Dear Google.

WhiteWashMan

Kernel wrote:

You're part of the problem, pagan! If I had my way, the stakes and kindling would be fired up again, then we'd have less people moaning about Christmas.
:mad:

Nondenominational festive lights.. pffft! :rolleyes:

oh pipe down and be a little bit more tolerant of others beliefs.

if someone wants to have christmas lights, then let them.
if someone wants to think of christmas as something other than a religious festival, then let them.

although, i am at a loss as to how one would ensure that lights were shown as nondenominational as opposed to mistaken as just plain old christmas lights.

although, i must admit, i am surprised at google for their mouse, but who knows, im sure they have the powah to change their google image everyday.
they are very clever those googlers....

WhiteWashMan

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

A civilisation before the romans are responsible for roads.
Keep up to date man!

keep up to date with the monty python in jokes....

Reg: And what have they ever given us in return?
Revolutionary I: The aqueduct?
Reg: What?
Revolutionary I: The aqueduct.
Reg: Oh. Yeah, yeah, they did give us that, ah, that's true, yeah.
Revolutionary II: And the sanitation.
Loretta: Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like.
Reg: Yeah, all right, I'll grant you the aqueduct and sanitation, the two things the Romans have done.
Matthias: And the roads.
Reg: Oh, yeah, obviously the roads. I mean the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the
aqueduct, and the roads...
Revolutionary III: Irrigation.
Revolutionary I: Medicine.
Revolutionary IV: Education.
Reg: Yeah, yeah, all right, fair enough.
Revolutionary V: And the wine.
All revolutionaries except Reg: Oh, yeah! Right!
Rogers: Yeah! Yeah, that's something we'd really miss Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.
Revolutionary VI: Public bathes.
Loretta: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
Rogers: Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it; they're the only ones who could in a place like this.
All revolutionaries except Reg: Hahaha...all right...
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water
system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Revolutionary I: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace! Shut up!

larryone

Why the supprise over the mouse? I'm still at a loss as to what the big deal is...

Tar.Aldarion

Damn my methodical mind, jokes come second to me now....what have I become...

bounty

happy holidays is much better, the less crazy religious festivals shoved down my throat the better

BigCon

How about something festive like this (apologies in advance):

Google

Nevyn

Kernel wrote:

Law, and the Plebians.

We had our own laws :P

As for the romans ceasar salad, cesarian births, the months of August and July.....

Wwm wrote:

although, i am at a loss as to how one would ensure that lights were shown as nondenominational as opposed to mistaken as just plain old christmas lights.

By not having santas, snowmen, stars, reindeers, or little baby jesus'.

All of the festivals at this time of year have lights assicated with them,
generic pretty coloured lights would have people assoicate them with what ever thier belifes or lack of beliefs leads them.

Earthhorse

larryone wrote:

Why the supprise over the mouse? I'm still at a loss as to what the big deal is...

Ever since we entered Europe there has been a flood of mice into the country, many of whom are willing to work long hard hours for little pay in our nursery rhymes and fast food outlets.

In conclusion, Irish people dislike mice.

tonymontana

RuggieBear wrote:

What have they got to be considerate to us about? Pray tell?

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72933&search_text=poppy

The poppy is a sign of British imperialism. Hundreds and thousands of people have died, suffered and their family lives destroyed because of the actions of the most viscious empire the world has ever seen.

Ireland is a predominantly Catholic country, and therefore Christmas is celebrated BY THE MAJORITY as a Christian festival and not as a "holiday". Seeing, that Google have an Irish domain and even supply Google in Irish, I think they could have wished me a happy Christmas without offending the rest of the world.

We have Coca Cola and Budweiser to thank for this "holiday" nonsence. I saw a McDonalds ad the other day and was glad I was wished a Happy Christmas and not a happy "holidays".

Even though I don't pay to use google, I think I'm still considered a customer as a user, as without me they wouldn't make any money.

monkeyfudge

Here's a sneak peak of how it will look tomorrow:

http://www.monkeyfudge.com/images/google_mouse.jpg

Christmasy enough for you?

Setun

The logo is a bit weak, nothing unbelievable like their sham-holiday Valentines Day decoration.

Earthhorse

monkeyfudge wrote:

Here's a sneak peak of how it will look tomorrow:

http://www.monkeyfudge.com/images/google_mouse.jpg

Christmasy enough for you?

More mice please.

WhiteWashMan

Thaedydal wrote:

By not having santas, snowmen, stars, reindeers, or little baby jesus'.
.

screw you and your santas, snowmen stars reindeer and gay baby jesuseseseses on yer lights!

im a simple white twinkling white light man meself.

tonymontana wrote:

The poppy is a sign of British imperialism. Hundreds and thousands of people have died, suffered and their family lives destroyed because of the actions of the most viscious empire the world has ever seen..

i guess hitler and his millions of jews and stalin and his 40+ million russians could be considered second rate dictatorial empires so....


or are you just anti-english?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

why can't we all just be anti-american and get along?

RuggieBear

tonymontana wrote:

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72933&search_text=poppy

The poppy is a sign of British imperialism. Hundreds and thousands of people have died, suffered and their family lives destroyed because of the actions of the most viscious empire the world has ever seen.

lol... i just think your post is a sign of immature anti english bigotry.

My grandfather also fought in the First World war and he told me that any decent Irishman should never have any qualm wearing the poppy in respect to the many thousands of Irishmen who lost their lifes fighting in the world wars

Sleepy

Mordeth wrote:

why can't we all just be anti-american and get along?

ROFL

the most viscious empire the world has ever seen..

uhm, Romans? Visigoths? Mongols?

