Stupid things that people get offended by.

Dudess

omyatari wrote: »

its like fat people,
they know they are, its ok if they state it,
but they dont need you telling them they are....

Well I'm referring more to white people viewing "black" as offensive.

Iang87

when you call a stupid person stupid

omyatari

Dudess wrote: »

Well I'm referring more to white people viewing "black" as offensive.

oh i see. well maybe because such drama has been made about it over the years...
oh well.

m@cc@

The_Minister wrote: »

Inspired by the Israeli official who was offended by the term "Swine flu".

I'm still confused by this. Why is this offensive? Have they not got more important things to worry about?

alexandros

javaboy wrote: »

Trendy socialite broads. e.g. Paris Hilton

now you need to go change the thread title to "things that offend you"

seanybiker

people who dont celebrate in the glory of my farts.
Its hard to hold em in until ya get the right amount of pressure behind it.

omyatari

Iang87 wrote: »

when you call a stupid person stupid

even if its true? :O

Elessar

When I mention jew gold anytime I'm near a jew.

I mean, they know we know its true.

DubArk

Jade Goody jokes??

DubArk

DubArk wrote: »

Jade Goody jokes??

Oh no your all offended!!

Iang87

DubArk wrote: »

Jade Goody jokes??

nope not offended actually find them quite hilarious.

another one that people get offended by is when someone asks can you keep a secret and you say yes and you write down word for word what they say to text everybody.

Really now who the hell can keep a secret especially when the topic is definitely of interest to people otherwise it wouldn't need to be a secret now would it

javaboy

alexandros wrote: »

now you need to go change the thread title to "things that offend you"

Nah not really. I never got why people find her so objectionable. She has sfa impact on my life so I really don't care about her one way or another.

Acacia

obl wrote: »

Snigger is quite unacceptable in North America.

But it's a totally different word to the ...ahem.. n-word.

SV wrote: »

The word cunt.

That I really don't understand. It's just another swear word to me.

gamgsam wrote: »

A few years ago in school a teacher caught me talking and told me to tell the whole class what I was saying. I told her it was just a stupid joke so then of course she really wanted to embarass me...

So i said

"What do scottish sheep say? - McBaaa"

And she went CRAZY!!! Said I was racist and tried to give me lines!!!!

Hahahaha I still get a good laugh out of it!

Jesus, that's feckin' ridiculous.

segaBOY wrote: »

People who get offended when you refer to someone of African extraction as Black.

Have heard phrases such as "African American" being used to refer to a black person living in Ireland who incidentally was Kenyan and not American. Thought is was ignorantly amusing.

Unbelievable. What's wrong with saying 'black'?

Demonique wrote: »

People who get offended about other people not wanting kids

Yeah, or by people saying they don't like kids. "Oh my god, you monster, you horrible person!"

Sofiztikated wrote: »

People that get offended by things like Christmas/Easter. Oh, we might offend someone of a different belief. Well, you know something? F*ck em! If you were in their neck of the woods, they wouldn't change anything for you. So f*ck off.

That's the most annoying thing ever. Why would a person of another religion care if Christians celebrate Christmas and Easter?

I have friends of different religions who actually thought it was incredibly surprised by that whole ''removing the crib from the hospital'' scandal. One said to me "Well, this is a Christian country, I expect you celebrate Christian holidays! Why would it offend me in anyway?" :pac: The same friend (Muslim) also puts up Christmas cards and such in his house if people give them to him. Not a problem with it at all.

The worst thing is people assume it's those of the other faiths kicking up a fuss, when in fact it's probably some ball-less official trying to seem cosmopolitan and tolerant.


The most stupid thing I ever heard was actually a thread on here in the Atheists and Agnostic forum where somebody was 'offended' by a Christmas stamp- with Jesus on it! :eek::eek::eek::eek: :rolleyes:

whodoo

a teacher told me that he wasn't to refer to the blackboard as the "blackboard" but the chalkboard......

And isn't it true that Big Ears from Noddy got renamed White Beard....?

