What is the most politically correct thing you have heard?

Annasopra

Strituck wrote: »

I have two,

Some schools in the UK no longer teach kids the nursery rhyme "Ba Ba Black Sheep". They have been told instead to sing "Ba Ba Rainbow Sheep" !!

And in the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, the "Mother and Child" spaces have been renamed "People with Babies"

The world has gone mad I tell you.

I think the important point here is SOME - not all

Hoop66

mango salsa wrote: »

I think the important point here is SOME - not all

The important word is NONE. NO schools have "been told not to teach Baa-Baa Black sheep". SOME schools have CHOSEN to vary the words.

But because some people can't call people whatever they like anymore, it's political correctness gone mad/you couldn't make it up/etc etc et-bleedin-cetera.

Lucena

Strituck wrote: »

I have two,

Some schools in the UK no longer teach kids the nursery rhyme "Ba Ba Black Sheep". They have been told instead to sing "Ba Ba Rainbow Sheep" !!

And in the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, the "Mother and Child" spaces have been renamed "People with Babies"

The world has gone mad I tell you.

To be honest, I think it was a bit silly calling them Mother and Child spaces. Sometimes men do the shopping too, apparently.

hooradiation

Links234 wrote: »

this thread is embarrassing

They always are.
Every
fucking
time.

dr.bollocko

Links234 wrote: »

this thread is embarrassing

hooradiation wrote: »

They always are.
Every
fucking
time.

Getting worse in fact.

Deise Vu

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Getting worse in fact.

You are implying that some of the posters are knuckle dragging neanderthals because they do not accept your concept of the world. That's a bit un-pc isn't it?

(not to mention going off-topic, attacking the poster etc. etc).

dr.bollocko

Your words don't fit too well in my mouth.

I'd appreciate if you kept them in your mouth in future.

Seachmall

Strituck wrote: »

Oh yes Wikipedia. Known for its accuracy and factual information.

It actually is.

Wikipedia being particularly inaccurate compared to more traditional and 'reliable' sources is a myth.

a 2005 investigation in Nature showed that the science articles they compared came close to the level of accuracy of Encyclopædia Britannica and had a similar rate of "serious errors".

- Wiki

gramar

This thread is called 'the most politically correct thing you've ever heard' but for the last 100 odd posts it's been nothing more than petty bickering about black sheep, rainbow sheep and wiki this and that.

Any chance of some anecdotes of peoples experiences of political correctness gone mad or would that be too much to ask.

Hoop66

gramar wrote: »

This thread is called 'the most politically correct thing you've ever heard' but for the last 100 odd posts it's been nothing more than petty bickering about black sheep, rainbow sheep and wiki this and that.

Any chance of some anecdotes of peoples experiences of political correctness gone mad or would that be too much to ask.

The post about sheep was a personal anecdote (allegedly) about political correctness gone mad. It's when it was pointed out that it was bollocks was when all the trouble started.

gramar

Hoop66 wrote: »

The post about sheep was a personal anecdote (allegedly) about political correctness gone mad. It's when it was pointed out that it was bollocks was when all the trouble started.

Actually all the trouble started when the writer of the 'hokey pokey' died and was being put into the coffin. They put his left leg in.............

Duggy747

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles over here and in the UK as "Ninja" was seen as too violent of a word.

Also, they didn't change Dennis The Menace to be a more friendly looking chap?

The King of Moo

tritium wrote: »

two things: one, given that they had a huge irish presence with massive crossover of people it wouldn't be an unreasonable expectation

Two, if youre going to make political correctness part of your policy (which they did) then it's not unreasonable for all of your employees to expect that their cultural norms be factored in, not just a segment who meet an ideological benchmark of been capable of being victims of discrimination.

Now that’s PC gone mad. You can’t expect a company to be aware of the particular regional slang of two lads. However, one would expect them to know about US slang which is already well-known over here from American TV and film. Also, they were the ones travelling, so the onus was on them to adjust.

chughes wrote: »

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What's the origin of this? Is it even real?

Duggy747 wrote: »

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles over here and in the UK as "Ninja" was seen as too violent of a word.

Also, they didn't change Dennis The Menace to be a more friendly looking chap?

If you mean the differences between the American and English Dennises, there’s actually no relationship between the two. They were created independently at almost the exact same time in a bizarre coincidence.

http://nowiknow.com/dennis-the-coincidence/

Duggy747

The King of Moo wrote: »

If you mean the differences between the American and English Dennises, there’s actually no relationship between the two. They were created independently at almost the exact same time in a bizarre coincidence.

No, I meant The Beano's Dennis.

He was redesigned to be nicer looking and be friendly to the likes of Walter The Softy.

Tombo2001

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Your words don't fit too well in my mouth.

I'd appreciate if you kept them in your mouth in future.

Good comeback dude.

You are an experienced swords-person of the boards.

Tombo2001

The most PC thing I ever saw was when Cookie Monster gave up Cookies and sang a song about eating fruit instead.

I cried (inside) that day.

The King of Moo

Duggy747 wrote: »

No, I meant The Beano's Dennis.

He was redesigned to be nicer looking and be friendly to the likes of Walter The Softy.

That’s what I was afraid you meant. It genuinely is political correctness gone mad.

