Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Dec 19 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> For the record, the same is true in American English (the colloquial >> phrase being "a stick up your ass" and regularly used without any sexual >> connotation whatsoever). I don't know if Russell's objections are unique >> to Australia or unique to Russell. >> The phrase isn't considered *polite* by any stretch of the imagination, >> and can be taken as quite insulting, but it isn't a sexual insult. > Does the fact that the insult was not sexual somehow make it > acceptable behaviour? Not as far as I'm concerned. But then I also thought the parody sent to d-d-a was inappropriately sexist and offensive, so I'm apparently some sort of censorious Nazi or hyper-sensitive PC freak or whatever the current in-vogue terminology for people who prefer basic politeness and respect over that form of humor is. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
