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| "Listen, there are people that are coming down the pilot ladder of the prow. You go up that pilot ladder, get on that ship and tell me how many people are still on board. And what they need. Is that clear? You need to tell me if there are children, women or people in need of assistance. And tell me the exact number of each of these categories. Is that clear? Listen Schettino, that you saved yourself from the sea, but I am going to... I'm going to make sure you get in trouble. ...I am going to make you pay for this. Go on board." |
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Facebook bans village name for being offensive
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Facebook users from a village called Effin in Ireland cannot use the name after the social networking website banned it for being 'offensive'.
This was discovered by residents of the Irish village who said they could not register the village name as their place of birth on the website, The Sun reported.
Ann Marie Kennedy, who was born in the village, has launched a campaign to get it recognised by Facebook.
But when she tried to create a Facebook group called 'Please get my hometown Effin recognised', it was also rejected.
'It came back with an error message saying 'offensive'. I would like to be able to put Effin on my profile page and so would many other Effin people around the world to proudly say that they are from Effin, but it won't recognise that,' she said.
Kennedy is trying to get the village's population of around 1,000 behind her cause. |
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