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English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« on: January 05, 2009, 05:09:02 PM »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1105056/Council-bans-rude-street-names-offend.html

Looks like there's more PC run amok across the pond! Someone intentionally naming a street after a vulgarity or profanity would be one thing, this is another entirely.
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 05:36:47 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 05:39:58 PM »
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2009, 05:40:37 PM »
Fixed.
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2009, 06:03:08 PM »
"Spotted Dick". That is all.
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2009, 06:29:41 PM »
This thread is useless with out a list.....  =D
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2009, 06:48:07 PM »
Quote from: seeker_two on January 05, 2009, 06:29:41 PM
This thread is useless with out a list.....  =D

Well, here you are:

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They say that 'aesthetically unsuitable' names, such as Gaswork Road, Tip House and Coalpit Lane, should be avoided.

Also banned are 'names capable of deliberate misinterpretation like Hoare Road, Typple Avenue, Quare Street, Corfe Close (4 Corfe Close) etc'.

It adds: 'Street names which could give offence are not used, nor are names which encourage defacing name plates.'

Under the scheme, Lewes's present day Juggs Road and Cockshut Road may have been rejected.

Former councillor Rachel Powell, of Cockshut Road, said: 'I would hate for the name to change. It has some history. I can see with political correctness why the council would not want these sort of names but it is a pity.'

The cabinet is expected to agree on the policy tomorrow.

Last August, Reading Council chiefs banned a road from being called Fighting Cocks.
The town - where cock fights regularly took place in the 1800s - already has a pub called


Hundreds of years of local history go down the PC tubes because some wanker does not know why the place name came to be, and worse yet does not care.

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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2009, 07:01:52 PM »
Banning "dirty" names has nothing to do with Political Correctness, unless it's Niggard Lane, Midget Road, Girlsarebadatmath Avenue, etc. 
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2009, 07:51:34 PM »
Quote from: Mr. Tactical pants on January 05, 2009, 07:01:52 PM
Banning "dirty" names has nothing to do with Political Correctness, unless it's Niggard Lane, Midget Road, Girlsarebadatmath Avenue, etc. 

It's the exact same mindset responsible for it though, when the names are like those in the article. vaskidmark is right that they're throwing away years of history because some noodleheads can't stop giggling when they see Hoare or Juggs road.
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2009, 07:53:02 PM »
They're not the first. In some place I lived in California, and I don't remember where, someone who lived on South "S" Street wanted the name changed. Why? She didn't like the post office's abbreviation. She didn't want to live on a Nazi street: S S St.
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2009, 10:18:46 PM »
Quote from: Marnoot on January 05, 2009, 07:51:34 PM
It's the exact same mindset responsible for it though, when the names are like those in the article. vaskidmark is right that they're throwing away years of history because some noodleheads can't stop giggling when they see Hoare or Juggs road.

I guess so.  I'm just tired of the words "political correctness" being thrown around until the term is meaningless, and no one knows what it means anymore.  It's got so, if you object to obvious racial slurs, you're being PC.   ;/

But I thought the article said it only affected new names, not names with "years of history." 

What's the deal with Cockshut lane, though?  Unless something's lost in translation, that is a real stretch.  It's about as annoying as those simpletons who refuse to read "ass" aloud, even if it's in the King James Bible, and it refers to a donkey. 
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2009, 11:10:56 PM »
Quote from: Mr. Tactical pants on January 05, 2009, 10:18:46 PM
But I thought the article said it only affected new names, not names with "years of history." 

Ah, right you are.  -1 reading comprehension score for me.
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2009, 11:30:42 PM »
Seems like common sense to me to ensure that street names aren't dumb, vulgar, or insulting.
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2009, 11:45:28 PM »
this crap again?

sometimes I just wish someone would drop an ICBM on Airstrip one. :rolleyes:
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2009, 12:55:05 AM »
Quote from: Zed on January 05, 2009, 11:45:28 PM
this crap again?

sometimes I just wish someone would drop an ICBM on Airstrip one. :rolleyes:

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The whole shebang is a slippery slope. Where does it end? Do you know how many people find it offensive that women show their legs, and (God forbid) their cleavage?  I'm all about being respectful of people's cultures and histories, but it works both ways. If I go to your country and see something that is humorous or offensive to me, I take a step back and think about where I am - which isn't home. The whole thing is assinine. Get educated and open your friggin' mind for a change. All you damn liberals are always advertising how "accepting" you are. Really? Try actually giving it a shot for once.
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2009, 01:23:46 AM »
Quote from: myrockfight on January 06, 2009, 12:55:05 AM
The whole shebang is a slippery slope. Where does it end? Do you know how many people find it offensive that women show their legs, and (God forbid) their cleavage?  I'm all about being respectful of people's cultures and histories, but it works both ways. If I go to your country and see something that is humorous or offensive to me, I take a step back and think about where I am - which isn't home. The whole thing is assinine. Get educated and open your friggin' mind for a change. All you damn liberals are always advertising how "accepting" you are. Really? Try actually giving it a shot for once.
Didn't read the article, did you?

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This one ain't about culture shock.  It's about Brits not giving British roads names that might be offensive to British people.  Foreign cultures and outsiders play exactly zero part in this.

Tell me this:  If the people in a town want to make sure that their road names are clean and pleasing top themselves, then why shouldn't they be able to?
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Re: English Town Bans "Dirty" Street Names
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2009, 01:29:39 AM »
Quote from: myrockfight on January 06, 2009, 12:55:05 AM
Eh? Can someone clue me in on the Airstrip One references? Thanks mucho!


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