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Comment on Crazy Censorship: CBSC Bans Money for Nothing by nikgregory

nikgregory — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:31:46 +0000

That’s true, but those songs are being intentionally offensive. The Dire Straits have several songs that a belittling to the ‘character’ singing them. In this instance it’s a blue collar worker jealous that a rock star gets paid millions for wearing make up and having long hair… but probably because they get their ‘girls for free’. It wasn’t used as a derogatory slur for homosexuals, and it wasn’t used to call someone a homosexual. One of the common alternate uses in the UK is for someone in “drag” and that isn’t a type of homosexuality, it’s just one of the many fetishes in this world.

Faggot should have been banned for been offensive to drag queens, not to gays as it wasn’t used derogatory towards or about gays, but about straight males that dress as women.

Comment on Crazy Censorship: CBSC Bans Money for Nothing by nikgregory

nikgregory — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:24:11 +0000

No just the lyric faggot in ‘Money for Nothing’ has been banned, whilst the lyric faggot in American Idiot has not been banned.

Comment on Crazy Censorship: CBSC Bans Money for Nothing by AvidElite

AvidElite — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:53:06 +0000

He only uses the word in the second (of three) verses. I’ve heard a version of the song, years ago, in Canada, with that second verse chopped out. Would THAT version of the song be banned, too?

Comment on Crazy Censorship: CBSC Bans Money for Nothing by James Dunne

James Dunne — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:51:05 +0000

I also find it quite perculiar how there’s not mention of banning about 90% of gangster rap catalogues on the grounds of promoting sexism, violence and drug abuse, which are far more offensive.

Comment on Bizarre Google Trend Search Spike by Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:39:34 +0000

I think it’s pretty obvious that it was aliens.

Comment on Bizarre Google Trend Search Spike by Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:10:42 +0000

Interesting theory about Bing!! (or cuil, lol!) If it is not an error on Google’s part then it is no doubt a competing engine.

Comment on Bizarre Google Trend Search Spike by mediavince

mediavince — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:40:27 +0000

The “universe” turns out to be pretty spiky at least once a year on a slight delay… awesome!
http://www.google.com/trends?q=universe&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Comment on Bizarre Google Trend Search Spike by Bill

Bill — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:22:21 +0000

It’s there for some terms, but not others:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=peach&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2007&sort=0

http://www.google.com/trends?q=english&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2007&sort=0

http://www.google.com/trends?q=robert&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2007&sort=0

It’s a pretty big jump to go from “There’s something in the data I personally don’t understand” to “Just thought the world should know that Google has had a data screw up for 3 years and no correction.”

Comment on Bizarre Google Trend Search Spike by JOhn

JOhn — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:03:07 +0000

It was when bing, was building up their index

Comment on Bizarre Google Trend Search Spike by boogereater

boogereater — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:07:45 +0000

Makes sense to me. Everyone is shopping around black friday, even online, trying to find the best deals on everything.