This word recently came up for consideration by the
Speaker of the House of Commons. He ruled that it
amounts to unparliamentary language except when used
as a strict synonym for faeces.
Arguably the document in question is so bad as to be
indistinguishable from the said substance.
Alan
--- Doc Holiday <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Steve Meek <[log in to unmask]>
> That document produced at the end of last year
> (?direction of travel for
> urgent care) was the biggest piece of shit ...
>
> --> I must object to your use of this 4-letter word
> on this list!
> This is an Academic list! You can't simply decide to
> put a word down when
> you feel like it!
> We must stick to facts when available and
> appropriate metaphors otherwise...
>
> "Shit" is generally a well-processed concept on
> which, from ingestion &
> right the way through, many processes and events
> apply. Upon inspection and
> further study, there is usually considerable
> evidence to be gleaned about
> the original data or raw materials used in the
> process which can be worked
> out from the final outcome.
>
> This is OBVIOUSLY NOT the case here and thus your
> use of the word "shit" is
> misleading, as well as insulting to those who
> actually take the time and
> effort to produce "shit" (I have a list of those if
> you are interested, but
> not enough bandwidth to transmit it here).
>
> A more appropriate 4-letter metaphor to reflect the
> effort & time interval
> between "ingestion" of data and "production" of
> final output in this case
> would, perhaps, be "burp". "Spat out" would probably
> also do, but is
> statistically different in number of letters from
> the obviously appropriate
> FOUR letters.
>
> Most likely, "puke" best reflects the fact that data
> was "ingested", SOME
> effort to at least initiate processing did indeed
> take place. Someone did at
> least try to BE SEEN to be digesting it. But it was
> quite obvious, the
> further digestion proceeded, that no-one was willing
> to wait until full
> digestion of the facts, nor, evidently, was anyone
> at all happy with the
> facts the had received in the first place. So,
> instead of processing, it was
> decided to simply "puke" out something so
> disgusting, revolting and
> disagreeable, that, hopefully, people will avert
> their eyes long enough for
> it to be sweeped down the nearest drain...
>
>
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