IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!

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Remove all the seats and replace solid floors with grating.

Ed, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 10:31 (sixteen years ago) link

But that's not the Mail's usual stance of "stop picking on careless speeding drivers, not when there's real crimes going on". xxpost

Bocken Social Scene, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Ban students. Especially in the first few weeks of term when freshers can't shut the fuck up.

xp

onimo, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link

it's partly merseyrail's problem, partly everyone else who ride's the line's. the guardian woman who says "hey, we're all selfish cunts right?" is wrong.

xpost

yeah i know, but to be fair, it is pure revenue, the speeding fines thing. again an issue of stop being cunts, i guess, but fines for slightly breaking the limit? ech.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 10:34 (sixteen years ago) link

What fucks me off is used to travel on Merseyrail regularly in the late 90's and you always had to work out which seats had been pissed on before you sat down.

Lynskey, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 10:45 (sixteen years ago) link

You have to wear flip flops to avoid getting piss on your feet.

onimo, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 10:46 (sixteen years ago) link

I'll always treasure the old "but I don't wear those kinds of shoes" while pointing at the sign in protest when told to take feet off.

blueski, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 10:48 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Santas warned their "Ho ho ho" may be offensive to women

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115/wl_asia_afp/lifestyleaustraliachristmasoffbeat

StanM, Thursday, 15 November 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Let a ho ho ho be a ho ho ho.

milo z, Thursday, 15 November 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Score one for the batshit rightwing cartoonists

Slumpman, Thursday, 15 November 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link

The idea of Santa saying "ha ha ha" IS fucking hysterical though for some reason

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 16 November 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link

That is typical telegraph bullshit. Even the company involved says they aren't doing it.

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 November 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link

I love it when they run a whole story then smuggle a quote in at the end from the alleged perpetrator saying "yeah is this definitely not happening at all".

The imaginary war on Christmas is my favourite political correctness gone mad gone mad

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6804421078

That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 16 November 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html

StanM, Monday, 19 November 2007 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link

LOL @ facebook M0RANS group:

ANYONE WHO JOINS THE GROUP AND DOESNT READ WHAT ITS BOUT BEFORE POSTING A COMMENT WHICH SAYS THAT THE GROUP IS BOLLOCKS, AND WE ARE ALL SUCKERS FOR BELIEVING IT BLAH FUCKING BLAH BLAH SHOULD GO AWAY AND NOT BOTHER JOINING, BLOODY HELL SORT YOUR LIVES OUT.

IE don't you dare tell us that the entire premise of our group & victim culture mission st8ment is based on total bollocks that somebody MADE UP!

NB the first posted item - b|\|p video, also one of the wall posts starts w/"im no racist but..."

Feh, delete humanity.

Pashmina, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:21 (sixteen years ago) link

we aren't going to make it, are we

That mong guy that's shit, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Someone on my Facebook friends list joined a group called "COMMON SENSE RIP", which was just a long string of awful e-mail round robin "BARMY BRUSSELLS BEAUCRATS WANT TO BAN TIPEX BECAUSE IT'S RACIST" shit. I then defriended her.

Dom Passantino, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Examples of political correctness gone too far.

Heave Ho, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link

well spotted, heave ho.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Examples please.
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, June 9, 2004 1:56 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

Examples of political correctness gone too far.
-- N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, June 9, 2004 1:59 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link

According to a tiny column filler in the Times, the author Lindsey Gardiner has said that her publishing editors objected to a scene in one her books where a dragons toasted marshmallows by using the flames from its nose on the grounds that 'it looked dangerous and went against health and safety'.

Update: Also in the Telegraph.

Another of her novels, When Poppy and Max Grow Up, initially included a scene where a little boy climbed a ladder, but that too was changed. "They didn't allow Max to be on a ladder because they thought it was precarious. But when I changed it, I had him standing on a pile of three paint cans, which is much more dangerous, and they didn't have a problem with that," she said.

Matt DC, Monday, 19 November 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link

That is some MPAA-level shit.

