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Stormbringer wrote:Why can't California just hurry up and drop into the ocean?
Southern California... there are too many people on SD.net that are from Northern California.
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Beowulf wrote:Southern California... there are too many people on SD.net that are from Northern California.
Me, Crayz9000, Mith (I think), trailerparkjawa, and maybe a few more are from SoCal I think.
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Shinova wrote:
Beowulf wrote:Southern California... there are too many people on SD.net that are from Northern California.
Me, Crayz9000, Mith (I think), trailerparkjawa, and maybe a few more are from SoCal I think.
TPJ is from the area typically considered to be northern. It isn't exactly divided in half between northern and southern.
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Back on topic, this guy is right.
Hasn't this obsession with sanitizing speech become a total farce? What's next? Will we not be able to have male and female ends on our 1/4" audio cable for fear of offending the transgendered? How the hell am I supposed to shop for wires now?
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Somebody said that people won't be happy until we replace every single noun, adjective and verb by the same gender-neutral, non-offensive word. Maybe the Smurfs were the most politically correct guys in the world?
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Not to mention we sticks dwellers in the mountains kinda find being lumped in with LA and Frisco....
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Slartibartfast wrote:Somebody said that people won't be happy until we replace every single noun, adjective and verb by the same gender-neutral, non-offensive word. Maybe the Smurfs were the most politically correct guys in the world?
You forget that Smurfette was known only for femality. We cannot have this out there influencing blah blah blah.
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Only in LA :roll:

Of all the stupid idiotic moronic things to conplain about :shock:

I mean sit the IDIOT down and explain it has nothing to do with race or anything else. Why do we never see Jew making this kind of complaint?
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Gandalf wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:Somebody said that people won't be happy until we replace every single noun, adjective and verb by the same gender-neutral, non-offensive word. Maybe the Smurfs were the most politically correct guys in the world?
You forget that Smurfette was known only for femality. We cannot have this out there influencing blah blah blah.
Remember that the Smurfette was a foreigner, a corrupting influence amongs the true and pure Smurfs :)
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Slartibartfast wrote:
Gandalf wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:Somebody said that people won't be happy until we replace every single noun, adjective and verb by the same gender-neutral, non-offensive word. Maybe the Smurfs were the most politically correct guys in the world?
You forget that Smurfette was known only for femality. We cannot have this out there influencing blah blah blah.
Remember that the Smurfette was a foreigner, a corrupting influence amongs the true and pure Smurfs :)
And it shows ageist policies in that Papa Smurf was the unquestioned leader.
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