An example:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7204635.stm
Definition of irony:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-413775/Now-coun...-work.html
An explanation:
http://www.politicallyincorrect.me.uk/
..and finally some sense:
http://newsbiscuit.com/article/political-correctness-to...ympics-330
Please do not get me started on PC.... I am purposely incorrect, to the point where I do offend.
I'm not insulting, but I INSIST on calling them Actresses, Stewardesses/Hostesses and anything else where a female version of the term exists....
You are a short-ass, not 'vertically challenged'.
Deal with it and love it every time us lanky bastards hit our heads on the low ceilings!!!
You are not horizontally unchallenged, you are fat/tubby/large/big & beautiful/whatever.
Deal with it and laugh every time us scrawny folk start shivering while your 'padding' keeps you toasty!!
Feel free to also enjoy your ability to scoff more pudding than us and absorb more alcohol!!
You are not folically challenged, you are bald.
Deal with it and remember that Patrick Stewart, Sean Connery and Richard O'Brien repeatedly rank top among the Sexiest Men polls!!
And so on :D
Did you know that you are not allowed to 'brainstorm' anymore as it is offensive to epileptics...?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2162568/Council-...rming.html
This is actually being enforced too! A friend of mine who lectures in H&S (yeah, I know..!!) was taken aside when she used this term and was told to use "thought shower" instead... she was also in trouble for referring to a whiteboard instead of a pen board...
FFS!!!!
If the people who are supposedly being affected by these terms are as outraged by the rest of us at the banning of these terms, then who is actually making these decisions?? (and when are we actually going to start putting our foot down???).
I went to watch my local rugby team this weekend only to find that someone had put up a 'crowd control barrier' 5 metres from the touch line as per a new H&S directive!! Yep, much better to have a series of 2 foot high stakes for the players to impale themselves on. Besides, we are ALWAYS reading about spectators being injured at these kinds of events, aren't we???
(needless to say, I watched from the other touchline right next to the action and you will be relieved to hear that I walked away unscathed....)
I'm not going anywhere near this one except to say that I am not fat........I'm gravatationally advantaged!
Nice post TTM. nearly every woman I knows thinks pc is stupid.
When that stupidity came up about brain-storming though, we discovered "Let me stir-fry some ideas in your mind-wok" which is probably considered offensive to Ken Hom or someone, but is usually guaranteed to reduce any meeting to fits of giggles, which is presumably what management-speak was invented for in the first place, because I can't think of any other reason for its existence ;o)
Ah, management speak....
In my other life, I used to run things up peoples flag poles to see if they saluted them, or pop things in their toasters to see if they came up brown, (all tongue in cheek of course) but I stopped after one irritable meeting when I said "enough of the foreplay, let's f*ck.." (..silence and then a single pencil being dropped on the desk...).
Am definitely gonna try and use the mind-wok thing if I am ever in that situation again!!!
Management speak (or sales rep wan*er speak, a close cousin) was created by those incapable of actually doing the job assigned.
They created this false, non sensical language to try and look like they knew something you didn't and to add meat to the bones of an otherwise terminally ill presentation.
If anyone talks to me about "windows" in diarys I will break thier nose, diarys have PAGES not fuc*ing transparent glass!
I go to meetings with TV directors and commissioners quite often and they are ok and generally speak plain english ( no fatty its a crap idea is favorite!) BUT the little turds that are in "the media" simply cannot string a complete sentance together without slipping in a referance to blue skies, boxes, the far eastern markets or starbucks.
I usually let them speak and think they look cool then ask for a plain english version. Nine times out of ten they cannot do it.
All froth no substance those sorts!
he heh.. just lost a few minutes Googling "management speak" and found some very funny stuff... especially liked the 'buzzworld bingo'.
Anyway, back to the more important business - how are we going to get TM laid???
Management speak is, as explained, designed to give them power over you and make you seem stupid for not knowing something that they made up anyway.
My favourite is when they nick military terminology, such as "We've overshot the Landing Zone, here".... I respond in kind and shut them up!
Political correctness is absolute bullshit, thought up by people who need to justify their job.
These are the fuckers who ban use of the word England on the premise that some foreigner might get offended by the name of our own country being used in our own land!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have NO mercy for such outrageous stupidity!!!
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