JustAddWater

That would be an ecumenical matter

Tombo2001

The King of Moo wrote: »

That’s what I was afraid you meant. It genuinely is political correctness gone mad.

Really?

You have kids committing suicide because they are being bullied, and you think its ok to have a kids comic thats about bullying?

The King of Moo

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Really?

You have kids committing suicide because they are being bullied, and you think its ok to have a kids comic thats about bullying?

He’s clearly a bully, and not glamorising bullying. He gets his comeuppance as often as he wins. The characters in The Beano are exaggerated versions of real-life types. Dennis the Menace stories feature bullying because they’re set primarily in a school, but I don’t think any children would be inspired to bully by Dennis the Menace if they didn’t already feel like doing so. And I think most children are smart enough to realise that it’s only a comic and has no influence on real life.

Duggy747

He was a bully but he never got away with it, plus all the characters were exaggerations of stereotypes in the likes of The Beano and The Dandy.

Dennis being the brutish little shìt and, his nemesis, Walter being the opposite; An OTT lick-arse who would frequently try to screw Dennis over.

Tombo2001

The King of Moo wrote: »

He’s clearly a bully, and not glamorising bullying. He gets his comeuppance as often as he wins. The characters in The Beano are exaggerated versions of real-life types. Dennis the Menace stories feature bullying because they’re set primarily in a school, but I don’t think any children would be inspired to bully by Dennis the Menace if they didn’t already feel like doing so. And I think most children are smart enough to realise that it’s only a comic and has no influence on real life.

You are making a lot of assumptions there.

The facts are.......its about kids that bully. The hero of the comic is a kid that bullies.

But ya know.......its ok......becuase as you say, kids are emotionally mature enough to understand that it doesnt set out to glamorise bullying and that its an exaggeration of real life.......a typical six year old is on top of all that stuff.

wendell borton

Don't see the problem with denis being a bully, In life some people are just dicks. I think sheltering children from reality is a bad thing and will lead to bigger trouble when they come into contact with bullies.

Duggy747

The facts are.......its about kids that bully. The hero of the comic is a kid that bullies.

The facts are................you've over-simplified the comic, Dennis and his story.

But ya know.......its ok......becuase as you say, kids are emotionally mature enough to understand that it doesnt set out to glamorise bullying and that its an exaggeration of real life.......a typical six year old is on top of all that stuff.

I grew up reading Dennis, from as young as I could remember. I also had a huge backlog of The Beano / The Dandy comics going back to 1980 that belonged to the brother.

I was young and I knew the difference between comic fiction and real life as well as the fact that bullying wasn't the right thing to do. If a kid can't distinguish the difference between right and wrong at that age then the failure is at the parents.

Plus, there was never glamourising of bullying. Dennis always paid the price for his actions (including being beaten with a slipper by his father)

stefan idiot jones

I don't know whether this is considered PC or just the tree hugging, white, English do gooders fighting for minorities causes but....

About fifteen years ago I was working with two guys from Bradford, Yorkshire. If any of you don't know anything about Bradford it is that it has a HUGE asian community.

Anyway, there was this one particular street which the toilets in the bathrooms were pointing towards Mecca and was considered an insult when the Muslims were having a sh!t.
The loony dogooders and the fu@kin' PC brigade played up so much that they forced the local council to reconfigure all the said bathrooms so not to face Muhammad when parking their breakfast.

Britain is fu@kin' ruined because of this bending over backwards to appease foreigners and immigrants.

conorhal

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Really?

You have kids committing suicide because they are being bullied, and you think its ok to have a kids comic thats about bullying?

When I read the Beano as a kid, Dennis The Menace did little else but torture people, yet in my day kids didn't top themselves in anything near the epidemic proportions that seems to be the case these days.
I put it to you that a comic book character is waaaaaaay down the list of social and enviornmental factor that contribute to the soaring suicide rate.

This is one of the problems with current thinking on a variety of problems, from suicide to alcohol abuse, the belief that the tackling perception rather then the root of the problem will solve things.
Rather then addressing the breakdown of the nuclear family plus the agressive destruction of the concept of community and colectivism that gives people a sense of belonging and support, while at the same time promoting a radical, consumerist driven, agressive type individualism that leaves people alienated are it seems issues too big to tackle and and of course policies too beloved by fabian socialists to address, so instead we ban the Beano.
Meanwhile suicide rates continue to soar.

JohnMarston

chughes wrote: »

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive,gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious/secular traditions at all.

As well, please enjoy a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2013, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make the World a Better Place and without regard to the race, creed , colour,age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference of the wishee.

By accepting this greeting, you are accepting the following terms:
* This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting.
* It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and it is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.
* This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

And if someone cant accept that, i'd be happy to wish them a happy stfu

DublinWriter

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

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.

Yes, but in Italy any graduate can use the nominative prefix Doctore.

Jezek

Tombo2001 wrote: »

The most PC thing I ever saw was when Cookie Monster gave up Cookies and sang a song about eating fruit instead.

I cried (inside) that day.

you never saw that

DublinWriter

conorhal wrote: »

yet in my day kids didn't top themselves in anything near the epidemic proportions that seems to be the case these days.

That's because we were afraid of the beating we'd get if we did.