Stupid people

janeth · #1 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 10:27 AM

The story is here Right Wing Watch: The Dangers of Auto-Replace

In addition to blocking traffic from websites they don’t like, it looks like the web-geniuses behind the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site have a few other tricks up their sleeves, such as automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” in any of the AP stories they run … leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard, such as this article about sprinter Tyson Gay winning the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in which he is renamed “Tyson Homosexual”:

Martinscholes · #2 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 05:50 PM

That takes a special kind of stupid!

Mind you, I did see a post on a forum about the pilots Alcock and Brown rendered as Al**** and Brown. And references to the prick of a needle came out badly, as well!

jabo · #3 (**permalink**) 07-02-2008, 02:23 AM

I know some ladies with "Gay" in their names.. something like Ruth Gay Johnson. wow, that would be Ruth Homosexual Johnson...

**wige** · #4 (**permalink**) 07-02-2008, 09:35 AM

The World of Warcraft gaming forums have pretty strict content filtering, which replaces objectionable words with random characters (@#!* are the most frequent). Always funny when someone types "grapes" to have it come out "g#$@!s". Worst part is, the filter can easily be bypassed completely.

**dharrison** · #5 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 05:03 PM

Political correctness gone mad, gone mad!

Gay is also a name for happy. I have felt particularly gay today. Should I be feeling particularly homosexual then?

Thats worrying.

jabo · #6 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008, 02:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dharrison

Political correctness gone mad, gone mad!

Gay is also a name for happy. I have felt particularly gay today. Should I be feeling particularly homosexual then?

Thats worrying.

I certainly hope not! We all are gay most of the time...happy that is as you have said.

advancedmerchant · #7 (**permalink**) 07-13-2008, 01:05 PM

I used to work for a Language Translation Software company (now defunct) that had the same problem.. "Gay" was translated as "Homosexual", and an astounding number of words got translated into "Toilet".

lspence · #8 (**permalink**) 07-13-2008, 02:39 PM

With all my odd quirks, I guess you could call me queer.

WickedGoddess · #9 (**permalink**) 07-15-2008, 10:43 PM

I'm gay today lol...!

it's just irritating when you say the word "gay", only one meaning registered to one's mind the fact the word also describes something else.

jabo · #10 (**permalink**) 07-16-2008, 03:12 AM

lol... well, in a not dictionary type definition, what is the difference between being gay and queer?

Easywebdev · #11 (**permalink**) 07-20-2008, 01:51 AM

This all reminds me of a british comedian named Hywell Bennet giving a speech about how you could say you pricked your finger but you could'nt finger your ....

Depends what your read into any given sentence, meaning and perception are two totally different beasts.

maddogranger · #12 (**permalink**) 08-08-2008, 05:14 PM

There is to much fun in this. Gota love it!! stupid is, as stupid does!

bijan814 · #13 (**permalink**) 08-12-2008, 10:07 PM

there is a lot of stupid people around. Back in high school I thought I was stupid, but I went to college I realize there are so many more people stupidt than me. This really motivated me to study hard.

jabo · #14 (**permalink**) 08-13-2008, 02:50 AM

^^well, in terms of studies, I don't that there are stupid people and not stupid people. There are just slackers who doesn't want to study much and there are those who study hard...