Reader Sai says:
This is kind of weird: so, I’m trying to buy my friend an Apple gift card off of their website. My friend is pretty shy about celebrating her bday, so I wrote in the message that accompanies the card: “Happy birthday! I hope you aren’t shy to celebrate this year!” After I typed that, I got a message that deemed my message inappropriate?
Eh?
We couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. Can you?
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Is the dirty word bra? I bet it’s bra.
@chrisjames: Good point, weird story. Stand corrected.
Get Meg Frost on this PRONTO!! (Does she still work at Apple?)
Pity they guy trying to send to Kosuke Fukudome of the Cubs, especially if he’s vacationing in Phuket, Thailand with his friends, Yamashita & Matsushita!
Will Apple tell him to phuck off?
@Superawesomerad: Some people don’t like gifts and big parties and lots of attention and such. I remember feeling traumatized on my twelfth birthday, when my parents took me to a hibachi place and had the waiters/chefs all sing to me; everyone turned and stared.
In hindsight I feel worse for the waiters.
whats offensive is that it’s only $30!
what will they get? an ipod knit sock? apparently, the cart is also aware of this. you should add a couple of zeros and see if it still disagrees with you.
@sir_eccles: Genius.
@Greasy Thumb Guzik: LOL! Apple doesn’t want you to have a great fucking time!
@SkokieGuy: That was my thought, too. Apple finds bad grammar offensive.
I once tripped a filter on a cooking site by using the word “cucumber” because of the third through fifth letters. Filters are dumb.
this is bullshyt
It’s not so much that the filters are dumb, as that the people who write the filters are.
Wow, no flames about how crappy apple is. Of course Kool Aid drinkers could never find anything wrong with their true love. Here’s to not being shy!
Like having a football discussion and finding you are talking about a forward ptookus…
too shy to celibate?!
OH MY!
@Jon Parker:
Well, we all now how suggestive cucumbers can be to begin with.
Thus, that cherished phrase of phrases:
“cum on my cucumber?”
*know
weird because i ordered an iPod Classic with “Fuck iPods” laser sketched into the back as a gift to my friend and it didnt say it was inappropriate *shrug*
next time i’m getting one that says “I wish i were a zune” engraved into the back and giving it to my friend who is obsessed with apple stuff
having helped put together many of the language “kick rules” files for MSN chat a few years back, I can say for certain it is the combination of shy and t. Doesn’t matter what comes before or after as far as the rule sets are concerned
you know what’s wrong? you’re buyin crapple that’s what’s wrong
What’s wrong with Apple choosing not to print words that they don’t want to, whether they be curses, attempted curses, or mistakenly identified as curses? Apple isn’t telling the consumer that they can’t say those things, it’s just choosing to not have those words on products they sell.
I believe ‘shy to’ might be a well-known abbreviation for “Shit-Head Yank Tosser”….
But why can’t you say send a card that says whatever you want? It’s not like it’s going to a public forum or something, so if I want to send a card that says “Happy f*cking birthday you sh*t-eating motherf*cking a**hole”, why can’t I?
Strangely enough, “You’re a stupid whore” is perfectly acceptable. What do they have against shy people?
@Mr. Gunn: However, Jobs et al. still approve of you having a great time fucking.