Comment by detritus
5 years ago
Don't get me wrong, I see the appeal for Google of having it on there, but from the sidelines here, it seems to me to be terribly wasteful. It's like the energy consumption angle was never even considered. I presume it wasn't.
OT - where does your username come from? I'm sure it's not, but for a Brit to read it, it stirs thoughts of a terribly un-PC origin! :)
Man I came up with that username when I got my first Nintendo DS for christmas when I was ~9 years old. The only game I had was the Sword of Mana GBA cartridge, and that game asks you to come up with a name for both a male and female character when you start. Being a hilarious 9 year old, I wanted to give the female character an ugly sounding name, so I just started making random ugly noises with my mouth and trying to transcribe them into the text field. That's how I ended up with "bogwog"
It wasn't until a few years ago that I stumbled upon an Urban Dictionary entry for it. That was so disappointing because I always thought I was so creative coming up with that unique and interesting-sounding name...like Tolkien!
I'm definitely not important enough for anyone to bother cancelling me over it (especially considering how mild and obscure it is), but I've stopped using it just in case. I still have a lot of old accounts lingering around that use it though.