Now this is plain PC bollox

**Biff** · 30th August 2005, 12:17

Here ya go, another piece of PC shite that I experienced some years ago. I've just copied it from another thread where I posted some months ago.

"I used to run a company that supplied radio communication equipment to most of the UK's police forces. There was an emergency button on the top of the hand held radio that when depressed ( I was) would send out an alarm to all other police officers in the area and an emergency priority signal back to the control room. A female police officer complained and threatened legal action against both my company and her police force (greater Manchester), because when the button was pressed the LCD on the radio read "Man Down". It cost the freakin tax payer nearly 50 K pounds for my company to re-programme them, even after we gave them a 40% discount. Stupid cow."

Anyhoo - I've responded to the letter in question, and my respponse is 62 pages long. Most of it has been cut and pasted from technical manuals (belonging to my company, and about a dozen other companies, PC and electronic parts catalogues, web sites, PC magazines etc around the world ), and some of it is from this organisation own intranet site, which uses the term "colourful language". Now to me to insinuates that coloured people (especially those foul mouthed purple people) use offensive language more often than the transparent types.

He he he. Twats.

**Pixie** · 30th August 2005, 12:28

I found that it was generally unacceptable to describe the connection of a plug to a socket as fucking

**ManDownUnder** · 30th August 2005, 12:30

Originally Posted by Biff

Here ya go, another piece of PC shite that I experienced some years ago. I've just copied it from another thread where I posted some months ago.

"I used to run a company that supplied radio communication equipment to most of the UK's police forces. There was an emergency button on the top of the hand held radio that when depressed ( I was) would send out an alarm to all other police officers in the area and an emergency priority signal back to the control room. A female police officer complained and threatened legal action against both my company and her police force (greater Manchester), because when the button was pressed the LCD on the radio read "Man Down". It cost the freakin tax payer nearly 50 K pounds for my company to re-programme them, even after we gave them a 40% discount. Stupid cow."

Thank God for that - I was worried that last one was an isolated incident.

Do you think I should burn my Billy Connoly collection too?

**ManDownUnder** · 30th August 2005, 12:32

Originally Posted by Pixie

I found that it was generally unacceptable to describe the connection of a plug to a socket as fucking

I think that's only applicable if you plug it in and out for 2 or 3 hours... otherwise it'd be a quickie or something like that?

What about the fact the male plug gets excited by the socket?

**Pixie** · 30th August 2005, 12:34

Originally Posted by TonyB

You have a point.
Like the way some child care centres have banned "Santa" from saying "ho ho ho!" at the Xmas party (clearly a slur directed at homosexuals- who new Santa was a gay-basher??).
Or nurses spending the first few weeks of their training learning how to be culturally sensitive.

How I long for the day when all this BS is consigned to history and we can all sit back and laugh about it.

So what does santa say now?
working girl,working girl,working girl