Has political correctness actually gone mad?

dumbo said:
1. The stone achieves two tasks as a single tool or process. If your task is to feed a bird and you feed it some scone then that is a single task achieved with a single tool/process. If you feed two birds some scone you have now achieved two tasks but have used twice as much scone, thus the process/tool has had to double as the tasks have doubled. Unless of course you want to get into a debate about the universal metaphysics of a scone; perhaps in a Platonic sense the scone bits, whether fed to one bird or multiple birds, are representative of a single scone. Then you might say that one individual scone can be seen as feeding two birds, rather than seeing it as an increasing number of birds requiring an increasing quantity of scone particulars, to be fed .

2. You don't experiment on the test tube, the test tube is part of the apparatus of the experiment. The phrase would correspond if the original expression was "be the hutch" or "be the straw".

3. The beating of a dead horse hinges on the finality of the state of the horse. There is an emphasis on the futility of the action. However feeding a fed horse changes the state of the horse giving you an overfed or fat horse. The revised suggestion seems to emphasise excessiveness in the action and underplays the theme of futility.

4. Taking the bull by the horns is about taking the initiative or tackling a given situation head on, as with Heracles subduing the ferocious bull. It's not about holding the pointy bits of a thing.

5. No I'm not being serious. Much.
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:lol: Very good. The new phrases do need work alright.
 
lynchie said:
I'm mostly angry at the implication that scone rhymes with stone.
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With scones it's all down to how you pronounce the word – it it scone rhyming with gone, or scone rhyming with bone? According to a new YouGov poll, the majority of Britons – 51 per cent, to be precise – pronounce it to rhyme with “gone,” while just 42 per cent came down on the side of rhyming with "bone".
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/news/survey-reveals-correct-way-to-pronounce-scone/

I'm a bone kind of person.
 
I vote for 'kill two fascists with one shot'. Only cnuts could have a problem with that.
 
MadMike said:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/news/survey-reveals-correct-way-to-pronounce-scone/

I'm a bone kind of person.
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I can't bring gone and scone to rhyme in my head. Once again the slight majority is wrong. (does wrong still rhyme with gone though? it better do).

Found this though:
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Abizzz said:
I can't bring gone and scone to rhyme in my head. Once again the slight majority is wrong. (does wrong still rhyme with gone though? it better do).

Found this though:
How-to-pronounce-scone-929680.jpg
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Bone for me too, but I'm from East Yorkshire and we've got the lowest for gone.
 
Red Defence said:
Surprising innit!

Trot off to Selfridges, Harrods or F and M and they only know them as scones (stones). If you say scones (gones) they haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.
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The one thing Harrods folk and the residents of Hull's most impoverished council estates have in common I guess!
 
VeevaVee said:
I'm pretty sure this is just using a common tactic for social media attention - winding people up with something obviously controversial/ridiculous.

I mean, I hope it is.
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Instead of bring home the bacon, I'm going to say bring home the vegan. Delicious vegans :drool:
 
I'd prefer my son to not be gay as well. Has nothing to do with me being a nazi. Would simply be easier for me to connect with him and more importantly, he would have an easier life.

Kevin Hart is about as funny as a root canal though, so who cares.
 
I wonder how some music aged. What if Queen released Fat Bottom Girls today. With lyrics like:

Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of me

I imagine there would be some backlash.
 
KirkDuyt said:
I wonder how some music aged. What if Queen released Fat Bottom Girls today. With lyrics like:

Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of me

I imagine there would be some backlash.
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What about Angel of Death by Slayer, the opening lines are:

Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
The way that I want you to die
Slow death, immense decay
Showers that cleanse you of your life
 
People who scroll back 10 years in someone’s Twitter feed are obviously seeking this stuff out deliberately as ammunition, and it seems to me that organisations should just be a bit stronger, instead of terrified. It’s probably what, 6 people on Twitter with their knickers in a twist? They need to put that in perspective. No-one really cares.

You can see that by the way comedians, film directors etc are always apologising for things like this, whereas Trump managed to get elected as president despite saying 10 times more shady things himself. The public voted and most people didn’t care. Even though he had more skeletons for the Twitter police to find than the usual person they’re trying to ruin, things were just bouncing off him because the average person isn’t bothered.
 
KirkDuyt said:
I wonder how some music aged. What if Queen released Fat Bottom Girls today. With lyrics like:

Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of me

I imagine there would be some backlash.
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To be fair those lyrics were dodgy when they were released.
 
