when talking about master and slave drives, as in computers or something
we were told that we weren't allowed to call them master and slaves, because the Africans wouldn't like it (incidentally, this was news to them), so we decided to call them Butchers and Mincers.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:24, archived)

You were taught by fuckwits
I hope you reminded them this as regularly and violently as possible.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:25, archived)

They're still labelled Master and Slave
and it's really not worth bothering with, as more often than not, the former goes untitled in speech, the latter being referred to as "the back-up, in case the first one crashes".

If that makes sense.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:27, archived)

theyre master and slave in the tele side too

( Clairebare Back once again with the Ill behaviour, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:31, archived)

There are 'master' and 'slave' devices and 'male' and 'female' connections
all over every branch of electronics ... if they took those terms away we'd all be fucked.

They'll be banning SCSI for being offensive to dirty slappers next.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:32, archived)

first time my music teacher asked me if I needed a male or female plug
I though he was joking.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:34, archived)

I was told about this "rule" over 6 years ago
it's not new. It's older than the "It's no longer a blackboard, it's a chalkboard" thing.
( Jenk Neptune is a pedant and now I can't fit my sig in, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:34, archived)

Ummm ... no it isn't.
The blackboard/chalkboard legend was in the daily mail when I was still at high school some time in the mid-to-late eighties.

And this 'rule' isn't a 'rule' ... it's bollocks.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:39, archived)

he he
send it to the daily mail
( rob, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:25, archived)

I prefer Butcher and Mincer

(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:28, archived)

It's political correctness gone mad!
Sometimes I just wish I was black so I could purposefully use such expressions to annoy these people.

I'd ask for "black coffee" and everything, it would be awesome.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:27, archived)

How can I be a racist? I'm black!

(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:27, archived)