TOTALLY GEEKED!

Ohfour wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Officials in North Carolina's hospitality industry say the state's new law affecting transgender people is damaging the state's tourism business, as both individuals and large groups cancel trips in protest over the legislation widely condemned for eroding LGBT rights.
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At this point, the visitors authority estimates that damage could amount to approximately $84 million US in the city of Charlotte alone, based on potentially lost spending from 36 events whose organizers have expressed concern about the law.
The largest of those at-risk events, said Gina Sheridan, chief marketing and communications officer for the visitors authority, is the 2017 NBA all-star game. NBA commissioner Adam Silver has publicly called on North Carolina to change the law if it wants the event to stay in Charlotte next February.

www.cbc.ca/news/business/north-carolina-lgbt-house-bill-2-1.3553794

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So Flan heard incorrectly?  Imagine that... 

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I don't speak for Flan. Flan speaks for Flan. 

Ohfour wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Officials in North Carolina's hospitality industry say the state's new law affecting transgender people is damaging the state's tourism business, as both individuals and large groups cancel trips in protest over the legislation widely condemned for eroding LGBT rights.
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At this point, the visitors authority estimates that damage could amount to approximately $84 million US in the city of Charlotte alone, based on potentially lost spending from 36 events whose organizers have expressed concern about the law.
The largest of those at-risk events, said Gina Sheridan, chief marketing and communications officer for the visitors authority, is the 2017 NBA all-star game. NBA commissioner Adam Silver has publicly called on North Carolina to change the law if it wants the event to stay in Charlotte next February.

www.cbc.ca/news/business/north-carolina-lgbt-house-bill-2-1.3553794

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So Flan heard incorrectly?  Imagine that... 

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I don't speak for Flan. Flan speaks for Flan. 

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Except when she's wrong, and then she hides...or calls it a trap... 

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So take it up with her, not me.

In any case "who cares what flan thinks"? Remember? 

-- Edited by weltschmerz on Wednesday 27th of April 2016 03:45:09 PM

flan327 wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Officials in North Carolina's hospitality industry say the state's new law affecting transgender people is damaging the state's tourism business, as both individuals and large groups cancel trips in protest over the legislation widely condemned for eroding LGBT rights.
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At this point, the visitors authority estimates that damage could amount to approximately $84 million US in the city of Charlotte alone, based on potentially lost spending from 36 events whose organizers have expressed concern about the law.
The largest of those at-risk events, said Gina Sheridan, chief marketing and communications officer for the visitors authority, is the 2017 NBA all-star game. NBA commissioner Adam Silver has publicly called on North Carolina to change the law if it wants the event to stay in Charlotte next February.

www.cbc.ca/news/business/north-carolina-lgbt-house-bill-2-1.3553794

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So Flan heard incorrectly?  Imagine that... 

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I don't speak for Flan. Flan speaks for Flan. 

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Except when she's wrong, and then she hides...or calls it a trap... 

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So take it up with her, not me.

In any case "who cares what flan thinks"? Remember? 

-- Edited by weltschmerz on Wednesday 27th of April 2016 03:45:09 PM

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 Yes, I have a life = "hiding."

The day I hide from you...

flan

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So are you going to answer the question or not? 

flan327 wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Officials in North Carolina's hospitality industry say the state's new law affecting transgender people is damaging the state's tourism business, as both individuals and large groups cancel trips in protest over the legislation widely condemned for eroding LGBT rights.
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At this point, the visitors authority estimates that damage could amount to approximately $84 million US in the city of Charlotte alone, based on potentially lost spending from 36 events whose organizers have expressed concern about the law.
The largest of those at-risk events, said Gina Sheridan, chief marketing and communications officer for the visitors authority, is the 2017 NBA all-star game. NBA commissioner Adam Silver has publicly called on North Carolina to change the law if it wants the event to stay in Charlotte next February.

www.cbc.ca/news/business/north-carolina-lgbt-house-bill-2-1.3553794

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So Flan heard incorrectly?  Imagine that... 

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 Do you even READ? The news story I heard was talking about TARGET stores being hurt. This is the OPPOSITE.

flan

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Now now...that is NOT what you said:

 

DH usually watches the CBS morning news. They had a report on Target & the woman executive (not from Target, one of their go-to business people) said that an economic boycott has not worked since the 60's.

