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Few could argue with what the Raspberry Pi has achieved. As well as inspiring countless youngsters into computing, the tiny affordable gadget is beloved by amateur and professional techies alike. Yet a completely batshit crazy petition, even by change.org standards, begs to differ. One "NoRottenPi" is calling for a boycott of …

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        1. Terry 6 Silver badge
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          Re: Rainbow

          Colours of; Red Orange Yellow, Green Blue and Violet - equating to the three primary colours and the three overlaps. Newton invented a 7th colour because of his mystical belief in the significance of the prime number 7

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          1. Richard Scratcher
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            Paris Hilton

            Re: Rainbow

            There are in fact 7 colours in the rainbow.. according to Arthur Hamilton:

            Red and yellow and pink and green,

            Purple and orange and blue,

            I can sing a rainbow,

            Sing a rainbow,

            Sing a rainbow too

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            1. roytrubshaw
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              Re: Rainbow

              "Red and yellow and pink and green,

              Purple and orange and blue,

              ..."

              <pedant>

              No! No! No!

              Richard of York gave battle in vain.

              Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.

              </pedant>

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              1. Mage Silver badge
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                Re: Rainbow

                Resistors ...

                Black (oil underground), Brown (Earth), Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Grey(clouds), White (light).

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            2. Pen-y-gors
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              Re: Rainbow

              @Richard Scratcher

              Red and yellow and pink and green,

              Purple and orange and blue,

              ...I can sing a migraine, sing a migraine, sing a migraine too.

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        2. Eddy Ito
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          Re: Rainbow

          Well, according to Wikipedia there were eight colors originally.

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          1. Robert Baker
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            Re: Rainbow

            "Well, according to Wikipedia there were eight colors originally."

            In the Discworld equivalent movement (dwarfs who identify as female?), the eighth stripe is probably octarine.

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      2. Roj Blake Silver badge
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        Re: the pride rainbow generally only has six colours

        Even Newton had trouble with the number of colours in a rainbow. He could only actually see five but decided that seven was a better number.

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      3. Mage Silver badge
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        Boffin

        Re: Rainbow

        Newton "picked" seven colours (most people only clearly distinguish 6) because of Greek philosophy, music (seven notes, then next octave) and alchemy. He'd originally listed six! There are very many more colours than 7 in a rainbow if you have a good list of colour names, or a pantone chart. I think the limit is about 10,000 hues for humans viewing spectrum of sunlight on very narrow slit and prism.

        Asimov thought Newton's choice odd

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      LGBTQI?

      Oh God, not more letters. Since when did this cumbersome initialism gain the additional 'I' and what the hell does it mean? No actually, don't tell me. I don't care. This has got daft enough.

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      1. d3vy
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        Re: LGBTQI?

        There's a bloody A on the end too!

        I reckon we are just a few months off finally being able to solve the conundrum and winning a teapot.

        #countdown

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        1. kraphaus
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          Re: LGBTQI?

          Lesbian

          Gay

          Bisexual

          Transsexual

          Queer

          Intersex

          Asexual

          Where do I get my teapot?

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          1. MrDamage Silver badge
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            Re: LGBTQIBFt

            > "Lesbian

            Gay

            Bisexual

            Transsexual

            Queer

            Intersex

            Asexual"

            Brony

            Furry

            teapot

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            1. Kiwi
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              Re: LGBTQIBFt

              Re: LGBTQIBFtEBTKS

              > "Lesbian

              [..]

              Furry

              teapot

              You forgot "Everything But The Kitchen Sink". Which will later be included so it doesn't feel left out

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        2. Anonymous Coward
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          Re: LGBTQI?

          Assume the 'A' stands for Attention seeker.

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      2. Rustbucket
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        Re: LGBTQI?

        I believe the I stands for "intersex" where their physical bits swing both ways. But it's the Q for "Queer" that has me puzzled; isn't that covered by the LGBT options?

        One version I saw included an A which I presume stood for "Asexual" who are people who don't have sex or sexual desire and are completely happy with that, so why do they need special representation?

        I just think of it as LGBT-alphabet for simplicity.

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        1. kain preacher
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          Re: LGBTQI?

          Q is for gender queer

          a person who does not subscribe to conventional gender distinctions but identifies with neither, both, or a combination of male and female genders. the T and I part have different issues then the LGB

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    3. Anonymous Coward
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      That's nothing!

      Round where I live, it had recently rained and the rain had moved away, then the sun came out. All very nice, you might think, until I looked up into the Tory blue sky, and saw that the gays had been at it again, plastering their rainbow across the whole vista of nature. I am raising a petition to stop this constant hijacking of the skies by the LGBTQIADHKUY brigade. Who's with me?

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    4. MyffyW Silver badge
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      Re: Rainbow

      I bought a Pi and cheerfully identify as being somewhere over the LGBT rainbow.

      Just be careful where you stick that petition, hun.

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  2. ciderbuddy

    At first I thought "Where?" then I noticed it on the back of the monitor.

    People like this shouldn't be allowed nice things.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      "People like this shouldn't be allowed nice things."

      I think you may well find that they don't allow themselves nice things. Because it might make Jehovah[sic] cross.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: "People like this shouldn't be allowed nice things."

        "Because it might make Jehovah[sic] cross."

        He said Jehovah! Stone him!

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          Re: "People like this shouldn't be allowed nice things."

          No-one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle. Even, and let me make this absolutely clear, even if they do say Jehovah.

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          1. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
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            Re: "People like this shouldn't be allowed nice things."

            "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

            *someone in the crowd hurls a stone*

            "Mom! I'm trying to make a point here!"

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        2. Hans 1
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          Re: "People like this shouldn't be allowed nice things."

