UK city council cracking down on rude/suggestive road names
The Lewes District Council in East Sussex, England, has just banned whores in their district, although they don't seem to mind seeing jugs every now and then. Actually they decided to ban Hoare Road because of the potential homonymic mixup with ladies of the night, but felt that Juggs Road was okay. In an effort to clean up the smut all around them, the Council has just enacted a measure to ban suggestive, rude or just unpleasant road names from the map. Among the banned names are Gasworks Road, Tip House and Coalpit Lane, all of which were deemed 'aesthetically unsuitable,' as well as 'names capable of deliberate misinterpretation,' like the aforementioned Hoare Road and Typple Avenue, Quare Street and Corfe Close. Juggs Road and Cockshut Road will inexplicably remain.Check out more in the gallery below.
Gallery: Street Signs
[Source: WhatCar? | Images: Jalopnik]
_opt_thumbnail.jpg)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Tourian 9:21AM (1/07/2009)
The world is becoming and dumber and dumber place by the second. Who's the raging retrograde running the world?
Reply
DG 9:21AM (1/07/2009)
Not exactly a constructive use of public funds.
Reply
moyoi 10:22AM (1/07/2009)
No, no its not.
martin 9:23AM (1/07/2009)
council not counsel.. two different things
Reply
Serge 9:29AM (1/07/2009)
East Sussex is not suggestive?
Reply
Sean Flanagan 9:33AM (1/07/2009)
From now on we shall know it as East Susabstinence.
Serge 9:49AM (1/07/2009)
I guess they had to after having conversations like this:
Grandma: Kiera, how was your time in Sussex?
Dorothy: It was rather nice... I most enjoyed it next to Juggs Rd.
Grandma: Good... I remember my days on Hoare Rd. Ahhhh... those were good times.
Dorothy: Does Hoare go straight into Cockshut?
Gradma: That particular intersection was the most enjoyable. Dorothy, you have to go there at one point... I know you'll love it!
rar 10:25AM (1/07/2009)
What do you do in this case? This is the cross roads every man must face.
http://www.allfunnypictures.com/pages/banger.htm
Avinash machado 9:29AM (1/07/2009)
Political Correctness can be taken to extremes at times.
Reply
Epyx 11:05AM (1/07/2009)
...er at all times.
psijas73 9:31AM (1/07/2009)
Hoare Road & Gasworks Road: You will be missed...
Reply
Sean Flanagan 9:31AM (1/07/2009)
I know we in the US are not in a particularly good place to comment, but what the hell is happening in the UK? I see stories like this on a regular basis, and inevitably they are from the UK. It boggles the mind that people would put this much effort into "protecting" everyone else from what they deem offensive or inappropriate.
Reply
Ben 9:40AM (1/07/2009)
It seems the British Gov. is evolving to become their own language police.
Reply
Geekengineer 9:51AM (1/07/2009)
Ingsoc and Newspeak, on the way...
Serge 10:06AM (1/07/2009)
I wonder if they'll ban flights to Bangkok?
Reply
dave 10:09AM (1/07/2009)
OK - so in a country/region where everybody sleeps with everybody; they change road names for purities sake.
Reply
Smegley 10:15AM (1/07/2009)
Londonderry sounds a lot like Dingleberry to me.
Reply
C Smith 10:31AM (1/07/2009)
'Juggs' means nothing in England, and the rest cause no concern to normal people. In similar vein, teachers aren't allowed to mark children's work with red ink now in case it upsets the little darlings. This country is getting madder by the day.
Reply
Oli 12:22PM (1/07/2009)
Jugs means boobs!
Colin Smith 2:25PM (1/07/2009)
I know what Juggs means: I meant that generally it isn't understood here. Rather like 'knock up', which means different things in the two countries.