On Thursday 04 May 2006 19:54, Rob was like: > Where I'm sitting, "gimp" is an insulting term for a handicapped > person, I didn't know that. > and only became a BDSM related term after the movie Pulp > Fiction had a character by that name. I'm sure the bdsm context has been around longer than that. > 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.) Naughty? Huh? The word Kike is downright offensive in any context. > I think no matter what collection of vowels and consonants you > put together, sooner or later it's going to upset somebody. My original point was not about whether there was anything naughty or offensive about the word 'smack'. I don't do moral outrage generally. I was merely pointing out that it had put me off trying out some possibly excellent software because of its connotations. <irony>OK, I'll just call my next album 'Crap songs I wrote when I was depressed' if it doesn't matter.</irony> -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim We are the people We've been waiting for.
