IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!

Miss Manners first paragraph OTM.

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?!"

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

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

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

"420" pupils

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.

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.

ban this sick stunt

Whole story worth it for RAVERS subheadline

People are very confused aren't they?

Posted by: Trespasser

Yet again this seems to be a standard reaction, people are "walking on eggshells" and having to make moves to protect kids identities.

If this country was not run by a load of limp wristed morons, this wouldn't be happening. This just goes to show that there is very little faith in the current justice system that britain has at the moment.

Looking forward to getting my copy of THE POLITICALLY CORRECT SCRAPBOOK

http://www.capc.co.uk/baa.jpg

Come with me to the land of batshit right-wing cartoonists

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 yet Sir Terry Wogan is still presenting the Eurovision Song Contest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/white/

How many times will "IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD" be uttered during this, do we think? My money's on at least 50.

What, no Love Thy Neighbour or Melting Pot or Curry And Chips or It Ain't Half Hot Mum or Mind Your Language reruns?

That really is POLITICAL CORRECTNESS etc. etc.

Oh, is this why our local radio is banging on about poor white people still being poor and racist?

Snarkiness aside, that season does look like it might have some interesting programmes.

Looks shit to me

racist

Why don't they just get David Attenborough to do it and be done with it

The documentary on the Rivers of Blood speech looks good to me, at least.

The HYS on this topic is the predictable shower of idiots though:
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=4418&edition=1&ttl=20080306123527

Format of Rivers of Blood programme:

I PREDICT:

Gina Yashere
COMEDIAN

"Tiber flowing with blood? What was that all about? Eh, eh? Did he mean Tizer oh yes memories Spangles spacehopper Clout will that do?"

lol 60s, basically!

hugh influx of immigration ,.every high street transformed into bazars

Some sort of Four Weddings And A Funeral/Dollar deal going on here?

"Just see the unfortunate example of the murder of Kate Beagley by a black assassin. The verdict: He tried to steal her car and killed her in the attempt, case closed. Can you just imagine if the guy were white and the killed woman a black girl? God knows the size of the revolt, people demonstration in the streets, human rights groups crying for vengeance, covers and covers in the newspapers with the words 'racial attack' all over. This society has gone bonkers."

..., no, you have, mate

I always sort those by "READERS RECOMMENDED" to cut to the chase:

Your voice is more powerful than ours simply because of your colour. You are allowed to choose to call yourselves brown or black or whatever, we cannot do the same. You can have 'Black Entertainment' programmes on TV and proudly proclaim them. Imagine the outcry if we declared 'White Entertainment'. Remove the chip from your shoulder

jerryatric, BARNSLEY

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This is proberly the worst time in history and the worst place in the civilised world to be a white heterosexual working class male.
We work harder and longer than our Europeon allies, for worse pay ,worse conditions, worse pensions, worse healthcare.
Many of us are fighting wars in thwe middle East whilst their young come over here and get looked after by our welfare state, when our soldiers get injured, they are treated like third class citizens.
Yes, being white sucks!

pete tong

Recommended by 327 people

Oh My God...can you actually say the word "white" in England in 2008 now and not face imprisonment for being racist?

John Smith, Greenford, United Kingdom

Recommended by 311 people

and so on

Pete Tong should stick to uplifting house anthems, IMO.

You are allowed to choose to call yourselves brown or black or whatever, we cannot do the same. You can have 'Black Entertainment' programmes on TV and proudly proclaim them

Whereas 'Brown Entertainment' sounds vaguely pornographic

This is proberly the worst time in history and the worst place in the civilised world to be a white heterosexual working class male.

Wow. Where to start?

On paper, I have never earnt as much as I do now, in reality I have never been so poor.
When I get home from work I am too tired and stressed to go out and enjoy myself, even if I could afford to.
My crime? I met and married the wrong woman, who left me with a load of debts for another man taking my kids who I now have to pay for despite her refusal to let me have access.
If this happened to a woman the would be an outcry, but it happens to men everyday in this hellhole of a country.

[zen_reality]

http://www.st-marys.hull.sch.uk/sites/history/images/Victorianchildlabour.gif

Democracy is supposed to be rule by the majority, but there are so many pressure groups working towards, and getting, special treatment for minority groups that it sometimes feels as though 'normal' people are at a disadvantage.

David Smith, Scunthorpe

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... faces black as coal, the lot o' them (xp)

Of course we're being ignored. The sandal-wearing liberals in charge of this country are more interested in Guardian readers and asylum seekers than in the opinion of the ordinary working man.

DISCRACE!

Derek Bells, London, United Kingdom

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Is that Jim Crace's uncle or something?

For all his faults, I can't imagine Gordon Brown wearing sandals.

No, he said sandal-wearing liberals

You're not even allowed to read the Guardian now unless you own at least six pairs of Jimmy Choos.

Some working class people yesterday...
http://www.ourgreatyarmouth.org.uk/images/uploaded/scaled/scan00061.jpg
Them were the days...

Underage drinking still a problem though.

Nice use of belt + braces

Where is Belt and Braces band?

Jesus, that's been dredged from somewhere dank and disused in the old memory bank

lol, normal people

These people are the most dense, humorless morons ever. Tropic Thunder is -on their side-, taking Hollywood blowhards to task for manipulating and using the disabled for their own profit. But once again it's PC GONE CRAaZzY.

-- burt_stanton, Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Today on Radio 4:

PC RIP?

First of two programmes in which Clive Anderson traces the story of political correctness, and considers our attitudes towards it today.

With Jerry Springer! Stewart Lee!! Camille Paglia!!! Jim Davidson!!!!

not that i'm actually going to listen to it.

In that blurb there are at least three good reasons why I won't be listening to it.

It's the story of political correctness, narrated by people who believe x about porridge and y about vaginal sandiness, featuring sandy vaginal opinions about porridge, and vice versa. Oh, when is this on. So excited.

Southwark NHS has actually banned Christmas trees in case they offend Muslims, that was a doozy of a staff meeting

"in case they offend Muslims" = "can't afford any Christmas trees this year"