“Linux developers have been asked to use new terms for the master/slave and blacklist/whitelist terminologies….

“…Proposed alternatives for master/slave include:

primary/secondary
main/replica or subordinate
initiator/target
requester/responder
controller/device
host/worker or proxy
leader/follower
director/performer

Proposed alternatives for blacklist/whitelist include:

denylist/allowlist
blocklist/passlist …”

“…The Linux team has now joined many tech companies and open-source projects that have removed references to racially-charged jargon from their code for more neutral and inclusive language.

The list includes Twitter, GitHub, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Ansible, Red Hat, Splunk, Android, Go, MySQL, PHPUnit, Curl, OpenZFS, Rust, JP Morgan, and others. ”

You couldn’t make it up, and I didn’t. It’ll be BDSM next: “You’ve been a very naughty little Proxy, and Host will have to give you a good spanking!”

Make it stop.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-team-approves-new-terminology-bans-terms-like-blacklist-and-slave/

Nominated by: Komodo 

I would like to nominate BT because they are utter garbage at fault resolution.

They’re website tells you how much they’re keeping people connected during the Coronavirus pandemic yet the irony is if you have a fault, like I have, they take weeks to fix it!

You can’t get hold of a person to speak to because nobody is answering the phone right now, you can’t add notes to your case. You get text messages saying you’re case is fixed when clearly its not. They direct you to use their online chat but the bloody thing doesn’t exist. Engineers don’t turn up for appointments. They close your case even if its still bloody broken.

As the nation’s infrastructure provider, you would think they could turn problems with cabling and poles around in 48 hours, but no they take their bloody time. I had a power outage the other day that affected several post codes in my area and national grid got this fixed in 2 hours! Why can’t BT be like that? Because they’re work shy, incompetent cunts. They should hang their heads in shame.

Nominated by: Cuntologist 

I’d imagine there may have been similar cuntings for this in the past, but I’d like to give it another nudge!

When I was at a tender age in both primary and secondary schools, each week on a Monday I would be despatched to school burdened with, at that time, loads of cash, for dinner money, National Savings stamps, summer trip fund and last but by no means least, contributions for ‘African charities’, to help bring the end to children of that Continent perishing in massive numbers daily due to dirty water, etc.

Today, well over 50 years later, those ‘African charities’ are still screaming out even more for our ‘aid’. Daily, on almost every TV channel, apart from screening Carol Vordaman’s funeral plan ads, there are tedious lengthy ads that feature, as my grandson says, ‘scruffy brown kids’ who are still begging for handouts.

How many billions of £’s have been wasted, sending funds to these phuckers and nothing has changed whatsoever for over half a century?

I smell a massive rat somewhere along the line here and so a cunting is well deserved in my view.

Nominated by: Some Cunt-Chanted Evening 

I want to Cunt generation Z snowflakes frit of the full stop.

Yes, you read that right – full stops!

Not content with controlling our language, woke shits now want to control our grammar. Apparently the full stop is ‘intimidating’ to young people because they interpret it as sign of anger, linguists say…

Some cunt named Rhiannon Cosslett tweeted:

‘Older people – do you realise that ending a sentence with a full stop comes across as sort of abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an email/chat?’

Que?

That tweet prompted some crime novelist called Sophie Hannah to reply:

‘Just asked my 16-year-old son – apparently this is true. If he got a message with full stops at the end of sentences he’d think the sender was “weird, mean or too blunt”.’

WTF?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8657089/Full-stop-intimidating-young-people-interpret-sign-anger-linguists-say.html

This country is finished

Nominated by: Ruff Tuff Creampuff.

Frankly, it boils my piss to see the number of tossers who repeatedly fall into cess pools full of shit and come up smelling of roses. Such a prime example is Baroness Dildo. Why Dildo ? Because she’s fucking useless.

Now we all know that PHE is totally unfit for purpose so Boris decides to replace it fair enough. But you can call a pile of dog shit a potpourri but it still stinks.

So, having totally fucked up the ‘world beating’ track and trace app, our Dildo get a plum new job heading up yet another quango. Remember this is the woman who presided over the data beach at Talktalk.

This is the woman totally unconnected with ensuring that loads a people were infected at the Cheltenham Festival just happening to be on the board of the racecourse.

And her new appointment and peerage has, of course, absolutely nothing to do with her husband being a Tory MP…

Nominated by: Dioclese