Snowy560

Well is it ... or isn't it?!

Man's surname deemed 'too offensive' for car number plate - BBC News

Jerseygirl

Saw one today in Toronto LUVSEXY. Maybe that would also have been offensive if it had no Y at the end.

Danny B

I blame Donald bloody Trump for that.

Former Lancastrian

The fact that he has had that plate and used it for the last 25 years on his vehicles just show how much PC is being used and any snowflake can now make a complaint and that common sense is out of the window.

Perhaps a letter to the snowflake from the NS MOT could have been worded

Thank you for your concern in this matter. Our records indicate that this plate has been registered for the past 25 years and the owner of this plate does indeed have the surname GRABHER. We find this meets the criteria for this type of plate and no further action will be required.

macadian

Canada... Politically Correct to the point of absurdity!

DandNHill

Maybe it has suddenly become a problem since that judge acquitted that taxi driver accused of rape?

magnumpi

ONE complaint and it's banned. Crazy !!!

scrubbedexpat133

Its the Maritimes.....there isn't much to do...

Snowy560

I note from the Licence plate that NS is "Canada's Ocean Playground".

Paul_Shepherd

How dare you FL!!

I mean compose a hypothetical reply of what should have been said to the complainer! Its waaaaay too full of common sense and anti snowflake! Thats just not on! Dont do it again!


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BristolUK

An excellent point.

Plus it's been highlighted by a certain President of the USA and maybe it demonstrates a certain attitude that might be better left in the past.

Unfortunate that it's the guy's name but would it be allowed for someone called Phucker?

Almost Canadian

A judge doesn't believe that the crown has met the burden of proof in a totally unrelated case and that justifies some bureaucrat making a nonsense decision? If it wasn't an issue previously, why is it an issue now?

magnumpi

Becuse 1 person complained. That's why.

dbd33

Because previously "grab" wasn't in common use as a term for sexual assault, previously "grab" was used in a wide range of contexts and it would not have been reasonable to assume any one of them. Now it has a specific meaning and in conjunction with the female pronoun connotes digital assault; an interpretation of the plate which would have been far fetched five years ago but one which every schoolboy will make now.

The meaning of language changes so the inoffensive yesterday, "paki" for example, is offensive today. That much is clear from the fashionable usage of "snowflake" above.

If I were Mr. Grabher I'd change my name, perhaps to Clinton.

BristolUK

Because previously we didn't have a president talking about grabbing women by the pussy and in the province concerned a taxi driver having sex with a passenger too drunk to consent (and he had done it previously too ).

I would have thought you'd have been aware of this and that you might make the potential association already referred to.

One possibility was already mentioned and I added another possible reason. It seems very odd to ask why it's an issue now when two well publicised news stories have just been suggested as potential reasons for it being an issue now.

As DBD says, language use changes and the use of it sometimes changes from accepted to unacceptable.

In the UK we dropped 'handicapped' long ago and it's still used in Canada.

I don't remember when it changed but I certainly don't recall people asking why isn't it okay anymore.