I was just trying to find a photo of the most exquisitely tailored jacket by, I think, Halston which I had failed to bookmark / ‘Pin’ the other day. My ‘images’ search brought the usual smattering of salacious images in amongst the haute couture results. It should be water off a duck’s back to me but I’m actually tired of being confronted with mega-t?*ties, bulging backsides and more whenever I do the most innocuous of word searches. Anyone else growing weary of our complete fixation with pron?
I was trying to describe the situation to my husband (a car nut) and said:
‘Well imagine if you keyed in Ferrari….’
And then I remembered that, for sure, would pull up a few saucy images.
‘OK well, try “strawberry shortcake” then’ I said ….but as the words tripped off my tongue I realised that too would no doubt pull up yet more interesting results.
It’s the age I’m at – I just want ‘cucumber sandwich’ to mean two pieces of bread with boring sliced veg in the middle.
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Val
February 2, 2012 at 10:43 pm
Lol!
If you’re using Google, try turning on the whatjamacallit thing that filters out some of the non-cucumber-sandwiches! (I just typed ‘witches’. Oh well.) It’s called ‘safe search’ or something like that. I got fed up of the same things several years back, turned on the filter and forgot about it. I still get the rubbish, but not as much now.
Carol
February 3, 2012 at 3:44 pm
I once Googled “Coos Bay”, as in the coastal city in Oregon. What I got was definitely not a coastal city in any state. Our society seems to have a fixation and I don’t know how it can be “fixed”. Or if it can be I guess all we can do is ignore to the best of our abilities.
joanna jenkins
February 3, 2012 at 6:33 pm
I so know what you mean. I’m forever loosing things on Pinterest and going crazy trying to find it again.
xo jj
carma (@CarmaSez)
April 29, 2012 at 11:32 pm
just wanted to stop by and say ‘hi’ and hope you are doing OK since you haven’t updated in a while – miss you