Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
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Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
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?
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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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
I haven't seen the content, and I dare not search at work, but for Google, do you have Safe Search turned on?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?
Enough already. It's my fault! Get over it!
That'll be $10, please.
That'll be $10, please.
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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
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!
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!
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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
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.Rexer25 wrote:I haven't seen the content, and I dare not search at work, but for Google, do you have Safe Search turned on?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?
"A bed without a quilt is like the sky without stars"
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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
Last time I answered a question for you, you said you wished you hadn't asked.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'll give you a chance to back out first this time. Ha!
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MarleysGh0st wrote:But sometimes a monumental tower is just a monumental tower!
Indeed it is, indeed it is......
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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
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.
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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Okay, got it now.
One has to laugh that one of the guys knew what it was right away.
One has to laugh that one of the guys knew what it was right away.
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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
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?themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:the urban dictionary will provide the answer. You might not want to go there.
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And, for once, I wasn't the one that had to shatter your innocence. YAY!christie1111 wrote:Okay, got it now.
One has to laugh that one of the guys knew what it was right away.
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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.MarleysGh0st wrote: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?themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:the urban dictionary will provide the answer. You might not want to go there.
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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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
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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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
I had no idea what it meant either.
This is a first.
I think I'm proud of myself.
This is a first.
I think I'm proud of myself.
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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
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.
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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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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
I might add, it should go without saying I didn't know what the heck it
meant. Sheltered life and all.......
meant. Sheltered life and all.......
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kayrharris wrote:I might add, it should go without saying I didn't know what the heck it
meant. Sheltered life and all.......![]()
Yeah, from all those pics it sure looks like you've been leading a sheltered life.....
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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
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.
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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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
Oh. My. God.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 are so fired.
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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
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.
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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Re: Admitting I don't know what they were talking about
Paris is free for me for the next two months. Just down from MGM Grand..........TheConfessor wrote: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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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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--squirrelmama (10/3/07)
Many of these (squirrel) migrations were probably caused by food shortages as well as habitat overcrowding. We solved that for them. We not only reduced their habitat, we reduced the whole species by about 90%. The least we can do now is share a little birdseed with them.
--Richard E. Mallery
2008 Squirrel of the Year Award winner