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)
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I heard the news today, oh boy...So I‘m now as clued up as I can be on the PC issues of the world…from a BBC perspective anyway (In other words…not very much at all.)
However I also heard the report regarding how it kicked off with the Teddy bear called ‘Mohammed’.
Then I remembered…
One time (not at band camp), I owned a couple of tropical fish – basically because I’m way too lazy and irresponsible to have any kind of ‘proper’ pet. In fact, as it goes, I was even too lazy and irresponsible for fish, but I digress.
Now these fish were big fucking black-with-a-bit-of-gold bulgy eyed bastards (and this isn’t going to go the way you think it is). I’m not quite sure what breed of fish they were but I think it sounded something like ‘Michael Schumacher’. Anyhoo, I bought a lovely tank (that I couldn’t be arsed to clean), those god awful fluorescent pebbles, little castle, the whole shebang. I loved ‘em.
Unfortunately, as no small amount of you have discovered, I am what can be described in non-PC circles as a ‘proper twat’, so I decided to give them names. I called one of them ‘The Intense Humming of Evil’ and the other one ‘Pope John Paul II’ (told you it wasn’t what you thought).
They seemed relatively happy…but not for very long and they started to look a bit ‘limp’. I looked into it and was informed that their tank would require heating. No probs, off I pop to the pet shop and buy one of those long, glass tube efforts that you plug in and stick to the side of the tank. Sorted
The problem was that I didn’t suss that these heaters were controllable…and it was stuck on full, heat-of-the-sun-mega-bastard degrees. I put it in their tank one evening at feeding time, switched it on, gave the buggers a smile, a wink and said ‘You’ll be fine now boys’. Thinking I was up for the ‘fish owner of the year’ award, I went to bed…and the next morning, I went to work…
When I arrived home and went into my lounge…it was rather ‘humid’. I leaned over the tank and lifted the lid, whereupon a huge cloud of steam escaped.
‘Oh scrotes, I’ve boiled the fish!’
Indeed I had…. ‘Evil’ had well and truly ‘bought the farm’. A lifeless (and I think slightly shrunken) globule of goo.
But here’s your Christmas (please feel free to insert your religion here) miracle folks….
‘Pope’ SURVIVED! After a bit of a twitch, he sprang into life and made a full recovery.
This was truly impossible – and a triumph of good over evil. (Crap pun I know, but even that isn’t where this is going).
I decided that because of this, and his relative ‘second coming’, the name ‘Pope John Paul II’ just didn’t do the fella justice. So I decided to rename him…‘promote’ him if you will…and there was pretty much only one way to go…
I called him Jesus Christ.
Now, after realising what I have done, and bearing in mind the Teddy bear ‘Mohammed’ incident, I have decided to ‘own up’ to you all. I consider myself pretty lucky to have gotten away with it for so long to be honest.
So here I am now, sat on my front room floor…with Jesus the fish…hugging my knees, waiting for the Christians with flaming torches and pitchforks to come and tear me a new arse.
There’s been no sign yet…but surely it’s just a matter of time
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 27 Nov 2007, 9:56,
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...So that's why the X'ians put little fish decals on their cars. It all makes sense now...
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 10:02,
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In a sea of QOTW tediuma small winnet of inappropriate fish name based amusement *clicks*
I always remember plenty of sniggers when watching "The Dambusters" (greatest war film ever) and Guy Gibson would shout to his black labrador who was called nigger! they were simpler times.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 10:07,
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I went a bit serious this weekso yay for Pooflake for reminding me why I bother with QOTW at all
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chart cat has an itch, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 11:45,
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FISH!I had a fish called sh@gn@$ty - she was really cute and an outrageous Flirt.
She didn't have any miraculous powers though :(
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curvylittlegoth heard the voices in your head on, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 16:38,
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