User:CyborgTosser/name

Cyborgs beware, I am the CyborgTosser.

What my name is not

My user name may be a matter of concern to some people from the UK. I discovered this quite to my surprise when I nominated myself for adminship back in September. There were those who said that some users would find it offensive, and there were those who thought it was funny. For the benefit of those, like myself, who are not from the UK, "tosser" is slang for someone who masturbates a lot.

For the record, I was only peripherally aware of the slang word, and unaware of what it meant. Thus, the name was not intended to mean what some have interpreted it to mean. After some deliberation, I decided to keep the name; I feel that anyone who misinterprets my name can read my user page before voicing their concern.

What my name is

Cyborg and tosser are types of computer players in Scorched Earth. I like this explanation, but it is not actually not something considered when I came up with the name. The original idea was that when cyborgs got in my way, I would toss them aside. Ok, I'll admit both explanations are equally geeky, but I make no apologies. In fact, perhaps you computer geeks out there will find this Java code sample entertaining:


public class CyborgTosser implements Tosser<Cyborg> {
  public void toss(Cyborg c) {
    int severity = 1;
    while (c.inTheWay()) {
      c.send(new Whoopass(severity));
      severity *= 2;
    }
  }
}