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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Oooop north!Where I work my boss calls everyone gayboy. We know of two people called Bob, to differentiate them, one is call gay Bob and the other is called heterosexual Bob. Both Bobs are straight. All asians are called Abdul, even the women, and I'm just called the daft tart.
You cant beat a plain speaking Yorkshireman.
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girlinthehole, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 10:46,
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To a certain extentI have to agree with Yorkshire common sense!
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jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 19:08,
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You 'can' beat a plain speaking yorkshiremanWith the poker from the fireside.
Just crack him in the spleen with it a couple of times and he'll soon stop spouting that bollocks.
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