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  • T TPFKAPB

    Out of interest how can you tell? There isn't much in the way of buildings in this pic and you can't see the Train, so I assume you can tell from the people and their clothes?

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    Dalek Dave
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    Actually it looks like there may be a minaret in the background, but I am sure there are mosques in India too.

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    • D dan sh

      :laugh: Your cricket test team thrashed us brutally when we came their. Andy Murray too is playing well. May be you should borrow your football crowd for cricket games.

      "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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      Dalek Dave
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      Murray is Scottish and the England Football Team haven't won anything for 46 years.

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      • T TPFKAPB

        Out of interest how can you tell? There isn't much in the way of buildings in this pic and you can't see the Train, so I assume you can tell from the people and their clothes?

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        dan sh
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        The clothing is different. Though we do wear these kind of clothes but you will never find so many people wearing this.

        "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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        • D dan sh

          :laugh: Your cricket test team thrashed us brutally when we came their. Andy Murray too is playing well. May be you should borrow your football crowd for cricket games.

          "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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          TPFKAPB
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          d@nish wrote:

          Andy Murray too is playing well

          Most of us prefer it when he isn't, most English hate him.

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          • D Dalek Dave

            Murray is Scottish and the England Football Team haven't won anything for 46 years.

            --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]

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            dan sh
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            I was referring to club football. English football team is not comparable with other top football playing nations.

            "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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            • D Dalek Dave

              Actually it looks like there may be a minaret in the background, but I am sure there are mosques in India too.

              --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]

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              dan sh
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              Definitely we have. A lot. It's the clothing that is different.

              "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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              • P Pete OHanlon

                All I see is people looking for offence.

                *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

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                Lost User
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                Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                people looking for offence.

                Yeah, we ripped our hedge out and got it replaced by one.

                One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.

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                • D dan sh

                  What would you recommend for Indian looking name? Call center headphones? US accent for dummies? :laugh:

                  "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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                  Lost User
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                  Baked potato with beans.

                  One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.

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                  • D dan sh

                    May be a decade back or earlier this used to happen. I have never seen this.

                    "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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                    Mark_Wallace
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                    Because more people have taken driving lessons.

                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                    • M Mark_Wallace

                      Because more people have taken driving lessons.

                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                      dan sh
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                      Yes that and frequency of trains is really great here considering the size of country. Buying power of people has increased (bank loans may be a reason) so there are huge number of vehicles.

                      "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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                      • L Lost User

                        Baked potato with beans.

                        One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.

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                        dan sh
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                        You can teach us that. But very soon we will come up with Indian version of it. Which will taste better at least to us.

                        "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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                        • T TPFKAPB

                          After the furore of there 'racist' doodle[^]. They are now trying to say that Google is racially profiling names in e-mails[^] in order to target their advertising more efficiently. Am I alone in failing to see what is racist about this? The only thing that I can see that is remotely wrong with this is the fact that they scan your e-mails in the first place. I don't see how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements. Anyone see this different?

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                          BobJanova
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                          Names aren't races. You can't identify someone's race from their name (let alone the name that they choose to sign up on Google with). Using cultural cues to target advertising makes sense and a name is part of that.

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                          • T TPFKAPB

                            After the furore of there 'racist' doodle[^]. They are now trying to say that Google is racially profiling names in e-mails[^] in order to target their advertising more efficiently. Am I alone in failing to see what is racist about this? The only thing that I can see that is remotely wrong with this is the fact that they scan your e-mails in the first place. I don't see how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements. Anyone see this different?

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                            Mark_Wallace
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                            Go for it, Google, racially profile me[^]!

                            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                            • T TPFKAPB

                              After the furore of there 'racist' doodle[^]. They are now trying to say that Google is racially profiling names in e-mails[^] in order to target their advertising more efficiently. Am I alone in failing to see what is racist about this? The only thing that I can see that is remotely wrong with this is the fact that they scan your e-mails in the first place. I don't see how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements. Anyone see this different?

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                              Rage
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                              Slightely OT, someone care to explain what is wrong with the watermelon ? Do watermelons have racist connotations in English-speaking countries ? On a side note, mmmmmmhhhhh, watermelon.

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                                Slightely OT, someone care to explain what is wrong with the watermelon ? Do watermelons have racist connotations in English-speaking countries ? On a side note, mmmmmmhhhhh, watermelon.

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                                TPFKAPB
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                                The racist stereo-type is that black people only eat Fried Chicken and Water Melon. Didn't realise this was only prevalent in English speaking countries, although I assume it originated in the States.

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                                • P Pete OHanlon

                                  All I see is people looking for offence.

                                  *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                                  "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                                  CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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                                  Slacker007
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                                  Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                                  All I see is people looking for offence.

                                  I agree with you on this, 100.1% Haters gonna hate.

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                                  • T TPFKAPB

                                    The racist stereo-type is that black people only eat Fried Chicken and Water Melon. Didn't realise this was only prevalent in English speaking countries, although I assume it originated in the States.

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                                    Rage
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                                    TPFKAPB wrote:

                                    Didn't realise this was only prevalent in English speaking countries

                                    This was only an assumption, I was expecting something linked to the language, not to the country ( because of a play-on-words or something). OK, fried chicken and water melon can definitely not be a stereotype over here.

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                                    • J Johann van der Smut

                                      Dalek Dave wrote:

                                      Should I see a Bruce McKenzie I would deffo advertise Qantas Flights

                                      I would have advertised Qantas for Christian Graus ;P

                                      I love go-o-o-o-ld!

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                                      Mladen Jankovic
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                                      That's not racist, that's just mean.

                                      GALex

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                                      • T TPFKAPB

                                        After the furore of there 'racist' doodle[^]. They are now trying to say that Google is racially profiling names in e-mails[^] in order to target their advertising more efficiently. Am I alone in failing to see what is racist about this? The only thing that I can see that is remotely wrong with this is the fact that they scan your e-mails in the first place. I don't see how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements. Anyone see this different?

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                                        Nemanja Trifunovic
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                                        TPFKAPB wrote:

                                        how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements.

                                        That's why I ditched Gmail. I was hoping they would try to sell me Slivovitz[^] based on my name and the subset of Unicode characters I use to write my e-mails, but no such luck :(

                                        utf8-cpp

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                                        • T TPFKAPB

                                          After the furore of there 'racist' doodle[^]. They are now trying to say that Google is racially profiling names in e-mails[^] in order to target their advertising more efficiently. Am I alone in failing to see what is racist about this? The only thing that I can see that is remotely wrong with this is the fact that they scan your e-mails in the first place. I don't see how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements. Anyone see this different?

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                                          S Houghtelin
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                                          I played the game and it never occurred to me that there was anything racist as far as the background color scheme and the particular skin coloration of the race participant. I thought the game a bit lame, but I just hadn’t thought of it as anything beyond that. How was it that it was noticeable to so many people (Or the few as the case may be.) This “sensitivity”, in my opinion, serves to divide rather than to bring awareness. It appears to call offense where there may have been none intended. If it was intended to hurt or denigrate any particular race or person based on their race then by all means the perpetrator deserves to be punished, if not, I guess I just don’t know. Is this type of over sensitivity just as much a case of racism as intentional acts of open racism or bigotry?

                                          It was broke, so I fixed it.

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