Un-American Weatherman Uses Arab Word: It's The End of Civilization!

[evildevil]

Haboobs to Be Renamed "Freedom Desert Dust".

‘Haboobs’ Stir Critics in Arizona

The massive dust storms that swept through central Arizona this month have stirred up not just clouds of sand but a debate over what to call them.

The blinding waves of brown particles, the most recent of which hit Phoenix on Monday, are caused by thunderstorms that emit

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[gretchystretchy]

...Oh.

[mdemvizi]

For fuck's sake.

I'll make sure to ask my brother who is deployed to Afghanistan if it is okay for us to use arab words around him when he comes home. LOL.

[trf_chan]

Weeeell, technically, since he's in Afghanistan, it's probably those damned Dari and/or Pashto words you have to worry about.

[layweed]

Might want to stop using the entire freaking Hindu-Arabic number system too.

[baked_goldfish]

marzipan

[muppetfromhell]

+1

[deja_vu822]

lolol

[sephystabbity]

Oh, Arizona, every time I hear your name in news...

...well, we just gotta stop meeting like this, city.