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Post by compeateropeator on Jan 5, 2019 3:03:22 GMT
 This has been in our news and they have been polling people to see if they found it offensive. How do you weigh in? Keene is the name of the town that it is in. ETA - I think Hanoi Bar is the name of the business but I can't figure out how to edit my poll |
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Post by chaosisapony on Jan 5, 2019 3:04:48 GMT
Not offensive but also not funny if that's what they were going for.
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Post by leeny on Jan 5, 2019 3:05:49 GMT
I don't find it offensive, but I do find it dumb to stoop so low for sales.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2019 3:05:50 GMT
Right next to pho-king Thai.
The owners know exactly what they are doing.
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Post by danalz on Jan 5, 2019 3:06:20 GMT
I love it. People are way to easily offended. And I love any joint that serves a great bowl of pho.
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Post by garcia5050 on Jan 5, 2019 3:07:31 GMT
Kind of bold. I don’t like it. Reminds me of that movie where business names got more and more dumb with time (was a reflection of people in general). Was the movie titled idiocracy? Something like that.
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Post by MichyM on Jan 5, 2019 3:09:10 GMT
I think it's stooooopid. As opposed to just stupid  I'm not easily offended so it's a no on that front. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2019 3:10:18 GMT
I don't get it. Why is it supposed to be funny? Pho is pronounced kind of like fa. Fa Keene. = fucking. |
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Post by johnnysmom on Jan 5, 2019 3:10:25 GMT
Offensive, no. Stupid, yes.
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Post by MichyM on Jan 5, 2019 3:10:52 GMT
I don't get it. Why is it supposed to be funny? Pho is pronounced fa. So say fa keene out loud. You'll get it. |
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Post by compeateropeator on Jan 5, 2019 3:12:00 GMT
I don't get it. Why is it supposed to be funny? Pho Keene (F@*&^%G). I think that a lot of people don't find it funny. I'm on the fence, I have to admit it made me smile a bit when I read it. |
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Post by myshelly on Jan 5, 2019 3:12:03 GMT
We have Pho King here.
It’s been a business with a big sign for years and no one has complained 🙄which makes me eyeroll at this story because Pho King sounds more like fucking than Pho Keene does.
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Post by freebird on Jan 5, 2019 3:12:12 GMT
Sounds like a bad joke you would tell in 1973, not a name you'd give your business in 2019. Sorry. I think it's a bad idea and if I was asian-american, yes, I would be offended.
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Post by busy on Jan 5, 2019 3:15:01 GMT
There are so many pho places that have names that purposely sound like fucking. I don't care.
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Jan 5, 2019 3:18:49 GMT
I voted other.
I would select “meh” if it were an option.
It wouldn’t steer me away if I wanted to check out a take out Asian food place but I wouldn’t search it out because of its cleverness either.
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Post by AmandaA on Jan 5, 2019 3:20:08 GMT
Offensive, no. In poor taste, yes. For me to put this in the “offensive” class would IMO diminish the insult of other far worse “offensive” things if that makes any sense 🤔
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Post by pjaye on Jan 5, 2019 3:21:32 GMT
Ha! Not offensive and it made me laugh.
One of the places I go regularly for Pho is called "Mo Pho"
However if you pronounce "pho" correctly, it's FUR not F-OH |
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Post by Outspoken on Jan 5, 2019 3:27:04 GMT
So, everyone that I know pronounces Pho as FUH (FUnny). Those that typed “fa”, is that FAH, as in FAther?
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Post by kels99 on Jan 5, 2019 3:30:12 GMT
Not offensive, just dumb.
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Post by justkat on Jan 5, 2019 3:32:35 GMT
I'm glad someone explained.lol I'd pronounce it fa-keen. To my ear,maybe because I have an accent, I didn't hear f%*king.
At any rate I'd say not offensive. A bit stupid tho.
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Post by janskylar on Jan 5, 2019 3:44:39 GMT
OKC has many pho restaurants, one of which is named Pho Kim Long. I don't think there is a significant crossover between the people who know how to pronounce pho and the people who get mad about the F word around here.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2019 3:53:13 GMT
So, everyone that I know pronounces Pho as FUH (FUnny). Those that typed “fa”, is that FAH, as in FAther? Not really I am going out on a limb, but it seems that nobody can say how it is pronounced. My Japanese friend laughs and calls it fancy soup. |
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Post by katybee on Jan 5, 2019 3:58:58 GMT
There are so many Pho King restaurants in this country. I’m gonna guess the people who are “offended” have never even had pho and have no idea how to pronounce it.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 5, 2019 4:02:42 GMT
I don’t, but I know people who would.
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Post by pjaye on Jan 5, 2019 4:09:51 GMT
Really! You don't think Vietnamese people now how to say the name of the food they serve in their country correctly?
Another Pho restaurant I go to (Pho Nom), have a mural painted on the wall that says "It's FUR not FOE"
I found a picture of it online:
So if the Vietnamese people who run a Vietnamese restaurant serve a Vietnamese dish and have on the wall it's pronounced "fur" then that's what I'm going to believe.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2019 4:23:00 GMT
But my friend from Laos says phah
My Japanese friend says fah
And my Vietnamese friend said it is pronounced phoe
I think that some places want people to think it is fa so so they can name their restaurants , pho king Thai or pho Keene
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2019 4:26:33 GMT
I wasn't paying attention to the words and thought the uproar was over the Asian character with rice hat and chopsticks.  Pho is pronounced "fuh" not "fa".
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Post by SockMonkey on Jan 5, 2019 4:35:53 GMT
I went to their Facebook page and now I want to eat there. It looks good.
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Post by pjaye on Jan 5, 2019 4:38:31 GMT
I wasn't paying attention to the words and thought the uproar was over the Asian character with rice hat and chopsticks. Pho is pronounced "fuh" not "fa".
When I close my eyes and listen to what she says it's closer to "fur" |
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Post by AussieMeg on Jan 5, 2019 4:48:05 GMT
There are so many pho places that have names that purposely sound like fucking. I don't care. Exactly. This isn't the first by a long shot, and won't be the last. There are probably 20+ in my town. Ha! Not offensive and it made me laugh.
One of the places I go regularly for Pho is called "Mo Pho"
However if you pronounce "pho" correctly, it's FUR not F-OH That's what I was thinking. I wonder what people would think of our "Sex Drugs & Rice Paper Rolls" restaurant pjaye ?  |
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I'm not easily offended so it's a no on that front.
