Google Safe Search is a barrier to ornithology -> Beer discussion -> Tea Discussion
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Continuing the discussion from Brazil is out!:
I thought this deserved its own thread.
chubertdev said:
I'd watch more soccer if there were more titsI couldn't agree more!
Well, I just discovered a Google image search WTF. I did a search for "great tits" in order to make a bird related joke. Weirdly, about half of the images were birds and the other half were NSFW.
I turned safe search on to remove the NSFW results, and this is what happened:
So instead of removing explicit results, it excludes potentially unsafe words from the search term...
Filed under: Google safe search is a barrier to ornithology.
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Perhaps you should type "great breasts" (I know that's not a bird). Mmm, lemme try. O yes, indeed, and NSFW as well (so don't try this search at work). What a bunch of morons.
Google, breaking what has been working fine since 1998.
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To be fair, "great tit" works fine, but it still seems stupid to strip words from the search term when they can have perfectly safe meanings.
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That was the whole idea, wasn't it? To enable people to search and avoid undesirable results. Now you get pictures of sharks, not even toting lasers, and as an added bonus "great breasts" does show NSFW content.
In the localized version (google.nl), they also remove "tieten" (literal translation of "tits"), but if you search for "grote memmen" you do get results, and if you search for "great tits" or "tetas gordas", they remove it. So there is one big list of blocked words?
This is worthy of a WTF.
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On more reason to prefer memmen above tits.
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Liked for "grote memmen". I don't speak German, but those words sound evocative.
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Blasphemy! I cast BELGIUM and HOLLAND on you!
Well, I studied German for five years, but all I can really remember now is how to ask directions to the train station and how to order a mixed ice cream.
Both important, but probably not enough to get by.
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ask directions to the train
Immer gerade ausEventually you're bound to end up at a train station.
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in Belgium.
Take the train, you'll get here faster but don't forget to get out in time or you'll just blast past.
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don't forget to get out in time or you'll just blast past.
That's a risk I'm willing to take.
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See that I wouldn't get far.
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Geradeaus is one word.
Isn't every sentence in German really just a crazy compound word?
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Isn't every sentence in German really just a crazy compound word?
No, because every German sentence a long sequence of verbs must end in.
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I thought the spaces were like commas in numbers (in civilized lands, at least): for the reader's convenience.
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Yoda, here is?
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how to order a mixed ice cream.
Which is... what, exactly? (In English, I mean.) Is that like a bowl/cone with scoops of different flavors, or one of those soft-serve things with candy bits blended in, or...? Genuinely curious as I've never heard the term before.
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I've only heard it in my German lessons. I think it's just scoops of different flavours of ice cream.
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I thought the spaces were [...] for the reader's convenience.
I would suggest introducing non-breaking spaces into the german language. That way we can keep compound words together, as the german grammar gods intended, but still have the convenience for the reader.
Filed under: [How to you write a NBSP by hand?](), [bad ideas thread]()
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I've only heard it in my German lessons. I think it's just scoops of different flavours of ice cream.
Now translate the phrases- the customer wants two mixed ice creams.
- the customer has asked for two mixed ice creams.
- two mixed ice creams are being asked for.
- two mixed ice creams' customer is still waiting.
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I'd love to do that, but I only know how to ask for mixed ice cream for myself. In fact, I only know how I to say I would like a mixed ice cream, not even to ask someone to give me one.
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all I can really remember now is how to ask directions to the train station
I'm guessing you probably wouldn't understand the answer.
Filed under: Neither would I.
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I'm guessing you probably wouldn't understand the answer.
The last time I had to ask for directions in Germany (way back on a school trip), I asked in German and the guy responded to me in English.
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The last time I had to ask for directions in Germany (way back on a school trip), I asked in German and the guy responded to me in English.
The only one I specifically remember is asking the ticket clerk in the airport, "Wo ist das* WC?" We eventually had to switch to English, because the attempt at communication in German failed utterly.
* I probably got this wrong.
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"Wo ist das* WC?”
[snip]- I probably got this wrong.
That wouldn’t matter much — oddly, making sure students get the articles and their various cases right seems to be an obsession of any German teacher¹ when in practice, if you get it wrong people will still get your meaning just about every time. Did you say “WC” as “double-you see” or as “way tsay”? Because the former, I could see a German not understanding … safe option: “klo”.¹ That is: someone who teaches German, not someone with the German nationality who is also a teacher.
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The last time I had to ask for directions in Germany (way back on a school trip), I asked in German and the guy responded to me in English.
Well, that's what the director of the German School in Helsinki is going through. He's been there for 10 years now and still, whenever he asks for something in Finnish he'd earn a sad smile and be answered in English :)
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Did you say “WC” as “double-you see” or as “way tsay”?
Definitely not “double-you see.” Probably more like /ve se/. Should it be /we t͡se/? Is this a regional variation?
Filed under: IPA for additional pedantic dickweedery points
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Cool, thanks. I would actually prefer that to an ice cream sundae which typically has an excessive amount of toppings.
Filed under: now I'm hungry
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The letter C in German is, to the best of my knowledge (no, I'm not a native German-speaker) generally pronounced /t͡seː/, and it’s been my observation that people tend to not understand well which letter you mean if you get its pronunciation wrong due to it being different from what you’re used to. (For example, I once had some difficulty spelling a word with a j for some Germans, as I kept pronouncing it /jeː/ to them, as is the norm in Dutch — forgetting the German name for the letter is /jɔt/.)
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I would suggest introducing non-breaking spaces into the german language. That way we can keep compound words together, as the german grammar gods intended, but still have the convenience for the reader.
Didn't you mean zero-width space - <wbr>...
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"I didn't say that."
-Albert Einstein
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I'm sure there's also an Abraham Lincoln joke in there too.
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I just wanted to set things clear on the OP.
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IPA for additional pedantic dickweedery points
I really don't get the popularity of IPA. Or ale in general.
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I really don't get the popularity of IPA. Or ale in general.
What do you drink then?
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BELGIUM Beer ofcourse!
<small> <small> couldn't resit it ...
You might, you savage, but I don't know what @boomzilla drinks.
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What do you drink then?
Typically, lagers. Ale tastes / smells....um...musty? That's not quite right, but there's always something that seems a little off about them to me.
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You know lager was made as a fast-brewed form of ale in the first place, right? As part of the fast brewing process, there's a lot more air introduced, which is why you get the fizzy-piss aspect of most lagers.
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You know lager was made as a fast-brewed form of ale in the first place, right?
Sort of.
As part of the fast brewing process, there's a lot more air introduced, which is why you get the fizzy-piss aspect of most lagers.
I don't really care what you call it, as long as they don't taste terrible like ales do. And the ones I drink don't, so it's OK.
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There are nice lagers and there are terrible lagers. I would be willing to bet that you've just had some of the terrible ales.
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I'll freely admit that some are worse than others. I've mostly given up on them if there's another option, because I don't hate myself.
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I didn't say that.
-Albert Einstein
I'm sure there's also an Abraham Lincoln joke in there too.
Hmmm...
I got shot in the face.
-Abraham Lincoln
No, that doesn't work...... What were you referring to?