Today, whilst wondering what the devil I ought to write about, I was looking through one of the many draft posts which litter this blog. The title sucked, so I won’t share it with you, but I’d written one sentence:
“A man gets killed by a biro in the Bourne Identity…”
That’s all I’d written. I may have been drunk. Maybe I was leading on to some sort of witty comment about the pen being mightier than the sword… who knows.
Anyway, I’ve never seen the Bourne Identity and I was wondering if some poor soul does indeed get killed by a biro in the film. I decided to hit up big G and see.
I began to type ’man gets’ and got this:
Hmmm - unsavoury.
Kinda made me glad I was a girl… until I repeated the search replacing man with woman:
On balance, I think it’s marginally better to be a girl. There seems to be less in the way of violent death… but there’s not much in it.
Sometimes I forget how odd the interwebz are.
on Nov 20th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I like how both first results are about people getting “done/screwed” by a horse, seems no matter which way you swing, if you’re into bestiality horses are the way to go!
on Nov 22nd, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Indeed, it does seem that horses are the way to go. Seriously… what is wrong with people?
on Nov 23rd, 2009 at 4:30 pm
It’s a tough world out there. behind every bush, in every shadow lies a horse sha*ger….
on Nov 24th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Emo! Those people don’t go out. They’re busy. On the interwebz.
on Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:42 am
There was a discussion on the radio the other morning about what suggested searches you get when you google ‘average’ and whether or not the suggestions were as a result of google, or what had been previously searched for on that PC.
on Nov 25th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Ah Pete. I see what you’re doing there. A subtle suggestion that I myself maybe ‘into horses’. Why I oughta…
For your reference dear heart - here’s the word from Big G:
“As you type, Google Suggest communicates with Google and comes back with the suggestions we show. If you’re signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, suggestions are drawn from searches you’ve done, searches done by users all over the world, sites in our search index, and ads in our advertising network. If you’re not signed in to your Google Account, no history-based suggestions are displayed.”
So, even if you’re signed in you’re still getting suggestions from perverts (ahem, I mean users) worldwide.
Just for the record… I wasn’t signed in
on Dec 19th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
To be honest..I think I’d prefer to get beheaded/hit by a train than made pregnant by a dog, my face ripped off by a chimp, or become pregnant once let alone twice!
I’m glad I’m a boy!
on Feb 18th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
I actually want to google “woman gets pregnant by dog” now, just to add to perverted google searches and to see if that’s really even possible. But i’m at work, so i can’t.
on Feb 18th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
@Liz - do it love… gainful employment’s over-rated