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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Tenuous link to QOTW.A couple of friends and I were in the 'dam, having a beer and chatting about films.
The conversation turned to Blazing Saddles and the scene where the sheriff first rides into town.
If you're not familiar with it, it's at about 1:50 here-
The sheriff is a near
It turns out one of my friends has never seen it, but finds it very funny indeed, and starts saying 'The sheriff is a nigger' over and over again, although, quite quietly, I'll give him that.
Seeing as there were a load of black scouse blokes at the next table, the other friend and I decided then would be a good time to leave.
So we were wondering down the road looking for pastures new, when we passed a huge black fella. We're talking well over six foot, dreads, dressed all in white and asking passers by if they would like to procure some of Bolivia's finest.
My friend shouted 'The sheriff is a near' at the top of his voice, to which some random passing 'merkin shouted 'NOOOOOOOOOO, THE SHERIFF IS A NIGGER' my friends and I promptly ran, but I turned around to see a huge spade of a hand-no pun intended- grabbing said 'merkin's shoulder, and dragging him into a nearby ally.
One of the funniest things I've seen to this day.
The added bonus is that to this day we still call black people who fit the dodgy stereotype niggers, but all other black people are sheriffs, unless they're half cast-can you still say that- then we call them deputies.
As you can see we couldn't give a fuck about PC.
By the way, I'm not racist, some of my friends are blah blah blah blah, and all that jazz.
My balls are huge, but my cock's only an average size.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 10:07,
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we had a 'diversity awareness' week at workand on the friday we could choose a film to watch.
I suggested Blazing Saddles in all seriousness, but was promptyl told that would be inappropriate, probably becuase it was funny and satirical, whilst the evetual choice was some hand-wringing heartfelt drama about lesbians or something
EDIT: checked, they chose CRASH (I assume you new one, not the David Cronenberg-sex-with-leg-wounds one, which is probably a better example of diveristy)
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 11:09,
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I love Blazing SaddlesA Yiddish speaking Native American, frontier inbreds aghast at a black sheriff, an alcoholic Gene Wilder, an abundance of Nazi jokes and of course some hugely ironic non-PC humour. Mel Brooks at his absolute finest, probably even funnier than The Producers.
Brilliant.
Gags abount blokes eating beans and farting were the icing on the cake.
"Candy-gram for Mungo!"
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Is it twoo what they say about you people being 'gifted'?Ooooh it's twoo! It's twoo!
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 11:46, closed)
Excuse me...... while I whip this out.
Eeeeeeekkkk!
Awwww!
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 12:05, closed)
Yeah, it's one of the lads I was with favourite film.But when it comes to spoof movies, I reckon Kung Pow Enter The Fist, FTW.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 12:29,
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