Grinner said:
Fairytale of New York could be out too because it has 'faggott' in the lyrics.
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Shane McGowan said:
The word was used by the character because it fitted with the way she would speak and with her character," he wrote. "She is not supposed to be a nice person, or even a wholesome person. She is a woman of a certain generation at a certain time in history and she is down on her luck and desperate.

Her dialogue is as accurate as I could make it but she is not intended to offend! She is just supposed to be an authentic character and not all characters in songs and stories are angels or even decent and respectable, sometimes characters in songs and stories have to be evil or nasty in order to tell the story effectively.

If people don't understand that I was trying to accurately portray the character as authentically as possible then I am absolutely fine with them bleeping the word but I don't want to get into an argument.
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Depressing that people need this to be explained to them.

What next? Ban 'Mississippi Burning' because there are racists in it?

Interesting that no one seems to have a problem with the woman in Fairytale of New York being called an 'old slut', although that's probably next.
 
2 man midfield said:
People who scroll back 10 years in someone’s Twitter feed are obviously seeking this stuff out deliberately as ammunition, and it seems to me that organisations should just be a bit stronger, instead of terrified. It’s probably what, 6 people on Twitter with their knickers in a twist? They need to put that in perspective. No-one really cares.

You can see that by the way comedians, film directors etc are always apologising for things like this, whereas Trump managed to get elected as president despite saying 10 times more shady things himself. The public voted and most people didn’t care. Even though he had more skeletons for the Twitter police to find than the usual person they’re trying to ruin, things were just bouncing off him because the average person isn’t bothered.
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Honestly, this is pretty close to my stance on the whole issue.
I'm not a big fan of digging through people's history and using their old selves as a stick to beat their current selves with, unless they've shown persistent occurrences of whatever behaviour is being highlighted.
In this case, Kevin Hart has been called up for his homophobic tweets and jokes in the past, apologised then and hasn't faltered since which I think is the most ideal outcome.
Which begs the question, why is this being dragged out again, and why now?

That points me to the particular journalist who decided to spark this whole issue up, for a number of reasons, one of them being he accused Tyler the Creator of 'queerbaiting' when he came out as bisexual - which seems, nonsensical at best if you're a member of the LGBTQ community. The journalist seems to have a contentious history with black men, and the timing of this whole issue strikes me as opportunist. Also the relationship between the LGBTQ community and black men (gay or straight) is very peculiar - male white, LGBTQ members are of course discriminated against, but also have the capability to be racist - and likewise straight black men can be discriminated against, while also being homophobic - and both groups often are at odds with each other for those very reasons.
It's obviously a sensitive topic because you're dealing with two minority groups, but at some point these uncomfortable discussions should be had out in the open.

Those are the places where political correctness has gone too far, if it stifles constructive conversations & progression from being made.
Nobody gives a feck about song lyrics or PETAs attention whoring.
 
villain said:
Honestly, this is pretty close to my stance on the whole issue.
I'm not a big fan of digging through people's history and using their old selves as a stick to beat their current selves with, unless they've shown persistent occurrences of whatever behaviour is being highlighted.
In this case, Kevin Hart has been called up for his homophobic tweets and jokes in the past, apologised then and hasn't faltered since which I think is the most ideal outcome.
Which begs the question, why is this being dragged out again, and why now?

That points me to the particular journalist who decided to spark this whole issue up, for a number of reasons, one of them being he accused Tyler the Creator of 'queerbaiting' when he came out as bisexual - which seems, nonsensical at best if you're a member of the LGBTQ community. The journalist seems to have a contentious history with black men, and the timing of this whole issue strikes me as opportunist. Also the relationship between the LGBTQ community and black men (gay or straight) is very peculiar - male white, LGBTQ members are of course discriminated against, but also have the capability to be racist - and likewise straight black men can be discriminated against, while also being homophobic - and both groups often are at odds with each other for those very reasons.
It's obviously a sensitive topic because you're dealing with two minority groups, but at some point these uncomfortable discussions should be had out in the open.

Those are the places where political correctness has gone too far, if it stifles constructive conversations & progression from being made.
Nobody gives a feck about song lyrics or PETAs attention whoring.
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Hmmm... So it's an issue for you now but didn't bother you when - for example - James Gunn got fired because of ancient tweets which were in bad taste?

I think it's obvious why you see the two scenarios very differently but I don't think that's reasonable. It's wrong for someone to have a great opportunity in their career sabotaged - because of self-righteous arseholes mining old tweets - whether or not the person affected belongs to a minority group, surely?
 
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