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BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans

Posted by timothy on from the saddo-is-the-best-insult-ever dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has accidentally insulted its Facebook followers by revealing a version of a new website which wasn't yet ready for public consumption and in which it referred to its social media followers as 'saddos.' The same website also features a picture of the Queen, described as the Pakistan hockey team. File this one under 'a really bad day at the office' for one web developer."

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  1. Truth in media? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    C'mon, you know you were thinking it.

  2. Re:Remember kids... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The problem with Lorem Ipsum is the stupid questions from clients.

    " Is it French? What the fuck is this? Don't you speak english? How is anyone supposed to read it?"

  3. Re:Remember kids... by dsoltesz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Then try Hillbilly Greeking:

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, crazy go, up skanky buffalo polecat sherrif shed sam-hell, landlord tobaccee. Fricaseed pigs cooked hogjowls ass cipherin'.

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    Also available: Technobabble, Matrix, and pseudo-German for your Greeking pleasure.

  4. Re:Remember kids... by value_added · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Then try Hillbilly Greeking ... Technobabble, Matrix, and pseudo-German ...

    You're trying too hard.

    If this is a corporate site (most are), you can just use the Bullshit Generator. Your pointy-haired boss will nod approvingly, and you can call it a day.

  5. The News by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    CNN falls all over itself to pander to "social networking" types while the BBC refers to them as "saddos." Yet another example of the BBC showing up US news services.

  6. Re:Remember kids... by tepples · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Indeed, and I have had more or less that reaction in the past - "Why is it all in Latin? I don't like that..."

    Then use the English translation, like I do.

  7. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah! After all, all those *other* countries know all about America!

    Why, go and ask a guy in England about Rhode Island! Or Alabama! Or heck, how about Wyoming! I'm sure they'll know everything about it.

    Why, you say that very few *Americans* even know about those parts of their country? Well lah-dee-dah. It looks like the world stereotypes Americans just as much as America stereotypes the rest of the world.

    Get over yourselves. The fact of the matter is, America holds a (stupidly) large position in the world. Not only politically, but culturally and economically.

    If a hundred people know one person, but that one person only knows about 2 or 3, is he ignorant and shallow? Should we be insulted that so many people know the whole lives of politicians and celebrities but very few of them know ours?

    The incredibly shitty result of that, though, is the American attitude of self-centerdness and arrogance. Shared partly by other countries, but it's most visible in America since everybody's looking at us.

  8. Re:Remember kids... by ewrong · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Personally I use Gansta Lorum Ipsum or Corporate Ipsum depending on the mood.

  9. Re:Remember kids... by mwvdlee · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's supposed to be boring.

    Just like your post and, apparently, your sense of humor.

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