You're allowing fanboys now?
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Fix it, fix it quick!!! This is just so wrong!
Fix it, fix it quick!!! This is just so wrong!
Yeah. I saw that just after I posted. Still, most of the legacy things and practices in our lives that are utterly useless from a practical point of view we keep around - not for any genuine purpose but because they've been institutionalized and turned into tradition. Thus, reading 'the word' here just felt kind of... well... wrong... Like inheriting your granddad's cabin and throwing out all those quaint knickknacks gathered there over generations to make room for a ping-pong table. Censoring it was part of the place.
Oh, well. Gotta' move with the times I guess.
Oh, well. Gotta' move with the times I guess.
Yeah. I saw that just after I posted. Still, most of the legacy things and practices in our lives that are utterly useless from a practical point of view we keep around - not for any genuine purpose but because they've been institutionalized and turned into tradition. Thus, reading 'the word' here just felt kind of... well... wrong... Like inheriting your granddad's cabin and throwing out all those quaint knickknacks gathered there over generations to make room for a ping-pong table. Censoring it was part of the place.
Oh, well. Gotta' move with the times I guess.
On the one hand, I feel ya, bro. I'm a traditionalist at heart too, and understand exactly what you meant by that. Otoh, as technology enthusiasts, and many of us as IT professionals of some flavor or other, we should know that "because we've ALWAYS done it that way", at root, is usually down to the exigencies of the moment that have become traditionalized quite by accident.
For instance, many of the "special foods" that grandma/mom makes that we love, when you take a hard look at them, turn out to have been depression-era recipes based on a desperate bid to feed a family on no money. Intellectualy we can understand that while still loving them because that's what grandma/mom made for us. . .
There's been a lot of changes the last few weeks, and I like to think that I've tolerated 'em reasonably well; but this?
This is a biggy, I dunno.
This is a biggy, I dunno.
That's just what any tradition is, no? Something that once held some practical merit, but that has taken on a significance in it's own right after being separated from it's original purpose. Many still consider it still impolite to put your elbows on the table during a meal even though we don't live in a small space with 12 children, two unmarried sisters, and our mother(s) in law (except, perhaps, in Utah
). Let's be careful here, lest this thread is destined for RPSC. I'm not really all that traditionalist, and always thought about that filter as more of a tongue in cheek mission statement rather than an actual barrier to causing offense.
Come on, dig, now it sounds like you're overreacting to change here for overreaction's sake. The change was born out of the fact we think almost everyone around here is grown up enough to use the word in proper context and without malice or attack. Further, it's much less of a 'biggy' than other stuff we've done, so please just suck it up without the histrionics, since it's just tiring now.There's been a lot of changes the last few weeks, and I like to think that I've tolerated 'em reasonably well; but this?
This is a biggy, I dunno.
/me pulls down pants and lets me gents say a cheery "Hellos!"Show that you've got some balls!
What did that prove? :|
There's been a lot of changes the last few weeks, and I like to think that I've tolerated 'em reasonably well; but this?
This is a biggy, I dunno.
Piffle! Wait until you see the new forum skin.
Very handsome, I think. Similar threads
