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Originally Posted by HurdFIRST
It's not about being politically correct, it's about being inclusive and approachable. (I hope) you wouldn't call someone acting in an undesirable manner gay for the same reason that you shouldn't call the crap you put on your robot ghetto. In doing so you let those who are gay and those who actually live in the ghetto know that they are undesirable and that they are crap respectively.
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A counter argument to this is that most of what is actually being described and discussed on topic in this thread has a prominent emphasis of fond feelings for said robot components, how they came to be, and what made them special to us. There are plenty of negative terms that exist that are used in a positive context, as I feel was the intent of the OP. My personal example was that even if its built like crap from a rough build season that makes no difference on its final performance, what you do with it is the part that matters.
Such as building an Einstein field worthy robot out of a leaky shipping container with a 3 phase wiring job that would make any licensed electrician scream in horror. Yes our build practices were sub-par, but that did nothing to deter us from rebuilding practically our whole robot and practicing like mad to be on even footing with the best and the greatest.
Edit: I feel that the term "Janky" has the closest feel and meaning to what OP was going for, let's all just agree to use that and carry on with this thread as intended before it gets any further derailed. Let's just use this as a learning experience.