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Define an English person

  • 15-12-2011 03:49PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭


    By the time you read this Google will most likely have 'fixed' the issue, but currently the first Google search result for "define an English person" is a Wikipedia page dedicated to a certain word.
    That word - and I suggest more delicate readers avert their eyes at this point - is Cúnt Ladies and gentlemen :D
    Google is aware of the problem, and according to one employee, it "looks like a bad case of ranking that we're looking into."
    The "C word," as some people insist on calling it, is widely considered the most severe curse word in the English language. Feminist Scholar Germaine Greer once called it "one of the few remaining words in the English language with a genuine power to shock." Yep, I took that from that Wikipedia page, thanks Google.
    Some suspect the errant search result isn't a glitch, but a deliberate joke pulled off by glib pranksters using a process called "Google-bombing." By creating large numbers of hyperlinks connected to a certain phrase, unscrupulous users can bump that phrase to the top of the Google rankings. Famous examples of this include searches for "miserable failure," which brought up a picture of U.S President George W. Bush, "weapons of mass destruction," which brought up a parody 404 page and "Hell" which took users to Microsoft homepage. Google keeps on changing its search algorithms to combat the practice but hasn't managed to stamp it out yet.
    Ironically the people least likely to be offended by the page are the English themselves; as we tend to use the word particularly liberally. Often in lieu of punctuation, in fact.
    Or it may be a case that the Englist are infact C**ts :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Do the same for 'Irish person' and the second result is Pikey

    edit- actually, it doesn't anymore. Google must like us more than the English :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Haven't seen this before! :paC:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭investment


    Tight


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    An english person is anyone who speaks english either as a first or additional language.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    OMG I'm having deja vu


    lol


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    The result for Scottish people is assault!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    As the english love to use the class system, we therefore observe a variety of 'English' people. The only common factor is that they all speak English.

    The Upper Class
    The Middle Class
    The Working Class
    The Under Class


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    brummytom* :cool:



    *worms worms everywhere!


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    John McCririck


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭charlietheminxx


    Dislike :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    "Craic" comes up as a result for an Irish person:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I'm an English person. I should be under that definition.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    cloud493 wrote: »
    I'm an English person. I should be under that definition.
    same here,this is going to end in tears.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭MeteoritesEire


    a friend posted this on FB yesterday and the top search result for 'english person' was the wiki page for ****.It is now a link to a huffington post article and second top is a yahoo answers with this very thread on boards.ie third so looks like Big G hasn't sorted this fully yet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    a friend posted this on FB yesterday and the top search result for 'english person' was the wiki page for ****.It is now a link to a huffington post article and second top is a yahoo answers with this very thread on boards.ie third so looks like Big G hasn't sorted this fully yet
    Steven?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    I was born in England to Irish parents. Lived there till I was 14.

    I've been living here now for nearly 12 years and I still speak with an English accent.

    I don't consider myself English in the slightest, never have done. I grew up being a plastic paddy and supporting Ireland. I don't so much now because I recognise I can't be Irish (at least properly) with an English accent, but I was never English in England and often called an "Irish c*nt" and all the rest of it with all the Ireland tops at school etc.

    I sort of cheered on Sweden yesturday if I'm being honest, knewing they were going to lose.

    I dont really consider myself anything in all honesty I'm a bit messed up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Someone who is from england?:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭MeteoritesEire


    Steven?

    I have a brother called Stephen...is that you ted?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    A great bunch a lads...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Nice lads and ladies that show me how to get to where I need to go on the very confusing and busy underground in London.

    Also scary looking,fast talking lads in Camden Town who look like they're going to rob me until they realise I'm Irish just like their grandad was and start calling me bruv instead,innit.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Messed up country ;)
    They have private schools but call them public schools.


    And they don't have the heavenly goodness that is red lemonade. Poor lads :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭BIG BAD JOHN


    This is the race that invented Vimto and pork scratchings (not at the same time so far as I know) for which they have my eternal and grateful thanks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Give me strange looks when I ask for a rock shandy

    Sorry Mr Barman
    You know 50 complicated cocktails but you don't know a rock shandy, the easiest mixer you'll ever make


    And no Taytos, that's just wrong!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    i am an irish person living in the uk.....and the english people are the nicest people in the world..........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭BIG BAD JOHN


    i am an irish person living in the uk.....and the english people are the nicest people in the world..........

    There's a lot of truth in that statement. I like to think one of the reasons might be that over 6 million of them have an Irish granny and/or grandad.
    I think the lack of Tayto and rock shandies are more than made up for with pork scratchings and Vimto (which I've mentioned previously) not to mention Dandelion and Burdock.
    Mind you, it is hard (though not impossible) to get Kimberley biscuits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    From my experiances I don't think the Irish are that well loved in England.

    I would say most of them don't care. But do remember that 720+ soilders died in Northern Ireland, thats a whole generation of people who served over here and would have anti-Irish views.

    I say this because I grew up in England as a plastic paddy/Ireland supporter and I remember a lot of bad stuff being said about them at the time of the riots at Lansdowne in 95' at school etc. I wasn't let into a house once because I wore an Ireland shirt to friends father who was a former paratrooper.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,341 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Where To wrote: »
    An english person is anyone who speaks english either as a first or additional language.

    So Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Canadian, American, Australian, New Zealander and maybe half the remainder are in fact English?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭BIG BAD JOHN


    Gnobe wrote: »
    From my experiances I don't think the Irish are that well loved in England.

    I would say most of them don't care. But do remember that 720+ soilders died in Northern Ireland, thats a whole generation of people who served over here and would have anti-Irish views.

    I say this because I grew up in England as a plastic paddy/Ireland supporter and I remember a lot of bad stuff being said about them at the time of the riots at Lansdowne in 95' at school etc. I wasn't let into a house once because I wore an Ireland shirt to friends father who was a former paratrooper.

    I think it's much better than it used to be, not that it was ever intolerably bad so far as I'd be concerned. I've lived in England at 3 times, in the 60s for 5 years, 70s for 7 years and all last year and part of this.
    My main grumble is the need of some you meet to tell you Irish "jokes" which are usually unfunny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Warm Beer

    Cricket on the village green

    Naughty seaside postcards

    Stiff upper lip

    Sense of fair play

    Eccentric

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    lashings and lashings of ginger ale!


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