What is the most politically correct thing you have heard?

Jimmy Garlic

I was talking to a friend of a friend today and she said history should be re-named "theirstory" because history is a sexist word. I thought I was getting trolled. Turned out she was dead serious.

3rdDegree

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I was talking to a friend of a friend today and she said history should be re-named "theirstory" because history is a sexist word. I thought I was getting trolled. Turned out she was dead serious.

Women!

The Backwards Man

This is very PC


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Gorilla Rising

She's a f*cking idiot.

Cavehill Red

3rdDegree wrote: »

Women!

Feckin patriarchal sexist.

It's wymyn*, I'll have you know.


*This one word is the single most ludicrous PC term I've yet encountered.

fasttalkerchat

Heard a nurse talk about "Birthing Partner" I thought it was a gender neutral word for midwife!

fasttalkerchat

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Feckin patriarchal sexist.

It's wymyn*, I'll have you know.


*This one word is the single most ludicrous PC term I've yet encountered.

Just stick to the much more meaningful Wee-men

Killer Wench

I was told that I couldn't use the word tribal.

IM0

environmental engineer = binman

Iwasfrozen

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Feckin patriarchal sexist.

It's wymyn*, I'll have you know.


*This one word is the single most ludicrous PC term I've yet encountered.

Don't forget cisgender. Like wtf is wrong with the word normal?!

Nino Brown

I'm pretty sure Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep still tops it for me

Iwasfrozen

Nino Brown wrote: »

I'm pretty sure Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep still tops it for me

ffs, fair enough they've stopped kids saying "catch a nígger by the toe." 100% agree with that. But the above is just ridiculous.

fasttalkerchat

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

Don't forget cisgender. Like wtf is wrong with the word normal?!

What does "cis" stand for?

Do we have to refer to ourselves as sighted, hearing and walking on forms asking about "differently-abled-ness" too?

Soon they won't be able to ask male or female... just do you have a dick, yes/no. If answering no, did you ever have a dick.

Iwasfrozen

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

What does "cis" stand for?

Do we have to refer to ourselves as sighted, hearing and walking on forms asking about "differently-abled-ness" too?

Soon they won't be able to ask male or female... just do you have a dick, yes/no. If answering no, did you ever have a dick.

The opposite of trans. Yep. It's that stupid.

1ZRed

When they change nigger to tiger in eenie meenie miney moe. It's not the same

Cavehill Red

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

What does "cis" stand for?

Do we have to refer to ourselves as sighted, hearing and walking on forms asking about "differently-abled-ness" too?

Soon they won't be able to ask male or female... just do you have a dick, yes/no. If answering no, did you ever have a dick.

That's how a lot of places will end up solving the great ongoing transgender loo issue, I predict. Rather than build a special loo for transgendered people which will likely get used next to never (in addition to the existing special loo for the disabled), they will simply remove the stick man and woman from loo doors and replace them with pictures of a penis and a penis in a red circle with a line through it.
It'll come down to dick or no dick.

Popular Hardback

At work we now have to use the term 'Personhole' instead of 'Manhole'

Norwesterner

Ronan Keating and Moya Brennan singing the "Fairytale of New York" and changing...
"You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy fagggot" to "you scumbag, you maggot, youre cheap and youre haggard".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daAG5JfNNFQ

I mean, just WHY???????

Nodin

Nino Brown wrote: »

I'm pretty sure Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep still tops it for me

...myth.

fasttalkerchat

Cavehill Red wrote: »

That's how a lot of places will end up solving the great ongoing transgender loo issue, I predict. Rather than build a special loo for transgendered people which will likely get used next to never (in addition to the existing special loo for the disabled), they will simply remove the stick man and woman from loo doors and replace them with pictures of a penis and a penis in a red circle with a line through it.
It'll come down to dick or no dick.

And if you don't want to be classed by your genitalia you can stand there and piss yourself!

fasttalkerchat

Norwesterner wrote: »

Ronan Keating and Moya Brennan singing the "Fairytale of New York" and changing...
"You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy fagggot" to "you scumbag, you maggot, youre cheap and youre haggard".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daAG5JfNNFQ

I mean, just WHY???????

fagggot was getting bleeped out on UK radio.

And apparently on boards too!

