Thank You Political Correctness
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So one of the tasks I perform for customers at the MSP I contract for is creating user accounts in AD. Did that this morning and as usual I created a password comprised of 2 words concatenated together and stick a number on the end. I'm a bit of a fan of alliteration, palidromes and the like. Alliteration works well with passwords in my mind anyway. So create a password that will have to be changed as soon as the new user logs in. Complete ticket and email details to client. Get aphone call from the princess that had the details forwarded from the clients management. Take note that management didn't have an issue, this nancy boy did. He wants the temporary one time use password changed as it is not appropriate. I didn't know Joe Louis was not appropriate. BrownBomber88 is though, not sure if it was deemed as predujicial to people who are not as pastey white as I am or if it gave him flashbacks to his difficulty of dropping the kids off at the pool.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Two weeks ago there was a lot of fuzz here in Norway about a satirical animation, addressing the use of offensive words: Two scrabble players, one is ready to lay out a long word that will make him win the game. The word is very offensive to his opponent, and he ponders for a long time whether to use to word to win. He decides NOT to, and his opponent proudly declares "Then I win the game!" Even though the player with the offensive word decided that he would NOT offend his opponent, but give away the victory, and his opponent was gloating over a victory that was (by the rules of the game, which knows nothing about offensive words) at least half undeserved, representatives for the group that the opponent belongs to got so upset that they forced this animation off the website. I wonder: If I teach my kids "No, you can NOT hit that xxx kid in his face just because he is an xxx!", can you then attack me for hate crime, because I as much as mentioned "xxx", even if it was to tell that it gives my kid no reason to attack that other kid? The very idea was exactly the opposite, both in the way I want to raise my kid, and the intention of the satirical animation: You should respect your fellow man, even if it sometimes mean that you loose the game. Some groups are so super sensitive that they never comes close to even consider such an interpretation. Anything that can be twisted around to be interpreted as an attack on the group they belong to, will be twisted around that way. I must admit that there are groups that I highly respect, at the outset, have such a history of "crying wolf" all the time that it strongly affects my respect for the group.
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So one of the tasks I perform for customers at the MSP I contract for is creating user accounts in AD. Did that this morning and as usual I created a password comprised of 2 words concatenated together and stick a number on the end. I'm a bit of a fan of alliteration, palidromes and the like. Alliteration works well with passwords in my mind anyway. So create a password that will have to be changed as soon as the new user logs in. Complete ticket and email details to client. Get aphone call from the princess that had the details forwarded from the clients management. Take note that management didn't have an issue, this nancy boy did. He wants the temporary one time use password changed as it is not appropriate. I didn't know Joe Louis was not appropriate. BrownBomber88 is though, not sure if it was deemed as predujicial to people who are not as pastey white as I am or if it gave him flashbacks to his difficulty of dropping the kids off at the pool.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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honey the monster, codewitch wrote:
heh. gotta love when algorithms offend people. software lacks social graces. 88 is a common white supremacist "signal" - as is 14 (as in 14 words) coupled with BrownBomber i could see it being a bit off putting especially given recent mass murders in the states, including the austin bomber. the whole thing could be seen as unsettling to someone a bit sensitive i guess.
We're in Australia where all of these numbers mean absolutely nothing to do with racism.
honey the monster, codewitch wrote:
but who the heck is Joe Louis? :WTF:
American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World 1937 - 1949. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
We're in Australia where all of these numbers mean absolutely nothing to do with racism.
What? Is Australia outside the US? Impossible! There's Nothing outside the US!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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honey the monster, codewitch wrote:
heh. gotta love when algorithms offend people. software lacks social graces. 88 is a common white supremacist "signal" - as is 14 (as in 14 words) coupled with BrownBomber i could see it being a bit off putting especially given recent mass murders in the states, including the austin bomber. the whole thing could be seen as unsettling to someone a bit sensitive i guess.
