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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Trade union pen pushersI used to work for UNISON, one of the UKs public sector trade unions.
I worked in the publicity department - part of their remit being to spec up freebies like pens, keyrings, mugs and so on.
Well, they wanted a pen with the word UNISON printed on it. And then some PC fuckwit seriously suggested that the word UNISON should also be put on the pen in Braille.
Think about it.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 18:21, 5 replies)
Reminds meof the installation of Edinburgh's first talking traffic lights at a pedestrian crossing. Supposedly, an American tourist asked why the announcement was made that "Traffic going to Princes Street has been signalled to stop". Local answered "So blind people know the lights are at red". Tourist - "In America we don't let the blind drive"
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 18:37, closed)
Not quiteAs an Yank, I can tell you the drive up Automated Teller Machines (Bank Machines, ATMs, dont know what they are called over in the UK), have braille on the key pad. think about that... blind people who cannot drive driving up to an ATM where they can read the pad from the comfort of a car they're not supposed to be in..
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 1:27, closed)
That's just bizarre!Mind you, it would explain some of the high speed chases I've seen on your news programmes...
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 11:58, closed)
Subway:People can walk up to drive-up ATMs.
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Rob T Firefly talked, like, William Shatner, on, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 22:39,
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@ subwayin Blighty, we're still 'overactive' enough to actually get out of our cars and walk the fifteen steps or so to the atm (or 'cash machine')
I presume that the braile keypad is most likely the same keypad used in all the other pedestrian atm's so it would be a bit silly to make special ones without braille just for the drive-up ones?
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 11:57, closed)
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