Norwesterner

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

fagggot was getting bleeped out on UK radio.

And apparently on boards too!

But wasn't it in the charts last Christmas?
Complete with "fagggot".

Changing the words of other artists while using their material is just rude.

fasttalkerchat

Norwesterner wrote: »

But wasn't it in the charts last Christmas?
Complete with "fagggot".

Changing the words of other artists while using their material is just rude.

I remember it being blurred out. Not sure if radio 1 did.

mikemac1

Editing of Enid Blyton books

Norwesterner

mikemac1 wrote: »

Editing of Enid Blyton books

Yes, and being told in your middle age that your childhood hero, Tintin was some kind of racist member of the Hitler Youth apparently.

fasttalkerchat

Norwesterner wrote: »

Yes, and being told in your middle age that your childhood hero, Tintin was some kind of racist member of the Hitler Youth apparently.

Don't you mean "beginning of best time of life age"?

Czarcasm

"WE'RE pregnant".

Only women can get pregnant, so unless they're a pair of pregnant women, "we're pregnant" isn't just silly- it's absolute nonsense.

sitstill

Popular Hardback wrote: »

At work we now have to use the term 'Personhole' instead of 'Manhole'

Can't beat a decent manhole though in fairness.

gramar

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I was talking to a friend of a friend today and she said history should be re-named "theirstory" because history is a sexist word. I thought I was getting trolled. Turned out she was dead serious.

Sounds like histrionics to me.

Czarcasm

sitstill wrote: »

Can't beat a decent manhole though in fairness.

An hour later and I'm still repeating the word "personhole" to myself; No matter what way I say it, it still sounds SO... wrong! :pac:


This thread DID remind me though of an incident in work last week when my boss had me up in the office. The conversation went something like-

"Now <Czarcasm>, in a meeting yesterday you mentioned you'd a pain in a certain part of the male anatomy"...

She could see I wasn't sure what she was referring to, so she continued-

"You're working in an all female environment, and you made reference to a certain part of the male anatomy when talking about the filing system we use here"...

Then it clicked! She was referring to the fact that at a meeting the previous day, the exact phrase I used was-

"I have a pain in my balls with all this paperwork!". I mean, yes, it really IS a pain in the balls, made worse yesterday then when she pointed out that I hadn't filled out a petty cash voucher for a pint of milk-

"Balls! Oh, oh shìt, sorry, sorry!"

Fcuking disaster! :pac:

Michael D Not Higgins

IM0 wrote: »

environmental engineer = binman

Being an actual engineer, I hate this cheapening of the term. Places like Germnay and Italy have a protected status for using the title engineer in the same way as doctor.

Also hate this exchange
"I'm a mechanical engineer"
"Oh, so do you fix cars?"

discus

I like how here in the UK, the police rank is 'Police Constable' or 'Woman Police Constable'.

iDave

I'm told Delivery Rooms in hospitals are now called Birthing Rooms as the old name made a baby sound too much a like a package in the mail.

gramar

iDave wrote: »

I'm told Delivery Rooms in hospitals are now called Birthing Rooms as the old name made a baby sound too much a like a package in the mail.

there goes midwife so....midperson? Human baby extractor?

Duggy747

50 odd years later, somebody decided that Tom & Jerry cartoons were harmful to children and needed to be edited.

This was one of the things they removed (Ignore the title):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCVFunCi0o8

JohnMarston

Czarcasm wrote: »

"WE'RE pregnant".

Only women can get pregnant, so unless they're a pair of pregnant women, "we're pregnant" isn't just silly- it's absolute nonsense.

You've just reminded me that about 6 months ago, an old classmate of mine and his wife crossed paths with me. Almost instantly i could tell she wanted to avoid him talking to old friends (probably to stop reminding him he had a life before her)
Anyway he used the above term to announce her their pregnancy. Poor lad is a shell of his former self

joe stodge

http://m.rollingstone.com/?redirurl=/music/news/dire-straits-money-for-nothing-banned-in-canada-20110114&seenSplash=1 dire straits, money for nothing banned in Canada as it contains an "anti gay" slur.

The Master

joe stodge wrote: »

http://m.rollingstone.com/?redirurl=/music/news/dire-straits-money-for-nothing-banned-in-canada-20110114&seenSplash=1 dire straits, money for nothing banned in Canada as it contains an "anti gay" slur.

