Yeah I gathered as much from that article.
Has political correctness actually gone mad?
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This story seems to be everywhere at the moment. They are foul trousers.
Man refused entry to 20 Stories restaurant because leopard-print trousers were 'too, too much'
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...zIY_rINTueqxr_MCv8_8H7_yFJgpxqUezpwp3Fncay3I0
Man refused entry to 20 Stories restaurant because leopard-print trousers were 'too, too much'
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...zIY_rINTueqxr_MCv8_8H7_yFJgpxqUezpwp3Fncay3I0
If Brendon Rodgers wears pants like that, I don't want him anywhere near United.
And not for the first time you can see the massive overlap in the venn diagram of alt right and hardcore lefty nut-jobs. And I’m not just talking about the sense of smug superiority.
These days...
Hull singer drops out of lights switch-on after posts about refugees, death camps and AIDS exposed
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-singer-drops-out-lights-6191725
Hull singer drops out of lights switch-on after posts about refugees, death camps and AIDS exposed
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-singer-drops-out-lights-6191725
Can't even say you want to kill people on state benefits these days. Snowflakes the lot of them.
If you can’t say any of that really what can you say nowadays, pathetic!
These days they'll cancel you just because you want to celebrate Christmas.
I mean, come on…
Wait til they work out that nearly all humans are invasive...
This is an odd one. The photo is in peculiar taste I find, but clearly going for the au naturale, not sexy theme. You can see the pic on the link below.
NUDE ROW
Ghanian actress Akuapem Poloo who posed naked with son, 7, is jailed for ‘obscene material’ & ‘domestic violence’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16945072/akuapem-poloo-posed-naked-with-son-jailed-domestic-violence/
BBC version in pidgin as an added bonus.
www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-59495415.amp
NUDE ROW
Ghanian actress Akuapem Poloo who posed naked with son, 7, is jailed for ‘obscene material’ & ‘domestic violence’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16945072/akuapem-poloo-posed-naked-with-son-jailed-domestic-violence/
BBC version in pidgin as an added bonus.
www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-59495415.amp
Nice use of “canker” by the prosecution.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nded-Greene-King-feared-punters-offended.html
Sorry about The Daily Mail, but is this real
? Surely nobody would be offended by a pub named after a dog?
Sorry about The Daily Mail, but is this real
? Surely nobody would be offended by a pub named after a dog?https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nded-Greene-King-feared-punters-offended.html
Sorry about The Daily Mail, but is this real
Hardly anyone uses the word bitch to refer to a female dog anymore so I can see how that name of that particular pub might be considered as potentially offensive.
A dog.
A Priti Patel.
As far as I can find on the internet the word bitch is still used and it’s clear as day that it’s about a dog. Strange times.
Trust me, it's not. It's used in a small demographic of people who show and breed these animals. Everyone else just says dog.
So almost nobody would know that a bitch is a female dog? In that case I can understand it somehow. Still think you have to be extremely sensitive to get offended by it. I thought it was common knowledge. In Dutch the word ‘teef’ is still commonly used.
The only time I use the term is when my (female) dogs get under my feet
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way…
Given my English accent it makes my wife laugh (or at least smile).
If I owned the pub I'd change it avoid the name being joked about 50 times a day which would be very tiresome.
As a teen I watched a harry potter film and some evil aunt says about harry and his mom "if there's something wrong with the bitch, there's something wrong with the pup" or something like that. I remember thinking that line was pretty hardcore for a children's movie. No one knew a bitch was a female dog.
i was TA for a course where an overzealous course instructor made students do a project on the effect of invasive plant species on ant biodiversity. every part of the project, including having untrained students randomly collect ants, was a mess.
anyway the data implied the wonderful conclusion that ant diversity is higher in areas with invasive plants. big win for vox.
I think ‘black’ also is at play here.
So, what happened here? You joined several Internet spaces for dog owners and asked them whether they call their female dogs bitches or dogs?
Nothing sensitive about it. It's straight up offensive. As @calodo2003 says it's the black part which really does it.
The main use of bitch now is as a performative term and that's the first meaning most would think of. I think it's actually a bit odd these days to hear someone call a dog by that term.
I know it's a very old pub called after a dog but very few people are going to see or hear that name and think oh it must be innocently named after a dog.
I'm amazed that the pubs name took so long for them to change.
Even if the origin is innocent it sounds horrible in context of modern use of language
Even if the origin is innocent it sounds horrible in context of modern use of language
When there is literally a huge dog on the building? Even when you hear it then you might think that’s strange and when you find out the origin surely you realize it isn’t actually offensive?
Easy to name it the black hound or something and it doesn’t matter to me but seems extremely sensitive to be offended by such a name. That’s all.
I'm shocked.
So, what happened? How did you figure out what people call their female dogs? (This might sound weird, but in my neck of the woods people usually use the name of the dog.)
You can just google things and then see people use the word bitch when they talk about female dogs. It isn’t that hard actually.
I never said that people use it to call their dogs or stuff like that. ‘Hey bitch run after this stick’ or something like that.
Interesting. I just googled and found out that people call Chinese people chinks.
Language changes, the meaning of some expressions change. The expression "black bitch" obviously means something and is interpreted by people differently than it was 150 years ago. I can't see how you can tell a black woman, for example, who perhaps has been called that that she's just being sensitive about it and she shouldn't care that expression is in big letter on a wall at the centre of town.
Don’t know what your on about. Would a vet use the term bitch?
But when it’s clear that that meaning isn’t the one the pub is expressing which is obvious then surely it isn’t offensive anymore?
Don't know, I haven't googled it. That's how you find out, right?
(A vet would just say "dog", by the way)
You can find out a lot by googling things, yes. Are you arguing against that?
No. As I said, I found out that Chinese people are called chinks. I also found out that trans people are called troons, and that liberals are called soy boys. I also found out what the n-word means.