Abbott, Monday, 19 November 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

"Liberals" are a funny lot. Just read the Christmas letter my boss is sending out to people we work with Asia and Africa, where she is at pains to point out that Christmas is basically a Pagan festival, she actually says at one point "...there aren't that many practising Christians left in the UK". She is one of those mythical people you read about but imagine don't really exist, who actually think it will offend people of other religions or cultures if you imply that Christmas has anything to do with Christianity.

Tom D., Tuesday, 11 December 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link

Life's too short really...

Tom D., Tuesday, 11 December 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_controversy

DG, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Cos Muslims around the world wd be way more down with Pagan fertility festivals.

Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't think we actually deal with Muslims - maybe a few, actually most of the Africans we deal with ARE Christian!

Tom D., Tuesday, 11 December 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh man Prince needs to make a holiday album called Christmas Controversy.

I don't understand
Why we're putting up this tree
Wassail always gets
Popage from extended familu

Abbott, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

family

Abbott, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=O5EVTZUXLXBK1QFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/14/nbacon114.xml

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 14 January 2008 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link

f u nu-ilx

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 14 January 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link

will we ever be able to give out racist joke presents again in the current politically correct climate of policing?!

max, Monday, 14 January 2008 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Jokes bruv.

Dom Passantino, Monday, 14 January 2008 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

From an interview with Miss Manners:

Barbara Lane: People often say that there has been a decline in civility over the past several decades. Is that accurate?

Judith Martin: Yes, but there's also been an increase. We have seen, first of all, the result of generations of children being told by very well-meaning parents, Now you don't worry what other people think about you, you go out and search yourself and get what you want, and never mind what other people think. So they have done this beautifully, and that's the decline, I suppose, to which you're referring. And all the older people joined in; it's not just one generation or two.

But people forget the enormous progress that has been made in the last few decades. Not that long ago, people could say the most appalling, bigoted things with impunity. In the last ten or 20 years we've watched a lot of careers self-destruct by people who were making the same kind of little jokes and off-hand remarks they always made, but suddenly people realized how rude they were. And that's tremendous progress.

Lane: Some would label that political correctness.

Martin: The people who label it political correctness are always talking about ridiculous exaggerations where somebody took insult where no insult was intended. And so when they attack political correctness they find themselves in the peculiar position of defending outright bigotry, which I do not care to defend.

Abbott, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Miss Manners OTM.

Abbott, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Miss Manners is so consistently OTM on every subject that one could replace the expression by OTMM without changing its meaning.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 5 March 2008 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link

AWESOME.

Abbott, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link

TRUE.

Abbott, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link

"on the miss manners?"

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link

you're both fired

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link

What do you look like giving the DOUBLE DEUCE?

Abbott, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Miss Manners first paragraph OTM.

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 05:44 (sixteen years ago) link

I, too, find Miss Manners OTM and hilarious generally, but "On The Miss Manners" is clearly nonsensical and luda.

My favorite MM moment:

Reader: "Is a demitasse spoon useful?"
MM: "Does a duck swim?!"

roxymuzak, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 05:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Insane!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article881322.ece

But really this has NOTHING to do with political correctness does it?

Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 6 March 2008 08:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Also a mention there of the Campaign Against Political Correctness who have a truly terrible website.
http://www.capc.co.uk/

Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 6 March 2008 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link

"420" pupils

electricsound, Thursday, 6 March 2008 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link

This is the Sun, the paper currently edited by the same woman who, as editor of News Of The World, encouraged everyone to firebomb paediatricians.

Lady, if you can't finish it, don't start it.

Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 6 March 2008 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Although I'm surprised they didn't jump on the ACID HOUSE RAVE DRUGS HELL CHILDREN INNOCENCE PAUL BETTS WRITES bandwagon that I've just invented.

Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 6 March 2008 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link

ban this sick stunt

electricsound, Thursday, 6 March 2008 09:48 (sixteen years ago) link

Whole story worth it for RAVERS subheadline

DJ Mencap, Thursday, 6 March 2008 09:54 (sixteen years ago) link


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