Did I Hear Right?

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Perhaps he should have sung Baa Baa Afro-Caribbean racial minority sheep or something, then?
What a load of crap! In fact to avoid using the word "Black" is an inverse insult, suggesting that there is something wrong with being black. Most of my black friends prefer to be called black and describe themselves as so. (although most of them are technically somewhere between ebony and light brown). What was rightly insulting was to be called "coloured". We are all "coloured" something! I am generally classed as "white" with grey hair but in fact I am bald brown and wrinkly.... Or should I say follically challenged, with an outdoor complexion and laughter lines....... Someone with their head that firmly up their bum (or should I say anally retentive?) should never be teaching our kids in the first place.
Must go now as I have to put my refuse container out for the council disposal operatives to take......

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Your right about Affro's prefering to be called black, I have known this through living in the East end of london. But don't you think that our pathetic current politicians are breeding bad ideas today?

In my spare time I coach Football and have an academy of around seventy kids from the ages of five upto fourteen years, they are of mixed culture i.e Affro, Asian, British, Egyption, Greek, Turkish and Chinese! The great thing about kids they are all innocent, until what would seem are poisoned by our own warped politions and grow up losing thier sense of direction, all this crap political correction seems to me is just loser spin to win votes.

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Actually, while I believe you are right about politics I think it's a wider problem than that. There is no legislation to stop anyone singing Baa Baa Black Sheep. It's the ignorance of stupid people who don't have the intellect to realise that political correctness is born of the fear that people have of exposing their own prejudice and bigotry.
Another good example is the data protection act. Perfectly good legislation but misunderstood and missquoted so often that people are afraid to tell you anything at all even when you have a right to know! There was a case some time ago when a small child got lost in a supermarket and Mum went to the information desk and asked the clerk to tell "Jimmy Smith" to come to the desk. clerk refused on the basis that the "data protection act" prevented her using his name (crap!)
An insurance company just refused to send us a form to arrange direct debit for SWMBO's mother. She is deeply into Alzhiemers and can't do anything herself. Ther would have been no information on the form at all it would have been blank... Data protection act. (crap again)
No its not the legislation itself its ignorance, stupidity, inability to accept responsibility, and unfounded fear of retribution that causes idiots to hide behind it .
End of rant.....

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I rather suspect that some of the more risible stories have been punted by the press in order to, not take the piss out of stupidity, but to subliminally suggest that intolerance, and public expression of prejudice is actually healthy, OK, and normal.

Some press stories about "pc" have turned out to be false, but have been indelibly marked on the memory of large sections of the public who believe them to be fact. Why?

However I agree that most of us will hav seen pettiness from smallminded people for all sorts of reasons, "pc" and Data Protection being among them. On the DP side there is a serious element to that.

I sympathise with Mike and partner (oops, pc again) as my late mother was in the early stages of that illness, although she lived alone and looked after herself not too badly. But I can understand the financial services sector being very wary - old people are very vulnerable. We came to an understanding that I would have power of attorney, and we did the paperwork with the lawyer. However if the person is totally out of it, I really do not know how you could address that issue.

<hr width=100% size=1>I had a very nice link until Kim told us off about it. I'm not bitter mind.
 
What strikes me is why should a black board be non PC (wrong), but a white board be PC ( correct) ??

Brian

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Don't read newspapers anymore as they generally make me turn even more "Victor Meldrew" than I am already. Both the stories I told you were actually true. A representative of Tesco apologised for the first situation on a TV programme I saw and promised to instigate a better "training programme " to correct the "misunderstanding". In the latter case my "partner" is appointed by the court of protection as a "reciever" of her mothers affairs which effectively gives her power of attorney anyway. Regardless of this we had to go over the head of the "jobsworth" telephone clerk who quoted the DP act to get a direct debit form. The point being that it was a blank form.... No information on it anyway until we filled it in!!
I don't belieeeeeve it!!!

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agreed - the real ones are usually petty minded jobsworths. In these days of "customer service" it's probably just a means of
a) amusement
b) getting back at the customers
c) kicking the cat in a feline-free environment

<hr width=100% size=1>I had a very nice link until Kim told us off about it. I'm not bitter mind.
 
Claire Francis\' boat.

I seem to recall that 'Robertson's Golly' was an Ohlson 38.

Mick

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