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Maybe I'm being a hypersensitive brit, but "Fuzzy Wuzzy" is as a pretty offensive term in the UK. See top entry: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term

by mopoke 15y ago

Maybe I'm being a hypersensitive brit, but "Fuzzy Wuzzy" is as a pretty offensive term in the UK. See top entry: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuzzy+wuzzy http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuzzy+wuzzy Not to take anything away from the tech - that looks awesome and I can already think of a few uses for it.

nestlequ1k 15y ago
Guess there's not enough brits here for that to matter. It'd be a tad different if it started with an N.
Terretta 15y ago
I think the children's puzzler "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, but Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. So Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he?" is better known despite the Urban Dctionary selection biased votes.
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- baha_man 15y ago
  Not in the UK. I don't think the tongue-twister is well known here, but the phrase is used in the other sense in the TV show Dad's Army[1], which is still shown on the BBC. However, it's only used by one character[2], who's supposed to be 70 at the time World War II starts. So, I think it's a very outdated expression, and not likely to cause offence when used in the context of a programming library. I've certainly never heard the expression used other than in the TV show (where, as far as I know, it's still not censored - it's understood that the character's views were outdated even at the time the show was set). The term is from a Kipling poem[3]: "A derogatory term for a black person, especially one with fuzzy hair... From... one of Rudyard Kipling's... poems, written in 1918. The poem is in the voice of an unsophisticated British soldier and expresses admiration rather than contempt, although expressed in terms that sound patronizing today." [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dads_Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dads_Army [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance-Corporal_Jack_Jones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance-Corporal_Jack_Jones [3] http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/146100.html http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/146100.html
jdietrich 15y ago
As a scouser, I'm always amused by Mizage Software's window management program Divvy. Seriously people, Google your package names or you might end up looking like a divvy. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=divvy http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=divvy

by mopoke 15y ago

nestlequ1k 15y ago

Guess there's not enough brits here for that to matter. It'd be a tad different if it started with an N.

Terretta 15y ago

I think the children's puzzler "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, but Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. So Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he?" is better known despite the Urban Dctionary selection biased votes.

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baha_man 15y ago
Not in the UK. I don't think the tongue-twister is well known here, but the phrase is used in the other sense in the TV show Dad's Army[1], which is still shown on the BBC. However, it's only used by one character[2], who's supposed to be 70 at the time World War II starts. So, I think it's a very outdated expression, and not likely to cause offence when used in the context of a programming library. I've certainly never heard the expression used other than in the TV show (where, as far as I know, it's still not censored - it's understood that the character's views were outdated even at the time the show was set). The term is from a Kipling poem[3]: "A derogatory term for a black person, especially one with fuzzy hair... From... one of Rudyard Kipling's... poems, written in 1918. The poem is in the voice of an unsophisticated British soldier and expresses admiration rather than contempt, although expressed in terms that sound patronizing today." [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dads_Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dads_Army [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance-Corporal_Jack_Jones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance-Corporal_Jack_Jones [3] http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/146100.html http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/146100.html

jdietrich 15y ago

As a scouser, I'm always amused by Mizage Software's window management program Divvy. Seriously people, Google your package names or you might end up looking like a divvy. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=divvy http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=divvy