From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-04-17T00:00:42+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] The "Ruby Best Practices" Collaborative Blog

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Gregory Brown
<gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
To be honest I suspect people, as Eleanor has confirmed a little bit,
to use those words because it is in, but I completely misunderstood
the term in the context, my bad.
As I said, great effort.
Cheers
Robert