All seems a bit daft to me....

tagoona

I really don't understand how women get on their high horse when you refer
to them as "she". It's happened a good few times.
When did that simple pronoun become an insult that women take offense at???

Barr

Breast feeding in public - Im in favour of public boobage in general

Red Alert

I hate it when people in a big office take offense at not being asked to lunch every day and then brood about it for a few weeks.

DubArk

tagoona wrote: »

I really don't understand how women get on their high horse when you refer
to them as "she". It's happened a good few times.
When did that simple pronoun become an insult that women take offense at???

That reminds me of a joke:-


What’s the difference between a women and a terrorist??


You can always nagotciate with a terrorist!!

ART6

I am always vastly amused by the explosions of fury over the title of someone chairing meetings etc. If it's a man he's the "chairman", but for some weird reason, if it's a woman she has to be referred to as the "chair" or "chairperson" and never, ever "chairwoman". Why do women see it as offensive to be called women, and prefer to be classed as a piece of furniture?

*or is it that they are piece of.........No. I'm not that brave. I withdraw that*

I despise the people who get all high and mighty when you use certain words they deem offensive. In a college debate a month back I refered to a film called ****** Joe and watched as the entire class turned against me. There's one black guy in the class and as such people deemed it a personnal attack on him. I had to listen to weeks of "You're a racist", "That was disgusting" from a few people in the class. Now had I turned to the black guy in my class and said "I hate ****" I would understand their anger but seriously some people seem to think that we should censor everything we say.

Edit: Just remembered the time I asked a black woman at the table beside me in a restraunt if she could pass the black pepper. herself and her friend went off on a massive rant about how I was being racist. She called over a waiter and demanded to be moved, both myself and the waiter pointed out that there was both white and black pepper on the table and it was in no way a racist comment.

dr.bollocko

Anything Joe Duffy has ever taken a call about.
Damn but I do hate people.

Redpunto

I hate when other drivers take offence when I give them various hand gestures in the traffic

Bottle_of_Smoke

Hehehehe love remembering this story.

Few years ago worked in a clothes shop on the northside. One of the girls said she wouldnt date a northsider. THe entire shop was outraged, resulted in an argument a few days later, I was in the stock room but not taking part in argument. Came to a point where I really felt sorry for the girl so I siad "in fairness, I wouldn't go out with a traveller or a girl bigger than a size 8"

Que the girl who made the northside comment becoming outraged. She was around a size 12 and tall enough for it to look well and no one would call her fat. Type of girl who would get the description "curvy".

She said my opinion was *completely* different to hers, blaming me for anorexic girls and complained to a manager.

Dudess

I don't think it's a case of being easily offended to consider that girl a gobshyte.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Aye, I can't really be too smug though, I only said it due to being slightly offended by her initial statement!

gamgsam

gamgsam wrote: »

So i said

"What do scottish sheep say? - McBaaa"

And she went CRAZY!!! Said I was racist and tried to give me lines!!!!

Hahahaha I still get a good laugh out of it!

slightly off topic but I had to read that joke loads of times before I got it, I thought it had something to do with McDonalds haha! oops.

dr.bollocko

You probably shouldn't quote the bit where the scottish play was almost mentioned.
Unless, like me, you have a morbid sense of curiosity.

stepbar

Constructive critism. Hell people are very touchy about that..... can't understand why....

ChocolateSauce

Japanese porn. I don't see what's so offensive about thousands of hours of bondage porn, rape porn, utensil-rape porn, food-rape porn, frozen-food-rape porn, vomit-enema porn, elder-care-coma-patient-rape porn, live-eel anal porn and bukkake.

JangoFett

I get really annoyed when people get offended when I pass a remark about someone neither of us know.

For example, today we had a client in from a gym and she was pretty overweight, not a good poster child for the gym, and I flippantly said "Oh, it's yer one from the gym, the big fat one" Now, I didn't say it to her or when she was in the same building as me, but one of the girls got really offended by this. It wasn't said with malice or spite, and I didn't say it about the person who got offended. She has no place to be annoyed