More Political Correctness run amok

[Sisemen]

OFSO is entirely correct.

[Pontius Navigator]

PC is not being able to describe a particular 'fugly black dyscalculic female MP' as such when every adjective is a personal opinion or matter of fact. It is a question of precision. Like the man in the red T-shirt, it halves the potential number of possible. It reduces the number to a smaller part of 650. It further eliminates a proportion on MPs such as the Lib Dem leader. It reduces it to my subjective fugly and what we know of MPs number skills.

However, should I so do I would be accused of racism, judge fundamentalism, and anti feminism. If, OTOH, I used that descriptive as the reason for rejecting a position in the Treasury I would be rightly accused.

We have just lost sight of what is polite and what is correct.

Was an old phrase, black hearted bastard, implying a black person of uncertain parentage, or a black-hearted person lacking compassion and a ner-do-well? Today in PC World its literal meaning would be assumed.

[Boac]

OFSO is entirely correct.

- good to know, but about what in particular?

[Slasher]

That the rich bonk the same way as we do but have better choices of bimbo.

[OFSO]

Do you have to ask Mr Cape ? Should've gone to Specsavers...

[Capetonian]

I see that some knobhead called Will.I.am has accused a QF FA of 'racism'. First of all with such a stupid name he's asking for trouble,and then it appears he thought he was too important, being a big I AM, to listen to the safety briefing, so the lady who reprimanded him was 'racist'.

Never having heard of him, I Googled him and listened to a few seconds of the mindless shouting and jungle drums that he calls music. Tosser. No doubt he said : "Do you know who I am. I'm Will, I am."

On a different note :

Prince Andrew used N-word, says former Downing Street aide
Ex-aide to Cameron says prince used word during 2012 meeting at Buckingham Palace

Prince Andrew: “Well, if you’ll pardon the expression, that really is the n***** in the woodpile,” he is alleged to have said by former aide to David Cameron Rohan Silva in a meeting at Buckingham Palace in 2012.

Prince Andrew has been accused of using the N-word in a conversation with a senior political aide, adding to the royal’s woes after his BBC Newsnight interview regarding his friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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He claims the prince responded: “Well, if you’ll pardon the expression, that really is the n***** in the woodpile.”

The same phrase was used by Conservative MP Anne Marie Morris in 2017, prompting the party to suspend for her for several months.

The Evening Standard quoted unnamed palace sources insisting Andrew never made the comment and would never use such language.

Nigger in the woodpile is a normal expression. Whilst calling someone a nigger might be seen by some as non-PC, I fail to see the harm in using the expression. How long will it be before we are not supposed to refer to Paki shops, Jew's harps, and so on.

[Ex-Ascot]

I had a Golliwog as a child. What am I supposed to call it to tell people what it was now. What about the Robinson Jam company aircraft. What ever happened to that? I should have brought it down here.

[Stoneboat]

I had a Golliwog as a child. What am I supposed to call it to tell people what it was now. What about the Robinson Jam company aircraft. What ever happened to that? I should have brought it down here.

Prolly shot down by Jane Fonda using the NVA AA gun she posed on.

[CharlieOneSix]

G-OLLY was deregistered on 19 May 2000 and the aircraft was transferred to the Netherlands. G-WILY was also deregistered that year, pity about only one ‘L’.

[Capetonian]

More PC ***** exposed. :

With millennials trying to ban secret Santa, the Christmas clampdown is truly on its way!

Father Christmas is no longer allowed to ask: ‘Have you been a good little girl?’

We had a good run – 1682 years, according to my online Gregorian calendar. But I think we’re all increasingly aware that, along with foie gras, clapping, pork scratchings, flirting, plastic bags and humour, Christmas is going to have to go.

It’s inappropriate, for one thing. And I can’t get over the ubiquitousness of that word, as though overnight we’ve become a nation of headmistresses, frowning disapprovingly down at life over our bifocals.

But think about it: we were somehow allowed to sneak in Hallowe’en and Guy Fawkes night – despite the refined sugar binges and the gore, the burnings at the stake and PTSD-prompting explosions of pretty pollutants in the atmosphere – but Christmas? Christmas is patently “not suitable or proper in the circumstances”.

You may have noticed that those circumstances have become increasingly… odd. Christmas trees have been coming down across Europe for some time now (fear of upsetting Muslims). Back in 2015, an advert featuring the Lord’s Prayer was banned from British cinemas (fear of general “offence”), and last week a 72-year-old former engineer named Roland Parsons was told to remove the Christian banner he’s been bringing to Speaker’s Corner – the nation’s historic home of free speech – for the past 20 years.

Meanwhile, I discovered at the weekend that it was easier to find transgender porn online than a 2019 advent calendar featuring the nativity scene.
Present and correct: reusable wrapping is the only acceptable, 'woke' option this Christmas

So Christianity’s off the table – but we can all still enjoy a good, hearty knees-up on 25th, can’t we? ’Fraid not. There are logistical issues, you see. With the “cancel Christmas” charge being led by non-theists – the intellectually and physically lazy version of atheists, who really should have the word “apathy” gold-plated and strung on chains around their necks – nobody can be bothered with all the organising any more.

Then there’s the long list of “inappropriate” Christmas paraphernalia. This weekend, mulled wine was banned by the council down in Castleford, West Yorkshire (concerns over “street drinking”), and last week Dame Emma Thompson urged the great British public to ban tinsel and wrapping paper.

