From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-04-16T23:47:24+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] The "Ruby Best Practices" Collaborative Blog

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Eleanor McHugh
> <eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
>
> Does this mean that "bastard" in "lazy bastard" does not have the same
> value at all than bastard in e.g. "take this you bastard"?

In this context, the two are not even remotely related.  The post was
entirely a reference to myself, because I personally can't stand
working with Rails and do everything I can to work around its
verbosity.   Thus, I am a lazy bastard.  The post is for lazy bastards
like me.

I didn't consider the possibility of anyone (except maybe Bill's mom)
being offended by the title of the post, but to be fair, I didn't
think of what the literal interpretation by a non-native speaker might
be.   In that case, I hope the tone of the post made it clear that I
was not being derogatory towards any group of people.  But if it was
clear on reading that I wasn't out to hurt anybody, I'm really not
sure why we're having this conversation.

-greg