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This Code Is CRAP (2011)

77 points · 57 comments · luispa

  1. Anonyneko · · focus · HN ↗
    >Note: This post is rated PG-13 for use of a mild expletive. If you are likely to be offended by the repeated use a word commonly heard in elementary school playgrounds, please don’t read any further.

    Mild as this ironic passive aggressiveness is, can't imagine something like this in modern sterile corporate messaging.

    1. dionian · · focus · HN ↗
      funny enough, the disclaimer comes after the term is used in the title and url.
      1. hunter2_ · · focus · HN ↗
        "repeated use" seems to be doing the mitigation work here, though it does seem unusual that someone offended by the repetition would be unoffended by a one-off.
    2. dooglius · · focus · HN ↗
      There's a good chance it'll be scrubbed now that it's frontpaged here
    3. octantes · · focus · HN ↗
      don't be evil!

      every bit of humanity went with the motto

    4. kelnos · · focus · HN ↗
      Man, when I was a kid in the 80s, my parents considered "crap" to be a bad word, and my sister and I would get in trouble for using it.

      I'm sure that's still the case for some kids/parents today, but I can't imagine that being remotely common.

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