I was in a meeting today, and a colleague spoke of wanting to buy a 4GiB SD card to use in his Nokia 800. I pointed out that such a beast doesn't exist -- if it's 4GiB, it can't be SD-compliant; it has to be SDHC (or just broken).

I was actually being serious -- it's quite possible that SDHC cards might fail to work in some places where SD works. But I think he thought I was just being pedantic -- his response was to say that I should be taken out back and shot.

Should I make a formal complaint about this threat of violence? Do you think the HR department would take it seriously? Or is it just a harmless figure of speech which I've even used about myself on occasion?