I think you're jumping the gun a bit with your critique. What implies that they're necessarily using pot smoker slang? People rolled tobacco cigarettes well before marijuana joints came into popularity. Plenty of completely-sober technical people use that phrase (e.g., "roll your own linux distro") without meaning to imply anything about illegal drugs. As a point of evidence, look at the google results: the first 100 hits are invariably about software, tobacco, or sushi. As of the time of this posting, the words "pot", "joint", and "marijuana" do not appear in the summaries of the first 100 google results.
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I know it's very unlikely, but stylistically that piece very strongly reminds me of Warren Ellis. Interesting that it's of unknown origin.
Hello Prejudiced,
I think you're jumping the gun a bit with your critique. What implies that they're necessarily using pot smoker slang? People rolled tobacco cigarettes well before marijuana joints came into popularity. Plenty of completely-sober technical people use that phrase (e.g., "roll your own linux distro") without meaning to imply anything about illegal drugs. As a point of evidence, look at the google results: the first 100 hits are invariably about software, tobacco, or sushi. As of the time of this posting, the words "pot", "joint", and "marijuana" do not appear in the summaries of the first 100 google results.