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Re: Kevinism

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Post by kaybe » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 2:26 PM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #52

JetSetWilly wrote: post #43

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> Many (most?) expecting parents spend hours researching names online or in "1000 baby name ideas"-books. Too right. When we had to name a child, I took all the CSV files of every child names in Scotland for last 15 years (Scottish Government provides all the raw statistics for every name) and loaded the data set into elasticsearch where I was then able to construct visualisations and trends of candidate names and ge…

That… is certainly an interesting approach. Did you look for particular characteristics? My wife and I had a son this year, and took care to give him a name that would work well in any situation. He has two given names (we do too), so he has a backup name in case the first one doesn't suit him later on (my wife uses her second name, because her parents figured it suited her better after a year). We didn't use any tec…

Here's an interesting visualisation for names and ages:

https://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html

Re: Kevinism

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Post by cryptos » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 2:26 PM UTC

There was a funny story going on in 2005: Ferrero changed the face on the packaging of the popular "Kinderschokolade" and many buyers didn't like the new face and were hence calling the boy "Kevin". There was even a campaign "weg mit Kevin" with 20.000 supporters, which handed over a petition to Ferrero.

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/kinderschokolade-wuetender...

Translation:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

Re: Kevinism

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Post by ljf » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 2:27 PM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #41

benj111 wrote: post #34

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As a Brit, this is the Kevin that springs to mind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_the_Teenager Or perhaps an example is better https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dLuEY6jN6gY

Growing up, "kev" was a synonym for chav, townie, ned. At my waaaaaay-over-privileged rugby-playing school, we called football "kevball".

Where I grew up, before chavs they were called 'Car Park Kevs' (though in my wife's town they were called 'Barrys'

Re: Kevinism

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Post by mieseratte » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 2:27 PM UTC

moomin wrote: post #32

nothrabannosir wrote: post #26

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> ... people being racist or homophobic without ever meeting people of the "other group". In my limited experience, this is the norm, not an exception.

What is even more entertaining is that when they do know people from the other group, they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid.

> they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid.

That doesn't stop with the -ism's, I routinely run into programmers learning about DRY and cargo-culting the hell out of it. People seize onto absolute rules and superficiality, failing to consider deeper conceptual dissimilarities that would negate the application of the rule.

Re: Kevinism

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Post by thrownblown » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 2:31 PM UTC

snth wrote: post #58

Sean1708 wrote: post #49

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I'm English and I've also never heard of the name Kyle having any kind of prejudice, might just be an American thing?

I've never heard of a negative stereotype about Kyle in America either.

Apparently you have yet to fall into the area 51 memehole.

The Kyle's are on the vanguard with their +10 Monster Energy buff

Re: Kevinism

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Post by amyjess » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 2:31 PM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #4

The funny thing is that Kevin is not a very praised name in general either: https://www.reddit.com/r/StoriesAboutKevin/ “What is a Kevin? A Kevin is someone who consistently or greatly shows a complete lack of intelligence through incompetence of social and societal norms, or is purposefully antagonistic in their poor decision making. Remember the kid in your class who would constantly get in trouble for really dumb…

Y'know, I'm aware that the "Kevin" meme originated with an askreddit story (which someone else linked below), but I'm wondering if the reason it took off the way it did had anything to do with Kevin from the US version of The Office, who fits that stereotype to a T.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Malone

Re: Kevinism

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Post by thrownblown » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 2:32 PM UTC

glhaynes wrote: post #59

Sean1708 wrote: post #49

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I'm English and I've also never heard of the name Kyle having any kind of prejudice, might just be an American thing?

American, never heard anything bad about the name Kyle.

How about Karen?

I need to talk to your manager.

Re: Kevinism

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Post by dejawu » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 2:34 PM UTC

Fellow Kevin here. While I was doing a fellowship [0] at the US Census Bureau last summer, I noticed a peculiar abundance of other Kevins working there. As a joke, I created this presentation [1] about this phenomenon, which I ended up accidentally showing the chief marketing officer.

He loved it.

[0] https://www.codingitforward.com/fellowship

[1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/117Q3zuyWulkDGcGXp4Bd...