Whatever business Target loses will be balanced by those who support them...just like Chik-Fil-A. 

I'm going to shop at Target tomorrow.

flan

flan327 wrote:

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Lawyerlady wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Officials in North Carolina's hospitality industry say the state's new law affecting transgender people is damaging the state's tourism business, as both individuals and large groups cancel trips in protest over the legislation widely condemned for eroding LGBT rights.
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At this point, the visitors authority estimates that damage could amount to approximately $84 million US in the city of Charlotte alone, based on potentially lost spending from 36 events whose organizers have expressed concern about the law.
The largest of those at-risk events, said Gina Sheridan, chief marketing and communications officer for the visitors authority, is the 2017 NBA all-star game. NBA commissioner Adam Silver has publicly called on North Carolina to change the law if it wants the event to stay in Charlotte next February.

www.cbc.ca/news/business/north-carolina-lgbt-house-bill-2-1.3553794

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So Flan heard incorrectly?  Imagine that... 

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 Do you even READ? The news story I heard was talking about TARGET stores being hurt. This is the OPPOSITE.

flan

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 Ummm, you don't get to apply such statements just to what you WANT.  LOL.

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 I'll just email the speaker and ask her to clarify.

flan

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Hey, you're the one that posted it.  I took you at your word.   Either an economic boycott will not hurt ("hasn't since the 60s"), or it will hurt (NC).  Which is it?

flan327 wrote:

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Oh, now THAT is rich!

YOU took me at my word...

flan

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Yeah, I probably shouldn't have done that huh? 

Either an economic boycott will not hurt ("hasn't since the 60s"), or it will hurt (NC). Which is it?
- Ohfour

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Same question to you.

Wasn't it in the Springsteen thread that you said they won't hurt, because it will just all blow over in a couple of months? So, which is it? Will a boycott work or won't it?


Personally, I don't think a boycott will hurt in the long run for either Target OR North Carolina. That doesn't mean it's bad or wrong to stand up for what you believe in though.

flan327 wrote:

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lilyofcourse wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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Oh, now THAT is rich!

YOU took me at my word...

flan

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 Statement of the millenia.

Truer words were never spoken.

NEVER take Flan at her word.

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 It depends who I'm talking to, Dearie.

And millenia is the plural of millenium.

flan

 

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 Exactly why it fits.

What try? You admitted you can't be trusted. That your word means nothing.

I agree.

And the boycott has over 900,000 signatures.

apple wrote:

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I have never seen a boycott work. Probably because they haven't really since the civil rights era.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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 I agree.  

 

Of course, a lot will depend on how much the boycotting people actually shopped at Target before.  It's easy to boycott a place that you never go to.  Boycotting Target will require a big change in my routine. 

flan327 wrote:

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lilyofcourse wrote:

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What try? You admitted you can't be trusted. That your word means nothing.

I agree.

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 I told you what you wanted to hear.

(Inside joke...)

flan

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 Yeah, riiight...

Only you were not responding to me.

-- Edited by lilyofcourse on Thursday 28th of April 2016 06:30:29 PM

Have the pervert claiming to be a transgender looking under the stall door at your daughter. Which of those scenarios has more potential for harm? Especially because your daughter would never look under the stall door in the first place.

WYSIWYG wrote:

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Ohfour?

Did you miss my question to you?

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 Well, that's not possible. I'm the only poster who never ever ever answers questions around here.

flan

But, of course Apple you are missing the point. Nobody is afraid of Caitlyn Jenner or the transgendered. The issue isn't them pooping on the toilet but the opportunity it gives for the nefarious to use this as an excuse to be somewhere they don't belong. But, whatever, deflect, deflect, deflect.

Mary Zombie wrote:

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Gaga. It's driving me crazy that some can't ask to grasp the issue. Oy

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 Who are we supposed to ask?

flan

Typo. Got it.

flan

Mary Zombie wrote:

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One more time. The transgendered are not the problem. It is the perverts claiming to be transgendered I order to get access to the ladies room.
Get it?
Good gravy

-- Edited by Mary Zombie on Friday 29th of April 2016 05:17:29 PM

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 The "problem" is that Republican State officials passed a law saying transgenders had to use the washroom that aligns with the sex listed on their birth certificate.

That is what started this whole "problem".