Are you aware of how Arabic-to-English translation works, at all?
Osama and Usama are the same name. The difference comes about because Arabic isn’t written in the Roman alphabet, and transliteration differs according to both region and transliterator. They’re the same name.
And you’re a :wally
My god this is an assholish thing to say.
Yer acting like a total jerk.
Yu’re missing the point. Jake and Jack are the same name too. So is Henry and Hank. I know, because I had to choose between the to th anglicize my name. Ever heard of Henry Snow?
No, we’re just a little preoccupied right now fighting against asshattery.
Do you ever contribute anything, or are you just here to fling your feces around? Because it’s starting to stink.
No. I’ve also never heard of a Hank Snow. What does that have to do with it?
You’re being very uncharitable. After all, we gave you months of time to prove yourself before we decided you were an ass.
And you know, just in case you’re setting up for a giant “HAHAHA! I WAS RIGHT! SEE, YOU DIMBULBS! I WAS RIGHT!” if USAMA does turn out to be a trolling jerk, you’ll still be wrong. Mature human beings don’t judge someone’s personality simply from their name.
Oh, and grieny, snookums, Jake and Jack are NOT the same. Jack is a nickname for John, Jake is a nickname for Jacob. (and no, John and Jacob are not derivatives of one another).
Guin has already corrected you on Jake and Jack. Hank is a dimunitive of Henry, not the same. Usama and Osama are different transliterations of one Arabic word.
The name “Jesus” gets you 50 million hits. The name “Philip” gets you 23 million. By this measure, we can deduce that “Jesus” is twice as popular as “Philip”. The name “Wong” gets a mere 8.3 million, and is thus merely a 6th as common as “Jesus”.
Conclusion:
You are a tit.
(Incidentally, did you know there are 9 million people called “Bill Gates”? Astonishing.)
Of course you googled in Arabic and not English, right?
(I know it doesn’t matter, just further proving the point that measuring by google hits does not denote information.)
This is one of the absolute stupidest and just plain wrong pittings I’ve ever seen here.
What if Usama is actually an intelligent and interesting guy from the Mid-East who might be able to bring to the board an interesting perspective? Maybe he was just browsing the net looking for a place to share info and fight ignorance and he found this place, seemingly a perfect match. And he has to be greeted by this fuckin’ level of ignorant intolerance??!! Prejudice based on username alone??
Usama, if you do happen to hang here and come upon this thread, I promise you the OP is not representative this board.
You could be ashamed, grienspace, but apparently that’s expecting too much.
Since you seem oblivious, let me spell this out for you. You’re acting like a jerk. Pitting someone who hasn’t even posted yet, whom you suspect might not be to your liking because of the username is unacceptable. You don’t know the slightest thing about him so your aggressive hosility is completely undeserved.
Consider yourself warned.
I’m closing this thread to spare the target of this ugly screed, not it’s maker.
TVeblen
Pit mod