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I recently searched for 'The Consumerist' on Amazon, and it asked 'Did you mean an abortion?' Just what the heck are they trying to imply by that?
I recently searched for 'The Consumerist' on Amazon, and it asked 'Did you mean an abortion?' Just what the heck are they trying to imply by that?
I'll admit the \"And why didn't he know he'd have an easier time in the dumpster behind the nearest sorority?\" pushed me over my personal poor taste limits...but I also have to recognize that the folks at The Consumerist do try to be fair and give everyone an equal opportunity to be offended. Mission accomplished!
Jokes aside (I know, is there EVER a time for jokes to step aside)...
Amzn's explanation is quite defensible. The two words adoption and abortion occur at different frequencies in search results, and one does likely occur in conjunction with the other from a semantic standpoint.
As for the discrepancy, I'm pretty sure that their usage environments will bear out why one is suggested and the other isn't adoption has bigger currency. \"Adoption\" can occur in reference to humans and pets both, but \"abortion\" occurs solely in reference to people (\"Did you mean PET ABORTION?\") To be fair, we do use the verb \"abort\" - alongside \"rocket launch\" or \"mission\" - but I'd argue you'd hear the unmodified verb more often than the noun in this context.
Unless you're in South Dakota maybe.
I can't get over that it was a minister who complained that it was offensive. What, does he support abortion? Or does he feel it's \"shaming\" to his parishioners who have had abortions and repented? Or maybe this:
Expanding on Transuranic's comment, in nursing school we were taught to be very careful, because the word \"abortion\" on a patient's chart means any aborted pregnancy, which includes miscarriages.
\"Walmart ran into trouble in January, issuing a rare apology and taking down its entire cross-recommendation system when shoppers for \"Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream\" and \"Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson\" were contextually recommended to buy \"Planet of the Apes.\"\"
to the reactionary layman that may seem wholly offensive... until you realize a major subtext of the movie \"Planet Of The Apes\" dealt with racism. hell... the entire movie is basically an allegorical tale of a racist society.
Wal-Mart was stupid to remove it. and anyone who complained was even more stupid.
it is almost more offensive / racist having removed seeing as it forces the statement of \"black people are like apes\" ... wherein before you could have simply explained to the idiots complaining that they are just dense and that the movie IS about racism. just not in a blatant dumb-downed way.
though i always thought it was pretty freaking clear. nuclear war / space travel / racism ... a veritable cornucopia of '60s themes.
No doubt, the minister was seeking to \"know thy enemy\".
Man.
\"And why didn't he know he'd have an easier time in the dumpster behind the nearest sorority?\"
Awful. Beyond. Words.
You know you're dealing with something special when you find anything at all on the internet that can still red-line your written-in-poor-taste-o-meter.
If last week's Pizza Church angry letter was any indication, you'll probably hear a word or two about this post. But while I cringe as I read that bit, I exhort you to keep doing what you're doing. Yeah, I'm pretty sure a line was crossed there, but I think that's okay. Everything is funnier when nothing is sacred.