PC Craziness

What’s with the red rash?

Nothing offends me (Apart from child abuse or other such like), I was just pointing out that almost can be turned around into being not PC.

I dont like your sentiments about child abusers and whatnot. Dont you understand those abusers were themselves abused and we have to understand why theyd do such things? Come on, get with the times.

OK…PC/Sarcastic mode off :diablo:

What’s with the red rash?

Nothing offends me (Apart from child abuse or other such like), I was just pointing out that almost can be turned around into being not PC.

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(a), you PC’d my post, removing words that may offend although most of the UK uses them.

As you are well aware, I removed two instances of offensive language from the posting in question.

The use of such terms is a violation of item 5 of the site owners’ rules for use of these forums (the Code of Conduct).

If you don’t like those rules, then take it up with the Webmaster or with the site owners themselves. In the meantime, the site owners still expect you to follow their rules in exactly the same way as any other user.

(b) So, your warning to me makes no sense to anybody now picking up on the thread.

Warning? I’ve checked your profile and no-one has issued you with a warning of any kind. Think of my comment as friendly advice.

In any case, you clearly understood it and I wasn’t actually extending the advice to anyone else.

(c) You wrote “Funny hats”, well we all know what you mean, and wearers of those hats may be a bit put off by it. (They could of course retort with “Not as funny as a baseball cap on backwards, chav style”)

And how, pray tell, do you know that I wasn’t referring to baseball cap wearing chavs?

Your assumptions are your own business, and I can’t (and won’t) account for them.

(d) Your signature is a tribute to the Goons song. The Goons, and most of our other national treasures from the Armed Forces Entertainment circles of Wartime / National Service days frequently took the mickey out of the Chinese or Indian or any of the other people we once ruled, in the Empire days.

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I’m off for my breakfast now….

Nope, because I can’t make head or tail of what you’ve just posted.

Try again (later) in the morning….. :diablo:

(a), you PC’d my post, removing words that may offend although most of the UK uses them.
(b) So, your warning to me makes no sense to anybody now picking up on the thread.
(c) You wrote “Funny hats”, well we all know what you mean, and wearers of those hats may be a bit put off by it. (They could of course retort with “Not as funny as a baseball cap on backwards, chav style”)
(d) Your signature is a tribute to the Goons song. The Goons, and most of our other national treasures from the Armed Forces Entertainment circles of Wartime / National Service days frequently took the mickey out of the Chinese or Indian or any of the other people we once ruled, in the Empire days.

The last part of this post makes zero sense now you’ve PC’d my post.

Oh, you can’t say funny hats…….and, the Ying Tong song is a mickey take of the Chinese, which of course was a frequent thing with the Goons and a lot of the other ITMA/Forces radio etc. but it is quite acceptable from them, they were classics after all. We had National Service and an Empire then. Empire, Oh my God….that’s the source of ALL the trouble. Can’t say Empire, it involves the Union Flag.

See the problems it all brings?

Nope, because I can’t make head or tail of what you’ve just posted.

Try again (later) in the morning….. :diablo:

So are you trying to tell us that because some plank called you a ‘milky bar’ – which, to be honest with you, is a new one on me – that makes it perfectly OK to regard people as inferior beings just because their skin is a different colour, or just because they wear funny hats and have big bushy beards?

Think very hard before answering…..

Oh, and old shape? Be careful what you wish for, mate.

The last part of this post makes zero sense now you’ve PC’d my post.

Oh, you can’t say funny hats…….and, the Ying Tong song is a mickey take of the Chinese, which of course was a frequent thing with the Goons and a lot of the other ITMA/Forces radio etc. but it is quite acceptable from them, they were classics after all. We had National Service and an Empire then. Empire, Oh my God….that’s the source of ALL the trouble. Can’t say Empire, it involves the Union Flag.

See the problems it all brings?

people seem to think Racism is when a white bloke insults a black guy, and get all funny about. Where is the sense in that. I got called a milky bar by a black guy and it didn’t bother me one bit.

So are you trying to tell us that because some plank called you a ‘milky bar’ – which, to be honest with you, is a new one on me – that makes it perfectly OK to regard people as inferior beings just because their skin is a different colour, or just because they wear funny hats and have big bushy beards?

Think very hard before answering…..

Oh, and old shape? Be careful what you wish for, mate.

people seem to think Racism is when a white bloke insults a black guy, and get all funny about. Where is the sense in that. I got called a milky bar by a black guy and it didn’t bother me one bit.

Not only is PC a joke gone wrong, passed over in the late 70’s from the old colony of merkin land, but it is doing more damgage than good. “You can’t say that because he has a turban” actually ENFORCES the fact that a turban in middle England is very different.
My lad (5 yo) asks the obvious questions about people from other countries in “Different” dress codes, I just tell him exactly what it is. I never say “Don’t stare, or don’t say X or Y”.

If I tell a black joke to my black friends, they retort with a white joke that is just as funny or better. It’s called normal.

99% of the PC garbage is invented by a pathetic bunch that ASSUME they have the right to speak up for the minority groups, that assumption itself is an insult to the intelligence of those very groups. If I try and speak for my missus I’d soon get put in my place!

“Gordon Brown is a waste of white skin and is an insult to Scotland and the Scots”. There, racist? No, I’m white, he’s white. If he was Black and I said waste of black skin, the mods would make noises and give me a red card. It’s all gone stupid.
At least there is a return of real comedy and good old jokes about all the usual minorities are back in vogue, hopefully it will kill off the PC brigade.

I think that’s possibly the point Lance was getting at!

Paul

Do you know. I think you’re right!

Lance, remember to be a little less deep for poor dozy beggars like me please.

Regards,

kev35

It also depends on how you define racist as well.

I think that’s possibly the point Lance was getting at!

Paul

That depends on how you define ‘patriotic’, quite frankly.

It also depends on how you define racist as well.

Regards,

kev35

….you can’t even be Patriotic in this country without being called a racist.

That depends on how you define ‘patriotic’, quite frankly.

THATS MENTAL

This country is turning into a Joke, you can’t even be Patriotic in this country without being called a racist.

Yeah, I heard about this one too, its getting so ridiculous that its not even funny anymore.

For my friends across the pond, I was wondering if you could tell me about the case where 2 school children got reprimanded for not praising Allah during a “multi-cultural” exercise. Has anyone heard about this? I just heard it today in passing on the radio.

I give up… I thought this country was bad enough…

Personally speaking, I have quite a few Black friends; NONE of them refer to themselves as “People of Colour” or any of the other so-called PC terminology.
I showed one of my friends this thread; he was aghast.
“I’m Black. What’s racist about that?”
He said to me: “You know two people with the same name. When you refer to me, no doubt when people say “Which Paul*?”, you will say “The Black one.”
“What’s racist about that?”

He has no time for PC bullsh1t either… :D:D:D

*Name changed.

Here’s another example of PC lunacy:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,380143,00.html

This time the idiots reside on the other side of the Atlantic, signifying how the PC fad has become a global campaign of idiocy.

So, by the same rationale, I must be a racist ‘cos I can’t stand Lenny Henry?

:rolleyes:

He’s out here at the moment doing the rounds of the chat shows..he’s about as funny as a dead fish!!

So, by the same rationale, I must be a racist ‘cos I can’t stand Lenny Henry?

:rolleyes:

You can. But hey, you ain’t a racist. Just a redneck 😉

I hope it doesn’t make me a racist to say that. (But I’d be in the same category as you, so I guess I’m allowed to say it 😀 )