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What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity?

CNETNate writes "You'll laugh, but mostly you'll cry. Some of the questions Google gets asked to deliver results for is beyond worrying. 'Can you put peroxide in your ear?', 'Why would a pregnancy test be negative?', and 'Why can't I own a Canadian?' being just a selection of the truly baffling — and disturbing — questions Google is regularly forced to answer."

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  1. Satire Filter by Telos06 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why Can't I Own a Canadian is an article satirizing fundamentalist Christian condemnation of homosexuality (aimed at "Dr." Schlessinger in particular). This is the problem with taking searches out of context - you assume the person is asking a legitimate question when it could mean a number of other things.

  2. Re:Obligatory George Carlin Quote by ircmaxell · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And then think of how smart the smartest person is in relation to the average person. Then think that there is someone that's that much dumber than an average person... (Well, either that, or a whole lot more not as stupid people than really smart people)...

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    If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good