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[DoctorStrangelove]

One more generation and we will all be Peppa Pigs...

Speaking of which, I hear Bunter, the Fat Owl of the Remove, has spawned again.

Anyone know what the current count is?

[sadkingbilly]

[malvolio]

Personally, I agree with your sentiment: I'd much prefer it if people didn't say "unalive" or "grape". However, I think the reasons are a bit more nuanced. For instance, there are lots of people on this forum who use the word "tulip". Is that because they're all snowflakes who would clutch their pearls and faint if they used a real swear word? Or is it because they don't want the forum software to block their post and/or ban their account?

Similarly, if you know that social media algorithms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube) would hide your videos/comments for using certain words, are you being a snowflake if you use substitutes? After a while, that can become a habit, and some people will copy what they see other people doing.

Possibly, but you can reverse that argument. Such substitutions wouldn't be necessary if people were grown up enough and well educated enough to accept the language as it is written and not retreat from harsh reality. We seem to have a generation who fail those criteria quite badly.

One more generation and we will all be Peppa Pigs...

[sadkingbilly]

Tulip appears because the forum "software" bowdlerises the original word. Never did figure out what daffodil was.

whereas sh1t just happens

[DoctorStrangelove]

Tulip appears because the forum "software" bowdlerises the original word. Never did figure out what daffodil was.

[hobnob]

Various snowflakes have adopted it since it is a lot nicer than saying "Kill", apparently. (Same logic as others are using the hideous "unalive", both as adjective and verb. )

Personally, I agree with your sentiment: I'd much prefer it if people didn't say "unalive" or "grape". However, I think the reasons are a bit more nuanced. For instance, there are lots of people on this forum who use the word "tulip". Is that because they're all snowflakes who would clutch their pearls and faint if they used a real swear word? Or is it because they don't want the forum software to block their post and/or ban their account?

Similarly, if you know that social media algorithms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube) would hide your videos/comments for using certain words, are you being a snowflake if you use substitutes? After a while, that can become a habit, and some people will copy what they see other people doing.

[NigelJK]

"But the point is that in the radio series of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Ford and Arthur pull letters from a scrabble bag and get the result "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"."

I always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.

[sadkingbilly]

ok

[NotAllThere]

52 in octal
2a in hex

But the point is that in the radio series of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Ford and Arthur pull letters from a scrabble bag and get the result "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?".

[sadkingbilly]

Yeh I'm shouting *** all the time.

Im more a #&|¬ man, myself

[xoggoth]

Yeh I'm shouting *** all the time.

[Zigenare]

And 101010 in binary, which is rather more elegant...

* - which I think is even more elegant...

[malvolio]

And 101010 in binary, which is rather more elegant...

[sadkingbilly]

52 in octal
2a in hex

[NotAllThere]

Not sensitive at all. But changing a subtly humorous post to a generalised non-very-humorous line did seem just a little silly, since the original had already made the point quite clearly (IMVHO of course...).

Did you understand the line about 42 not being equal to 45-47 I wonder...

I do know that 6x9=42 in base 13.