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Manholes in Berkeley will now be called 'maintenance holes'
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| July 17, 2019
| Filipa Ioannou
Posted on 07/17/2019 4:04:57 PM PDT by artichokegrower
At a Tuesday night city council meeting, Berkeley became the first city in America to ban the use of natural gas piping in new construction. But that was not the only utility-related issue they saw fit to attend to. No, there was another matter on deck: Eliminating the gendered connotations of words like "manhole" in the city municipal code.
No longer will the streets of fair Berkeley be dotted with manholes, nary a womanhole or nonbinaryhole in sight. With Tuesday night's vote, they have all been transmuted into "maintenance holes," that highest, hardest glass manhole-cover finally shattered.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: berkeley; california; localnews; manholes; prideholes
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Glad that got that corrected. Been bothering me for years.
To: artichokegrower
Butt there are still manholes in San Fransisco’s Castro district...
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:06:38 PM PDT
by
null and void
(The Left isn't banning "Hate Speech", they are banning speech they hate. BIG difference.)
To: null and void
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:07:46 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: artichokegrower
Why not call them Buttigieg passage ways?
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:07:46 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: artichokegrower
“Maint Holes” for short. And it’s a short I and the T is silent.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:08:46 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
To: artichokegrower; null and void
[ Manholes in Berkeley will now be called ‘maintenance holes’ ]
Dear heavens we FINALLY got that corrected!!! Praise AllahOmar!!
Reminds me, I need to pick up some 80/20 ground beef and a can of “MaintenanceWich” for dinner.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:08:58 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: artichokegrower
“Been bothering me for years.”
Me, too. I suffered a triggering event every time I saw one of those. I almost couldn’t go into Berkeley because of that. I needed to retreat to my safe space.
To: artichokegrower
You know where you can stick that.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:09:35 PM PDT
by
fruser1
To: artichokegrower
They should be called HumanPersonKindLGBTQ? holes.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:09:39 PM PDT
by
MDLION
(J"Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
To: artichokegrower
Could just call them sh1tholes.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:09:44 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: null and void
Some men have vaginas in Berkeley.
It was causing even more confusion.
Was that a pass, or was it just a remark about utility maintenance?
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:10:10 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: Secret Agent Man
Do they still set up road signs which say men at work, or men working? Or are those offensive as well?
To: artichokegrower
How’s the homeless situation there?
They must’ve solved that problem
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:12:46 PM PDT
by
Skywise
To: artichokegrower
Glory to the Berkeley ‘holes.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:13:15 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
To: artichokegrower
Do they even know how to spell the word maintenance in Berkeley?
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:13:16 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:13:17 PM PDT
by
DivineMomentsOfTruth
("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
To: artichokegrower
I’ll just call ‘em “front holes”.
To: artichokegrower
Here's a dirty secret: according to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, maintenance and installation jobs are ridiculously skewed towards men, like 97% across the board. I'm talking construction, HVAC techs, mechanics, utility workers, etc. If men disappeared all of our infrastructure would grind to a halt really quickly.
But hey, let's pretend that it's just as likely a woman will be going down into the underground through a manhole. Sure, why not? It's empowering to pretend.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:16:09 PM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: artichokegrower
This is so funny I don’t even need to make up a smart remark about it.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:17:17 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(The internet has driven the world mad.)
To: artichokegrower
Did anyone else catch that they appear to have outlawed natural gas in new construction?
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:17:22 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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