snorri
Legendary Member
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- East coast, up a bit.
You appear to consider that having yourself been offended you have the freedom to offend others.
A simple apology from you would have sufficed.
Is someone at Google having a laugh?
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A simple apology from you would have sufficed.
jefmcg
Guru
I assume it's based on which google you visit.
as an example, here is anagram on the Japanese google site. Joke missing
. Recursion joke still works, because that's logic not a word joke.
winjim
Smash the cistern
Must depend on how you access it. Joke still there for me. Everything in English though, not Japanese.I assume it's based on which google you visit.
as an example, here is anagram on the Japanese google site. Joke missing
jefmcg
Guru
jefmcg
Guru
Because most people do care.
Society works because we all try not to offend each other unnecessarily. Some people don't, they tend to end up in jail or as CEOs.
blazed
220lb+
Being offended is a personal choice, something you should deal with yourself. If you get offended, that is your problem. Don't put it on someone else to try and unoffend you.
People act like if someone has offended them, because they are offended, they are in the right, and they have the moral high ground.
jefmcg
Guru
This makes no sense. Owning a domain does not give you any sort of access to the servers of that site. It just allows you to update the DNS records, so that people will go to another site - your site, presumably. As they take hours to propagate, having "owned" a site for a minute would give you nothing.
jefmcg
Guru
I disagree. I care if I have offended someone. So do most other people. I consider if what I say might be offensive, to whom and why. Then I decide if the value in what I have to say might be worth the offence. Then I speak or not as I chose. For example, I generally would try not to offend someone I like, or whose company I enjoy, or whom I have a relationship with that I do not want to sever or whom offending would put me at a disadvantage. I also try not to cause offence to anyone else with a good reason.
Wondering if what I say might offend someone can introduce me to a new idea. It's hard to be racist if you really think about it from the point of view of the person you might offend by uttering a racist remark.
I also generally stay away from people I find offensive. If they are someone I like, I will probably speak my offence rather than just staying away from them. If they cannot or choose not to change, then I will have to stay away from them. If they can moderate their speech, then we can probably remain friends. That's their choice.
blazed
220lb+
And in none of all that do you ever consider the possibility that it is you who has the problem by getting offended?
winjim
Smash the cistern
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
I was just correcting myself on this instance and have nothing to apologise for.
- Location
- Glasgow
What about @snorri's ancestors in Dunkirk then?
You get mighty offended by Google's randomness, then in turn you offend @snorri, who you know more "personally" through the forum then Google knows you!
Springs to mind that time when I was on a ride, a "tartan ride"
with, among others, a French man. We were many, plenty of tartan accessories, plenty of foreign riders, mostly students from Glasgow Uni.A passer by asks me what was going on, so I tell him, the passerby laughs "wot, a tartan ride with a Polish???
I am not Polish, but that's irrelevant 
So I explain to him about the many nations present, Italian, Spanish, Chinese ... shoot me, I'd forgotten the French ... "What about the French? Don't forget the French!!! He urges .... yeah, yeah, and the French of course!
Stereotypes, eh?
Profpointy
Legendary Member
by "the English", taking France, don't you mean one set of French nobles based in England, fighting another set based in France
winjim
Smash the cistern
Yes of course. I think the story may have been Anglicised by some Tudor poet.
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