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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Not so much 'gone mad'But....
For the last ten years or so, I've made a point of taking my father to football with me. (Championship football these days as well!). Anyway, after about 5 years, I've mangaed to stop him referring to black players as 'coloured' and I honestly thought I was making progress with him. However.... It was during a conversation with some people in the pub pre-match that he managed to alienate himself from people I know - and people he knows though me - that his lack of PC-ness was exposed.
The football club try and put on concerts in the summer break, and in the past, they've hosted Rod Stewart, Meatloaf, Elton John and, indeed, Ronan Keeting.
It was one of those harmless conversation that I didn't see any danger in, with people posing the question 'who would you like to have seen?' and one of the lads suggests, 'I always wanted to see Queen' - 'I'm not a massive fan, but I'll bet they'd have been good live'.
It was at this point, someone correctly pointed out that this would never happen as the lead singer is dead. My old man, sensing an opportunity to contribute to the debate says, 'Oh, that's right, his arse fell off didn't it? He had the gay plague'
Cue people walking away from him in disgust.
The reason? How was he to know that two of the group are memebers of the Gays.
I've not seen either of them in other 2 years now.
The bloke is a liability, but he's also my old man and I love him dearly.
Mullered.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 21:14,
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But...... he was right, as recently reported, we've been lied to for the last decade or so, and those eighties ideas that only gayers, junkies and brasses get the HIV are- in the western world- for the most part true.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 11:00,
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