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I'm assuming just about everyone is aware of the meaning of the word.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shite

Kind of depressing that people find this amusing.

This remark prompted me to go rewatch (make sure you have headphones on)...

this bit of fry and laurie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVe3fTL1cPM

this bit by atkinson and cleese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGFz9gt0-Fc

and this bit by atkinson alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7OxTxAvvLw

made my day :)

Oh do one mate quit griping and get with it!

I suggest a SFW rename to "connery"

You might want to look that up in French, but replace the 'y' with 'ie'...

It's sad because it's not hard to pick a name for a project that isn't a swear word.

I once had a gig someplace where the tradition was to name Hamming Distance 1 away from swear words. Best of both worlds?

Could you please expound on why you believe that to be depressing?

Sure. It's not the coarse language that I object to — it's the lazy, juvenile humour. It's similar to penisJS[0] — a software analogue to children defacing the chairs in their school classrooms with drawings of genitalia.

I think it's a pretty bad look for the industry.

Not to say there shouldn't be humour — there should be more humour. Personally, my most popular software projects are purely comedic, and they're also a little more coarse than this.

To put it another way: I'd prefer the software humour to be a little more Sean Lock and a little less Beavis and Butt-Head.

[0]: https://github.com/edankwan/penis.js/

I hear you. Thank you for sharing your thinking. All I will say is, from where I stand, it is all working as intended; the code and the phraseology :)

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