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Re^2: Not Safe For Work threads

by Argel (Prior)
on Jan 05, 2010 at 19:46 UTC ( [id://815805]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Not Safe For Work threads
in thread Not Safe For Work threads [NSFW]

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Re^3: Not Safe For Work threads
by ww (Archbishop) on Jan 05, 2010 at 21:21 UTC
    C'mon; recall the famous observation, '(t)he only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'

    Or worry about the sky falling if someone commits a syntax error that borks a nuke.

Re^3: Not Safe For Work threads
by holli (Abbot) on Jan 05, 2010 at 22:41 UTC
    use Sex; use Acme::Pr0n;
    There. Now this thread isn't SFW anymore. Or is it?
    xD


    holli

    You can lead your users to water, but alas, you cannot drown them.
      use Bone::Easy;
      There, I fixed it for you :D
Re^3: Not Safe For Work threads
by DrHyde (Prior) on Jan 06, 2010 at 11:23 UTC
    I read (and write) perlmonks in a large corporate environment. The words "spread eagle" are safe for work here. Without further context, I'd assume that it was referring to a pub (it's a not particularly common pub name, which I believe refers to some particular heraldic version of an eagle).
Re^3: Not Safe For Work threads
by zentara (Archbishop) on Jan 06, 2010 at 11:17 UTC
    tell me Argel is this photo suitable for large corporate environments?...... there is no sex organs shown at all, just maybe the truth about corporations

    I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
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Re^3: Not Safe For Work threads
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 06, 2010 at 13:10 UTC
    > No, large corporate environments.

    Alas, we have no large corporate environments in Europe ... ;)

    Cheers Rolf

    PS: /me googled the goatse image yesterday just before wanting to go to bed and spontaneously decided instead to start looking a movie, just to keep this picture out of his night(mares) ...

    NSFD= Not Safe For Dreams xD

      I'm currently in Europe, in a very large software company, and on the whiteboard in front of me is: my @goatse =()=. There was more, but it's been there for at least 3 months and the rest has been erased.


      - Boldra

        I'd actually be somewhat uncomfortable with the use of "goatse" as a joking reference in sample code, as in that whiteboard anecdote.

        Not personally -- in the pub you should expect far fouler than that from me. ;) But since "goatse" refers unambiguously to something sexually explicit, I'd be hesitant to use it in a professional context except in a sort of antiseptic explanatory way: "Well, you should probably know that that's sometimes called the 'goatse operator', which refers to a brutally explicit image on the net."

        I'd expect my colleagues, regardless of background, to be adult enough to handle discussing the topic in the abstract. But other usages are dicey. Here in the US, they're also legally hazardous... but I'd go beyond that and say that I believe in the reasons those laws were passed, and that our industry, with its dreadful gender diversity ratio, has a long way to go making our workplace environments welcoming to all.

        Avoiding the word "goatse" on workplace whiteboards is very different from avoiding it on some random website you clicked to.

        Funnily goatse seems to be the prime example of NSFW.

        I'm not sure anymore if this lazy going applies to the whole of Europe, and how a manager of a London bank would react .... Maybe not amused? ;-)

        IMHO it's also a matter of time and not only space... I remember now getting into some trouble in 1999 when freelancing for a bank in Frankfurt, because my boss found internet comics in my temporary internet files, accusing me to surf for fun at payed work time.

        As I found out later (too late) these images originated from outlook emails which where displayed via IE4. (NT3 standard setting???)

        Two (intern!) girls at the neighboring office where sending funny cartoons every day to the whole department compromising my internet files...

        Thankfully I never got emails with goatses or oralses ... ;-) ¹

        Well nowadays people feeling offended just by the mention of the word "goatse" only, should lead to a new classification:

        NSFTSI := Not suitable for the Spanish inquisition

        Cheers Rolf

        (1) I should add that this boss was widely considered a psycho. IMHO examining the private logs of an employee shouldn't be legal in Germany.

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