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		echelon_musk 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] My first instinct was that this phrase is racist, especially with you saying it was used in an ex-British southern African colony. This was the best I could find as to its origins: https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-thats-mighty-whi...

B1FF_PSUVM 6 months ago [–]

Relax, the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.

And so's the future - probably next century we'll be looked down upon as sad sacks of shit who didn't have the decency to get our weights into clean silicon.

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