I guess this is how it has affected me....
it makes me angry.

what most annoys me about PC-ness is that we (particularly in this once awesome nation of ours) are expected to bend over backwards (or forwards to accept a shafting) to be accomodating to other cultures which are in our midst, but god forbid we try and show some patriotism.

I'm not entirely sure how much exaggeration* is in these examples, but:

*I have subsequently been informed that the following are not true, however, the thought of it still fills me with boiling rage. but then, most things involving other people do that.

I've heard of people and establishments not being allowed to fly the English flag on St. George's Day in case it was offensive to other nationalities.

I've heard that there was debate as to whether the Red Arrows should be able to put on a display for the Olympics in 2012 because they are "too British".

Other things have been mentioned on the board today about schools in particular not being allowed to call it a blackboard, or use black bin bags, or sing baa baa black sheep. other things like that.

IF THE SHEEP IS BLACK, I'LL CALL IT A FUCKING BLACK SHEEP.

Fortunately I don't encounter this very frequently, otherwise there would be a lot of PC crusaders with shovels wrapped round their faces.

Finally, I'm sure that as some have pointed out, within reason, it's the feeling behind a phrase or word that makes it insulting or derogatory.

No one likes to be stereotyped, whether they are called gay, black, differently sexually oriented, of african descent, any of that shit.

Apologies for the rant, it is most likely poorly worded, particularly towards the end,
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:03, 9 replies)

The red arrows thing
was a complete shit-stirring fabrication from The Sun.
The truth was they only hadn't been asked yet. Not terribly suprising 5 years before the event.
( Zuowan, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:09, closed)

I see your rant and raise you...
1. Patriotism is bunk (and it collapses into cosmopolitanism pretty quickly anyway once you start to give it an intellectual bulwark). The less of it, the better.

2. It's actually illegal to fly the St George's flag, or the Union flag, except on certain days, or unless you happen to be a vessel in HM Navy. Nothing to do with PC - that's a law that goes back to James I and VI.

3. The red arrows thing is an urban myth. A rumous started circulating that the RAs had been banned, but there was never any such proposal. The Olympics are 4 years away - noone's been invited yet. That doesn't amount to being banned.

4. Banning the word "blackboard", though, is fucking daft. I'll give you that. But it's also gaining urban myth proportions - does anyone have solid evidence of it actually happening (or happening as much as people think)?

Sorry to be so debunk-happy.

No I'm not.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:16, closed)

glad I mentioned that I wasn't sure of the truth of those matters
I knew someone would inform us.

I hate the Sun. (not the thing in the sky, I'm fairly fond of that)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:25, closed)

I've actually heard whiteboards called blackboards.
Dunno what you'd call that except "illiterate" or "blind".
( Zuowan, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:29, closed)

Mebbe, just mebbe
THe use of "blackboard" is being replaced by 'chalkboard' in response to those fancy computer-run powerboard gismos that the schools have now?
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:35, closed)

"Fortunately I don't encounter this very frequently, otherwise there would be a lot of PC crusaders with shovels wrapped round their faces."
That's because all of the above stories are untrue.

As are most of the stories on this QOTW.
(faragher dub, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 17:16, closed)

By the way, off topic a little, but following on from something earlier.
Fuck fucking patriotism.
Fuck it until it's dead in the fucking ground where it belongs.
For all countries.
( Zuowan, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 20:34, closed)

Enzyme
Vessels of the Royal Navy do not fly either the flag of St George or the Union Flag - they used to fly both but now fly a modernised White Ensign, which is a merge of both flags.

Oh, and patriotism is not "bunk". Patriotism rocks.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:36, closed)

They've got places for people like you
The Oxford Union, for example.
( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 22:13, closed)