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Freddy 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)

(unknown, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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Meh.
Swedes ritually take the piss out of English Food: This doesn't phase me. They have Surstömming and lutfisk etc.. They clearly have no sense of Irony. ;o)

Anyway.. I join in the joke from time to time, and on a recent trip to Germany our host - a lovely middle-ages* German lass - said that she hoped that the food we'd be eating that night was going to be nice. I responded saying that "Well, it'll definitely be better than English food! =)"

I got a swift repremand from the german lady for stereotyping... =( I explained that I WAS english, and that I was only joking. She laughed, mentioned "Spotted Dick" and we were back on the same level.

ahhhh... that cheered me up.

As you were people.

Edit
*Typo ;o)
(I helped save b3ta! Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 9:34, 5 replies)
Middle-ages German lass
As in mediaeval?

[leaves quietly]
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 9:51, closed)
As I'm Dyslexic*
..I find your drawing attention to my typo** to be mildy offensive**.

*True - most good engineers are
** I'm never sure if I spell "Typo" correctly
***Blatantly false.

;o)
(I helped save b3ta! Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 9:57, closed)
Is the double asterisk...
...after "offensive" another typo?
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 13:43, closed)
Did she
also feel compelled to apologise for her forefathers conduct in the war?

(sorry Harry)
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 13:57, closed)
Sorry Enzyme:
I think I caught somthing from the last melon: as such I'm making more errors than usual.

I'm also not that clever.
(I helped save b3ta! Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Sun 25 Nov 2007, 12:12, closed)

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