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sexist words?

May 15th, 2007 · by Miko · 2 Comments

If you haven’t seen Hot Fuzz, it’s totally worth it. The main character, mocked by all his coworkers as being too goody-two-shoes, has actually read all the sensitivity training memos and insists that they use the correct terms: “police officer” instead of “policeman”. And it’s presented in a way that makes fun of the policeman-saying-people […]

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You Might be a Geek If…

May 15th, 2007 · by John · 3 Comments

“You understand why ‘42′ and ‘AYBABTU’ are funny, and still laugh at both.”
I laughed. Also:
“You consider ‘Geek’ a complement. [sic]”
There are 18 more. via SF Signal.

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