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I am reminded of the conference NIPS being forced to re-brand because the word “nips” is offensive apparently. It’s not been used as a racial pejorative since t
by goatinaboat 7y ago
I am reminded of the conference NIPS being forced to re-brand because the word “nips” is offensive apparently. It’s not been used as a racial pejorative since the 1940s. A nip is a synonym for a wee dram, over here, if it means anything at all. Or an abbreviation of catnip perhaps.
- xkcd-sucks 7y ago"Documenting the wild nip of New England" https://www.instagram.com/fireball_newengland/ https://www.instagram.com/fireball_newengland/
- hprotagonist 7y agoand IIRC the hubbub was over "nip -> nipple" anyway.
- goatinaboat 7y agoScraping the very bottom of the outrage barrel. Oops I said bottom! It worked though, the NIPS organisers rolled over straight away. Just what you want in people who might need to make an ethical stand over abuse of their work.
- finnthehuman 7y agoNips means something similar here, it’s our only word for those small single-serving prepackaged shots of liquor. And they’re the first thing I think of when I hear “nips” without context. You can use it to mean a poured drink too, but it’s only common with older people here. The renaming of NIPS was just some uptight busybodies that got too much attention.