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What is the most politically correct thing you have heard?

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  • #32
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


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


  • #33
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #35
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #36
    JohnMarston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭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


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  • #37
    joe stodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭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.


  • #38
    The Master
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭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


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,226 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • #40
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Actresses being referred to as 'actors'.

    Since when did this PC crap start happening?


  • #41
    Adhamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭Adhamh


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Actresses being referred to as 'actors'.

    'I'm an actor and a comedienne.'


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  • #42
    ElleEm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭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!!


  • #43
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭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! :o


  • #44
    emzolita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭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)


  • #45
    emzolita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭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:


  • #46
    patmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,571 ✭✭✭patmac


    Happy Holidays
    Fcuk off it's Happy Christmas


  • #47
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Adhamh wrote: »
    'I'm an actor and a comediennecomic.'

    Fixed that for you


  • #48
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #49
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #50
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭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


  • #51
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #52
    blue note
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,734 ✭✭✭blue note


    My friend was corrected by his gf when he referred to a taxi driver from Uganda as African. He should have said African American apparently!

    And I must admit that I particularly enjoy telling my girlfriend that I saw a black man wherever I was.

    "Blue note!" she says.
    And I say "I'm sorry, a black person."

    It's ridiculous how often that works.


  • #53
    vitani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    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?

    Oh dear. I thought 'comfort break' was ridiculous when I first heard it - actually, I still do - but 'bio break'?


  • #54
    laoch na mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,971 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    haven't came across to many but the whole not able to use the word black for anything is really annoying like its a blackboard because it is black there is nothing racist about it


  • #55
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »


    He must be nearly 7 foot tall

    In modelling/actor work you can legally specify requirements


  • #56
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,834 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Oh the irony......

    Whenever I see the term Political Correctness being used in an online context......its usually a precursor to a bunch of racists, homophobes and misogynists giving vent to their discriminatory outlook.


  • #57
    DUBACC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭DUBACC


    blue note wrote: »
    My friend was corrected by his gf when he referred to a taxi driver from Uganda as African. He should have said African American apparently!

    And I must admit that I particularly enjoy telling my girlfriend that I saw a black man wherever I was.

    "Blue note!" she says.
    And I say "I'm sorry, a black person."

    It's ridiculous how often that works.

    Why American? He is an African man living and working in Ireland. Where the f**K does 'American' come into it? Before long, we will have the term 'African European' or 'African Irish'.

    Is he a man? Yes
    Is he black? Yes
    Is he a black man? No
    :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


  • #58
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    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.

    Brilliant, fair play.


  • #59
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    Caucasian female and the seven vertically challenged people


  • #60
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    Oh the irony......

    Whenever I see the term Political Correctness being used in an online context......its usually a precursor to a bunch of racists, homophobes and misogynists giving vent to their discriminatory outlook.

    well that escalated quickly


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  • #61
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,834 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    DUBACC wrote: »
    Why American? He is an African man living and working in Ireland. Where the f**K does 'American' come into it? Before long, we will have the term 'African European' or 'African Irish'.

    :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


    Or even worse, it will be Irish American.....

    ......where's it all going to end Joe?:eek:


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