Inappropriate Jokes and blonde

[stallyon]

when will the PC stop....

Do I avoid people hole covers in the street, do I know support Peoplechester United, for stag do's do i go to Colouredpool, do I know go on holiday to the Isle of People?

[Nem]

mohammed ali was a veerment opponent of  words that were prefixed with the word "black" and were generally held as having a negative connatation such as
black magic and black sheep of the family.

I dont know the derivation of these terms but am interested to know if the term blackboard was genuinly changed so as to conform with modern day political correctness.

If so, just laughable

Ba-ba-black sheep CANNOT be sung as a nursery rhyme in school.

It has changed to ba-ba-rainbow sheep.

The term blackboard was changed to chalkboard. But they have since introduced felt tip pen boards, guess what they have called these boards? White boards.

[Nem]

I asked Race and Ethnicity tutors at work - what is PC nowadays  "coloured" or "black"?


Answer:    Black is PC ,  coloured is not!!

Yet I feel bad using the word black, and more comfortable saying coloured!!


Flushy - to me you will always be   "OI FISH"   lol   xxxx

Well trace, black people like being called Black and not coloured.

They hardly look like rainbows, so dont feel bad.

[ariston]

Well i certainly dont want to fall out with Keith, I dont want to fall out with anyone.

But it worries me that ONE voice can make us all change the way we talk to each other on the forum... and it also concerns me that this will lead to a spate of complaints from people about every exchange between mates... Look at the cincins threads for example, those boys rip each other to shreds , but still remain mates and share a table together most nights.

I guess I just find it strange that in this day and age people take offence in certain things... this is a poker forum, poker is gambling... therefor it is played by over 18,s.  

I shall refrain from using the word poof in future... NOT because i think it is insulting or derogatory, and Not because it upsets Keith ... I shall not use it again cos i cant be arsed to argue the toss anymore... chalk another one up for the Liberals !!!

I wont be swung that easy. I am sorry keith has not gotten over a traumatic experience when he was a child but The voice of one should not mean all of us have to change. As a child i spent several months in a wheelchair and then several more on crutches and in calipers- I was called all sorts of names- will this stop me having some banter with ironside? not a sniff. If you cannot get over things that happened when you where younger keith i suggest it may be something you need to look at, not something we should all have to change our behaviour because of. We are all adults on here and I will not think every time I type a post to make sure I don't upset someone. I say it as I see it and I don't mean any harm by it. I am never offensive deliberately but for me the first time I camr across flushy was him having the mickey taken out of him. This has actually worked out quite well for him as he is one of the most well known forumites. I can guarantee if you did a poll to all forumites with "use one word to descibe flushy" that puff would be right up there at the top with fish.

[stallyon]

and you get those that say they are of ethnic-origin....ffs just come out and say it...i dont care what colour your skin is, what colour your hair is, what colour your eyes are and whether or not you bend over for it....at the end of the day your blood is red and your tears are salty...and thats all that matters

[bolt pp]

mohammed ali was a veerment opponent of  words that were prefixed with the word "black" and were generally held as having a negative connatation such as
black magic and black sheep of the family.

I dont know the derivation of these terms but am interested to know if the term blackboard was genuinly changed so as to conform with modern day political correctness.

If so, just laughable

Ba-ba-black sheep CANNOT be sung as a nursery rhyme in school.

It has changed to ba-ba-rainbow sheep.

The term blackboard was changed to chalkboard. But they have since introduced felt tip pen boards, guess what they have called these boards? White boards.

Have you watched any of the really old fools and horses?

the stuff they got away with!!  but it's very funny and non mallicious so am i a bad person for finding it funny?

[stallyon]

Have you watched any of the really old fools and horses?

if you think Derrick Trotter was a bit non-PC just think of how PC Alf Garnett was

[Trace]

Little Britain? ? ?  ? ?

[bolt pp]

Have you watched any of the really old fools and horses?

if you think Derrick Trotter was a bit non-PC just think of how PC Alf Garnett was

That was quality though, alf garnett, legend

[thetank]

I find the politically correctness gone mad arguments a little trumped up.

Let's say I was in a pub with a group of friends, one of whom had long hair. Say we all called him a hippy.

If he politley asked us not to call him a hippy and explained why it offended him, we'd stop calling him a hippy, end of. Plenty other mays to mock them, we'll call them Teresa instead. No-one would harp on about person hole covers.

Blonde may be a wider community than a few folk in a pub, but at the moment I see no danger of politically correctness "going mad"

Can we not just respect one of our members requests?

In fact, I see no need for censorship or administrative legislation here, just politely ask everyone to have some consideration, and go from there.

