Dave Wilkinson
Veteran
Last night in a thread I used an old English saying - 'calling a *****-a *****' and was amused to find the name of this tool obliterated!. So now - when playing cards, do I say that I have 'the ace of shovels'?. I have just been in my workshop - filing the ends of a piece of angle iron, I used a '******* file' - a perfectlly correct engineering name!, but perhaps it should now be 'illegitimate file' ?. I wonder just how many such words are banned....a list would be interesting! - to this guy who grew up in an age when someone who was gay, was just happy and carefree! 
Cheers, Dave.
Cheers, Dave.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Dear Dave,
I can top that. Recently on this forum the word 'sn*ggers' (the missing word is an 'i') was asterisked to 's*******'
Asterisking out bits of words is really weird. You remember the old joke about the man who was the **** in Scunthorpe?
Edit: In the light of recent revelations about MP's expenses, maybe we can guess the name of the current title-holder.
Cheers,
R.
I can top that. Recently on this forum the word 'sn*ggers' (the missing word is an 'i') was asterisked to 's*******'
Asterisking out bits of words is really weird. You remember the old joke about the man who was the **** in Scunthorpe?
Edit: In the light of recent revelations about MP's expenses, maybe we can guess the name of the current title-holder.
Cheers,
R.
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g12
Too much stuff
May I suggest that someone who doesn't mind having their account cancelled simply reply with a list of every obscenity they can think of... ;-)
Dave Wilkinson
Veteran
g12
Too much stuff
karthiks
Nomadic Photographer
Hmm and I thought I was the only one :bang:
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
On an unrelated note, has anyone any nice images of a Wankel Rotary Engine...?
Yes, I do. But they're all in my mind.
I owned two Wankels ... RX-2 and RX-4. Loved 'em.
ddutchison
Well-known
The automatic assumption, on the part of your censor, that you were referring to a racial epithet rather than an agricultural implement suggests that they may have a little work to do themselves in the "unlearning racism" department.
Larky
Well-known
So is it true we can't say *****? *****.
EDIT: Wow, that is crazy. Trowel. Combine. Tractor. Bucket. Slag. Tart.
EDIT: Wow, that is crazy. Trowel. Combine. Tractor. Bucket. Slag. Tart.
ebolton
Number 7614
There are many times like this when PC does go too far, but there are other times when people complaining about having to be "PC" are really complaining (between the lines) about the pressure to be respectful to others.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
In more cases than not, that's almost certainly true. But these examples really are silly!
An additional thought about being respectful. I would normally think of myself as a non-racist with strong pro-Democrat and pro-Irish leanings. But bring up most of the members of the Kennedy clan, especially old Joe, and suddenly I sound distinctly right-wing. Not exactly 'no dogs or Irish' but certainly a lot less pro-Irish and pro-Democrat than usual.
Tashi delek,
R.
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chris00nj
Young Luddite
It's silly when the normal non-racist terms become politicized. It shows the ignorance of the accuser. The phrase calling a "***** a *****" predates any derogatory use of the word *****. Attention Brits: also avoid the non-racist word niggardly. And as of last summer, apparently, the term 'black hole' may also be verbotten.
notturtle
Well-known
Imagine the hand wringing when they discover white and yellow holes, which are in fact white and yellow in colour. And holes.
I had sn1gger censored a few times online and also sp@de (as in shovel - whereas in fact the two are different implements and so the removal of the word actually means removal of the ability to differentiate between the two. It would be very unfortunate if a landscape gardening company was delivered 500 shovels when they in fact needed sp@des....)
I suppose the irony is that sn!gger broadly means to laugh.... I have no interest in what the last six letters spell, nor what they could spell in a different order. Perhaps the next move will be to remove all six letters from scrabble to make sure nobody can make nasty words?
I think the encouraging thing here is that the ultra-PC puritans' arguments do not even qualify for being paper thin. They are universally ridiculous and could be defeated by the average eight year old just using a fraction of an ounce common sense.
While upholding those cases where words are not used out of respect for others, it is equally important IMO to savage those puritants that seek to push things too far. Ironically they tend to have next to no respect for your right to be reasonable and for actions to be justified by reason/logal/sound arguments (I wonder if they ever ask the people they claim to be protecting). The fact that such decisions are being made by computer software programs is rather worrying. Citizen 27450098 you have been found guilty of a hate crime. Please report to correction centre five for brain wave correction therapy - program nine.
It seems to me that once something is ranted about by the PC brigade enough it becomes proscribed and it is almost impossible to reclaim ground because nobody wants to tarnish themselves by fighting to protect something already decreed 'something ist' - the ground has already been fouled. I suppose that slight of hand is essential if you really are going to create Utopia. There cannot be an argument because arguments lead to dissent and disharmony and that affects productivity. In fact the mere suggestion that there is need for debate is proof positive that you cannot see the error of your ways. Oh dear citizen, thats correction therapy program TEN and it hurts.
Soeren
Well-known
I really gotta work on my english