I was still wondering why Thompson herself has never been banned or cancelled when a Friends of the Earth supporter popped up on morning telly the following day, advocating – yes, you guessed it – a ban on Christmas cards and Christmas trees. These should be rented, apparently, from one of the many Avis and Alamo Tree Rentals you see on the high street.

How have Christmas crackers lasted this long? With the bang liable to reduce both babies and millennials to tears, and jokes like “What does a transvestite do for Christmas? Eat, drink and be Mary” now vetoed, Waitrose has announced a ban on the offending items as of next year – along with polyethylene terephthalate (that’s ‘glitter’ to you and me). Both “pose a danger to people and animals”, they say – alongside that other newly unwelcome Christmas lunch tradition, the Pervy Uncle.

It being the season of forgiveness, however, and a lonely day for perverts across the land, Pizza Express will be throwing them their own charity Christmas luncheon, hosted by Prince Andrew.

None of us will miss Pervy Uncle’s beneath-the-table input, but it does seem regrettable that Father Christmas is being phased out. Yes, thanks to the ‘Santa clauses’ being slapped on impersonators by a number of British retailers including Hamleys this year, I fear the poor man’s not long for this world.

The list of Father Christmas dos and don’ts include refraining from “lifting kids onto your knee”, keeping “hands visible at all times”, and avoiding “language that is open to interpretation, such as: ‘Have you been a good little girl?’ and ‘What would you like Santa to put in your stocking?’” At least British perverts can breathe easy knowing that John Lewis’s new gender-neutral changing rooms will always make them feel welcome.

OK, so Christianity’s gone, alongside Father Christmas, trees, cards, mulled wine, crackers, bad jokes and pigs in blankets (this hasn’t yet been made official, but given that they’re basically impropriety wrapped in rashers of salt-cured impropriety, it can’t be long).

Aren’t we forgetting the beating heart at the centre of it all? The real reason we all put our differences aside and bridge the furthest distances to spend that single special day together year after year? Because in the end it comes down to presents, doesn’t it?
Yorkshire market town Castleford has banned mulled wine amid concerns over "street drinking”

We don’t care if wrapping paper’s banned; as Dame Emma points out, just use a scarf instead! We don’t care, either, that cheap plastic kids’ toys have gone the same way (although I can’t for the life of me locate a plain old fir cone for my seven-year-old in the Argos catalogue). As long as we’re being given stuff, there’s still hope.

Only this, too, is now problematic, according to psychology lecturer Dr Ashley Weinberg, who issued a stark warning against Secret Santas on Sunday. Never mind that picking colleagues’ and relatives’ names out of a hat in order to buy them a gift is one of the most millennial Christmas traditions out there: Secret Santas are giving snowflakes anxiety issues. With not everyone enjoying the “same disposable income”, Dr Weinberg explained, “this can mean that an individual’s contribution or lack of one is labelled ‘stingy’. Clearly, this is unfair and creates stigma.”

Like I said: we had a good run. And if praying were allowed, I’d urge us all to spend non-Christmas praying for the lost souls of those who persist in enjoying themselves.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

https://www.todocanada.ca/things-christ ... lottetown/

Can't move for Christmas events here!
There's even a 'Baby, it's cold outside' deeply un-PC-titled dinner.
All our snowflakes are pushed aside by snowplows

As for the headmistresses reference, I should let you know that headmistresses and deputies make a point of not going anywhere near the Christmas revues at girls' schools, so they can deny all knowledge of what happens should it ever come to light, which it never has

[OFSO]

Mrs OFSO objects to the phrase "knees up" as discriminating against older folk with a history of skiing accidents, as hers have, so to speak 'gone'.

[Pontius Navigator]

Chin chin, offensive to chinless wonders.

[barkingmad]

The late Prince William of Gloucester used to drive around in a Group A single engined steed which proudly bore the registration; G-AWOG.

It was temporarily changed for his intended tour of Africa !

Can’t recall when that happened in relation to his fatal accident.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Look at the spats on that one...

[Pontius Navigator]

I thought I saw chocolate Easter Bunnies last month but I think they were bears.

[TheGreenGoblin]

The late Prince William of Gloucester used to drive around in a Group A single engined steed which proudly bore the registration; G-AWOG.

It was temporarily changed for his intended tour of Africa !

Can’t recall when that happened in relation to his fatal accident.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... G-AYPW.pdf



Halfpenny Green... seems he was a very agreeable chap.

[Capetonian]

England footballer Daniel Sturridge is suing his former landlords for racial discrimination and harassment after he and his girlfriend found a child's Netflix account labelled 'n*****'.

Sturridge rented the Cheshire mansion belonging to Alan O'Neill and his wife Katie in October 2018 during his six-year stint at Liverpool and is seeking £100,000-worth of damages.

Needless to say this is someone looking for money because he has chosen to take offence whilst browsing other people's Netflix accounts.

Of course 'nigger' is perfectly acceptable when used between black people, and I was on a bus once and there was a (black) kid listening to loud noise on his headphones which was just the word 'nigger' over and over again. I asked him to turn it down or off because I found it offensive.

[Woody]

Needless to say this is someone looking for money because he has chosen to take offence whilst browsing other people's Netflix accounts.

Whilst I’m not sure why he’s claiming that amount Cape, pretty certain that he doesn’t need the money!

[G-CPTN]

Whilst I’m not sure why he’s claiming that amount Cape, pretty certain that he doesn’t need the money!

Someone with money is not going to sue over £1000 - which would be 'tip-money' to them, so they are going to go for a suitable (to them) amount.
Legal fees for litigation ain't cheap!