[Sark79]

I got called a " gay ..... fag" once by a tramp.  It was the morning of the Scotland vs England football match at Hampden. I was suppose to be working as part of the security team on the gate, but was running abit late.  I had been to an early morning karate class that finished at 10am and decided to just leave my karate suit on rather than waste time getting changed before my train left Kilmarnock. 

I was carrying a rucksack with my change of clothes, a ladies handbag, and a bouquet of flowers.  After arriving at the railway station, I was leaning against a post listening to a copy of " Snowhite and the seven Dwarfs" on my CD Walkman. I heard a large yelp and looked over to see a dirty looking guy kicking a dog. He was obviously drunk and was swaying all over the place.  He had a friend who was slouched on the adjacent bench. 

A moment or so later he kicked the dog again. I ran over to him and told him not to touch the dog and if he didn't want him, then I would take him to a shelter . The tramp took offence to this and lunged at me with a bottle. My CD was still playing at this time and as I tried to turn it off, it only became louder. To be honest, I have always had a phobia of germs and dirt and was abit afraid to hit him. So I thought my best option would be to just dodge the swings he was taking at me rather than touch him. All I could here in the background was my CD playing  " Mirror, mirror upon the wall, Who is the loveliest in the land ". This went on for a minute or so before I saw a bunch of guys running in my direction.  They were plain clothes police who were there because of the football match.  The tramp and his friend got taken away by them, and they promised to take care of the dog. 

He shouted at me " F.....  ,  I will kill you, you gay.......fag" as he was being dragged away. It took me awhile to figure out why he had called me gay. It then dawned on me, I was the only guy on the platform holding flowers and a handbag.


I was returning the handbag  to a friends mum and the flowers were also for her.

[madasahatstand]

 

I find the politically correctness gone mad arguments a little trumped up.

Let's say I was in a pub with a group of friends, one of whom had long hair. Say we all called him a hippy.

If he politley asked us not to call him a hippy and explained why it offended him, we'd stop calling him a hippy, end of. Plenty other mays to mock them, we'll call them Teresa instead. No-one would harp on about person hole covers.

Blonde may be a wider community than a few folk in a pub, but at the moment I see no danger of politically correctness "going mad"

Can we not just respect one of our members requests?

In fact, I see no need for censorship or administrative legislation here, just politely ask everyone to have some consideration, and go from there.

[AlrightJack]

I for one am truly appalled at the use of the phrase 'political correctness gone mad'. I suspect mad people are not too keen on it either...

[tikay]

I got called a " gay ..... fag" once by a tramp.  It was the morning of the Scotland vs England football match at Hampden. I was suppose to be working as part of the security team on the gate, but was running abit late.  I had been to an early morning karate class that finished at 10am and decided to just leave my karate suit on rather than waste time getting changed before my train left Kilmarnock. 

I was carrying a rucksack with my change of clothes, a ladies handbag, and a bouquet of flowers.  After arriving at the railway station, I was leaning against a post listening to a copy of " Snowhite and the seven Dwarfs" on my CD Walkman. I heard a large yelp and looked over to see a dirty looking guy kicking a dog. He was obviously drunk and was swaying all over the place.  He had a friend who was slouched on the adjacent bench. 

A moment or so later he kicked the dog again. I ran over to him and told him not to touch the dog and if he didn't want him, then I would take him to a shelter . The tramp took offence to this and lunged at me with a bottle. My CD was still playing at this time and as I tried to turn it off, it only became louder. To be honest, I have always had a phobia of germs and dirt and was abit afraid to hit him. So I thought my best option would be to just dodge the swings he was taking at me rather than touch him. All I could here in the background was my CD playing  " Mirror, mirror upon the wall, Who is the loveliest in the land ". This went on for a minute or so before I saw a bunch of guys running in my direction.  They were plain clothes police who were there because of the football match.  The tramp and his friend got taken away by them, and they promised to take care of the dog. 

He shouted at me " F.....  ,  I will kill you, you gay.......fag" as he was being dragged away. It took me awhile to figure out why he called me gay. It then dawned on me, I was the only guy on the platform holding flowers and a handbag.


I was returning the handbag  to a friends mum and the flowers were also for her.

Youi could not make this stuff up, you just could not.......

[Trace]

A fag is something that is smoked - Tribecca piss me off completely for having this word censored as it means something else in the USA.   Crap is also censored - God knows why!

Whatever happened to Gay meaning Happy?


I wonder what Enid Blyton would make of all this - she so loved the word spunk in her books!  And I'm sure Dick and Julian were gay every now and then.