Did you expect me to magically discern your gender
from your gender ambiguous name?
No, I didn't. But I also didn't expect you to assume I was male.
Apology accepted, but please don't play the blame game for your faux pas.
That's definately not cool.
Charlie.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:45, Jonathan Marriott <jon(a)kiwiuk.net> wrote:
I didn't mean any offense, sorry. That said, the fact is that
we're mostly
blokes and I'm not psychic.
Did you expect me to magically discern your gender from your gender
ambiguous name?
Jon
On 18 February 2010 15:41, SonniesEdge <sonniesedge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > For the gentleman who mentioned that he wouldn't get his
> > laptop out in a pub
>
> And that gender assumption has probably just sealed the deal for me.
>
> I'll stick with the meets in the big cities.
>
> Charlotte
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:32, Jonathan Marriott <jon(a)kiwiuk.net> wrote:
>
> > Firstly, for those who have never attended, our meetings tend to be
> social
> > events where we have a chat about current issues and exchange
> > recommendations and talk about Perl a lot and have some food and beer.
I
> > think most regulars would be happy to help out anybody with an open
> source
> > problem if they came along.
> >
> > I'm curious why people expect there to be some sort of "event"
going on
> and
> > why they expect someone else to be organising it for them. Although
there
> > has been talk of a technical evening covering a specific subject at the
> > meetings and mentioned on the list, the lurkers have not bothered to
> > contribute any ideas or suggestions from what I've seen. You seem
expect
> > Dave and the rest of us who attend to organise something of interest to
> > everybody even though we've never met you and have no idea about your
> > abilities or interests.
> >
> > As for the "it's too far" problem, are we all non-drivers or
something?
> > Staffordshire from tip to toe is about 45 minutes on the M6 so it's not
> > going to be a particularly arduous journey for anyone. I'd be happy to
> find
> > a pub somewhere more suitable for everybody if people actually want to
> turn
> > up. Stafford was chosen originally because it was a roughly central
> > location.
> >
> > For the gentleman who mentioned that he wouldn't get his laptop out in
a
> > pub: I wouldn't worry about The Yard. It's very quiet on Monday
evenings
> > and
> > we have an entire section of the pub to ourselves. There's no yobs or
> > football hooligans. I've had my laptop out and left it lying around
with
> > the
> > group while I went to the bar or loo and it was still there when I got
> > back!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jon
> >
> > On 18 February 2010 15:13, Matthew <m(a)z.je> wrote:
> >
> > > On 18 February 2010 14:56, SonniesEdge <sonniesedge(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > >> Some moan its too South, I'm with the moaners who moan
it's too
> North.
> > > >
> > > > Sounds to me like the LUG encompasses too large an area in that
case.
> > >
> > > Will the amount of people that show up on irc (
irc.freenode.net
> > > #staffslug) or at the meets it doesnt seem like we're overflowing
with
> > > people though ;-)
> > >
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