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Most 'PC gone mad' stories are crap but...
BillieTheBot
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Hull council have produced a list of words which should not be used because they have insulting or offensive meanings.
They include the words 'lady', 'ethnic' and 'elderly'.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,24390-1838382,00.html
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1224987
This really is playing into the hands of the Mail isnt it.
They include the words 'lady', 'ethnic' and 'elderly'.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,24390-1838382,00.html
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1224987
This really is playing into the hands of the Mail isnt it.
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It's very unfortunate. I happen to think PC is a big problem, because it dehumanises and defines someone by the term they try and avoid.
But the Mail think PC means being made to call "thsoe filthy wogs" by another name.
As Americans like to say, go figure... :rolleyes:
"The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels on the bus go round and round, all day long."
It's patronising if anything.
Just craziness.
Just kidding folks
not too much of a far fetched idea
Yup.
So, we can't speak to other people now for fear of offending them.
Fuck all you fat, ethnic, elderly, disabled people. Im off to mow you down in Carmageddon and REALLY piss off the mail.
technically if you are taking the piss by using the correct terminology for once, it should be impaired and not disabled
Surely you mean
'Sexually intercourse away you people who do not conform to the Western ideal of bodily weight, who belong to a black or minority ethnic group, are now in the full flush of your second youth and impaired.'
some women dont like being called ladies, id (badly) understand it, but for it to be a genral rule, stupid!
Yes. :P Thanks for that.
I love being called a 'lady' rather than a woman... I mean it can have a charm to it. I think it's insulting that somebody even assumes the way I think and what will offend me because I have ovaries.
Or some shit like that anyway. :rolleyes:
To assume a woman does not want to be called a 'lady' is to assume one knows the inner workings of a woman's mind without taking in to consideration the idea that she could be a free thinking peson who likes the term.
That's true, but it should stop those of us brought up to be gentlemen from continuing to act like it.
Root
Bullshit.
Perhaps you need to stop reading shite mate, because that it just not true. In fact, if you want proof, then head towards any Carol Concert later in the year.
That's your problem then, no one elses.