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Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay

Posted by samzenpus on from the welcom-to-hell-michigan dept.

maclizard writes "The town's name is real. But when Josh Moore tried to tell Seattle-based Microsoft and the enforcement team at Xbox Live that Fort Gay was a real place, they wouldn't take his word for it. Or Google it. Or check the US Postal Service website for a ZIP code. I personally feel for those of you from Big Bone Lick, KY."

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  1. Someone on XBL try this... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    "Mais oui! The name of my village in France is indeed Goatse! We even have a... how you say... website!"

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    1. Re:Someone on XBL try this... by Niris · · Score: 5, Informative

      For those with less-than cast iron stomachs, that site is NSFW and _is_ goatse.

  2. Summary... by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 5, Informative

    The summary stops a bit short... they already unsuspended him, the article even says so at the end.

  3. Just to get it out of the way... by tool462 · · Score: 5, Informative

    499 Odd City names: http://www.keepersoflists.org/index.php?lid=3864

    Now I've just rendered every post after mine redundant. Have at it, mods.

  4. Oops by Kohath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft sure pulled a boner this time.

  5. Double Meanings by daveywest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Almost as good as when my local paper reported on the football matchup between Virgin Valley HS and Beaver High: "Virgin Pounds Beaver".

  6. Re:please change your sig by X0563511 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't care what your gender is or was, but this whole section below marks you strongly as a sexist.

    Of course, these same people couldn't do what we have to do to be ourselves - not for one day, never mind for a lifetime. Could you picture one of them even pretending to have "the talk" with one of their friends? Heck no! They'd volunteer to have their appendix removed without anesthesia first. That's "manly". Same as not asking for directions, leaving their dirty clothes on the floor, and not changing the toilet paper roll when they finish it - or leaving half a square neatly balanced on the roll so they can say they didn't "really" finish it. Come on you guys reading this, fess up, you do this all the time, and it bugs us that you think we're that stupid. It's 3-ply paper, and you leave a one-ply half square sitting there like an orphan, and you're hoping that when we open the door the draft won't blow away your sorry "excuse" for not changing it. You dissect the toilet paper, and then walk around all day making skid marks in your formerly-tidy-whiteys, rather than change the stupid roll of toilet paper.

    None of those things are inherently male. They are all either signs of not giving a shit, or insecurity. I've know plenty of women that do the same thing.

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