Most radios edits of the song still remove that verse,
Even now when playing it live Mark Knoplfer changes the words from
Faggot to Maggot and Little Faggot to Mother Trucker
Stupid really

That reminds me, I seriously need to delete the theirstory on my laptop :eek:

gobnaitolunacy

Actresses being referred to as 'actors'.

Since when did this PC crap start happening?

Adhamh

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Actresses being referred to as 'actors'.

'I'm an actor and a comedienne.'

ElleEm

Bruised eye instead of black eye!
And wordstorm replaces the term "brainstorm" because the term brainstorm is often used in the context of epileptics... or people with seizure disorders or whatever the PC term is for that!!

Czarcasm

ElleEm wrote: »

Bruised eye instead of black eye!
And wordstorm replaces the term "brainstorm" because the term brainstorm is often used in the context of epileptics... or people with seizure disorders or whatever the PC term is for that!!

Is THAT where that whole "brown bag meeting" nonsense comes in? An American guy I was working with used the term "brown bag meeting?" when I suggested we get together for a brainstorming session.

Once we did anyway and we were talking he goes "We should probably take a bio break at this point", I nearly lost it! A what?

I mean, this guy was ALL up on the PC terms for everything so it was like he was talking a completely different language!


Meanwhile, further to my earlier post this morning where I "made reference to a male part of my anatomy", our phone systems just went down there (Christ, I can't even say that much without the unintended pun!), and my boss is out in meetings all day, so I contacted my bosses boss, and got the name of the telecoms company off her. She was on a train and reception was dodgy. So I said I'd just text her to let her know the issue wasn't at least an internal one.

Because 99% of the time I'm posting on boards from my mobile, the predictive text will guess what I want to say-


"<Bosses boss name here>,

I've been on to <Phone Company> and just off the phone with <Customer Service Rep Name> now. They were having a problem at their end as they had a lot of customers call in with the issue that they couldn't make outgoing balls. All is back up and running now again.

Regards and thanks,
<Czarcasm>."


I only bloody realised when I read the text back after I sent it!


Well, it was nice working here at least! :pac:


EDIT: Think I got away with it, my bosses boss just text back "That's great <Czarcasm>. Thanks. <Bosses name>


Phew!

emzolita

Nino Brown wrote: »

I'm pretty sure Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep still tops it for me

Yeah we had to say "Baa baa fluffy sheep" in the preschool I used to work in. and "blackboard" is unacceptable anymore too, as is "black bags". (i'm not messing)

emzolita

ElleEm wrote: »

Bruised eye instead of black eye!
And wordstorm replaces the term "brainstorm" because the term brainstorm is often used in the context of epileptics... or people with seizure disorders or whatever the PC term is for that!!

The Epilepsy Association did a survey on that, and most people with Epilepsy didnt actually find it offensive, it was over-PC people scare-mongering. :rolleyes:

patmac

Happy Holidays
Fcuk off it's Happy Christmas

hardCopy

Adhamh wrote: »

'I'm an actor and a comediennecomic.'

Fixed that for you

SEPT 23 1989

Theme park's ad for a Fat Controller banned as discrimination

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-451081/Theme-parks-ad-Fat-Controller-banned-discrimination.html

kylith

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I was talking to a friend of a friend today and she said history should be re-named "theirstory" because history is a sexist word. I thought I was getting trolled. Turned out she was dead serious.

Punch your friend in the face and tell her that if she's going to make statements about sexism she might want to do some fecking research on the etymology of the word first.

'History' is an Anglicisation of the French word 'estoire', meaning chronicle.

Michael D Not Higgins

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Theme park's ad for a Fat Controller banned as discrimination

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-451081/Theme-parks-ad-Fat-Controller-banned-discrimination.html

"But at a slim 15st he doesn't quite fit the specification."

He must be nearly 7 foot tall

gramar

Czarcasm wrote: »

Is THAT where that whole "brown bag meeting" nonsense comes in? An American guy I was working with used the term "brown bag meeting?" when I suggested we get together for a brainstorming session.

Brown bag meeting? Brainstorming? Back when I was a lad we just had to put our thinking caps on.

The whole office lingo is annoying in general...touch base, in the loop, ball park...........w**kers language