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Bus Messages Called Offensive When Read Backwards
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/ ^
| 06/05/2015
| Amy Wadas
Posted on 06/05/2015 7:03:15 AM PDT by massmike
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) The Port Authority is looking into bus slogans that some are calling offensive.
Officials say theyve recently received complaints that one of its slogans, Ziggin Zaggin, is offensive when read backwards, seeming to spell out a racial slur.
Jim Ritchie with the Port Authority says they will remove the messages from buses.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: thatsracist; zaggin
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To: USNA74
There’s that tombstone in Montreal, iirc, that has F-—YOU reading down the first column of letters.
To: massmike
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posted on
06/05/2015 9:13:34 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: massmike
Gotta go in the Webster’s dictionary now and check all the words written backwards. Any word that offends when read backwards has to be stricken.
The USA is insane.
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posted on
06/05/2015 9:17:26 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
I have a collection of the music of Artanis Knarf, made from hand-tossed LPs on a freewheeling turntable. It’s called
“Old Seye Eulb like you’ve never heard him before!”
Keeps me awake on long trips.
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posted on
06/05/2015 9:26:28 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: massmike
And what all about the dyslexics????????
65
posted on
06/05/2015 9:38:54 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
To: massmike
When you play heavy metal music backwards you hear Satan. Same as when you play it forwards too : )
Top Gear would put messages on cars and trains and when a door or train car separated the message would be er... completely not pc!
To: massmike
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posted on
06/05/2015 10:41:43 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: massmike
To: Uncle Miltie
nemA
what about the African AMericans who insist on referring to themselves and others us the “N” word...spelled endig with a Z??
Id think that they might view these ads as finally having made the BIGTIME
.ylerecnIS
yekiM eguhseM
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posted on
06/05/2015 11:49:06 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: V_TWIN
I CAN’T READ!!! CALL ME!?!?!?
;)
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posted on
06/05/2015 12:07:35 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
(congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
To: tumblindice
WHOA!!! FLASH FOR THE PAST iirc...
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posted on
06/05/2015 12:08:31 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
(congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
To: massmike
Not only that, but if you rearrange the letters on “Ginger Ale” you get a racial slur Ale. Good God, racism! It’s everywhere.
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posted on
06/05/2015 12:24:19 PM PDT
by
DPMD
To: DPMD
If they REALLY want to be offended they should take a trip to the Philippines:
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posted on
06/05/2015 12:40:42 PM PDT
by
massmike
(US has tightened sanctions on Christian business owners and relaxed sanctions on Iran getting a nuke)
To: rlmorel
Then there was the despondent dyslexic who threw himself behind a bus...
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posted on
06/05/2015 1:18:16 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(My New Year resolution? 1920x1080 as always.)
To: massmike
Used to visit Moorpark. No one complains about the name.
To: the_daug
Ziggin’ Zaggin’....thought it was a a rolling paper ad;-)
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posted on
06/05/2015 3:10:20 PM PDT
by
SgtBob
(Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
To: massmike
To: mabarker1
90% of the chickenheads can't read forward... and they are whining about BACKWARDS???
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posted on
06/05/2015 3:42:56 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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