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Admitting I don't know what they were talking about

#1 Post by christie1111 » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:46 pm

So we were at lunch and discussing computer sutff and someone said she was helping her son with a French landmark report and learned that the young son was not allowed to google the Eiffel tower due to the content pulled up.

One of the guys knew what she meant right away and blushed.

I have NO idea what they were talking about.

It just show me page after page of info on the landmark.

Can someone clue me in?
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#2 Post by Rexer25 » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:54 pm

christie1111 wrote:So we were at lunch and discussing computer sutff and someone said she was helping her son with a French landmark report and learned that the young son was not allowed to google the Eiffel tower due to the content pulled up.

One of the guys knew what she meant right away and blushed.

I have NO idea what they were talking about.

It just show me page after page of info on the landmark.

Can someone clue me in?
I haven't seen the content, and I dare not search at work, but for Google, do you have Safe Search turned on?
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#3 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:55 pm

I can think of two possibilities.

1. Google has a "SafeSearch" checkbox on their preference page. Perhaps someone turned off the filtering and found some explicit results?

2. Perhaps neither of them actually ever did this search, but simply assumed there would be a certain result?

But sometimes a monumental tower is just a monumental tower! :wink:

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#4 Post by christie1111 » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:56 pm

Rexer25 wrote:
christie1111 wrote:So we were at lunch and discussing computer sutff and someone said she was helping her son with a French landmark report and learned that the young son was not allowed to google the Eiffel tower due to the content pulled up.

One of the guys knew what she meant right away and blushed.

I have NO idea what they were talking about.

It just show me page after page of info on the landmark.

Can someone clue me in?
I haven't seen the content, and I dare not search at work, but for Google, do you have Safe Search turned on?
I don't know. If it was on when I loaded the Google Toolbar it is, if not no. I didn't change any settings.
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#5 Post by WheresFanny » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:59 pm

christie1111 wrote:So we were at lunch and discussing computer sutff and someone said she was helping her son with a French landmark report and learned that the young son was not allowed to google the Eiffel tower due to the content pulled up.

One of the guys knew what she meant right away and blushed.

I have NO idea what they were talking about.

It just show me page after page of info on the landmark.

Can someone clue me in?
Last time I answered a question for you, you said you wished you hadn't asked.

I'll give you a chance to back out first this time. Ha!
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#6 Post by Four Hour Stiffy » Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:00 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:But sometimes a monumental tower is just a monumental tower! :wink:

Indeed it is, indeed it is...... :D
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#7 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:04 pm

the urban dictionary will provide the answer. You might not want to go there.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#8 Post by christie1111 » Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:13 pm

Okay, got it now.

One has to laugh that one of the guys knew what it was right away.
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#9 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:15 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:the urban dictionary will provide the answer. You might not want to go there.
Adding "urban dictionary" to the search brings up the naughty definition immediately, but how many pages must one search down in the Google results without that before finding it accidentally?

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#10 Post by WheresFanny » Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:17 pm

christie1111 wrote:Okay, got it now.

One has to laugh that one of the guys knew what it was right away.
And, for once, I wasn't the one that had to shatter your innocence. YAY!
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#11 Post by WheresFanny » Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:20 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:the urban dictionary will provide the answer. You might not want to go there.
Adding "urban dictionary" to the search brings up the naughty definition immediately, but how many pages must one search down in the Google results without that before finding it accidentally?
Urban dictionary is even less reliable than Wikipedia. Now I have to go look and see if any of their definitions is le droit one.

And you probably have to go pages and pages. But some adult knows it and has a dirty mind, therefore outlawing the topic, therefore making all the kids look it up to find out what it is when, if they hadn't said anything, probably nobody would have even seen it. Because kids only do as much research as absolutely necessary. Unless there's the chance that they'll encounter lasciviousocity.
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#12 Post by TheConfessor » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:04 pm

Maybe I should take another look at that thread where people were discussing a trip to Las Vegas and staying at Paris.

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#13 Post by clem21 » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:07 pm

I had no idea what it meant either.

This is a first.

I think I'm proud of myself.
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#14 Post by tubadave » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:31 pm

christie1111 wrote:So we were at lunch and discussing computer sutff and someone said she was helping her son with a French landmark report and learned that the young son was not allowed to google the Eiffel tower due to the content pulled up.

I will admit that I knew immediately what they meant.

I probably shouldn't have admitted that.

I will blame it on having friends whose minds spend a lot of time in the gutter. :lol:
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#15 Post by kayrharris » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:56 pm

clem21 wrote:I had no idea what it meant either.

This is a first.

I think I'm proud of myself.

As you should be!!
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#16 Post by kayrharris » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:56 pm

I might add, it should go without saying I didn't know what the heck it
meant. Sheltered life and all....... :roll:
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#17 Post by littlebeast13 » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:59 pm

kayrharris wrote:I might add, it should go without saying I didn't know what the heck it
meant. Sheltered life and all....... :roll:

Yeah, from all those pics it sure looks like you've been leading a sheltered life.....

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#18 Post by Spock » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:53 pm

I didn't know what it was either.

BUT Tubadave will not be surprised that the mental image that popped into my head

Included him, Notebook Boy and "She who shall not be named."

Ducking and Running.

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#19 Post by tubadave » Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:17 pm

Spock wrote:I didn't know what it was either.

BUT Tubadave will not be surprised that the mental image that popped into my head

Included him, Notebook Boy and "She who shall not be named."

Ducking and Running.
Oh. My. God. :shock:

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#20 Post by peacock2121 » Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:50 am

I am in the uninformed camp.

I am staying there.

The last time I tried to get informed about such topics, I started getting porn e-mails. My penis size is just fine.

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#21 Post by minimetoo26 » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:17 am

TheConfessor wrote:Maybe I should take another look at that thread where people were discussing a trip to Las Vegas and staying at Paris.
Paris is free for me for the next two months. Just down from MGM Grand..........
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#22 Post by Evil Squirrel » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:16 pm

Spock wrote:I didn't know what it was either.

BUT Tubadave will not be surprised that the mental image that popped into my head

Included him, Notebook Boy and "She who shall not be named."

Ducking and Running.

You can run, but you can't hide Spock......

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