
>
> ornaments are made out of spent shot-gun shells."
>
>
> (And maybe I'm guilty of stereotyping, but I suspect that Jör
On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:36 , Jasper wrote:
2009/11/15 David Landgren :
>> I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up
>> on the cont...@perl.org queue.
>
> Rename the "offending" module Nigerian419 and all the problems are solved.
FWIW the OP had also contacted the
Maybe we should not worry so much about what other people are doing, or what
other people think. At one point, the excellent link Pedro posted states:
In another episode of The Unbelievable Truth, one of the
unlikely-sounding
truths was that, in Hitler's Germany, it was fo
2009/11/15 David Landgren :
> I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up
> on the cont...@perl.org queue.
..
Rename the "offending" module Nigerian419 and all the problems are solved.
--
Jasper
For fear of doing a Broon, and digging myself into a deeper hole :-
I remember reading an article which said that all humour is offensive to
a group of some form, be it racist, sexist, or religous.
Q. Whart do you call a sleep walking nun ?
A. A Roaming Catholic.
--
Andrew in Edinburgh
PS. I do
Aloha,
Most cultures/countries have a redneck equivalent, so it is not totally wasted
on us non-us... anyway. I say if we have offended anybody, we remove the
offending distribution. It is in the acme namespace, so it will not create a
lot of fuss removing it.
The author has the choice and fre
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 17:55, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
> To whom
> is it offensive? Nigerians that are ashamed of what their fellow countrymen
> are doing? Well, they should be, and should put a stop to it.
Well, that's easily said.
Clearly, all UK citizens who are ashamed of what other UK citi
On 15 Nov 2009, at 15:47, David Golden wrote:
> I don't support censoring "bad
> thoughts". I would rather see the author withdraw it voluntarily.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/david-mitchell-comedy
David Landgren wrote:
> I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up
> on the cont...@perl.org queue.
>
> (I shall compose a message saying Acme is fun, etc. etc. Can anyone point me
> to other similar Acme modules to put this in context?)
David Golden replied:
> I t
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
> Consider Jeff Foxworthy making fun of rednecks. How is that different?
(Apologies if "redneck" jokes are too obscure for the non-Americans
reading this thread.)
Jeff Foxworthy is a comedian. (Damn good one, too!) But his comedic
perso
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:51 AM, David Landgren wrote:
> I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up
> on the cont...@perl.org queue.
>
> (I shall compose a message saying Acme is fun, etc. etc. Can anyone point me
> to other similar Acme modules to put this in cont
2009/11/15 David Landgren
> I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up
> on the cont...@perl.org queue.
>
> (I shall compose a message saying Acme is fun, etc. etc. Can anyone point
> me to other similar Acme modules to put this in context?)
>
>
I think the module
David Landgren wrote:
I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This
came up on the cont...@perl.org queue.
http://search.cpan.org/~jwalt/Acme-Lingua-NIGERIAN-1.0.0/NIGERIAN.pm
It is probably difficult to judge this. There is a 419 in most of our
mailboxen, for sure, f
On 15 Nov 2009, at 11:51, David Landgren wrote:
>
> I personally as a Nigerian demand an apology from you for embarrassing me
> and my country. Your apology should also be posted on CPAN and any other
> place you might have posted the module.
"Sure, just send me £5k."
I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came
up on the cont...@perl.org queue.
(I shall compose a message saying Acme is fun, etc. etc. Can anyone
point me to other similar Acme modules to put this in context?)
Dear Sir,
Let me begin by saying that I am really dis
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