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Posted: 1 year ago by maven:
How many dollars/pounds are wasted on this type of thing? It just seems that it HAS to cost more to pass all this type of restriction than it would even if they were sued!
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Posted: 1 year ago by susiesan:
Kathy Lette, the author and broadcaster, said: "Political correction is a vowel cancer eating away at the English language. The PC police are not just washing our mouths out with soap, they're dipping our mother tongue in disinfectant - and the taste is terrible.
We are turning into a world of morons. The English language is going to get dumbed down so much that we'll revert to banging sticks to talk as so not to offend anyone. Of course then someone will say that banging sticks promotes violence...
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Posted: 1 year ago by sidran32:
The world has gone nuts. I know I'm preaching to the choir (if that's not banned yet, it's bound to be), but this needs to stop.
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Posted: 1 year ago by lkaper:
It's just silly! I'm an atheist, and I'm not offended. It's just an expression, it doesn't convey hatred or intolerance; I see no reason to ban it.
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Posted: 1 year ago by DerAlt:
« lkaper:It's just silly! I'm an atheist, and I'm not offended. It's just an expression, it doesn't convey hatred or intolerance; I see no reason to ban it. Heh, think about one reason why you are an atheist.
You may understand this kind of thinking.
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Posted: 1 year ago by arsphidius:
Some of their suggestions are beyond belief. They can't use the phrase "moving forward" because some people might not understand it?
Using the word British implies a "false sense of unity"? And the council prefers to use the phrase "gay man" instead of homosexual. What does that make lesbians, then?
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Posted: 1 year ago by fugazi:
« arsphidius: And the council prefers to use the phrase "gay man" instead of homosexual. What does that make lesbians, then? gay woman?
next thing you know, i won't be allowed to say goddamn.
or d**k-moses.
or s**tfire-pantheism
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Posted: 1 year ago by DoggySpew:
I'm quite offended by the blatant censorship here. Uncensor it f**king NOW !
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Posted: 1 year ago by fentwin:
"he same authority has also instructed officials not to use the phrase 'colour blind' but instead to refer to a person as having 'colour visual impairment'."
And the brain dead will now be referred to as the "cerebro-functionally impaired" in order to not offend the dead.
So....
Sayings such as "A chink in the armor" and "There's a nip in the air" are right out. (a la Carlin)
One that occurred to me was that it may upset some Italians to ask them "How'd their 'day go'?"
« DerAlt : Heh, think about one reason why you are an atheist.
You may understand this kind of thinking. I'm not sure I understand your comment. (not trying to be "snarky", just trying to understand your statement:)
I have many reasons for holding an atheistic position and I still think this PC crap is diluting our language and perhaps to some extent our freedom of expression.
I live in the Bible belt of the US. "Have a blessed day" is as common as "taters" down here. I am not offended by this. Its often a sincere thought that I appreciate. When someone says "You're going to hell you heathen scum", well now, that is offensive (I've heard it before:)
No matter what I may think the Bible has been a large (understatement)influence on society, especially literature. I agree with the statement that without a familiarity with the Bible, much of our literature as well as "old saws" would be lost on most people.
p.s. - So I guess now my favorite exclamation "Jesus on a popsicle stick" is out as well. Well, what the Funk and Wagnall am I going to do now?
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Posted: 1 year ago by meggysue:
Davbob, here in the USA this problem was solved long ago. We say, "are we all on the same page?" I've never heard it said any other way. It's nice to know where the saying originated.
EDIT: Fentwin, persons with their head up their *** will now be referred to as cerebral-rectal inverts.
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Posted: 1 year ago by fentwin:
« meggysue:Davbob, here in the USA this problem was solved long ago. We say, "are we all on the same page?" I've never heard it said any other way. It's nice to know where the saying originated.
EDIT: Fentwin, persons with their head up their *** will now be referred to as cerebral-rectal inverts.
Yes! I also call them rectocraniates or a person in need of a rectocraniotomy. :)
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Posted: 1 year ago by lkaper:
« fentwin :
I have many reasons for holding an atheistic position and I still think this PC crap is diluting our language and perhaps to some extent our freedom of expression.
I couldn't have put it better myself :]
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