# Google's doodle today will obviously recognize D-Day, right? Wrong. It's about drive-ins.

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**Created:** [June 6, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-doodle-today-will-obviously-recognize-d-day-right-wrong-its-about-drive-ins/624277 "2012-06-06T15:49:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-doodle-today-will-obviously-recognize-d-day-right-wrong-its-about-drive-ins/624277/172 "2012-06-10T15:27:22Z")

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> [@MeanOldLady](#):
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> Yes. What is so hard to understand about this? Why the hard line false dichotomies for some people? No one needs to treat anyone else “like glass” or with “kitten gloves.” Just try to be patient and understanding. That is all. Not that fucking difficult. Or maybe it is.

Well, from reading **mhendo** ’s subsequent explanations, it seems to me that his thought process went something like, “That post is ridiculous. I’m going to call that guy a stupid douchebag…wait, no, it’s Quasi. He has Alzheimer’s. I should probably go easy. Wait, no, I’m not going to treat him like a child. He says he doesn’t want that. I’m going to treat him like I treat everyone else! I’m going ahead with my douchebag post.”

To me that is a lot more defensible and understandable than “Ugh, I’m calling the Alzheimer’s patient a douchebag just because I can and I don’t give a shit about him.”

Maybe I’m putting words in his mouth here, but that is how his posts came across to me.

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