Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Anthony,
On 5/21/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
I wonder where the tipping point of our dickishness lies as a community.
Wow, there's even a picture of a knife and link to [[Seppuku]].
I think on the whole the essay is reasonably clever, although with the undertones of back-slapping and cliquey dickishness we've come to see a lot of over the past year. As far as a place to send spammers goes, I prefer Durova's essay "The dark side".
I made a few changes to the Grief essay, in the interests of good taste. One of the changes --- the Seppuku knife --- was reverted, presumably because we're just being oversensitive.
What do I know of Seppuku? To me the knife looked like the kind of thing you use to cut out the sections from a grapefruit. People from some countries have difficulty with both the obscurity of English humour and the directness of Aussie humour. The only compromise they can think of is political correctness. :-)
Ec