          Jehovah[sic] cross

          What a lousy pun!

          Now, now, now, is there a woman in the attendance ?

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          1. Anonymous Coward
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            Re: "People like this shouldn't be allowed nice things."

            "What a lousy pun!"

            It isn't a pun. I wrote "Jehovah[sic]" because no such word actually appears in the Bible - it's a mistake in translation.

            Icon is a request to the stoners.

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      2. Front door
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        Re: "People like this shouldn't be allowed nice things."

        All I said was that it was a lovely piece of halibut that was good enough for Jehovah.

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      3. Kiwi
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        Re: "People like this shouldn't be allowed nice things."

        I think you may well find that they don't allow themselves nice things. Because it might make Jehovah[sic] cross.

        They need to forget the bad teachings of their youth and read their Bible. Get to know the God of the Bible, not this being of man's worst imaginations.

        /me gets asbeatos overcoat

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      And the two women hugging, with the one wearing a pin badge.

      However I would never have noticed if I wasn't trying to find it. I though it was referring to the pi in education part which had a rainbow effect on the teacher holding the pi. I hadn't even noticed the first pic.

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      1. Arthur the cat Silver badge
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        I've got a PiBow case for one of my RPis. Very nice it is too.

        Icon for where this idiot probably thinks I'll end up.

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      2. James Hughes 1
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        Is it two women? I thought one of them was Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

        But apparently not...

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      3. Old Used Programmer
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        And ther rest...

        You'd only notice that it is a woman doing the hugging if you notice the earrings. I was amused to note that much fuss is being made of the LGBTQ elements while no one paid any attention to the adults being an inter-racial couple, so *some* progress has been made.

        And, yes, the thread was--so far as I can tell--sent to /dev/null.

        On the whole, the image (still up today...I expect it change relatively soon as it is no longer Gay Pride Month) is pretty subtle. I suspect a lot of people never noticed and would never notice if the petitioner hadn't made such a fuss. It's pretty much an own goal.

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        1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge
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          Re: And ther rest...

          So only women can wear earings? You reactionary fascist oppressor !!!

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        2. Ben Tasker
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          Re: And ther rest...

          You'd only notice that it is a woman doing the hugging if you notice the earrings.

          I used to work with a bloke with a big shaggy beard who wore womens earings every day that I saw him. Earrings definitely aren't a good indicator to rely on.

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          1. Kernel
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            Re: And ther rest...

            "I used to work with a bloke with a big shaggy beard who wore womens earings every day that I saw him. Earrings definitely aren't a good indicator to rely on."

            I'm a bloke with a big shaggy beard that wears earrings, although literally just 'rings', like a pirate and I'm definitely not gay, so that's at least two of us.

            What I would like to do is explore the possibilities of a bigger, shaggier, beard, but I'm having trouble getting planning permission for that from the missus.

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            1. phuzz Silver badge
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              Re: And ther rest...

              Clearly you should wear bigger ear rings, perhaps with flashing lights, to distract herself while you grow out that beard.

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          2. KBeee
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            Re: And ther rest...

            "I used to work with a bloke with a big shaggy beard who wore womens earings every day that I saw him. Earrings definitely aren't a good indicator to rely on."

            I bet if you asked him how long he'd been wearing them, he'd have said "Ever since my Missus found them on the back seat of our car"

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            1. Chris 239
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              Re: And ther rest...

              Best (and least necessary) use of Joke icon this week! :-))

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        3. julianh72
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          Re: And ther rest...

          "no one paid any attention to the adults being an inter-racial couple, so *some* progress has been made."

          Well spotted! Time for another change.org petition - we can't have these liberal do-gooder so-called charities pushing multiculturalism down our throats!

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        4. Baudwalk
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          Re: And ther rest...

          >>>You'd only notice that it is a woman doing the hugging if you notice the earrings.<<<

          <fashion_pedant_mode>

          Considering the many earring-wearing males around, that buttons on her jacket are on the left would probably be a better indicator.

          </fashion_pedant_mode>

          Anyhu, I'd forgotten I wanted to get my hands on that deliciously cheap Zero W for some LG^H^HBLE-tomfoolery.

          Now, where's that credit card at?

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Oh what a Gay Day...

    From the time when Gay meant happy.

    Can we have a perition to boycott the person who put the original on Change.org?

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    1. Arthur the cat Silver badge
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      Re: Oh what a Gay Day...

      From the time when Gay meant happy.

      And you know the petitioner would have disapproved of that as well.

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      1. Swarthy
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        Re: Oh what a Gay Day...

        And you know the petitioner would have disapproved of that as well.
        Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

        --H.L. Mencken

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    2. SolidSquid
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      Re: Oh what a Gay Day...

      As the Flinstones would put it, "We'll have a gay old time!"

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    3. Hollerithevo
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      Re: Oh what a Gay Day...

      It still does. Although it can cause a slight pause in reading or speaking while the recipient sorts out what exactly is meant.

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    4. Old Used Programmer
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      Re: Oh what a Gay Day...

      In his petition he says that his account was banned. Duh...

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    5. John Gamble
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      Re: Oh what a Gay Day...

      "From the time when Gay meant happy."

      Still does mean that. If you are referring to a time when it exclusively meant that ... it's unlikely that was ever the case.

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      1. Robert Baker
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        Re: Oh what a Gay Day...

        "it's unlikely that was ever the case."

        Great article from the Heterosexual Idiot. ;-)

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  4. Mike Shepherd

    Awww....

    Only one vote...that's so sad! I'll get my boyfriend to sign it.

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  5. Alister

    Thank the gods they don't ship the Pi in a triangular pink box, eh?

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