[Kde-games-devel] Please Read (Website Related)

[Ian Wadham]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:19 pm, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote:
> > through it (cos we're two lazy bums ;) ), you on the other hand know
>
> In the light of expanding my English knowledge - what's a "bum"? :)))
> Is that the word I can call myself when doing some stupid mistake in the
> code which I can't find while searching over and over, and when I find it -
> it is *so* silly that I'm feeling like I'm a <word>.
> Can you help me to learn that useful <word>? ;)))
>
OT, but I can't resist this ... ;-)

A "bum" is what you get when you use Microsoft Arial font and you intend
to write "burn" ... :-)  So you "bum" a CD or DVD in the MS world and our
city has a suburb called "Blackbum" ... :-)  Actually, in UK English, it is
the rear end of a person and a bit rude.  In US English, it used to be a
wandering, unemployed person, hence "lazy bum" nowadays or
worthless person.

If you make a mistake in your code, you could call yourself a "dork",
a "nong" (both Australian slang) or several even ruder things, but not
a "bum", unless perhaps the mistake was due to sheer laziness ... ;-)

All the best, Ian W.