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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BluetoothLegless has reminded me of my personally chosen effnick slur.
Wind back the clock to when Bluetooth built into your car was the latest must-have rather than standard issue. A Coffin-dodger customer (sorry, affluent retired) (not unusual for Mercedes) wants to know what all this Bluetooth newfangled stuff was all about. "Not a problem" smarms my particularly annoying trainee Salesman, "Osok has just got a new phone and it'll connect like this..."
Being of Scottish origin, I had chosen an appropriate name for my shiny device. Porridge Wog*. Uh-oh.
Quite how being offensive to myself became a disciplinary offence I have no idea...
However, finding out that there was also a device going by the name of 'Long Dong Silver' in the vicinity kept away some of the flak.
OK, you had to be there.
*Because 'aggressive bald Jock with an alleged attitude problem,legal access to firearms and owner of lovely fluffy cats' wouldn't fit.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 11:51, 4 replies)
Haha, that made me laugh out loudBest thing like that I've seen: my girlfriend scanned for bluetooth devices in a pub in London once and found one called "My head is MASSIVE" =D
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 12:56, closed)
I once found a Bluetooth IDcalled "Send me filth".
So I did. And I got some back!
Result.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 13:24,
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Long Dong Silver?My best mate has that as his bluetooth name on his phone. This wasn't around the Glasgow/EK area was it?
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 14:59, closed)
Has he got an evil twin?Sorry not in God's own country... Chester. Amongst the heathen.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 15:55, closed)
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