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Manholes are gender neutral now

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    #2
    Spleerbun
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Spleerbun


    "Would you like to join our collegiate Greek system residence?"

    Proper pack of freaks


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    #3
    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,533 ✭✭✭Allinall


    What'll the cool kids say now when they're stoned?

    Ahh Person ?


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    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    It took a lot of human effort to come up with that.


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    hetuzozaho
    Registered Users Posts: 2,840 ✭✭✭hetuzozaho


    rireland wrote: »

    Where is this all going to end?

    I never understood this saying.. Maybe I'm lucky to not work in the manhole industry or related industries, but I really don't see whatever we decide to call it effecting my life in anyway at all.


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    peddlelies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭peddlelies


    When they lift them up to rebrand them they'll have somewhere to throw all the shíte and drug paraphernalia off the sidewalks.


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    jmayo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,078 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    As such, common words such as "bondsman" will be replaced by the non-gendered term "bonds-person," "manhole" becomes "maintenance hole" and a "pregnant woman" will now be referred to as a "pregnant employee".

    The municipal code will also replace the terms "sorority" and "fraternity" with "collegiate Greek system residence," while "manpower" will be changed to "human effort".

    FFS.
    The ultimate one has to be "pregnant employees".

    How many fooking pregnant men has anyone ever met ?
    Oh yeah a couple of people out of the entire human race of 7.5 odd billion claimed they were guys even though they didn't have a mickie, had ovaries and a baby in their wombs.

    Loons, freaking loons.

    The westerner world has more to worry about than this type of shyteology.


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    Conchir
    Registered Users Posts: 959 ✭✭✭Conchir


    Do you enjoy being offended OP?


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    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,391 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    More PC bollocks. Who’s actually offended by the term manhole, nobody, that’s who.

    Bullshít.


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    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,031 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Utter Consternation wrote: »
    It took a lot of human effort to come up with that.

    hu-person, sheesh theysh!


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    peddlelies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭peddlelies


    Conchir wrote: »
    Do you enjoy being offended OP?

    Being offended and pointing out loopy left wing idiocy aren't the same thing.


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    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki




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    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Wait til they figure out that Maintenance Hole is slang for anal.


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    Mr.Maroon
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭Mr.Maroon


    This is definitely one to rile up the broflakes.


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    rireland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 90 ✭✭rireland


    Conchir wrote: »
    Do you enjoy being offended OP?

    Oh yeah, although I'm not as offended as someone calling a manhole a manhole!


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    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,731 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Good to see that Berkeley, with long term homelessness double the national average, is at last tackling really important issues....


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    [Deleted User]
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    Conchir wrote:
    Do you enjoy being offended OP?

    People recognising that some people are so mentally retarded that now you aren't allowed use the term "pregnant woman" in certain places in case you offend someone is absolutely not the same as being offended.

    It's absolutely hilarious. You are accusing someone of being easily offended about people getting offended.

    Mr.Maroon wrote:
    This is definitely one to rile up the broflakes.

    Is a broflake the woke way of referring to someone who doesn't buy into all this bull****? And if it is, is it meant to be an insult?


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    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,391 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    Are they making manholes gender neutral because of all the women you see working in drainage?


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    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Good thing you don't live in *checks notes*...... Berkeley, California.

    Still, let's not stop the outrage machine.


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    Woodsie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Woodsie1


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7253545/Female-college-student-designs-chair-blocks-manspreading.html

    Its all very funny at this stage.


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Wait til they figure out that Maintenance Hole is slang for anal.

    Ooh, a Starfish Trooper, eh?? :D


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    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Ooh, a Starfish Trooper, eh?? :D

    Lost my heart to one of them once.


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    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,704 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    The weirdest thing is the non use of pronouns, what are you meant to say them instead of him or her, that's just wrong.


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    namenotavailablE
    Registered Users Posts: 59,551 ✭✭✭✭namenotavailablE


    What terms will they substitute for 'manager', 'management', 'many', 'heritage', 'history', 'mental', 'monuments', 'mention', 'gentle', 'pungent' etc.

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    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,704 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    namenotavailabl wrote: »
    What terms will they substitute for 'manager', 'management', 'many', 'heritage', 'history', 'mental', 'monuments', 'mention', 'gentle', 'pungent' etc.


    I don't think any of those are in the same context. History for example is from the word for enquiry in Greek, Management comes from handle so nothing to do with men.


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    Tasfasdf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Tasfasdf


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    I don't think any of those are in the same context. History for example is from the word for enquiry in Greek, Management comes from handle so nothing to do with men.

    Its only a matter of time before them snowflakes are offended by it.


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    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Feck that, it'll be like blasphemy soon to say what's touts innaprops.....

    Man hole man hole, fireman, police man, binmam, man man man....

    Ginger bread man, fisherman, Starman, man of the house...

    Pronoun's what a load of sh one tea...

    Anybody who subscribe to this bullsh one T should have a stake of Holly up their own hole boiled with their own snowflakes and give the rest of the knobs a drink of it and cop on...

    Pronoun's do not exist and this Dojo "does it"

    Bunch of liberals at it again setanta wept.....


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    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,704 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Tasfasdf wrote: »
    Its only a matter of time before them snowflakes are offended by it.
    I don't think anyone is offended by fireman or man hole, which makes this even stupider.


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    Rodin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    I have never see a firewoman so for me it shall remain 'fireman'.

    And men do not get pregnant, so I can't fathom who might be offended by the term 'pregnant woman' though it is a tautology.


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    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,391 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    Rodin wrote: »
    I have never see a firewoman so for me it shall remain 'fireman'.

    And men do not get pregnant, so I can't fathom who might be offended by the term 'pregnant woman' though it is a tautology.

    Woah, you're not up to speed on the new rules... men can get pregnant now and if you say otherwise you're wrong. Don't even think about quoting science because hurt feelings matter more than science now.

    Sorry.


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    Lux23
    Registered Users Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    Why did they give them gendered terms in the first place?


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