What is the most politically correct thing you have heard?

Jimmy Garlic · 21-05-2013 01:44AM #1

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 · 21-05-2013 01:49AM

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 · 21-05-2013 01:56AM

This is very PC

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Gorilla Rising · 21-05-2013 01:59AM

She's a f*cking idiot.

Cavehill Red · 21-05-2013 02:02AM

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 · 21-05-2013 02:10AM

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

fasttalkerchat · 21-05-2013 02:10AM

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 · 21-05-2013 02:14AM

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

IM0 · 21-05-2013 02:48AM

environmental engineer = binman

Iwasfrozen · 21-05-2013 02:49AM

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 · 21-05-2013 02:51AM

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

Iwasfrozen · 21-05-2013 02:53AM

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 · 21-05-2013 03:09AM

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 · 21-05-2013 03:11AM

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 · 21-05-2013 03:12AM

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

Cavehill Red · 21-05-2013 03:17AM

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 · 21-05-2013 03:26AM

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

Norwesterner · 21-05-2013 03:27AM

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 · 21-05-2013 04:09AM

Nino Brown wrote: »

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

...myth.

fasttalkerchat · 21-05-2013 05:04AM

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 · 21-05-2013 05:05AM

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 · 21-05-2013 06:46AM

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 · 21-05-2013 06:58AM

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 · 21-05-2013 07:09AM

Editing of Enid Blyton books

Norwesterner · 21-05-2013 07:20AM

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 · 21-05-2013 07:27AM

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 · 21-05-2013 07:28AM

"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 · 21-05-2013 07:40AM

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 · 21-05-2013 07:47AM

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 · 21-05-2013 08:57AM

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 · 21-05-2013 09:07AM

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?"

What is the most politically correct thing you have heard?

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