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Well I talked to Raleigh today and they shot me down in a blaze of glory. It really pisses me off with the PC police deemed a factory designation as inappropriate. Oh well. Now to figure out a new plate. Do you think " EFF K8 " would pass Any suggestions?
It might work if you convince them that EFF stands for 'Electronic Frontier Foundation' (https://www.eff.org).

On the other hand, if they read it as "F Kate" they may think you are making inappropriate use of the creative license embodied in your personalized plate.
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I tried to make my username FK8 on an online video game, and it rejected it for offensive language lol
 

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Well I talked to Raleigh today and they shot me down in a blaze of glory. It really pisses me off with the PC police deemed a factory designation as inappropriate. Oh well. Now to figure out a new plate. Do you think " EFF K8 " would pass Any suggestions?
Im still trying to turn in my NC plate "Type R" if you want to try for it. Shoot me your number in PM. Ill text you the moment they actual let me turn it in and you can try for it. Right now it hung up in plate transfer till it clears new car before they will let me turn it in.
 
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They don't care what it actually means, they care what it might be perceived to mean. They can't stop you from putting vulgarities all over your car on your own dime (great SCOTUS case on that), but they have a vested interest in keeping things inoffensive.

If it bothers you, move to a different state or unregister your car and have it be track only. Driving on public roads is a privilege, not a right.
I guess it does bother me. Evidently it bothered you by your response. I pay taxes to maintain my "privilege" on state roads.
 


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Giving it a second try for a new plate. I went with "5TH GENR" . I wonder what they can find as "poor taste" with that.
 

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Giving it a second try for a new plate. I went with "5TH GENR" . I wonder what they can find as "poor taste" with that.
Good luck getting your new plate this time! I was able to get mine although after looking at it from other people's point of view mine could have a different meaning than I intended.:dunno:

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Funny related thing happened to me for my jeep. I wanted it to look like this picture. It's a jeep and I'm an RN. Well, after paying for it I got the letter like 4 weeks later stating that it was inappropriate. At first I couldn't see the reason why. And also didn't understand why it allowed me to pay for it in the first place. I had shown my friend the picture and he said oh that could be interpreted as "Gee porn". Haha. So then I had to find something else available and had to wait another 8 weeks to get that one. Man they think of everything.



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I guess it does bother me. Evidently it bothered you by your response. I pay taxes to maintain my "privilege" on state roads.
The point he's making is that the DMV doesn't care that it's the chassis code, they care that they could potentially get a call from some pearl clutching old lady that was offended that they dared allow that through. They can't make exceptions because it being the car's chassis code is irrelevant to why they flagged it.

It may seem silly, but theose are the rules you get to play by if you want to register your car.
 

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The point he's making is that the DMV doesn't care that it's the chassis code, they care that they could potentially get a call from some pearl clutching old lady that was offended that they dared allow that through. They can't make exceptions because it being the car's chassis code is irrelevant to why they flagged it.

It may seem silly, but theose are the rules you get to play by if you want to register your car.
Then I was behind this car last week at a traffic light .....lol

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Funny related thing happened to me for my jeep. I wanted it to look like this picture. It's a jeep and I'm an RN. Well, after paying for it I got the letter like 4 weeks later stating that it was inappropriate. At first I couldn't see the reason why. And also didn't understand why it allowed me to pay for it in the first place. I had shown my friend the picture and he said oh that could be interpreted as "Gee porn". Haha. So then I had to find something else available and had to wait another 8 weeks to get that one. Man they think of everything.



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for some reason I found this to be hilarious, and once you notice it, you cannot stop noticing it. I'm sorry that you couldn't get it. But, it sure is funny.
 
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Funny related thing happened to me for my jeep. I wanted it to look like this picture. It's a jeep and I'm an RN. Well, after paying for it I got the letter like 4 weeks later stating that it was inappropriate. At first I couldn't see the reason why. And also didn't understand why it allowed me to pay for it in the first place. I had shown my friend the picture and he said oh that could be interpreted as "Gee porn". Haha. So then I had to find something else available and had to wait another 8 weeks to get that one. Man they think of everything.



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LOL!!! I didn't see that until I read your post. I guess that I'm just not that clever. LOL!!!
 
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The point he's making is that the DMV doesn't care that it's the chassis code, they care that they could potentially get a call from some pearl clutching old lady that was offended that they dared allow that through. They can't make exceptions because it being the car's chassis code is irrelevant to why they flagged it.

It may seem silly, but theose are the rules you get to play by if you want to register your car.
I fully understand that afterseeing how the state of NC looks at these things. I just found the "move to another state if you don't like it" kind of a snide remark. It's all good..
 

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There was a long standing issue here in Canada where they refused to renew the registration on a plate that said "GRABHER" because someone complained it was sexist and influenced "rape culture" and what not, Grabher was the dudes last name and he had that plate since 1990 until 2016. He took it to court and is still fighting for his right to have his last name on the plate.

Heres a link from earlier this year: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...plate-mirrors-wider-societal-debate-1.5111270

just stupid
 
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There was a long standing issue here in Canada where they refused to renew the registration on a plate that said "GRABHER" because someone complained it was sexist and influenced "rape culture" and what not, Grabher was the dudes last name and he had that plate since 1990 until 2016. He took it to court and is still fighting for his right to have his last name on the plate.

Heres a link from earlier this year: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...plate-mirrors-wider-societal-debate-1.5111270

just stupid
This isn't license plate related but its about cars. The TV show Street Outlaws has a car called "Murder Nova". We had a young guy at work that was into drag racing & was really into Street Outlaws. He raced an S10. So he put a "Murder S10" sticker on his hard hat. Well somebody saw it & it frightened them. The General foreman had him remove it from his hard hat. Later that day, I was talking with the General foreman & he didn't understand the sticker. I had to explain that it was a name given to his S10 drag car. The PC police have created a population of wusses. Got to love it.
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