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Google Auto-Fill. Creating awkward moments and destroying relationships
projectmayhem
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Ah Auto-Fill. At first our partnership was something fantastic. So what if I no longer cared to type out complete thoughts, you always knew what I meant. And now with Firefox's Awesome Bar, there is even less a need to type out 'penny-arcade' every time.
I soon found out however, that you Google...had more devious intentions.
I remember the first time in college. A friend of mine asked me, 'Whats a good sight to import games?' I thought for a second then said, 'play-asia'. There was then an awkward silence as playboy.com/____ came up more times than not. After this encounter of auto-fill technology gone wrong (not wild) I knew I would have to develop more clever methods to locate breast of the nude variety.
At first it started with some awkward Google Searches, 'Respectable girls who may or may not happen to have a dick inside of them', 'i dont want to see naked girls', and 'lesbians, a social commentary'.
Then tonight I happened upon a thread at absolutepunk.net which was more or less about this very thing (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=777732). There are some funny stories there but they lack a certain PA-ness which would have wrought even more comedy and prose. I come here hoping to use you all for my own pleasure, I want to laugh and I know PA is a practical vat of lol's. What are your stories of Google Auto-Fill/Awesome Bar mishaps? Something really odd you've seen on your friends computer like 'How do you milk a cat?' or a girlfriend seeing 'best way to break up with a girlfriend'. Stories are fun! Stories are a go!
I told my girlfriend about Google Auto-Fill and we then decided (for some reason beyond me...I even wanted to) went into the google search bar and typed each letter of the alphabet looking at all the auto-fill results. We both use my computer so it was rather exciting. A few random things we found that made us lawl.
black or african american?
boogie man with knife
dita von teese (this one my girlfriend was guilty for. Color me shocked...ie: erect)
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This one time, on my ex-girlfriend's computer, I typed in a strange Google search for each letter of the alphabet. Like "Anne of Green Gables slash-fiction," "Bob Ross is a Nazi sympathizer," "Can't you see I'm trying to pee?" etc.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I turned it off many years ago.
As a young lad looking for... uh... pictures... I used to either use an alternative search engine or bank on my family members not looking for anything that started with "X". I was never pulled up on it, probably more out of discretion on their part than this technique actually working.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
That used to take a visit to the registry to get rid of.
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so you can type something like "why do girls"
and see what all the common searches for are that start with that phrase
there are many hilarious combinations and results
In quotation marks, I will display my search. Afterwards will be shown selected Autofill results.
"is "
is obama the antichrist
is obama a muslim
is barack obama a muslim
is obama a us citizen
is lil wayne dead
"is g"
is google making us stupid
"why a"
why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria (117,000 results)
"why are y"
why are you wearing that stupid man suit
"why i"
why is my poop green
why is a raven like a writing desk
I use equivalent modes in browsers that have them, except occasionally where I purposefully go for things to leave further fake trails.
Basically, I'm fucking batshit insane and paranoid as all fuck.
why won't god heal amputees
"why do w"
why do white people smell like wet dogs
"how does"
how does criss angel walk on water
"why should i n"
why should i not commit suicide (2,540,000 results)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
What do I do with my life
What do I do now
What do I do with my heart
What do I do if my ipod freezes
What do I do with my 401k
What do I do with my heart lyrics
What do I do when I'm bored
What do I do if I lost my social security card
What do I do if my dog eats chocolate
What do I do with my money
Good times.
Why do girls like guys who wear shirts with eight buttons?
Surreal, to say the least
Apparently it's a kid's riddle.
Q. Why do girls like guys who wear shirts with eight buttons?
A. They fascinate.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Is it, like, standard teaching practice now to put cheesy math teacher jokes on homework assignments?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
My god that is amazing.
help i am fat (60,700,000 results)
why god hates amputees (33,100 results)
why god hates you (417,000)
The worst part for me isn't showing addresses that you don't want to show, but when you make a typo in an address and the browser decides that that's going to be the first autofill choice from now on. I really wish that there was a way to selectively kill off autofill choices.
Damn it!
I don't get any auto-fill in Google. I do in Youtube, though.
pretty funny stuff. i didnt know the people very well at all and the drama was entertaining atleast
It's kind of a funny story.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Yes, that is so damn obnoxious.
Talking of this though, for a while I got auto fill for google. But it appears to have dissapeared. How do I reactivate it? (using i.e., latest version)
It took me a full 30 seconds to get the joke... it really doesn't work with my accent.
Last year, I was supervising some students as they rehearsed their group project presentations. There were a few groups in the lecture theatre (about 20 people in total), all waiting to use the projector to run through their Powerpoint slides and to test their newly-developed software on the big screen.
One student grabbed his friend's laptop, went up to the projector and started running through the group's slides. That all went off with no problems. He then went to the Start menu to start up another application, but ended up mousing over the "Recent Documents" folder. Half the entries in there were porn videos.
He then proceeded to click on one of the entries, displaying the porn on the big screen in front of everyone. The student who owned the laptop started screaming at him, and I asked him to close the video window. He did that, but he then went into the folder where the video was located, to uncover an epic porn stash.
The student who owned the laptop ran up, grabbed it and left the room, much to the laughter of half the people in the room.
The guy who was presenting then said: "now we know why he didn't do much work on the project, he was obviously busy with other things".
It was pretty cruel. But I guess the moral of the story is not to have an epic porn stash on a laptop that you lend to other people... even if they are co-workers in a group project.
From what you're saying it sounds like the guy intentionally went straight for the guy's porn in class on the projector. Apart from the bullying involved, isn't this a pretty flagrant classroom disruption during a graded presentation? The guy operating the computer should've failed...
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465083617/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231384395&sr=8-1
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
That doesn't help if someone else is on your computer.
It was just a rehearsal for the presentation, and it certainly didn't seem planned. I told off the guy who did it, so I didn't see any need to take it further.
(Not that I could fail him if I wanted to... the process involved in such a thing is so convoluted here that it's never done).