Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

The Register ^ | Dec 18, 2019 | Kieren McCarthy

[dayglored]

SMH. Unbelievable.

[2banana]

Dork?

[Not A Snowbird]

I’ll play. What’s a “boffin”?

Is dufus still okay?

[dayglored]

Pinging All Windows Geeks!

Geek Hate Speech Alert! ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[dayglored]

“Boffin” is British slang for anything like “scientist”, “researcher”, “engineer”, etc.

[I want the USA back]

The person who proposed that is an overcontrolling fascist who should be sent to somalia and then report back on what it thinks about life in the USA.

[Da Coyote]

There are few pseudo-STEM groups demonstrably more inept than climate “researchers”.

Psychology is contained within that set of verified losers.

[fwdude]

Boffin? Wasn’t that a dwarf friend of Bilbo?

[rlmorel]

FU, you geeky, egg-headed boffin.

[chris37]

WTF!?

I am a geek and a nerd, and I call myself a geek and a nerd.

I must be bullying myself.

[rlmorel]

Boffin is the British term for “egghead”. It was considered to be a compliment back in the day.

Screw these people. I won’t allow them to control my use of language, they use it as a control tool and I won’t play along.

[dfwgator]

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

LOL!

[dayglored]

> I am a geek and a nerd, and I call myself a geek and a nerd. I must be bullying myself.

The folks over at The ThinkGeek Store are in for a world of hurt.

[No_More_Harkin]

Great! Cuz you know what is the best way to help the picked on and society as a whole?
Fine/jail people for using the wrong language.
Problem SOLVED!

[Yo-Yo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrlUYxG1oTs

Gilbert: I just wanted to say that I'm a nerd, and I'm here tonight to stand up for the rights of other nerds. I mean uh, all our lives we've been laughed at and made to feel inferior. And tonight, those bastards, they trashed our house. Why? Because we're smart? Because we look different? Well, we're not. I'm a nerd, and uh, I'm pretty proud of it.

Lewis: Hi, Gilbert. I'm a nerd too. I just found that out tonight. We have news for the beautiful people. There's a lot more of us then there are of you. I know there's alumni here tonight. When you went to Adams you might've been called a spazz, or a dork, or a geek. Any of you that have ever felt stepped on, left out, picked on, put down, whether you think you're a nerd or not, why don't you just come down here and join us. Okay? Come on.

Gilbert: Just join us cause uh, no-one's gonna really be free until nerd persecution ends.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Why does every social discomfort now require a government man with a gun to resolve?

[Maceman]

Would it still be permissible to call Dr Sonja Falck a coprophagic food waste exit?