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Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu"
Bruce Perens writes "The World Health Organization will no longer refer to Virus A(H1N1) as 'Swine Flu,' citing ethnic reactions to 'swine,' for example among middle-eastern cultures who feel that swine are unclean. Or, is it because meat packers are concerned that people might stop eating pork in fear of the virus? WHO suggests that the public select a new name for the virus. I suggest that we all start calling it The Colbert Flu, after the comedian and fake pundit who asked his audience to stuff a NASA poll so that a Space Station module would be named after him. What can we do to make the name stick?"
The man, and I use the term loosely, is a pig, so it is fitting.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Bruce is famous for writing some sort of P2P software, which, I believe, failed due to inadequate support for now-ubiquitous NAT, and for having a borderline-worthless search capability. Because of this project, though, he is somewhat of a celebrity, so his ideas are going to get more attention than the average slashdot comment.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
That's not to say his bit is funny; that's obviously left to opinion.
Bah, not this stupid argument again. It is funny. It's only not funny if you are an uptight conservative who thinks he is serious. It becomes even less funny once said uptight conservative figures out he is joking, at which point it becomes really funny to everyone else around uptight conservative.
Hell no. Not because "Bacon Lung" is a bad name, but because Reddit sucks and can't be allowed to win anything.