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Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?

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Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
July 13, 2015 at 11:04 pm
(July 13, 2015 at 6:47 pm)Beccs Wrote: Well, ships because they end up full of seamen...

Yeah, but ships don't whine when the seamen go straight into ships.
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
July 13, 2015 at 11:05 pm
(July 13, 2015 at 10:37 pm)KUSA Wrote:
(July 13, 2015 at 6:47 pm)Beccs Wrote: Well, ships because they end up full of seamen...

So does Vorlon's ass.

You can call your boat vorlon's ass, I will still call mine "she".
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
July 13, 2015 at 11:34 pm
(July 13, 2015 at 10:22 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Oh, wow.  That was uncomfortable to watch!

Would you believe that was actually tame in comparison with other Youtube videos I found?
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
July 13, 2015 at 11:41 pm
Well, I guess it just goes further to prove rule# 32!
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
July 14, 2015 at 1:56 am
What is rule #32?
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
July 14, 2015 at 6:21 am (This post was last modified: July 14, 2015 at 6:24 am by ignoramus.)
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Vorlon! Rule #57 is a bit rough ... Can't always help it!
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
July 14, 2015 at 2:46 pm
"bad grammar" blah blah blah it's the internet, not a 30-page academic piece.
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
July 14, 2015 at 3:37 pm
(July 13, 2015 at 2:37 am)Atheist_BG Wrote: I've noticed only Americans tend to refer to cars and ships as "she". Why "she"? After all these are inanimate objects, so why the "she" pronoun?
Is it just ignorance or is it something else I don't understand?

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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
July 15, 2015 at 12:15 pm
Ok, I got one:

Because if you get one with a wet hole in it, it goes down on you and then you're fucked.

God, I need to get laid.
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