Now this is plain PC bollox

[TonyB]

All this critisism from a nation who is giving back land to someone who wasn't here when his ancestors lived on it and doesn't even want it for any heritage things but simply becouse it is worth money now and is most likely only 1/25th indigenous. BTW they also kicked someone else off the land when they got here and apparently ate them.

Over PC my foot.

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.

[enigma51]

You should tell them to fuck off and see what they make of that!

And its not a black wire it cant helped its not white! Its a dark color wire!

[enigma51]

And hmmm we had a similiar thing at work a few days ago. Company starts with a M and ends with T perhaps

[Waylander]

Well Waylander it does seem that a lot of the over PC crap does come from the good old US of A.

I know. But Kiwi's really don't have alot of leverage to critisize (sp?) the states.

[ManDownUnder]

I have a letter in front of me from the a well known international organisation. An organisation that my organisation does a considerable amount of business with. The letter comes from their "Human Rights Division". Get a load of this shit:

It's with much dismay that upon reading some of your organisations technical literature.........we feel that the use of the term Master & Slave (Biff - a term used by techies around the world to describe everything from hard drives to servers) is totally inappropriate.......using the terminology "male & female" (Biff - which is used to descibe plubgs ans sockets for fucks sake!) has sexual connotations and does little to reduce the barriers found in many organisations between male and female workers.......we feel that using the term "coloured wires" could incite racial prejudice....

Oh for fucks sake - get a proper job you twats!
It's an American organisation by the way.

Escalate it... write back to their HR dept and ask if you're ok to use the words "Penis" and "Vagina" at work? How about "pussy", "gay" or "come"

Let them know you're taking this seriously and would appreciate a complete list of words and phrases that are to be avoided, and an example of the offending context or contexts would be similarly needed.

When they write back, let them know you've notice people removing clothes at work in a seductive manner. Raincoats, gloves, that sort of thing - oh and there was that small issue of a woman eating a banana... she did seem to be enjoying it in a perverse sort of way.

Go get 'em dude... I'll help.

[WRT]

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??).

I had heard that there was a lady who took santa to court after he called her, not once, not twice, but THREE times a "ho" . . .

[ManDownUnder]

I know. But Kiwi's really don't have alot of leverage to critisize (sp?) the states.

I don't expect leverage - all I need are examples - I'll happily point out the shortcomings of people... Kiwis, Amercians, black, brown, red yellow or white...

Idiots need to have their faults pointed out to them - and I think that's the moral obligation of every citizen

[scumdog]

Hi Biff

Go to your local library and ask for 2 books by Bob Jones (no Welsh connections as far as I know ) The first is called "Letters" and the other is called "More Letters" (I think). In case you don't know, Bob is a vey wealthy property developer based in Wellington and has an absolute aversion to political correctness or boofheads in any shape or form. The books are copies of letters which he has written to people who have offended him and they're often published very publically at the time. Worth you going to a bit of effort to find them as they are hugely funny and are a wonderful guide to dealing with twats. I've since tried to emulate him! I have a copy of one of them if you're unsuccessful.

Bob J is also famous for breaking the nose of a TV1 news reporter when aforesaid reporter helicoptered in unannounced to interview him whilst he was indulging in his passion of trout fishing. Quite a guy.

Geoff

He was guest of honour and spoke at my graduation, he's a man after my own heart and shoves P.C. where it belongs!!

[SpankMe]

That’s just gotta be a joke. Scary if it ain't. Before you know it they will want the words removed from the dictionary. Beware the introduction of Newspeak!!

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself."

[Waylander]

I don't expect leverage - all I need are examples - I'll happily point out the shortcomings of people... Kiwis, Amercians, black, brown, red yellow or white...

Idiots need to have their faults pointed out to them - and I think that's the moral obligation of every citizen

All for that.

"Stupid peaple should wear a sign..." Jeff Foxworthy.

[SPman]

Aaaaah Bob Jones - one of the most un PC public figures in this country - him and George Carlin would make a great pair!!!

[Biff]

Eh?!? Your kidding right?

I shit you not. I honestly though it was a joke when I was handed the letter by a colleague, asking me to respond to it. I though it best that I think about a response overnight as, "fuck you, you anally retentive piece of shit" doesn't tend to go down very well with customers. I can't imagine why.

[Blackbird]

He was guest of honour and spoke at my graduation, he's a man after my own heart and shoves P.C. where it belongs!!

Yup, he says what other people think If ever I need cheering up, I read his letters.

Biff: re your intended response, you aren't far off the mark. When Bob Jones was asked to write a very public retraction over something he wrote, his opening paragraph to the individual was "I have shown your letter to my colleagues in the office and our unanimous opinion is that you are a prick". Then he really went to town.

Your best option may be to make the contents of the letter you received more public (a national daily should do it or Bob Jones, hehe) and let others do the work for you!

Geoff

[inlinefour]

Sign of things to come. I've got a row brewing over something as equally B/S

[SlashWylde]

I seem to recall reading in the Herald a couple of years ago there was a town council somewhere in this land who wanted to ban the use of the words "nuts" and "nipples" in an automotive context (as in fastners grease-nipples) as the council members felt these words were offensive and innapropriate or some such. Don't think it got anywhere tho...

...sigh some people are just too stupid.