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Flat White

About those person holes…

22 July 2019

12:29 PM

22 July 2019

12:29 PM

You would have read of another triumph of human progress from the city that has been a pioneer for so long:

A US city has voted to ban a list of common words like “manhole” in a move opponents say is political correctness gone mad.

Berkeley City Council voted in favour of the controversial ban during a council meeting this week.

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