From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-10-09T07:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails

On 10/8/06, Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 04:10:50 +0900
> "Giles Bowkett" <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Before I go any further I should point out that I have in fact been
> > banned from the Rails list, probably for loud and vituperative
> > criticism of the list itself, but possibly also for advocating sex
> > with goats. (I have since made an effort at apology, although it seems
> > to have been unsuccessful.) At any rate, that's one reason why I'm
> > posting this question here, rather than on the Rails list.
>
> Wait, oh man this is good.  Ok, I totally missed this but did you actually
> advocate sex with goats or were you joking?
>
> Please say you actually were advocating it.  It'd be so much funnier.
>
> If you were just joking and got booted then that just confirms my
> opinion that most programmers have a sad sense of humor that only
> understands puns, math, and physics.

Sorry to disappoint you but I was just joking. I'm also fairly certain
the booting occurred for other reasons. However, I posted a comment
about goats, went off to do something more productive, came back to
post a new comment about goats -- I'd seen a headline that a man
caught with a goat in some Third World country had been ordered by the
local legal system to marry it -- but couldn't log back in. Therefore
it's stuck in my mind ever since that the goat comments must have been
what got me banned, although in reality I'm sure it was something
(marginally) more grown-up than that.

I do think the absence of a sense of humor may have played a role in
the proceedings on all sides, however.

-- 
Giles Bowkett
http://www.gilesgoatboy.org