@Lachlan: thank you for posting and taking the time to explain. See, isn't this much better!

Android Chromebook?!?

Chromebooks run ChromeOS, a completely different OS than Android.

Bleh. Google's marketing on Chromebooks is so shit, nobody knows what it is. I think it's sufficient for polling.

First, kudos on Lachlan for joining and talking openly.

Second, perhaps there's a cultural disconnect here as in the US, we have the Kardasians on TV and Bruce Jenner doing prime time interviews with Diane Sawyer about their potential sex change operation. Mike didn't have to reach into the deeper recesses of his paleolithic mind to dig something up about the LGBT community for a satirical joke. This stuff is very much mainstream consciousness now in the US probably even for kids in elementary school. Also, bringing up sex changes along with the LGBT community also kind of goes hand in hand. Seems valid and cogent to me.

Third, as long as anyone isn't deliberately trying to be an asshat, the mods here will defend your right to say what you wish no matter how much we disagree with you.

Cheers.

Please forgive this slightly edited version of a PM answer.  Perhaps I am cross-cultural because a significant portion of early adulthood was spent immersed in the culture of South America.  Down there (and also in Ireland, I have been told) people will have nicknames based on their physical and obvious attributes.  Fatso, skinny, big-ass, gravel voice, pip-squeak, Jolly Green Giant or ancient for me (I am 6' 6” tall and have had mostly grey hair since my teens).  That works in that culture.  The only kind of bullying that goes on down there is physical bullying enabled by physical size or fighting ability.  Verbal bullying does not work at all there because no one empowers verbal bullys by allowing their feelings to be held hostage by them.  Funny how bullys disappear when their power evaporates.  Up here, everyone is so concerned about their feelings that they cause others (in my opinion) undue agonizing over how to not offend anyone. 

One of my other avocations is to act and direct in regional theaters.  I am now directing The Graduate and a male friend of a friend came up to me and asked if she could audition for the stripper.  The long and the short of it is that she was cast because not only was she the most flamboyant and best for the role, but the fact that she is a guy makes it funnier.  She made the show better, folks.  Life is short, friends.  Do not take yourself so seriously that you allow others to hurt you.  Look in the mirror and laugh.

It is really not my intention to offend – I run with filters off.  I hope that not just my shows, but my products are better for it.  If any have been offended by me.  I truly apologize.

Also, bringing up sex changes along with the LGBT community also kind of goes hand in hand. Seems valid and cogent to me.

I don't think anyone is arguing that bringing up the T in LGBT isn't cogent. I'm just suggesting that casually bringing up people going through radical surgery as a proxy for hipsters when constructing a joke about shallow Mac users is a bit of a weird stretch.

It is really not my intention to offend – I run with filters off.  I hope that not just my shows, but my products are better for it.  If any have been offended by me.  I truly apologize.

I appreciate your apology Mike.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I don't think it's always so simple for people to choose whether or not they will be hurt by statements others make.

As I said, I don't think you intended any malice. Just in the future please consider that reassignment surgery isn't a frivolous lark.

Anyway that entire thread has made me interested in what a Yggy actually is so I'm off for some snooping.