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Google and its Birthdays

  • 18-05-2019 11:46am
    #1
    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,511 ✭✭✭✭
    Ms


    So Google have someone on their page today that is on their 971st birthday. Sure we will all be doing well if we get to that age. .

    What age do you plan to live to?

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • #2
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    That’s Christmas cancelled.


  • #3
    normanoffside
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭normanoffside


    *Their*


  • #4
    Twenty Grand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Twenty Grand


    Here's the definition: 1The anniversary of the day on which a person was born, typically treated as an occasion for celebration and the giving of gifts.

    Doesn't say you have to be alive.


  • #5
    Lougarden
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Lougarden


    AMKC wrote: »
    Michelangelo drew a helicopter.

    da Vinci drew it


  • #6
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    normanoffside wrote: »
    *Their*

    *them there*


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  • #7
    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,511 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    normanoffside wrote: »
    *Their*

    No because that is used in front of a person not a company. I am referring to Google the Company so there is correct.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #8
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    AMKC wrote: »
    No because that is used in front of a person not a company. I am referring to Google the Company so there is correct.

    There - is a direction or to draw attention to something

    You are not correct


  • #9
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Lougarden wrote: »
    da Vinci drew it

    Michelangelo flew it though.


  • #10
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Michelangelo flew it though.

    Under Splinter's guidance


  • #11
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    So much for ‘Don’t be Evil’


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  • #12
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Hercule Poirot wrote: »
    Under Splinter's guidance

    Turtle Power!!!


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Anniversary of a birth is what a birthday is, it's not less so after a death.

    I like those little reminders of the great and wonderful, I've sometimes looked up a person or event after noticing them. Anything that leads people to learn something is ok by me.


  • #14
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    Just google trying to brainwash us into believing Islam is peaceful.

    https://www.khaleejtimes.com/region/mena/google-doodle-celebrates-maths-genius-omar-khayyams-971st-birthday

    All bollix of course.


  • #15
    normanoffside
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭normanoffside


    AMKC wrote: »
    No because that is used in front of a person not a company. I am referring to Google the Company so there is correct.

    Then you should have used its
    Google and its birthdays.
    Google and its page


  • #16
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,364 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    AMKC wrote: »
    No because that is used in front of a person not a company. I am referring to Google the Company so there is correct.

    What?


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Hego Damask wrote: »
    Just google trying to brainwash us into believing Islam is peaceful.

    https://www.khaleejtimes.com/region/mena/google-doodle-celebrates-maths-genius-omar-khayyams-971st-birthday

    All bollix of course.

    It's nothing to do with Islam. Khayyam was a learned figure who's influence is still with us. Not just an astronomer and mathematician, also a poet - see The Rubiyat Of Omar Khyyam.

    Shame that someone can't be recognized for their achievements and the opportunity for some random bigotry can't be passed up.


  • #18
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,364 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Could a mod please correct the title of the thread? It actually hurts me to read it.


  • #19
    tempmailtest mail
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 30 ✭tempmailtest mail


    The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
    moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit
    shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
    nor all thy tears wash out a word of it


  • #20
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    AMKC wrote: »
    No because that is used in front of a person not a company. I am referring to Google the Company so there is correct.
    That's just absurd.
    Their is the adjective irrespective of it being a person or any other entity. The more correct word in relation to a company is its.

    Anyway, all "birthdays", be the person alive or dead, are the anniversaries of a birth. The only genuine birthday is, literally, the day of the birth itself.


  • #21
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    normanoffside wrote: »
    Then you should have used its
    Google and its birthdays.
    Google and its page
    Correction

    Google and it's birthday's


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  • #22
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Correction

    Google and it's birthday's

    It's honestly hard to know whether this is ripping the piss or not!


  • #23
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Correction

    Google and it's birthday's

    Not so. It's is the contraction. Its is the possessive form, which is what this instance requires. Its is the exception to the positive noun rule.


  • #24
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Madisyn Shy Juicer wrote: »
    Not so. It's is the contraction. Its is the possessive form, which is what this instance requires. Its is the exception to the positive noun rule.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk


  • #25
    fullstop
    Registered Users Posts: 11,297 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    AMKC wrote: »
    No because that is used in front of a person not a company. I am referring to Google the Company so there is correct.

    Good grief. Back to school with you.


  • #26
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    So much for ‘Don’t be Evil’

    Don't be evil to the shareholders.


  • #27
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    What drives me mad is people on facebook wishing a happy birthday to the likes of Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie etc.


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