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'Blitz' name is a bit tasteless. This is what I don't get: this appears to be a self-study group, targeted at hacker-type personalities who want to expand thei
by benjfowler 13y ago
'Blitz' name is a bit tasteless.
This is what I don't get: this appears to be a self-study group, targeted at hacker-type personalities who want to expand their minds. BUT on the other hand, you're restricting it to an elite audience by turning the signup form into a job interview.
This does not strike me as sensible.
- arethuza 13y ago"'Blitz' name is a bit tasteless." The only way I can see that it is really tasteless is if it refers to the Sweet hit of the early 70s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballroom_Blitz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballroom_Blitz
- duggieawesome 13y agoWW2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz
- arethuza 13y agoMy point being that if a cheesy pop song from the 70s can safely use the name "Blitz" and be quite succesful I can't see any harm in using the same term 40 years later.
- yarrel 13y agoUsing it about a London event shows a degree of historical ignorance that a knowledge of glam rock's excesses is tangential to at best.
- philjackson 13y agoIt's a commonly used word over here in the UK, no one finds it offensive/painful to hear - it just means fast/quick.
- philjackson 13y agoYour point about the form was spot on, we cut it down and watched signups increase. Thanks.
- arctic 13y ago> 'Blitz' name is a bit tasteless. Not at all. Like others have said, its common meaning is understood to be something else anyway. Nearly no one I've met is touchy about it, if any. As a society/culture in general it's not the kind of thing we get worked up about. We make jokes about it. We see it as a sign of our spirit as a nation. If it had been something more recent, then people might be offended a little - but this was quite a time ago. Most of the people alive here were born after it happened or were too young to remember it.