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When politeness isn’t

The other day I posted a guide to eating lunch at your desk. I didn’t just come up with it out of nowhere. Oh no. I came up with it as I gently sauted garlic and anchovies in olive oil that evening, and remembered a guy I used to work with.
Peter sat [...]

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Anti-”gay” rant

I’m only going to say this once: don’t use “gay,” or any related word, as a term of derision.
“PHP is gay!”
“… some stupid fag on the mailing list …”
Just don’t.
I don’t want to hear your protestations that the word you used has nothing to do with the term commonly used for homosexuality. For one [...]

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