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Apparantly hurricane names are too "Caucasian"

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Originally posted by: Jeff7
Thank goodness there's nothing important for them to be working on.


Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
They can name them after fish, Greek gods or different types of grass for all I care. Honestly, who gives a fuck? Don't they have anything better to do in Congress?
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Or how about about "Hurricane 1" and "Hurricane 2?" Nah, that'd be pandering to mathematicians, can't do that.
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Let's just name them all Ted.
 
you know, i always thought my dad was nuts and anti-social for wanting to live in the middle of nowhere, away from everyone, but now i realize he's pretty smart.
 
Originally posted by: dethman
Originally posted by: teatime0315
"Wordup, Muthas! Herr-i-cane Chamiqua be headin' fo' Galveston like Leroy on a crotch rocket! Bitch be a category fo'! So, turn off dem chitlin's, grab yo' chirren, leave yo crib, and head fo' de nearest FEMA office fo yo FREE shit!" <- LMAO!
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:thumbsup:

though i don't know how you turn off a chitlin? 🙂
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I'm not even sure I know what a chitlin is...
 
Originally posted by: Kadarin
Originally posted by: dethman
Originally posted by: teatime0315
"Wordup, Muthas! Herr-i-cane Chamiqua be headin' fo' Galveston like Leroy on a crotch rocket! Bitch be a category fo'! So, turn off dem chitlin's, grab yo' chirren, leave yo crib, and head fo' de nearest FEMA office fo yo FREE shit!" <- LMAO!
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:thumbsup:

though i don't know how you turn off a chitlin? 🙂
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I'm not even sure I know what a chitlin is...
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You don't want to know.
 
So has anyone else pointed out the irony of a black congresswoman named SHIELA thinking that hurricane sound too white?

If there was a hurricane Shiela this year she'd probably cry about that too... :disgust:
 
Originally posted by: pyonir
Doesn't this come up at least once a year...every year? (not on AT, i mean in the "news")

I know i've seen a story on it in the past.
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I know I've seen this discussed, and I would be surprised if I didn't first hear about it on ATOT. Oldsmoboat's 2nd law applies.
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: tenshodo13
I object. She is obviously being racist against Asians.

We need Hurricanes with names that we can't pronounce.
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Hullicanes?
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I lulz'd.

But seriously, who the fuck cares what they're named? Maybe we should consider the race most represented in a region where a hurricane hits, and name it accordingly. That way, most people could feel comfortable with a hurricane that represented them... before it destroyed everything they possessed.
 
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
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Now I've heard it all
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i think we should name hurricanes after rocks. i mean, look at the list we could work off of:

agglomerate
albite granite
algal limestone
alkali feldspar granite
alkali feldspar rhyolite
alnoite
andesite
anorthosite
aplite
arenite
argillite
arkose
basalt
basaltic agglomerate
basaltic andesite
basanite
biocarbonate
biomicrite
biosparite
boninite
boulder
boundstone
breccia
broken formation
camptonite
carbonaceous shale
carbonate rock
carbonatite
cataclasite
chalk
charnockite
chert
chipwacke
clay
claystone
clinopyroxenite
coal
conglomerate
coquina
dacite
diamictite
diatomite
diorite
dolerite
dolomitic limestone
dolostone
dunite
dust
epiclastic
evaporite
fanglomerate
fenite
flint
gabbro
gabbronorite
gneiss
gold
grainstone
granite
granitoid
granodiorite
granulite
grapestone
gravel
greensand
greenschist
greywacke
grit
guano
harzburgite
hawaiite
hornblende gabbro
hornblendite
hornfels
ignimbrite
ironstone
kaiwekite
keratophyre
kerzantite
kimberlite
komatiite
lamproite
lamprophyre
lapilli tuff
leaf beds
lherzolite
lignite
limburgite
limestone
loam
loess
marble
marl
melange
melilitite
metachert
metaconglomerate
metapelite
metasandstone
metavolcanics
micrite
microcrystalline limestone
migmatite
minette
monchiquite
monzodiorite
monzonite
mud
mudstone
mylonite
nepheline syenite
norite
obsidian
oil shale
olivine basalt
olivine nephelinite
oolitic limestone
ooze
ophiolite
orthopyroxenite
peat
pebble
pelite
peralkaline rhyolite
peridotite
peridotite
phonolite
phosporite
phyllite
picrite
polzenite
porphyry
psammite
pyroclastics
pyroxenite
quartz diorite
quartz syenite
quartzite
rhyodacite
rhyolite
rodingite
sand
sandstone
sannaite
schist
scoria
semischist
shale
shell beds
shingle
silt
siltstone
skarn
slate
spessartite
spilite
syenite
syenogranite
tephra
till
tillite
tinguaite
tonalite
trachyandesite
trachybasalt
trachyte
trachytic breccia
travertine
troctolite
trondhjemite
tuff
turbidite
unknown
vitric tuff
vogesite
volcanic boulders
volcanic breccia
volcanic conglomerate
volcanic sandstone
websterite
wehrlite
 
Originally posted by: Sqube
But seriously, who the fuck cares what they're named? Maybe we should consider the race most represented in a region where a hurricane hits, and name it accordingly.
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That's what the article in the OP is about, DUH!😉

My contribution:
#796356 +(3815)- [X]

<MftS> Who the fuck is the one naming hurricanes?
<MftS> They somehow manage to give them the least threatening names ever.
<MftS> If I turned on the news and heard that Hurricane Erin was coming I'd think to myself, "Erin? I could take that slut."
<MftS> If I turned on the news and heard that Hurricane Dicksmasher was approaching, I'd grab all the money in the house, shove it in my pockets, and get the fuck out of there.
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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Text

Now I've heard it all
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i think we should name hurricanes after rocks. i mean, look at the list we could work off of:

<stuff>
unknown
vitric tuff
vogesite
volcanic boulders
volcanic breccia
volcanic conglomerate
volcanic sandstone
websterite
wehrlite
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So where do I go to get a chunk of "unknown"?
 
Originally posted by: Kadarin
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Text

Now I've heard it all
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i think we should name hurricanes after rocks. i mean, look at the list we could work off of:

<stuff>
unknown
vitric tuff
vogesite
volcanic boulders
volcanic breccia
volcanic conglomerate
volcanic sandstone
websterite
wehrlite
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So where do I go to get a chunk of "unknown"?
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Franklin, NJ might be a good place to start looking...
 
i, for one, can't wait for hurricane Jerome; hurricane Juanita, and hurricane Wong.
let everyone's race have a chance to wreck havoc!
 
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