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Dongles and Forking

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Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#1 - 2013-03-26 08:32:16 UTC
Did you snigger reading that title? Well it seems that two gents at Pycon did aswell. Unfortunately this annoyed the woman in the row in front of them who overheard them. Smiling, she took a picture and put on twitter, and then to quote Bill Maher, the tweets hit the fan.

One of them was fired as his company tried to preempt the fallout as Ms Adria Richards went on twitter comparing herself to Joan of Ark without the Visions. What the actual hell, the guy got fired for this, and had a wife and kids. The slow applause begins now. The good news is that Ms Richards has been fired herself over this.

I've been following this for a few days, and a good recap video is here courtesy of Thunderf00t.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-03-26 08:42:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Graygor
Welcome to the world. It is mad.

One of the advantages of speaking several languages is you can say what you want and just appear rude P

Edit

Also with the pet peeves things. The whole "gate" thing is so annoying. Come on Americans, get a new handle for scandal.

Oooo that rhymes!

Further edits.

That video is brilliant.

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate

Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#3 - 2013-03-26 14:42:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Didn't they know that laughing is a punishable offense? Not allowed! If you find something funny, you're obviously a frivolous and uncaring person, and violating some rule or other.
(But I bet that fired guy has a good case for a wrongful termination suit).
Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#4 - 2013-03-26 15:30:08 UTC
I love Bill Maher. He has the most fine tuned bullshit detector in the world.

But then at the same time he's on the board of directors for PETA so I guess his radar coverage is set a bit high.

Kind of heart breaking when you think about it. It's like finding out that Ted Nugent went vegan or that George Carlin joined the Moral Majority.

The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity.

Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#5 - 2013-03-26 18:13:05 UTC
I find myself snickering at the innocent comments alot. Having a dirty mind does that to you. No matter how old you get, sometimes the little things are still funny.

UPS came and delivered a package... Temp office lady told him to 'take it in the rear'. She didnt speak very good english... I fouled a monitor and keyboard with coffee and laugh/choked for about 5 mins.

Was drug into the boss's office for a scolding/firing over laughing at the temps accent (yep, she turned me in to HR for racial/sexual insensitivity). After explaining what REALLY happened, we both laughed. Now whenever the UPS guy shows up I hear my boss snicker his ass off from his office.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?

Vilnius Zar
SDC Multi Ten
#6 - 2013-03-27 10:29:30 UTC
Here is a better view on it. Link contains swear words and is not suitable for unstable special snow flakes.
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#7 - 2013-03-27 14:49:27 UTC
Interesting story on why talking is so dangerous in the land of the free.
Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#8 - 2013-03-27 16:24:05 UTC
Vilnius Zar wrote:
Here is a better view on it. Link contains swear words and is not suitable for unstable special snow flakes.

Now Training Advanced Snowflake Insulation to V....

Oh I've seen this guy before. Some of his and girlwriteswhat is forcing me to accept that "The Patriarchy" isn't something 4chan came up with to straw man feminists, its the actual thing.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-03-27 16:29:28 UTC
The opening of that 2nd video is great.... From male modelling to the natural segway into python.

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate