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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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To: artichokegrower
They are Access Holes. Maybe they should just call them A-Holes.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:17:43 PM PDT
by
wattsgnu
To: null and void
There’s one from South Bend who gets around a lot.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:19:19 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: artichokegrower
No Manholes, no woman holes but innumerable assholes. From the board room to the feces laden streets.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:19:59 PM PDT
by
kublia khan
(Absolute war brings total victory)
To: artichokegrower
I’ve always called them personhole covers.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:20:34 PM PDT
by
animal172
(Call me simply deplorable.)
To: artichokegrower
Will there be prosecutions for failing to use the new term?
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:21:48 PM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: artichokegrower
Should have just renamed them “Womanholes.”
To: artichokegrower
And ‘HIStory’ shall now be called ‘OURstory’.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:22:16 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: artichokegrower
To: artichokegrower
Will Glory Holes still be called Glory Holes in San Francisco restrooms?
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:22:48 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: artichokegrower
This is an impotent day in history for Berserkely.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:23:11 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: null and void
“Butt there are still manholes in San Fransiscos Castro district...
“
Those are fruit bars.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:23:16 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: MDLION
I think they reject being referred to as humans. I concur that they should indeed reject that label as well.
To: artichokegrower
“At a Tuesday night city council meeting...”
Oh, ho ho ho...the silly geese. Execute them.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:25:22 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: artichokegrower
‘maintenance holes’?
i think the jokes just write themselves ...
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:25:41 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: artichokegrower
I’m guessing fags use the same term.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:26:18 PM PDT
by
maddog55
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:26:29 PM PDT
by
KSCITYBOY
(The media is corrupt)
To: artichokegrower
manholes was too sexually stimulating a title
(considering this is in Bezerkeley in the San Fransicko Bay Area)
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:27:27 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: artichokegrower
I prefer “transgender” holes...
To: artichokegrower
There are a few neighborhoods here in Denver that have electricity only - no natural gas. In winter those people pay two or three times as much for utilities as people who have natural gas. Nobody wants to buy or rent those houses.
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:29:04 PM PDT
by
POWG
To: MDLION
They should be called HumanPersonKindLGBTQ? holes.
OOPS
huMAN
perSON
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posted on
07/17/2019 4:29:53 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(/S liberally (oops) applied to all posts.)
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