We're in Australia where all of these numbers mean absolutely nothing to do with racism.
honey the monster, codewitch wrote:
but who the heck is Joe Louis? :WTF:
American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World 1937 - 1949. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
In Germany you´d have to know sooner or later... 88 stands for HH (eighth letter in the alphabet) which you can well enough google for yourself (sometimes I feel like even mentioning Hitler can be punished - laws are somewhat strange strict here about that) 14 I don´t know, but it´s also about that specific Hitler person. As well as 204 (his birthday) etc. etc. etc. At latest you´ll know about such things when you want to buy a car license plate and they tell you the letter combination you´ve chosen is illegal. My sister´s initials were NS till she married - forbidden, too. Her colleague´s initials were SS - which is even worse. And they still keep adding combinations up till today - only some months ago additional initials and numbers have been added :~ So Germans have to be a bit more sensible about such things, except you´d like to be watched by defence of constitution... :~
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DaveAuld wrote:
I hope you obliged and changed it to NancyBoyxxxx and replaced xxxx with his extension number..........
Nah, this is the place when on site last month I said, Yeah but that's cause girls shouldn't use computers, it's an office that is about 70% female. All were good but one little Gen Y whinger. Reckon she was 2 or 3 when I got married, I'm such a terrible mysoginist that I've been married 28 years this coming Saturday.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Hands up everyone who feels sorry for MM's wife! Maybe we should all chip in and buy her a bunch of flowers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So one of the tasks I perform for customers at the MSP I contract for is creating user accounts in AD. Did that this morning and as usual I created a password comprised of 2 words concatenated together and stick a number on the end. I'm a bit of a fan of alliteration, palidromes and the like. Alliteration works well with passwords in my mind anyway. So create a password that will have to be changed as soon as the new user logs in. Complete ticket and email details to client. Get aphone call from the princess that had the details forwarded from the clients management. Take note that management didn't have an issue, this nancy boy did. He wants the temporary one time use password changed as it is not appropriate. I didn't know Joe Louis was not appropriate. BrownBomber88 is though, not sure if it was deemed as predujicial to people who are not as pastey white as I am or if it gave him flashbacks to his difficulty of dropping the kids off at the pool.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Are you sure your name isn't David Thorne[^]? :-D
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Hands up everyone who feels sorry for MM's wife! Maybe we should all chip in and buy her a bunch of flowers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
Hands up everyone who feels sorry for MM's wife! Maybe we should all chip in and buy her a bunch of flowers.
You should, I won't buy any.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Hands up everyone who feels sorry for MM's wife! Maybe we should all chip in and buy her a bunch of flowers.
You should, I won't buy any.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
... And she won't get any sherry, because you don't want to break the truck, obviously.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So one of the tasks I perform for customers at the MSP I contract for is creating user accounts in AD. Did that this morning and as usual I created a password comprised of 2 words concatenated together and stick a number on the end. I'm a bit of a fan of alliteration, palidromes and the like. Alliteration works well with passwords in my mind anyway. So create a password that will have to be changed as soon as the new user logs in. Complete ticket and email details to client. Get aphone call from the princess that had the details forwarded from the clients management. Take note that management didn't have an issue, this nancy boy did. He wants the temporary one time use password changed as it is not appropriate. I didn't know Joe Louis was not appropriate. BrownBomber88 is though, not sure if it was deemed as predujicial to people who are not as pastey white as I am or if it gave him flashbacks to his difficulty of dropping the kids off at the pool.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Write an email claiming extreme offense at the suggestion you wrote anything other than a reference to the famed [Joe Louis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe\_Louis) and then put in a claim for compo due to emotional stress.
cheers Chris Maunder
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So one of the tasks I perform for customers at the MSP I contract for is creating user accounts in AD. Did that this morning and as usual I created a password comprised of 2 words concatenated together and stick a number on the end. I'm a bit of a fan of alliteration, palidromes and the like. Alliteration works well with passwords in my mind anyway. So create a password that will have to be changed as soon as the new user logs in. Complete ticket and email details to client. Get aphone call from the princess that had the details forwarded from the clients management. Take note that management didn't have an issue, this nancy boy did. He wants the temporary one time use password changed as it is not appropriate. I didn't know Joe Louis was not appropriate. BrownBomber88 is though, not sure if it was deemed as predujicial to people who are not as pastey white as I am or if it gave him flashbacks to his difficulty of dropping the kids off at the pool.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
In the UK the only BrownBomber I am aware of is the high strength laxative capsule they tend to give you in hospital if you answer the question "Have your bowels moved today?" in the negative. It's a dark brown capsule, about an inch long, and it certainly opens the bomb bay doors!
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