Bristol City Cuncil have written a guide to having a meeting and managed to create the most politically correct document you will ever read in the process.
This blogger has highlighted and laughed at the worst excesses of this political correctness gone mad for your pleasure.
NSFW due to the bloggers effin' and jeffin'
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:36, Reply)
makes me instantly think of Daily Mail reading cunts who think "It's okay, it's only a nickname from the shortening of his country of origin!".
Checking the comments... yep, seems right.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:39, Reply)
In fact, I doubt they have a sub editor sufficiently trained to cope with the sheer lunacy contained in the Bristol City Council guide to having a meeting.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:50, Reply)
what is the bloggers fucking problem? he should grow the fuck up.
e.g: "But it's only the Disabled people's bitch. Know that, evil able-bodied people."
Why would an able bodied person need an assistant. Also note, they DON'T HAVE TO USE THE ASSISTANT IF THEY DON'T WANT TO it is not fucking compulsory.
also what Rev A-MOL said.
is this guy related to prince harry?
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:46, Reply)
You have to give disabled people somewhere to sit these days. ITS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!
Sometimes, you even have to provide tea AND coffee!! ITS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!
If you're hosting a conference of some kind, some people might not want to eat turkey twizzlers. ITS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!
(although the bit about some cultures making men and women sit seperate seemed a bit wanky. Sorry, Bristol city council...In this country, all people are supposed to be equal)
ALL PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE EQUAL? ITS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:48, Reply)
So why should the council let disables people have 'ramps' and places to park?
ITS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!
BAN THIS SICK FILTH!
etc.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:57, Reply)
The point is that Bristol City Council have seen fit to pay someone or some agency to spell out how to hold a meeting without offending anyone and end up with a hugely patronising and wanky document that contradicts and offends in the process.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:00, Reply)
Try using their guide to have a meeting that (in their books) will be inoffensive and inclusive to both transsexuals and devout Muslims and you will be pretty stuffed.
In addition, many physically disabled people I know who would find it highly patronising and offensive to make their own way to a meeting to be presented with their own personal assistant for the duration of said meeting to sort out a cup of tea for them.
Again the point on the posting is not the statements on inclusiveness . It is the fact that Bristol City Cuncil are generally shit (see school league tables as a starting point) and should have higher priorities than producing 14 pages of wanky drivel on how to hold a meeting.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:30, Reply)
it suggests the disabled people are invited to use the personal assistant if they need help at all.
It isn't suggested that they are automatically presented with their own personal assistant upon arrival to do everything for them.
If you think BCC have gone over the top with this sort of thing, you should try reading some of the staff guidebooks presented by Universities and HE colleges on dealing with race/disability etc, this BCC thing is very tame by comparison.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:57, Reply)
I mean, it's just madness gone politically correct!
(Joke shamelessly stolen from Mr Stephen Fry)
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:53, Reply)
Oh lord, I turned into Richard Littlejohn for a moment there.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:54, Reply)
the clearly suppressed homosexuality and inability to use the English language correctly?
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:56, Reply)
Before your pants snap from teh pressure!
Actually, can I just mention, the only time I remember loving Michael Winner was on Littlejohn's show where he had on 2 lesbians and was trying his best to get the audience to side with him against them, and instead they sided with Mr Winner as he pointed out the Lesbians had twice as much dignity and loveliness than he ever could.
Was a lovely moment!
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:01, Reply)
there's no real structure or purpose behind it, and it isn't written very well either, just straight from his head down into rambling generalisations.
/perosnal take on it only.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:55, Reply)
What definition of blog are you using?
Is a person not allowed to write a blog straight fro their head? Or are all bloggers supposed to make several drafts and have it edited by their publisher? Sheesh it seems everyone here is missing the point here; this to me seems like innocent fun poking at an overcomplicated leaflet that isnt really going to benefit anyone, paid for by the public.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 22:45, Reply)
I'll just have to grin and bare all those fucking wheelchair ramps.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:56, Reply)
Of course a document prepared by the equality team (or whatever they were called) about organising accessible meetings is going to contain that sort of information.
