PayPal won't run transactions referring to tardigrades

[Natural Citizen]

It figures it'd be something like this.

Archie McPhee, sellers of curios, realized that any PayPal transaction containing the word "tardigrade" — that being the name of the adorable tiny space-surviving creatures they sell ornaments of — would be blocked.

We've contacted them and they told us we should just stop using the word tardigrade,"

PayPal won't run transactions referring to tardigrades | Boing Boing

Archie McPhee, sellers of curios, realized that any PayPal transaction containing the word “tardigrade” — that being the name of the adorable tiny space-surviving creatures they sell or…

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[Natural Citizen]

Apparently, it's because part of the word tardigrades is tard.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Hmm…

A private company making business decisions it considers beneficial to its business success.

Shocking.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Apparently, it's because part of the word tardigrades is tard.

Which would certainly be an appropriate word to describe whomever it was at PayPal that came up with a policy banning the use of the word “tardigrade”, though I would prefer that the full word “retard” be used.

 

[Shawnee_b]

Gotta be kidding.

 

[whitehall]

Makes you kinda want to buy the crap doesn't it? Maybe that's the intent.