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6th June - what images does that date conjure up?

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  • #32
    kingtiger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    keith16 wrote: »
    I didn't see anyone complaining when VE day was ignored by google.

    Adding a few :rolleyes: :rolleyes: of these to also counter those points.

    has feck all to do with Google

    its to do with the 30 thousand people that died during the invasion

    thats why you got a roll eyes for your ill-informed post


  • #33
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    kingtiger wrote: »
    has feck all to do with Google

    its to do with the 30 thousand people that died during the invasion

    thats why you got a roll eyes for your ill-informed post

    This thread is specifically dealing with googles lack of commemoration of that invasion.

    I don't see why google should pay homage to it. They are keeping politics / war off the front page and I commend them for not waving a flag in our faces.


  • #34
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Well, now: BBC News reports:
    Google has hurriedly rushed out a link to D-Day material after failing to honour the 70th anniversary in its famous daily doodle.

    Initially the UK homepage of the search engine had a doodle honouring a Japanese Go player.

    It admitted to the Daily Telegraph that that had been uploaded in error, and quickly removed it.

    Beneath its logo there is a now a link to letters, photos and maps of the Normandy landings.


  • #35
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    keith16 wrote: »
    This thread is specifically dealing with googles lack of commemoration of that invasion.

    I don't see why google should pay homage to it. They are keeping politics / war off the front page and I commend them for not waving a flag in our faces.

    Yet they paid homage to Cesar Chavez

    http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/why-google-ran-a-cesar-chavez-doodle-an-alternative-theory/274525/

    The olympics in Russia

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553704/Google-takes-stand-Russias-anti-gay-law-rainbow-coloured-Sochi-doodle-statement-calling-equal-rights.html

    and even a reminder for us to vote in the European elections

    http://www.siliconrepublic.com/digital-life/item/37010-google-doodle-reminds-us-to


  • #36
    kingtiger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    keith16 wrote: »
    I don't see why google should pay homage to it. They are keeping politics / war off the front page and I commend them for not waving a flag in our faces.


    the commemoration is for all sides that fought and died on this day, there is nothing political or flag waving about it


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  • #37
    comongethappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭comongethappy


    A distant relation fought & died in the Normandy invasion..... I think near Bastogne.

    No matter how bravely they fought, the Allies kept coming.


  • #38
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    The only thing I find disappointing about a go player being featured is that I clicked on the picture expecting to be able to play a game.

    I see that the Google.co.uk and Google.ie homepages are now different.


  • #39
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    bumper234 wrote: »
    Yet they paid homage to Cesar Chavez

    http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/why-google-ran-a-cesar-chavez-doodle-an-alternative-theory/274525/

    The olympics in Russia

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553704/Google-takes-stand-Russias-anti-gay-law-rainbow-coloured-Sochi-doodle-statement-calling-equal-rights.html

    and even a reminder for us to vote in the European elections

    http://www.siliconrepublic.com/digital-life/item/37010-google-doodle-reminds-us-to

    None of those have anything to do with war.


  • #40
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    None of those have anything to do with war.

    He stated
    keith16 wrote: »
    This thread is specifically dealing with googles lack of commemoration of that invasion.

    I don't see why google should pay homage to it. They are keeping politics / war off the front page and I commend them for not waving a flag in our faces.

    All of those were political.


  • #41
    seenitall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭seenitall


    Three images come to mind:

    D-day,

    having a mole excised from my back this day 20 years ago,

    and 8 years ago my then husband feeling the fear that the baby would be born prematurely on 6/6/6, therefore be marked as the Spawn of the Devil forevermore, and consequently cast guess-who in the role of Lucifer :D (as it happens, she ended up being way overdue - phew :pac:).


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  • #42
    cocoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭cocoman


    Birthday cake - it's my birthday!!


  • #43
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    bumper234 wrote: »
    He stated



    All of those were political.
    True. Not really anything to do with D-Day though, which is war.


  • #44
    seenitall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭seenitall


    Happy birthday to all the playful Gems on-thread! :)


  • #45
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    More proof that Putin and the communists own Google, why else was it censored to bits in China a few days ago on the anniversary of tiananmen square.


  • #46
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    keith16 wrote: »
    This thread is specifically dealing with googles lack of commemoration of that invasion.

    I don't see why google should pay homage to it. They are keeping politics / war off the front page and I commend them for not waving a flag in our faces.

    Are you suggesting we all just ignore WWII and pretend it didn't happen?


  • #47
    Banjoxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Banjoxed


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Are you suggesting we all just ignore WWII and pretend it didn't happen?

    I am always amused by the uniquely Irish neutralist POV that the invasion of France was somehow unnecessary.


  • #48
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Are you suggesting we all just ignore WWII and pretend it didn't happen?

    Please show me where I suggested that?

    Google are a private entity and are under no obligation to commemorate a WWII battle.

    Why are people getting their knickers in a twist over this? People have been remembering / celebrating important historical events since long before google came about.

    It's a google doodle for gods sake, and if that's the level of commemoration people require, then it's a bit sad tbh. There are much more fitting ways to pay tribute.

    I understand my first post in this thread was insensitive and for that I apologise.


  • #49
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,538 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    It conjures up an American flag waving around a load of dead American soldiers and the millions of fools who think that the war revolved around that.


  • #50
    comongethappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭comongethappy


    Tony EH wrote: »
    It conjures up an American flag waving around a load of dead American soldiers and the millions of fools who think that the war revolved around that.

    Every country (except Ireland) celebrates its war-dead.

    Unsure why you chose to just pick on America?


  • #51
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,538 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Because D-Day to many, many people is America winning the war and the powers that be are very happy to propagate that myth.


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  • #52
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Because D-Day to many, many people is America winning the war and the powers that be are very happy to propagate that myth.

    Not me.


  • #53
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,538 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Yeh, I know. ;)


  • #54
    bumper234
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    Tony EH wrote: »
    Because D-Day to many, many people is America winning the war and the powers that be are very happy to propagate that myth.

    Not me


  • #55
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,538 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    I didn't say everyone. :pac:


  • #56
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf-HZz5Qv8E


  • #57
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Banjoxed wrote: »
    I am always amused by the uniquely Irish neutralist POV that the invasion of France was somehow unnecessary.

    Wasn't an invasion, it was a landing.......


    RFK died on this day.....


  • #58
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Go is a fascinating game,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-C1cpG6TLc
    .


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