And by the way you can't use the phrase "political correctness gone mad" any more, it's not politically correct as it may be offensive to the differently mentalled.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:57, Reply)
I'm going to use that tomorrow and pretend it's mine. :)
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:03, Reply)
Ah yes, and we all had a loverly winterville without offending the Muslims this not-christmas, didn't we? ;)
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:03, Reply)
I really don't see the big deal.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:22, Reply)
on taxpayers money, to come up with different ways of pointing out the fucking obvious.
There are more important issues for councils to deal with.
Is the point, I think.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 21:48, Reply)
So you actually think that this west country moron has a point??
or have I missed 7 layers of irony somehow?
I didn't even think they had running water down there...
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:24, Reply)
What are we talking about?
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:31, Reply)
Off you go then!
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:24, Reply)
1-open in paint
2-draw big spunky cock
3-save
4-post
5-profit!
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 20:16, Reply)
Daily Star link, sorry! But the story is good.. also last 2 paragraphs.. pfft!
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:02, Reply)
probaly quite a fair reason for the fire
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:08, Reply)
a close friend said.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:31, Reply)
He has a curious way of going about it. The t-shirt really sets it off, don't you think? :D
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:47, Reply)
Lean forward before you break your neck you loon!
You should show him this, in the same way as folks who snore have no idea why everyone keeps lookin at them funny when they wake up on public transport, it might help save him further ridicule...
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:55, Reply)
Broke his office chair twice nodding off, on, off, on...the floor
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:41, Reply)
Not fluffy, but rather good. From the New Years Concert by the BBC. Interesting, because the orchestra walk out while they are playing..
Has it gone yet?
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:38, Reply)
Some people might want to put them on ignore.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:55, Reply)
let's publicly lynch them and post the video on /links.
Oh, wait...
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:54, Reply)
i would have loved to have been in the crowd, not knowing what the hell is going on. I love conseptual stuff like this.
Have you ever seen the orchestral version of John Cage's 4'33? mmmmmm, poncy...http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:55, Reply)
has a recording of 4'33 which he likes to play at dinner parties. He gets upset at people who talk through it. :D
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:58, Reply)
It got pretty scratched up and started to skip. I had to change the label to 3'52, then 3'21, then 2'47. Then it started to get stuck and I had to write ∞ on it. I reckon it's still playing somewhere.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:02, Reply)
Peter Schickele has done the "Hello Symphony" where everybody just shows up gradually on stage and start playing.
www.schickele.com/
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 20:21, Reply)
what the fuck conductors are for. Wastes of space if you ask me
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 0:09, Reply)
well if we are having a board clear then I advise everyone to try making one of these guys,
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:37, Reply)
in the spirit of thiswasmyclone's recent post, i give you a happy dog with a rather large tongue.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:35, Reply)
Not for the obvious sex related reasons, but I could lick my plate clean in a restaurant in under a second and no-one would see me.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:49, Reply)
Can we please clear the board of that shock site via the medium of happy things? I give you the happiest turtle in the world. :)
Full description: It's a happy looking turtle swimming in blue sea with some little fish friends who also look happy nestled in their cosy plant life. All set to uplifting music.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:26, Reply)
CUUUUUUTEE!!!
Has it gone yet?
Edit: Yes. Yes it has. Thank God for that.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:31, Reply)
and it features turtles underwater. My jaw still drops everytime I watch it. It's stunning
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:35, Reply)
3 months swimming about with these dudes. Amazing.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:57, Reply)
The one time I went to Tobago was sat on a plane on the runway for 4 hours
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:03, Reply)
Clicky.
