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brokecollegestudentF04
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So i was messing around on apple's site looking to get an iPod for a friend.. a nano with engraving.. shes a big james bond fan.. loves the girl pussy galore.. So I was customizing the pink iPod and went to put the engraving in.. I put in Pussy Galore.. and it said it was inappropriate, I figure if we are paying for the iPod I should be able to have what I want engraved on it..

As most of you know pussy galore is from the James Bond film Goldfinger


So Since when is apple censoring us??


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Dec 2, 2006, 09:32 PM
 
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I tried to get a personalized license plate in Virginia that said this:

3M TA3

It was refused
     
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Dec 2, 2006, 09:42 PM
 
Try Pink Pussy.

Or Pu$$y Galore.
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Dec 2, 2006, 09:50 PM
 
Does it support Unicode?

You could paste this in: "Ρussy Galore"

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hehe, unicode hacks
     
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Originally Posted by Atheist View Post
I tried to get a personalized license plate in Virginia that said this:

3M TA3

It was refused
I'm not getting that at all.
     
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I'm not getting that at all.
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I'm not getting that at all.
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Dec 2, 2006, 10:19 PM
 
I think that's crazy, 'pussy' is not an inappropriate word, it means cat! Apple have dirty minds if they think that everyone might use pussy to mean the other thing. Maybe you can try some of the other bond girls? Maybe they are all inappropriate!
     
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Dec 2, 2006, 10:22 PM
 
Originally Posted by Atheist View Post
I tried to get a personalized license plate in Virginia that said this:

3M TA3

It was refused
I cant believe pussy was refused on apple.. eat me isnt offensive either..
Crazy apple censorship.. im sure someone will end up doing somethin about it.. lol
     
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Originally Posted by monkeybrain View Post
I think that's crazy, 'pussy' is not an inappropriate word, it means cat!
To 6 year old girls, maybe. But how many men think of cats when they hear that word? 0.
     
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Originally Posted by monkeybrain View Post
I think that's crazy, 'pussy' is not an inappropriate word, it means cat!
Sure. Search Google and tell me that's its primary meaning. That wasn't even the meaning the Bond movie was trying to evoke.

Originally Posted by brokecollegestudentF04 View Post
I cant believe pussy was refused on apple.. eat me isnt offensive either..
Crazy apple censorship.. im sure someone will end up doing somethin about it.. lol
It wasn't Apple that censored "eat me." Anyway, you clearly have a different idea what's offensive that your average censor.
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Dec 2, 2006, 10:37 PM
 
Originally Posted by Chuckit View Post
Sure. Search Google and tell me that's its primary meaning. That wasn't even the meaning the Bond movie was trying to evoke.


It wasn't Apple that censored "eat me." Anyway, you clearly have a different idea what's offensive that your average censor.
I read that wrong.. apple is censoring pussy


From the wikipedia
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, puss was used as a "call-name" for cats in both German and English, but pussy was used in English more as a synonym for "cat": compare "pussycat". In addition to cats, the word was also used for rabbits and hares as well as a humorous name for tigers. In the 19th century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the meaning was extended "in childish speech, applied to anything soft and furry", as in pussy willow. In thieves' slang, it meant "fur coat".
To pussyfoot around the question or point means to be evasive, cautious, or conceal one's opinions. The reference is to the careful soft tread of the cat and has no vulgar implications, other than obvious ties to weakness, which "pussy" sometimes connotes.
     
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Dec 2, 2006, 10:51 PM
 
Originally Posted by brokecollegestudentF04 View Post
I cant believe pussy was refused on apple.. eat me isnt offensive either..
Crazy apple censorship.. im sure someone will end up doing somethin about it.. lol
do what about it? there's nothing you can do about it except buy 51% of shares.
     
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Dec 2, 2006, 11:00 PM
 
lol if i was that rich i wouldnt be worrying about apple lol, think of the system you could build for that kind of cash.. lol
     
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Originally Posted by CharlesS View Post
Does it support Unicode?

You could paste this in: "Ρussy Galore"
Doesn't work. Shows up as "?ussy Galore".

Can someone explain to me why?
     
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This works

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Dec 3, 2006, 01:21 AM
 
Funny how Pussy Galore was censored, yet Suck Nuts went through just fine

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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - View Post
This works
And actually looks better.

