Thirith on 9/9/2009 at 13:10
Those who advocate the banning of words should all have to take an undergrad course in Linguistics (covering Semantics and Pragmatics as well as Sociolinguistics). That'd either shut them up or they'd keep talking, but at least they might say more intelligent things.
(For the record, I find the use of 'gay' as a cover-all negative word rather annoying, but banning words is pretty much as stupid as it gets. Getting people to be more aware of what it is they're saying, connotations'n'all, is usually not done by telling them, "Don't say that, it's a bad word!")
Ostriig on 9/9/2009 at 14:02
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
My fav is the "obese" issue in the UK. Some
bright spark total imbecile suggested we stop describing obese kids as obese because its bad for their self esteem.
What are we supposed to call them?
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8RNmHkDDxE) Horizontally challenged.
Turtle on 9/9/2009 at 15:52
I agree. Those Republicans have been nothing but trouble of late.
Sulphur on 9/9/2009 at 16:52
Quote Posted by raph
probably a typo, the keys are like right next to each other am i lite
you not so blight
R Soul on 9/9/2009 at 23:01
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
My fav is the "obese" issue in the UK. Some
bright spark total imbecile suggested we stop describing obese kids as obese because its bad for their self esteem.
The funny thing about that is that 'obese' is supposed to be the inoffensive PC word.
D'Juhn Keep on 9/9/2009 at 23:29
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
My fav is the "obese" issue in the UK. Some
bright spark total imbecile suggested we stop describing obese kids as obese because its bad for their self esteem.
What are we supposed to call them? Lard arses? Fatty bom boms?
Wherever this retard reclamation is coming from never forget that we, the British, are the Kings of Political Correctness Gone Mad.
Quote Posted by R Soul
The funny thing about that is that 'obese' is supposed to be the inoffensive PC word.
As Paz has probably suffered a nervous breakdown reading this thread I'll try to fill in for him. The reason the word 'obese' was not used is not because of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD you dipsticks it's because of fairly understandable fears that the WORD ITSELF has become overused and is ignored due to that overuse
"Dr Will Cavendish, director of health and wellbeing at the Department of Health,
denied the word had been banned but said officials had 'chosen not to use it'.
He said
research showed that it 'shuts people down'."on the other hand you have the thrust of the tabloid articles, supported by Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, who said
Quote:
'It's a nasty word but, by God, it should sound alarm bells in parents' minds. This whole approach is a bit prissy and namby pamby,'
If you go along with this point of view you are DI Grim from The Thin Blue Line
you dicks
R Soul on 9/9/2009 at 23:57
Fair enough.
Scots Taffer on 9/9/2009 at 23:58
iggles, you are the reason britain is no longer great
Turtle on 10/9/2009 at 03:21
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
iggles, you are the reason britain is great
Fixed
Scots Taffer on 10/9/2009 at 03:36
research has shown that turtle doesn't get jokes
