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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Thought showersImagine my disgust a while back when we were planning out our college course at the beginning of the year.
It started all rather well with us all introducing ourselves, but then it all suddenly went black from then on, as we were discussing how we would actually plan out the course. Naturally i volunteered that a good old Brainstorm would be a good way to start.
But no.
I was slapped in the face with a torrent of PC advice and was told that they had to be called "thought showers". Yes. "thought showers".
Not only am i pissed off with the Political correctness thing, but seriously, they could've thought of a more awesome name than "thought shower". It's like if your thoughts were rain, they'd just be pattering feebly against the windows of a retirement home, whilst being laughed at by old people for being so weak and pathetic, Whereas if it was called something like...oh i don't know, MIND HURRICANE, or PSYCHOLOGICAL SHITSTORM, you get the picture of kids being swept away and impaled on fence posts by the sheer scale and monstrosity of your very ideas.
Well at least i do.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 1:10, 2 replies)
Yes, thought showersApparently my 'kind' get offended by it.
I'm Epileptic but i don't give a shit. The most pointless thing to change. PC-ness is bloody stupid.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 2:04, closed)
I are epileptic tooAnd I've never heard the phrase "brainstorm" used to describe a seizure or anything.
"PSYCHOLOGICAL SHITSTORM" is a fucking brilliant phrase though and I'm going to try and use that!
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Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 11:30,
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