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He would have been happy to tell you himself that he had some rough edges, would speak his mind unvarnished, and would hold strongly onto his own opinions of wh
by petesergeant 1y ago
He would have been happy to tell you himself that he had some rough edges, would speak his mind unvarnished, and would hold strongly onto his own opinions of what he thought was right.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoThat sounds like half this community. I suspect the issue is what those opinions were. I did not know him at all, have no opinion on him, and sincerely wish the best for those he left behind.
- stefantalpalaru 1y ago[dead]
- petesergeant 1y ago> the issue is what those opinions were Rarely, in fact.
- mjd 1y agoIn my life, I've only known one person who has called me a “cunt”. I'm sure Matt would have been happy to admit that he was that person. I'm sure he would have said that he had spoken his mind unvarnished, and maybe even that he thought he was right. So what? People say that a community will fall to the level of the most toxic person it will tolerate. For the Perl community, that was Matt.
- aaron695 1y ago[dead]
- throwaway328 1y agoJust a quick word of public interest - there are countries where the "c" word is really quite a normal word amongst friends and acquaintances, male and female. When you say that you've only ever been called that once, you maybe don't realise how much cultural information you're revealing. Seriously, look up something about the use of the word in Australia, for example. Your eyes might very well be opened.
- chris_wot 1y agoI’m an Australian. Being called a cunt is still a really offensive thing to say to someone. You might jokingly call a friend a cunt in jest, but you say that to a stranger and you might have your teeth knocked out. Don’t always believe the stereotypes.
- xupybd 1y agoUnless prefixed with good. He was a good ....
- singingfish 1y agodumb, sick, stupid, other adjectives - generally not negative although could be in the right context - both in the Australian and North West England (where Matt was from) context. Just watch out for being called a fucking cunt. In almost all cases that one is pretty unambiguous. I do remember at one point having a conversation with Matt about how handling East Coast and West Coast North Americans was quite a different proposition from a cultural perspective, also related to this thread. Matt would have liked this discussion. And given that his and my mutual friend has some actual legitimate serious expertise on obscenity in the English language even more so.
- throwaway328 1y agoI'm not falling for any stereotypes. I'm responding to a post where someone said they'd been called that word once in their life. This surprised me, as a non-American very used to the use of that word. As an Australian, how many times have you been called the word? In how many types of context? It can be extremely offensive, used a certain way, yes. And it can be absolutely breezy, used another way. And context usually makes it absolutely clear, as in, there's almost never any ambiguity. Right?
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- pudgenet 1y agono lies detected
- the_precipice 1y ago[dead]