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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."
"Mais oui! The name of my village in France is indeed Goatse! We even have a... how you say... website!"
Trolling is a art,
Not if they have any sense ;)
The summary stops a bit short... they already unsuspended him, the article even says so at the end.
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Now I've just rendered every post after mine redundant. Have at it, mods.
What's microsofts problem with stuff that's gay? Do they hate gay people?
So, umm, how about Bangkok residents? Or folks from Palmer's Head? Or Fort Dix? Morehead? Red Lick? Boone's Blow? Phuk?
Microsoft sure pulled a boner this time.
...a user from Fucking, Austria would have...
The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
That would explain why they didn't get any useful results.
Noone's that crazy.
Just today I gave Bing another try, since Google wasn't finding anything (admittedly on an impossibly arcane thing, the searchstring was Elepturabiturcurcurru, which should be the original Mesopotamian name for Noah's ark according to a guy on a talk show many years ago, I never found out if he was serious or a crackpot). Googling yielded 0 results (after this post it'll probably be 1, haha), even when trying to change the spelling a bit or breaking it into 2 words. So I thought, let's give Bing a chance, maybe it magically stopped sucking. The word as a whole returned 0 results as well, but once broken down in 2 ("elepturabitur curcurru") it caused a "Were you looking for: elepturabitur curcuru" clickable link to appear.
Yay! Click. Wait. 0 results. Meh.
Vacuum cleaners suck. Kings rule.
Dildo and South Dildo can be found in Newfoundland not far from St. John's, hard by Dildo Bay. Sadly, the first church built in Dildo, in 1878, had no tower, though it should be noted that two stoves providing heat shared a long chimney.
South Dildo's claim to fame for many years was a life-size wooden humpback whale head.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Almost as good as when my local paper reported on the football matchup between Virgin Valley HS and Beaver High: "Virgin Pounds Beaver".
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.
Doesn't say much about an IT company when they can't even figure out basic information technology tools, including their own:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=fort+gay
Bibo Ergo Sum.
Moore apparently wanted to show his Fort Gay pride
Fort Gay has been restored to the ramparts of Medal of Honor and Call of Duty.
Ok, you've got town pride - nothing wrong there. But insisting on displaying it on your Xbox Live profile?? Call of Duty? I mean now you're just asking to get flamed every time someone sees you're from "Fort Gay". It's not exactly the most tolerant community out there. **Note that I don't know if your town is displayed to other people when you're actually playing - but in case it isn't, then it still brings up the question of why care then? If no one gets to see your town in your profile then why care what your display is?
Global warming and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking number of pirates - Gospel of the FSM
My mother once tried to order a gift to be shipped to a friend in New Mexico. She ordered the item, specified all the details, etc, then it came time to set up the shipping address.
The woman on the other end then stated, rather brusquely, that the company did not ship internationally and that their catalog clearly stated that fact.
When my mother reiterated that it was in New Mexico, in the Southern United States, the woman (who worked at a call center in Texas, which happens to share a border with both Mexico (the country) and New Mexico (the US state)) yelled "New Mexico, Old Mexico, what's the difference? Can't you people read? I told you, we don't ship internationally!" and hung up on her.
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You might not realize this, but your sig is hostile and transphobic, even if it is a quote by Carlin.
It's inappropriate to refer to a trans woman as a 'transsexual guy'
What if this guy Carlin is referring too has just made his decision and is not yet living as a woman? I think you are really splitting Harry's here.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Sergeant: I can get you delayed entry, your own uniforms, grenades, and ammo. I can probably get you stationed over at Fort Dix.
Butthead: Fort Dix? Is that anywhere near Fort Nuts?
That's right - "gay" has been used for "lame" for decades now. The problem is that it is *also* used to indicate homosexuality.
When I was a kid (five decades ago, sigh), "you suck" was specifically meant to say that you performed fellatio. It was a fighting insult. Today, "you suck" or "it sucks" just means generic unwanted badness, perhaps with emotional overtones. Perhaps someone will be able to articulate the present meaning better than I can. But it doesn't mean what it used to mean.
Society changes, And corporations, being by nature psychotic, have a heck of a time trying to keep up. Look at Apple; perfectly happy to have massively violent games, head-shots, guts spilling out... but sex is cause for censorship. Absolutely out of their minds in the American Gothic, Religio-repressive tradition.
I can see Microsoft's position here, in the same way that I can see politicians pretending to be religious. There's no idiotic depth sociopaths will refuse to plumb if they think it will buy them something of value. And corporations, by their very nature, are sociopaths - one consequence being that they typically embrace the values of a pit viper, while trying to present the face of an angel.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Sheesh. All this trouble from a company founded by Bill Gaytes.
I honestly don't care if people are offended or not, just posted so people who are at work aren't going to have a giant goatse ass on their monitor :p
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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Yup, over-sensitive people should just learn to close their eyes rather than force everyone else to conform to their narrow world view.
But I must say, that picture is neither narrow nor a world view :P
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There's the way that men treat women in general (which has its own share of dismissal, ridicule, and voilence), and then there's the way that transphobes react - its a second knife wound that most people simply don't have to deal with, and have absolutely no concept of how much it cuts to the core. And we all encounter it at some point during our transition. And you hope it doesn't get to the point where you have to call the police because you don't know how THEY are going to react.
Of course, these same people couldn't do what we have to do to be ourselves - not for one day, never mind for a lifetime. Could you picture one of them even pretending to have "the talk" with one of their friends? Heck no! They'd volunteer to have their appendix removed without anesthesia first. That's "manly". Same as not asking for directions, leaving their dirty clothes on the floor, and not changing the toilet paper roll when they finish it - or leaving half a square neatly balanced on the roll so they can say they didn't "really" finish it. Come on you guys reading this, fess up, you do this all the time, and it bugs us that you think we're that stupid. It's 3-ply paper, and you leave a one-ply half square sitting there like an orphan, and you're hoping that when we open the door the draft won't blow away your sorry "excuse" for not changing it. You dissect the toilet paper, and then walk around all day making skid marks in your formerly-tidy-whiteys, rather than change the stupid roll of toilet paper.