WhiteWashMan

Sleepy wrote:

ROFL


uhm, Romans? Visigoths? Mongols?

not to mention thats darned celts whod chop yer head off and wear it on their belts!

look at that highlander fella. wandering through the ages removing heads because there can only WAN!

Rb

monkeyfudge wrote:

Here's a sneak peak of how it will look tomorrow:

http://www.monkeyfudge.com/images/google_mouse.jpg

Christmasy enough for you?

Lol
I don't get what the big deal here is, its just a logo.

BuffyBot

Indymedia, your one stop shop for all things nonsensical.

SpAcEd OuT

in coolock, dar-rin-dale have u ever heard of it?

zod

yeah but whats number 2 ???

http://www.google.ie/doodle10.html

Nevyn

WhiteWashMan wrote:

screw you and your santas, snowmen stars reindeer and gay baby jesuseseseses on yer lights!

you wish :P and I never said I had the like you asked for examples of demnominational lights

Wwm wrote:

im a simple
white twinkling white light man meself.

Snap well bar the being a person of the male gender part or parts.

Wwm wrote:

ot to mention thats darned celts whod chop yer head off and wear it on their belts!

don't be daft they were preseved in walnut oil and hung from the chariot or
placed on the dinner table during feasts.

lazydaisy

Use yahoo. It has snowmen and snowflakes.

BrokenArrows

ballooba wrote:

I hate the way google has a setFocus() function on the search box.

i.e. If you have google as your homepage, the cursor automatically goes into the search box as soon as the page loads. So those of us who don't touch type are banging away feverishly at the keyobard only to look up and see that half of the web address is in the address bar and the other half is in the google search box.

Grrrrrrr.

Thats the best part about the google site. loads up and the cursor is already there to type. No need to click in the box. Its really fast.


Oh and to the original post.

Ok then your raving nutter. who tf cares if google havent decorated their site up to the max.
Does it affect your search? NO. Does it improve anything at all really? NO

So who cares.

Mimikyu

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edibility

http://www.google.ie/doodle9.html

More like it.

The Sweeper

BrokenArrows wrote:

Oh and to the original post.

Ok then your raving nutter. who tf cares if google havent decorated their site up to the max.
Does it affect your search? NO. Does it improve anything at all really? NO

So who cares.

You could apply the same logic to this thread you know. Then you wouldn't need to post on it.

larryone

edibility wrote:

http://www.google.ie/doodle9.html

More like it.

Doodles 7 and 4 also...

larryone

Earthhorse wrote:

Ever since we entered Europe there has been a flood of mice into the country, many of whom are willing to work long hard hours for little pay in our nursery rhymes and fast food outlets.

In conclusion, Irish people dislike mice.

Aah. Suddenly all is clear.
*larry goes to get his mouse gun*

IvaBigWun

Who or what nation wont get a Santy hat on the G of Google this Christmas? I think they've phucked up a great possible tie-in

WhiteWashMan

ah well i see theres a cat and mouse about to plug i nsomething....

could it be the christmas lights?

Ozzy

Don't do it Squeeks it's a trap!

WhiteWashMan

they fight, and fight, and fight and fight and fight, fight fight fight, fight fight fight, the itchy and scratchy shooooooooow!

Miguel_Sanchez

So what's going to happen is there going to add a bit each day and it'll be a full on festive Google homepage by the 25th.

A nice idea I think but nooooo......... the boardsies have to go and jump down poor defenceless Google's throat.

Weeeellllll eeeexxxxcccccccuuuuuussssssseeeeee them for trying something different.

Hobbes

Yea you would swear we are all heading to the "Osama's homobortion pot and commie jizzporium"

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002690.html#002690

RE*AC*TOR

Hobbes wrote:

Yea you would swear we are all heading to the "Osama's homobortion pot and commie jizzporium"

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002690.html#002690

you watch too much Daily Show...

limerick_man

monkeyfudge wrote:

But it's a worldwide site.

Google is not a worldwide site!

www.google.ie - is Irish
www.google.com - is American
www.google.co.uk - is Bristish
www.google.de - is German
www.google.fr - is french
www.google.pl - is Polish
www.google.com.tr - is Turkish

every google site is designed for a certain country! Some people in Ireland tend to use the American one for some reason, but I leave that for the Americans to use, and I use the Irish... which usually runs quicker!
Plus these things are telling a story.. click into it! Its like and advent calender!!!

aidan_walsh

limerick_man wrote:

Google is not a worldwide site!

Yes it is.

limerick_man wrote:

www.google.ie - is Irish
www.google.com - is American
www.google.co.uk - is Bristish
www.google.de - is German
www.google.fr - is french
www.google.pl - is Polish
www.google.com.tr - is Turkish

They not Irish, British, German, French, Polish or Turkish. They're American, all of them, with slants towards the countries in question.

They all route back to the same servers (216.239.59.*), they all use the same index. All thats different is they just have slight modifications that tweak the pages and results in favour of certain nationalities.

limerick_man wrote:

every google site is designed for a certain country!

Reread the above if you still don't get it.

limerick_man wrote:

Some people in Ireland tend to use the American one for some reason, but I leave that for the Americans to use, and I use the Irish... which usually runs quicker!

There is nothing faster about using one site over another, it all goes back to the US. You're trying to percieve it as being faster. You do know that unless you specifically tell it to look for pages from Ireland only, you are searching through the exact same index?

RuggieBear

zing

kippy

Can yez not just get over it......and move on.....

dimerocks

your right, i dont even understand what the mouse and the cat are doing!they should be killing each other.

Victor

Um, look here: http://www.google.ie/doodle10.html

And wait 'til Christmas.

Mimikyu

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Sully

Awkward, but I got a Contact Form and sent the post to Google.

I see its a popular topic on there own support forums also.

I think at least the Irish site should be Christmas themed.