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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Mad Frogs on the line.A few years ago, I had a near miss with a woman who ran in front of my train. I must of missed her by mere inches, because I actually shut my eyes and waited for the 'thud'.
Turns out she wasn't suicidal - just French and didn't understand the concept of a footcrossing.
Now the next day, I get called into the office - presumably for a 'just checking you're o.k' sort of chat. Not so! It turns out one of the passengers on the train had phomed our service centre and complained because I'd referred to the woman a 'stupid French b*tch' when the guard had come up to the front to check what was going on.
Oh, and the emergency brake application caused her to spill her coffee.
So now I can't have a justified go at anyone, even the french, incase someone overhears.
Length - about 160metres and about 250tons in weight.
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HSDriver was probably still at work on, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 11:28,
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