In many cases, at some level, at least some of the transphobes know that we have more courage than they do. They don't understand that the real act of courage was confronting the issue and looking at the alternatives, ranging from depressing to grim, and then asking for help and acceptance in an uncertain and sometimes-hostile world.
There are posters on slashdot who are still afraid to "come out" about being trans, simply because they know that someone, somewhere, is going to be an ass. So they stay hidden, same as they do in their personal lives - because they are afraid of the consequences of being "discovered". Been there, done that, traded in the tshirt for a bra and skirt. It's what's right for me, and while I'm willing to discuss it with those who have a problem with it, in the end I'm not the one with the problem.
This is not to imply that slashdot is infested with transphobes - quite the contrary. Most of the slashdot crowd is very supportive, and I owe them for that. At least that's been my experience after I wrote this and this and people began to ask how I knew so much about the whole "woman trapped in the wrongly-gendered body" experience.
On a final note, I guess I really should see if it's possible to change the account name, because when I post something funny and people who don't know go "Dude! That was great!" I'm caught between laughing at the incongruity and going *sigh*. It makes for some interesting back-and-forth. And this account has great karma and lots of equally-great fans.
I'm transgendered as well... I know it's a bit cliche to those that don't understand what we go through, but I've known my entire life. I've struggled with it my entire life, knowing that I can never be accepted for who I am if I reveal myself, finding myself in the position of either rejecting myself (being forced to be something I know I am not) or being rejected by others if I admit who I am. Even that said, I was in denial for a long time, first thinking I was a bit quirky, then thinking I was a cross dresser, then finally admitting to myself that I don't wear womens clothes for the thrill of wearing womens clothes, I do so because that is when I am at peace with myself.
Looking back, I had started modifying myself in subtle ways to find some alignment with my internal gender. I was scared as hell to pierce my ears even though plenty of guys had done it long before me, since I had feared that it would be a strong indicator of what I was hiding inside and despite having a plethora of holes in my ears today, very few people to this day have still seen me with so much as a diamond stud in my ears. I added more hidden girly things over time for myself to enjoy - more ear holes (pieces of monofilament plastic work well to heal and retain them while barely being noticeable), a belly ring, pierced nostril, and shaved legs. I've become bolder in some other aspects, growing my nails out some, wearing clear nail polish, plucking my eyebrows to give them a little neutral definition, wearing heels hidden by pants in public, etc. I've been debating giving myself a permanent acknowledgment of who I am, considering getting maybe the girliest mark of all, a butterfly tramp stamp, but I'm afraid of the consequences of getting accidentally caught since there will be no denying what it is.
Which gets us back to the struggle between who we are inside and what society expects from us based on the outside. My dad has made enough statements in my life that I know he could never accept me and my mom is such a mess herself, that her entire sanity depends on her perception of me somehow being perfect. If I admitted who I was to her, I have no doubts that she'd have a complete psychological breakdown. I'm afraid my two best friends wouldn't handle it well, though I have begun broaching the subject by mocking myself, showing up to last year's Halloween party as a bad mockery of a tranny hooker. That went over well, but as far as they knew, it was a total mockery, just a costume. I have told a few people, all but one of which is female, most of whom have taken it fairly well. Support has ranged from total (followed by a complete betrayal by the same person, so ultimately, that was a lie), to hesitant with much joking to try to come to terms with it, to mostly somewhere in between.
I've struggled with depression for most of my life, even going on long stretches of suicidal depression... for anyone that thinks we wake up one day, wanting to flip a switch to try the other side out for fun, they simply have no clue what we have to go through. Three of the women I've told have been either ex-girlfriends or potential future ones (yeah, haha, I really am a lesbian stuck in a man's body), including the one who eventually betrayed my friendship to make a new suitor happy, and I've come to the conclusion that, while they're fine with what I am as a friend, a more intimate relationship is pretty much out of the question. That, in turn, has caused more despair, as I realize that, sooner or later, I'll almost certainly eventually die alone with dreams that most people take for granted completely unfulfilled. This type of life is hell and nobody would voluntarily choose it. If pedophiles are the one group everyone is encouraged to hate, transsexuals are the one group everyone is encouraged to mock... largely because people don't and, frankly, don't want to, understand us (and sadly, I know quite a few gay people that dislike transsexuals since they're convinced that we're merely gay and would rather change gender to conform to society th
I don't care what your gender is or was, but this whole section below marks you strongly as a sexist.
Of course, these same people couldn't do what we have to do to be ourselves - not for one day, never mind for a lifetime. Could you picture one of them even pretending to have "the talk" with one of their friends? Heck no! They'd volunteer to have their appendix removed without anesthesia first. That's "manly". Same as not asking for directions, leaving their dirty clothes on the floor, and not changing the toilet paper roll when they finish it - or leaving half a square neatly balanced on the roll so they can say they didn't "really" finish it. Come on you guys reading this, fess up, you do this all the time, and it bugs us that you think we're that stupid. It's 3-ply paper, and you leave a one-ply half square sitting there like an orphan, and you're hoping that when we open the door the draft won't blow away your sorry "excuse" for not changing it. You dissect the toilet paper, and then walk around all day making skid marks in your formerly-tidy-whiteys, rather than change the stupid roll of toilet paper.
None of those things are inherently male. They are all either signs of not giving a shit, or insecurity. I've know plenty of women that do the same thing.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...