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Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay
maclizard writes "The town's name is real. But when Josh Moore tried to tell Seattle-based Microsoft and the enforcement team at Xbox Live that Fort Gay was a real place, they wouldn't take his word for it. Or Google it. Or check the US Postal Service website for a ZIP code. I personally feel for those of you from Big Bone Lick, KY."
And I find myself wondering just how many people will suddenly be registered as coming from Fort Gay, WV. Certainly more than the 800 people who live there, I imagine.
Never underestimate the potential of Human stupidity. -Heinlein
The same happened to my wife on some social network when we lived in Cumming, GA.
So a location based story about Microsoft can't get right the name of the city Microsoft is in? Ah, what a life being a /. editor must be.
Quoting myself. 130 seconds after posting, Google has 1 search result for that word. Christ. Guys, you're truly awesome.
Vacuum cleaners suck. Kings rule.
I think #9 on that list is my favorite:
North, South Carolina
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
First of all, it appeared on Bing as well in the last few minutes, so hats off to those guys as well.
Second, It's on a web forum thread now, so I don't expect search engines to CORRECTLY ignore it (emphasis yours).
Third, I was actually looking for the word, and while I wasn't sure about the spelling, I did end up finding what I was looking for (thanks to Google, for the record):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth
http://www.bibleorigins.net/NoahsFloodArkBibliography.html
It appears as" KUR-ú KUR"
Vacuum cleaners suck. Kings rule.
Even better. Fucking, Austria. I'm guessing the residents there get harassed over their town name quite frequently as well.
I am old enough to remember when "gay" only meant feeling happily excited. As you already know, up until about 40 years ago, the word "gay" did not have anything to do with homosexuality. It also was not a way to describe something as being "lame" either. It was not until the late 1960s or early 1970s, when I first started hearing the word gay being used to imply that someone was a homosexual.
There were many old books with the word "gay" in the title and a old few songs with gay in the lyrics. Below are the titles of several very old books, which are available from Gutenberg.org. Despite the titles, I doubt that any of those books have anything to do with either homosexuality or something being lame.
The travel company I work for just deleted Fucking, Austria from their database because they figured it was better not to offend someone than to allow them to travel there. The only way someone would have actually seen the name is if they searched for it, so it seems rather stupid, but I could imagine some complaining that they searched for Fucking and found what they searched for.
the word play on Mary vs Merry - kinda funny but *shrug* not a biggie
the part that bothers me is using 'transsexual' as an adjective to 'guy'. it negates the female identity of transsexual women and reinforces the stereotype that the person in the joke is a man and that it's okay to laugh at a man dresses, acts, or asserts that they are actually a woman drop 'guy' and it's not quite as offensive
I know a transsexual whose only ambition is to eat, drink and be Mary.
even that is still a little offensive because transsexual is such a strongly loaded word. it'd be better to to change it to
I know a trans woman whose only ambition is to eat, drink and be Mary.
That's at least grants a little more dignity for the person in the joke
(and if it matters, which it shouldn't, i'm trans)
Ironic that the price of live just went up. ;)