alt Hacker NewsIn the UK, it’s the sex one and would be used as a general “idiot” word but that seemed to have mostly faded away. It’s not a word I’ve seen used in that context for many years.
Not refuting anything here, just adding some context from over here. Whichever way you slice it, it’s always been an awful name.
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roryirvine • today at 12:18 PM
Really? In Northern Ireland in the 80s/90s it was always used in the same way as spaz / flid etc - ie. an ableist slur. Kids would typically scream it when someone did something clumsy or uncoordinated. Lovely, eh?
I don't think I've actually heard the sex thing being used anywhere in the UK, except perhaps when discussing Pulp Fiction. Even in kink contexts!
Yeah, it's always felt like an "edgy" name a teenager or quite young man would come up with. Which makes sense, the original GIMP authors were college-aged boys when they created it.
I'd like it if they changed the name. We're (the Open Source community) not teenagers or annoying college kids anymore, by and large.