On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 14:54 -0400, Rob wrote: > On Thu May 4 2006 08:56, tim hall wrote: > > know full well what GIMP means, but I find it mildly amusing, > > perhaps because I'm naive when it comes to s&m. It is entirely > > Where I'm sitting, "gimp" is an insulting term for a handicapped > person, and only became a BDSM related term after the movie Pulp > Fiction had a character by that name. It'd be like calling a > KDE image editor "kike". (Don't know if that's a naughty word > over there too, but it is here.) > > I think no matter what collection of vowels and consonants you > put together, sooner or later it's going to upset somebody. The fact that a word which happens to be the street name for a drug is considered "offensive" in this thread is completely ridiculous - especially since it's glaringly obvious (being DRUMS) that it's referring to a sound. Lighten up, people. Anyway, it's Loki's project, he can name it whatever he wants. I'll call my next project CrackCocaine if I damn well want to. ;) -DR-
