Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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Black SabbathWent to both of the Black Sabbath reunion shows at the NEC in 1999. The resulting partial deafness and headbangers' neck lasted a few days.
Concerned colleagues asked what was wrong as I could barely move my head. I told them I I'd been to see Black Sabbath and had a fantastic time.
Guess what happened...
The idiot complainant was neither black nor Jewish, a point I extracted from the then head of HR.
I nailed the idiot complainant later for inappropriate web usage. Don't fuck with IT guys.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 18:48, 3 replies)
Perhaps they were some sort of Christian Fundamentalist'Sabbath' is a Christian thing. 'Shabbat' is the Jewish term for the day of rest.
So now you know.
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Shegetz Chris Kamara's comedy moustache, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:28,
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Was thisone of Black Sabbath's many "last ever" shows? I've been to a few of them myself.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:41, closed)
You have just earned100 BOFH points ;-)
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 0:31, closed)
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