Timeline for Should these sexually suggestive jokes be kept or deleted?
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| Aug 13, 2019 at 21:11 | history | rollback | Todd TrimbleMod |
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| Aug 13, 2019 at 20:31 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | @ToddTrimble - please feel free to undo my last edit. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 16:58 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Todd: In spirit of moderator intervention, you can delete and undelete to nullify the delete votes... | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 14:55 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | BTW, Dima, I suggest reverting your edit. I do actually understand your frustration and I would certainly oppose any move to delete this answer | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 14:54 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I agree with @ToddTrimble (GLAVLIT seems strong; maybe MASSOLIT if one perceives a "herd" effect? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita ) | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 13:50 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | Please don't delete this. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 8:32 | history | edited | Dima Pasechnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2019 at 7:17 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | GLAVLIT seems to be alive and kicking... | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 7:16 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | Interesting, now even this is proposed to be deleted. Would the people who voted this be deleted please explain why? Is my point, that one should not edit history, irrelevant? | |
| Aug 11, 2019 at 23:58 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | @Noah thanks for the memories! | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 23:50 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | Pipe Dream is referring to 1990ish minigame: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Mania | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 12:48 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @LSpice: What about Tits Buildings? Or as they are known in Norwich "American style table dancing"? | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 8:29 | comment | added | LSpice | While I'm sure you know this and were being facetious, let me emphasise that there is nothing even remotely suggestive about the 'Tits' in 'Tits alternative'. | |
| Aug 6, 2019 at 17:55 | comment | added | darij grinberg | @DimaPasechnik Thanks! Now I finally get what this word means. (For some reason I thought pipe dreams referred to malfunctioning explosives, perhaps due to the semantically equivalent but not etymologically cognate German word "Rohrkrepierer".) | |
| Aug 6, 2019 at 17:21 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | @darijgrinberg - people in this thread are triggered by words such as "stripper", "backside", etc - surely "perversion" can't be good either in their view... | |
| Aug 6, 2019 at 17:19 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | @darijgrinberg - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_dream : "Wild dreams induced by inhaling from an opium pipe". | |
| Aug 6, 2019 at 16:06 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Late to the party, but what drug-related innuendo is there in "pipe dream"? Also, I have been unable to come up with any lewd imagery for "perverse sheaves", and it's not for lack of trying. Is there something I've missed? | |
| Aug 5, 2019 at 18:28 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Andy: I have no interest in trying to change the opinion of someone who has made up his mind. Please leave me alone. | |
| Aug 5, 2019 at 18:28 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @AndyPutman would this not be better done with private communication? | |
| Aug 5, 2019 at 18:24 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @AsafKaragila: The point of the last part of your rant (the one involving a list of famous mathematicians) eludes me. I've said what I think needs to be said. Given all you've written, there is enough material for other people to draw their own conclusions... | |
| Aug 5, 2019 at 17:33 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Andy: Please don't put words in my mouth. I never said that I am okay with sexist jokes or with jokes that objectify women. It's your pregoretive to think this way, of course. But you'd be in the wrong. While you're washing your hands from any past misdeeds don't forget to wash Frege off you, as well as Einstein, and might as well wash von Neumann too. Of course, you'd say, one can appreciate their scientific contributions while critiquing their personal choices. But I guess I'm not allowed this freedom... | |
| Aug 5, 2019 at 17:26 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @AsafKaragila: I do think it's telling that you get irate at TBBT's misrepresentation of "nerd culture", but are seemingly ok with jokes premised on sexism and the objectification of women. | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 21:18 | history | edited | Dima Pasechnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 4, 2019 at 20:50 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @AsafKaragila Okay, Asaf. I'm really not defending TBBT, honest. | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 20:48 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Todd: It was field tested as crap, that's what. Because the majority of science jokes in TBBT were crap that was passed as "LOOK! SCIENCY WORDS!" | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 20:47 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @AsafKaragila Not defending... just stating the facts ma'am. :-) | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 20:45 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Todd: Some offense to the writers of TBBT, it sucked when it came to actual nerd culture. It mainly reinforced outdated stereotypes. You can't claim that the mini-skirt joke is offensive to women, while defending TBBT with a smile. | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 20:44 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @AsafKaragila Actually, the chicken version is there in the thread :-) And also, I heard that it was in Big Bang Theory. So I guess it was already field tested. :-) | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 20:15 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Todd: We wouldn't need this conversation because that joke would suck and there was a consensus for deleting it? Or maybe because it wouldn't be flagged as "sexually suggestive" or otherwise "less professional"? Maybe we need to work it out with a pencil... :-) | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 18:07 | history | edited | Dima Pasechnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 4, 2019 at 17:39 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | @user131781 - I tried to keep straight face while writing this... | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 13:47 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | (Alas, if the Moebius stripper joke-maker had instead started with "Why did the chicken cross the Moebius strip?", then we wouldn't need to have this conversation!) | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 13:24 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | Do I really need to say that MO has no plans to censor terms established in the literature? What we're primarily discussing here are (IMO mostly lame) jokes that are intentionally sexually tinged. I don't think any of the terms you mention fall under that category, and honestly I find this a little alarmist in tone. | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 13:15 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | When correctly viewed/Everything is lewd. (Tom Lehrer, Smut) | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 12:39 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | To be honest, I've never particularly liked the last one, because it's often paired with a 'wink wink, nudge nudge'. But finding coincidental homophones from other languages amusing/offensive (as in 5.) reminds me of some kids in my first German class at school where we learned the noun 'der Vater' (worse: Whakatane, New Zealand, which has an unexpected pronunciation) | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 8:50 | history | answered | Dima Pasechnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |