AA now selling flights to Allahu Akbar, Penis, Shitville...

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American Airlines glitched out and is showing London as Allahu Akbar, Paris as Penis, Pittsburgh as Shitville, LA as (censured)-ville, etc.
Admiral Akbar would be so much better
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Printerscape posted...
American Airlines glitched out
Sounds more like a disgruntled worker than a glitch.

*reads article*

Oh, it's some tool that functions like Wikipedia where anyone can edit city names. That's...interesting.

Sidenote: tinyurl is fucking trash. I have link preview turned on, but it only seems to work half the time these days. It's annoying that it's not on by default, and even more annoying it doesn't work consistently anymore.
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AA uses OpenStreetMap, which anyone can edit and which was being attacked by vandals
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Reminded me of this:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bc72bb38.jpg
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Crimson_Corsair posted...
Reminded me of this:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bc72bb38.jpg
It was always bizarre to me that they actually decided to run this, not only because they're clearly racist fake names, but also, when do the pilots' names ever get reported after a crash like that? I can't think of any instances of it happening.

I guess maybe you could make an argument for the Tenerife disaster, since the KLM captain was their chief flight instructor and they were trying to call him before they realized that he had been involved, but that feels like a pretty extreme edge case.
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http://i.imgur.com/PKIy7.gif http://i.imgur.com/3p29JqP.gif
Lol!
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Jupiter posted...
Sounds more like a disgruntled worker than a glitch.

*reads article*

Oh, it's some tool that functions like Wikipedia where anyone can edit city names. That's...interesting.

Sidenote: tinyurl is fucking trash. I have link preview turned on, but it only seems to work half the time these days. It's annoying that it's not on by default, and even more annoying it doesn't work consistently anymore.
I had to use a URL shortener because the URL has a word in it that cannot be posted on GameFAQs for some reason.
Printerscape posted...
I had to use a URL shortener because the URL has a word in it that cannot be posted on GameFAQs for some reason.
Sorry, it was more of a complaint to tinyurl, not you. I just can't fathom from a security standpoint why link preview would not be on by default.
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Printerscape posted...
I had to use a URL shortener because the URL has a word in it that cannot be posted on GameFAQs for some reason.
For some reason?
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
For some reason?
There are legitimate use for that word, like this URL link. Using it defamatorily is obviously not okay.
whomever the disgruntled employee did the names. the Pittsburgh one is right (no offense to anybody living there).
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