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Wedding? Oh my, offensive!
BillieTheBot
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We've all heard about these stories of things being done to try and prevent offence from being caused. Here's the latest one.
to that one.
to that one. Beep boop. I'm a bot.
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like renaming blackboard chalkboard, and banning baa baa black sheep. :<
Sod this, I'm off to the pub.
Come up here and we'll go to the Big Lamp.
like kids can't sing baa baa black sheep, or say blackboard
i remember the hoo haa about stopping them play kiss chase
and we can't say 'brainstorm' we have to say 'mind map' because its offensive to people with mental problems.....wtf??
spiderman is differently abled. desperate bloody dan is differently abled. calling people with disabilities that just implies that being disabled is something to be ashamed of, and it bugs me.
No offense to any disabled people out there, I don't want you to misunderstand me. I just want things to be called with their names. "Calling the figs figs and the tub a tub", as we say.
however, if im being polite and on the subject i say 'special needs' when im talking about mental disabilities - probably because my brother has a mild form of autism (so mild you cant tell by looking/talking to him) so i don't see him as being 'disabled' when it's only more or less the same thing as dyslexia considering how mild it is.
however i would call severe cases mentally disabled, i know i'll probably get flamed for this but after living with a brother with aspergers syndrome and standing up to him from bullies who called him thick and disabled, i'm quite defensive about it
however i do think saying 'differently abled' is patronising
in law, a person is diabled if they have a long-term substantial impairment. therefore they are DISabled.
'Special needs' refers to the education system, people who for academic, behavioural or other health reasons need that little bit extra help in their studies. Normally this focusses on hidden disabilities and learning difficulties on the autistic spectrum.
'Mentally disabled' refers to somebody with a mental illness (it's not exactly a technical term)... Learning difficulties are NOT mental illnesses.
I'd be insulted if somebody called me 'mentally disabled' or 'disabled' because although I have what is classified as a 'hidden disability' I am in no way mentally ill.
There's nothing wrong with 'special needs', although 'learner support' is perhaps a better way of putting things. At the end of the day there are differences between people and we seem to want to avoid them, rather than celebrate them.
'thick' is an insult. 'disabled' isn't.
imo the more we pussyfoot round the word, the more people feel like it's someting horrid and shameful that we can't say out loud, rather than just a way of describing something about them.
Tonight I had the pleasure of Baroque in Leeds. Not bad.
Now I'm back in Bratfud for a fucking curry.
Are you actually dyslexic, dyspraxic ect?
There's nothing derogatory at all about it. It's better than being called 'remedial'.
I hate the term too, but the rationale behind not using the word "disabled" is that the people are not the antithesis of abled simply because they are in a wheelchair. Disabled implies that they cannot do anything.
As always, the suggested alternatives are even worse, but the term itself isn't actually very nice.
As for all this "it's PC gone maaaaaaad!" bollocks, most of it isn't true anyway.
But you're doing exactly what you're condemning other people for.
You're not dyslexic or dyspraxic, MoonRat is.
because that's what kids said to him
i still think that's better. despite the literal meaning of the word, i don't think people assume that a disabled person is totally incapable. i know i don't. it just makes me think that they have a specific disability. whether that's someone like my best mate who is unable to spell, or someone like me who is sometimes unable to use her hands properly, or someone like my grandad who couldn't walk or grip.
people have abilities and they have disabilities. and we shouldn't make them feel ashamed of either.
There are a large number of paedo priests. I wasl istening to a report on World Service about a load they found in the US, Catholic Church had taken them out of their churches, sent them to therapy and then given them a new church. 9 of em I think...
Guess what? Nearly all did it again... I mean, send your kids ot church and hte choir so they can get abused. Great idea...
Makes you wonder... Catholic Church has repeatedly done bad things, and constantly goes against the Bible. Yet no-one does anything... hell, we have a Nazi pope... The Nazi's who murdered whole congregations for being religious... what the hell is going on?
You really are a fool.
Nine paedophile priests is "a large number" is it? Have you any idea how many Cathiolic parishes there are in the UK, let alone in the US?
Lets put it this way: there are about 25 catholic parishes in Bradford alone. So even in Bradford alone nine priests being paedophiles isn't a "large number", and certainly not any more than in any other walk of life.
yeah, the Church has covered up systemic abuse. But that doesn't mean they were all at it.
I'm sick and tired of moronic statements like this. Sadly, I've come to expect them from you and other posters as soon as the Church is mentioned. Get your head out of your arse and start thinking about what you're saying.
I don't like the current Pope, but be fair: joining the Hitler Youth was the only way you survived in 1930s Germany.
well said.
Being a Catholic myself I've recieved my fair share of abuse about the whole Catholic priest paedo thingy, it's way over-blown. We've had quite a number of priests in our parish through the times and all of them were good men.
All the priests through my old parish were good men who'd do anything for anyone. Except the last one, who has good intentions, but was put in by the cunt that is the Bishop of Leeds simply to close the parish down.
the Irish manYoo fan who always kept a well-stocked bar in the church hall was my fave. Especially as he did 25-minute mass on matchdays :thumb:
I really find it shocking though. Add this to the number of other people within religious organisations that have been discovered... should there not be more checks to find out this first, like in alot of other jobs? We don't want an Ian Huntley situation on our hands here.
I feel the higher up guys don't know, and aren't really involved. But they could do something to prevent it happening, at least.
Yeah, but the kind of things he has probably done and his stance on many things makes me beleive alot probably never left him. There were far better choices, if Catholicism wants to progress as a more acceptable religion, instead of holding back. It then wonders why it has less followers these days... I wonder if they will ever give the vote to the actuall Church-goers?
Except none of that is actually true is it?
How do you cope with your life? :eek:
Some of it is?