Does anyone know what the song is? Very toe-tappy, that.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:35, Reply)
looks like Twins, worked over there in 06 and 07. lovely place
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:30, Reply)
Given that something unspeakably vile got posted a bit further down, I'm not clicking anything that doesn't have a description.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:28, Reply)
Wouldn't have happened if she'd got the RAC out instead.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:10, Reply)
Student gets 2.5million bid for virginity in online auction.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:03, Reply)
to have sex with an inexperianced, orange girl?
Some people have far too much money!
You could get a whole army of prozzies for that!
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:07, Reply)
had a 22 yr old gf once...was like shaggin a corpse :(
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:08, Reply)
I would be amused to see who wins the bid. Can you say '15 year old Arabian oil heir' ?
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:08, Reply)
I can't imagine the winning bidder will be doing it for publicity either!
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:13, Reply)
One on the left kinda looks like a vagina.
Fuck it, she's prettier than me anyway.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:21, Reply)
When he grabbed it from the beach, he just uncovered a 77 year old sex offender covered in wet sand.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:12, Reply)
I'm guessing the salt has a similar effect to slugs tho, so maybe we shouldn't ALL go there to try this?
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:10, Reply)
ronseal.
An interesting little animation explaining the origins of the internet.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 16:23, Reply)
I love tissues. I love wasting my time making rubbish songs.
So this happened. Besides, this is what The Saturdays should have sung.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 16:09, Reply)
Dirty boy!
perhaps we should form a club?
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 16:46, Reply)
:)
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:38, Reply)
I was wandering around YouTube and found this... very strange
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 15:53, Reply)
A newspaper clipping. Fake?
if not then things are getting more and more surreal and a little sinister.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:21, Reply)
their editor should be fired. I suspect fake.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 15:09, Reply)
is 'the daily' so i would guess fake
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 16:22, Reply)
Just a really cool firework caught during the Russian New Years Eve celebrations in the French Alps.
And if you feel a bit cheated by the brevity of that clip, here's the final 60 seconds of the display for your troubles
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:16, Reply)
.... don't think i imagined it
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:39, Reply)
Or it could just have been an exploding house.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:52, Reply)
and therefore that I fluked being at the right aspect relative to the firework to get it more or less square on.
Go me :)
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 15:05, Reply)
when I was a young boy, never have seen it since like that, it makes me wonder if it was a true memory or the keen imagination of an 8 year old. I remember the realistic dreams of that age, but I do recall them as dreams oh wait or did I really fly on an invisible magic carpet and talk to giant iridescent Beatles
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:08, Reply)
I was experimenting with timers in Flash and it developed into this little game. You have to click the mouse as closely as possible to the beat to see how much rythm you have...
- good or bad feedback please :)
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:04, Reply)
(though maybe only to me...) would be a +/- indication, to see if you tend to push or pull the beat, too.
Nicely done.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:16, Reply)
Maybe a different colour score depending on whether you're over or under.
Good suggestion.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 15:10, Reply)
A couple of times, the computer beat visual indicator seemed to disappear, leaving just my beat indicator. Wasn't sure if this was by design or not.
Very slick looking bit of Flash
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:11, Reply)
was to test you without the visual stimulus? Oddly, my timing seemed to tighten up when the indicator disappeared.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:13, Reply)
I just tried it with my eyes closed from the outset and did loads better too. Curiouser and curiouser.
I guess using a visual indicator, I was subconsciously waiting for it to prompt me to hit the button, listening I just clicked at the right time.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:16, Reply)
working only with audio - the visuals mean my tiny brain has something to confuse it.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:18, Reply)
It was actually quite easy at first so I made the visual aids disappear over time.
I'm finding a lot of people saying they do better with their eyes closed. Might need more sound effects so they know when it's game over I think :D
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 15:07, Reply)
I'm still a lousy dancer though.
Good to see you're still around. I was just reminded of you.
(, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 14:16, Reply)
I'm happy! I should probably be better than that really...
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 16:31, Reply)
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