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."
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(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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Cola warsWhen we write console games, they get checked over for anything offensive to our target market. Normally this is a good thing.
A few years ago, one of our games comes back from the head testers in the US with a big tick next to "FAILED - Racist/Offensive Content" on the front of the report. We read the details.
"In the subway level, there is a red and white vending machine, with the word 'Cola' written on it. As you may be aware, cola is the plural of colon. Some people may find it offensive to find a mention of such a body part. Please remove this immediately."
It was suggested that perhaps we couldn't hold ourselves repsonsible for someone who must be offended by just about every soft drink machine in the world. We had to remove it anyway. So we spent the next few months asking each other if we wanted a can of colons while we were passing the fridge.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:20, 10 replies)
surely not!!
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:25,
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Well, coke is fizzy brown arse water.It all makes perfect sense.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:50,
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I thought this must be total bollocksbut then I looked up an online dictionary and cola is indeed one of the plural forms of colon.
I'm going to start using that now!
[grins childishly]
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:04,
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unfortunately notCola is listed in the OED as the soft drink. Elsewhere, Cola is the *obsolete* term for the plural of colon.
Sorry for being anally retentive.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:29, closed)
Wow...Somebody must have gone out of their way to take umbrage with that one. I suspect a deeper reason. Perhaps his family was raped and killed by a bunch of colons.
Looking like this, perhaps... ::::::::
A-ha ha ha, etc.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:40, closed)
Cola = many colons?!Surely it's be "colons"- see (appropriately enough)- "Definition" and "Definitions". I doubt that a group with the surname Johnson would appreciate being collectively called The Johnsa!
Next ban: Dr Pepper. As a "Pepper" would be someone who does something to a "Peppee". Which is dangerously close to PeePee, so it's a link to piss-fetishism. Which some find offensive.
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uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 19:42,
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Obsolete plural?We thought they were just making it up, our dictionary only listed the soft drink.
I'm going to start giggling at the Coke machines again now.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 23:56, closed)
colon = greekAs far as I remember, colon is greek for limb. So if they're bitching about cola being the plural for colon (which it is in greek, but not really in english), then all it means is "limbs". I suppose amputees might find that offensive, but...
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Pretender, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 0:27,
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Pretender,Colon is also the name for your poop chute.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 16:48, closed)
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