> I wouldn't expect English people to be offended by this silly thing... I imagine it depends to a large extent on whether you've heard the same shitty joke a

> I wouldn't expect English people to be offended by this silly thing... I imagine it depends to a large extent on whether you've heard the same shitty joke about your name - hur dur your name sounds like butt! - from far too many people in your professional life. Remember, this is a list of client names that was created solely for the purposes of ridicule while being passed around internal Basecamp networks. In terms of racism, I'm white and British, and it definitely has a flavour of the cultural racism that was prevalent during the British Empire which, for all its differences, America inherited.