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Edited by Recon Number 54: 3/15/2013 4:33:13 PM
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PC Pickle producer procures preferable prefix for product. Proper?

[url=http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/02/21/pickle-protest?cmpid=tp-ad-outbrain-general]Pickle Company to Distraught Mom: Yes, We’ll Change Our Name[/url] Someone doesn't like the word "midget" and the pickle company decided to be the bigger man about it. It's a small story I know. But if there is/was a word that you found offensive and saw it on a grocer's shelf.... Would YOU "do something about it"?

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  • [url=https://www.google.com/search?q=midget+pickles&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=cldDUb3CDIaD2QW5_ICYCg&biw=1280&bih=901&sei=0ldDUayGEeTf2QWn6IHAAg]She better start writing a lot more letters.[/url]

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  • Edited by M37h3w3: 3/15/2013 5:06:17 PM
    Reads title. Goddamit Recon. OT: I like going to sporting good stores and if they ask for price checks over the PA system I then ask for a price check on those badminton birdies. Their technical name is shuttlecocks. I specifically ask them to say shuttlecocks.

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    • I personally don't care enough to go making a fuss about it. Really, though... It was a pretty poor choice in names.

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    • ^Better question is why this hasn't been deemed offensive by anyone. OP: I can understand why the mother was offeneded

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    • I, for one, will never understand how the term "dwarf" came to be the accepted PC term (or at least one of them) while "midget" is considered offensive.

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    • Edited by Dustin: 3/15/2013 4:50:32 PM
      Recon Number 54 5 + 4 = 9 N_U_M_B_E_R_ = 6 letters Recon_6_9 Recon 69 I find your username sexually offensive and radical. I demand you change it at once, and until that demand is met, you will be labeled as a terrorist organization and deep sanctions will be implemented ultimately isolating you from the rest of the globe as your view of the world will dim around you.

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      • I'm never sure what word "those people" like to be referred to. Little people? Midgets? Dwarfs? "Little guy"? Though, the use of any of those as the name of a product would be unsettling for those people; I totally understand where they're coming from.

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        • -blam!- you recon that title hurt

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