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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Suppressing studentness? Is that PCGM?From a news item on my uni's website:
To all students picking up and bringing home street signs after a night out.
Just to remind you removal of signs (trolleys, cones etc) is actually theft and constitutes a criminal offence. The University takes its commitment to the local community seriously.
Therefore the presence of these items on University property is not permitted and will be reported to the police from the 26th November 2007.
If you have acquired any street signs etc there will be an amnesty this week so please bring your trophies to Small Hall, no questions asked.
The police are now working in the area to stop sign theft.
HARRUMPH, thinks I, this is a bit silly and amusing in a crypto-fascist sort of way, I should share this with like-minded fans of silly authority types; so I emailed it to my dad. This is what he wrote back:
And, precisely what sort of liberal institution considers its duty as a copper's nark should override its place 'in loco parentis'?
As you know ,it is the inalienable right of the young student about town to knock off a policeman's helmet and ideally place it on the head of a lofty statue of some fatuous, self satisfied prig ( such as whoever drafted the edict which you quoted) as you have been taught since close to birth by your adoring parents.
Far be it for me to encourage illegality, but the appearance in smallhall of such as the main sign from the local Police Station might strain the mealy mouthed amnesty and give these ghastly people some moments of difficult explanations to the plods.
So tomorrow I'm off to nick a sign from outside the Crown Court. Because my daddy told me to.
Length? Hopefully small enough to fit in a medium sized binbag.
(Incidentally, at school we used to call brainstorms 'sneeze diagrams', because they looked a bit like big stains of dubious provenance.)
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 1:15, 7 replies)
This isn't Chester College by any chance is it?The reference to "Small Hall" you see. There may be many "Small Halls" for all I know. But I doubt it.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 1:21, closed)
Couldn't possibly comment...'myeah.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 1:22, closed)
The missus went there.Sounds about right to me.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 1:24, closed)
Coat of arms stolen from Bexhill Magistrates court..Lol, your dad is one crazy guy !
It reminds me of the time someone stole the coat of arms from INSIDE THE COURTa at Bexhill on Sea....
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:11, closed)
...They talk about 'Commitment to the local community' and then they let the students off campus...
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:42, closed)
Nice onedid you manage to get the sign in the end?
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 19:52, closed)
I think we should sort a collection out... and buy your old mana bottle of whisky this christmas...
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Tue 27 Nov 2007, 18:40,
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