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Dec 3, 2006, 01:43 AM
 
Originally Posted by brokecollegestudentF04 View Post
I cant believe pussy was refused on apple.. eat me isnt offensive either..
Crazy apple censorship.. im sure someone will end up doing somethin about it.. lol
I doubt it. They probably don't want something that some people will consider obscene to be engraved on their products. Go figure
     
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Originally Posted by brokecollegestudentF04 View Post
So i was messing around on apple's site looking to get an iPod for a friend.. a nano with engraving.. shes a big james bond fan.. loves the girl pussy galore.. So I was customizing the pink iPod and went to put the engraving in.. I put in Pussy Galore.. and it said it was inappropriate, I figure if we are paying for the iPod I should be able to have what I want engraved on it..

As most of you know pussy galore is from the James Bond film Goldfinger
Is she a Austin Powers fan too ??

Try: Lotta Fagina

Gee, I hope they're friendly..........
     
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Dec 3, 2006, 01:50 AM
 
ü ?

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[QUOTE=- - e r i k - -;3226875]This works



never thought to do the spaces.. ill do that
     
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Originally Posted by OwlBoy View Post
ü ?

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Not unless you want it pronounced pissy galore.

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Dec 3, 2006, 03:11 AM
 
Apple doesn't what bad language associated with their product.

AKA: "This iPod sucks dick!"

or a news report where somebody gets robbed and says "my pod has the phrase www.g0atsey.com on the back"
     
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Dec 3, 2006, 03:23 AM
 
Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - View Post
Not unless you want it pronounced pissy galore.
Ah ok

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Dec 3, 2006, 03:59 AM
 
Originally Posted by Eug Wanker View Post
Doesn't work. Shows up as "?ussy Galore".

Can someone explain to me why?
Huh, it must not support Unicode. Kinda weird that it wouldn't, since you'd think some people might want to encode Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, or other non-Western characters on their iPod.

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Dec 3, 2006, 04:04 AM
 
Mine says "For external use only"

Perhaps not clever, but amusing none the less.
     
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Dec 3, 2006, 07:02 AM
 
On the one hand, it's an optional service that the company is well within its rights to control, limit or just plain refuse. On the other hand, this is Apple-- the Pirates of Silicon Valley, which dared to defy IBM with its informal techie counter-culture, as well as the company which advertises, endorses and sells songs with explicit lyrics.

If they want your iPod to be "yours" they should allow whatever customers want, not to mention that such automatic censoring rejects perfectly non-vulgar phrases while it allows many vulgar ones. It doesn't really jive with the Apple image nor is it worth the trouble, in my view, but oh well.
     
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Originally Posted by Tiresias View Post
To 6 year old girls, maybe. But how many men think of cats when they hear that word? 0.
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Have you tried actually ordering by phone? Maybe they can put through the text on their systems.
     
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Originally Posted by hayesk View Post
Have you tried actually ordering by phone? Maybe they can put through the text on their systems.
I tried by phone as well, they said they couldnt put it on there, so i tried to talk to a supervisor and they still said no.

craziness i tell ya
     
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It is pretty crazy that a live human wouldn't make the call in your favor.

Oddly uptight.
     
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Originally Posted by Dakar² View Post
It is pretty crazy that a live human wouldn't make the call in your favor.

Oddly uptight.
Yes very uptight.. the supervisor said they could not allow such words to be put on an apple product.. I was like ma'am it is a character from a film.. Pussy galore is not offensive in anyway.. She repeated herself and said apple will not condone vulgar language like this on any of there products.. I said thank you and have a good day
     
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Mine says Boom!
     
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Nice.. I wonder if the words dick, johnson, schlong, tallywacker, one eyed snake would get censored out lol..
     
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Dec 3, 2006, 03:38 PM
 
Why couldn't you just take an ipod to Things Remembered and have them engrave it. Couldn't cost too much to have them do it. You'd even be able to choose fonts and sizes and such.
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Originally Posted by CharlesS View Post
Huh, it must not support Unicode. Kinda weird that it wouldn't, since you'd think some people might want to encode Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, or other non-Western characters on their iPod.
I know the Japanese Store supports unicode.. so you can get your iPod engraved in Japanese...
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You could take it to an engraver and have them do it instread of Apple.
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