General Chat

PMSL !!! what WAS I thinking ? lol

Although I suppose we ought to call it 'Parents, Nanny's, Carers, grandparents and toddlers.' But I still call it mothers and toddlers. D

paul h your not staring are you??we all know your three foot and collect trollies at sainsburys!Lolxxxxxxxx(((:

Isn't it time we all said phoooooooooo! to you (I mean to the P.C. Gods that be) and get on with our lives and call a dog a dog, a man a man etc etc . And if anyone wants to know I made some ginger men to-day and yes they were lovely. Oh! I'm also going to make Black Bun (a Scottish Christmas cake) very shortly. Norahx

Snow White and the guardians of the forests??? Mmm doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Must object to the term white in Snow White lol

I do already Norah, and no jumped-up PC upstart is going to change me! Ooh, really getting me knickers twisted now! x

I wonder how many grandparents are perpetuating the dreadfully politically incorrect stories and rhymes of our own childhood? Where does it end? Deanna X

I'm obviously on my own here but if some members of the Restricted Growth Organisation are offended by the word - as opposed to the legendary PC brigade deciding they ought to be offended - does it matter that we learn to use another word? Isn't it just being nicer?

My wife stayed in a lodging house in Swansea but was asked to move out for the Panto season as a group of dwarves always booked the place and they did not want full size people living with them...............my wife was pleased to move out as she has been frightened of dwarves since going to the circus as a child

colin i dont know why but i found your reply hilarious!! lol! gloriously un-pc, well done you!

Colin so did I. Paul and I must share a similar sense of humour lol. David in any other context I'd agree with you but this panto has been around for decades probably longer. If they're offended why leave it until now to say so.

Hi Julie I just think that in some cases we have to develop with peoples senstivities. Black people used to be called coloured and that was the accepted word - most black people hate it now and so we don't use it. If people don't want to be called by a word or description, to me it's just good manners not to call them it and nothing to do with any idea of political correctness.

Hi David I can see your point. I'm just wondering why now and not previously. Or is it just me who hasn't noticed it, I can be blind as a bat sometimes. Juliexx

Maybe its just a title, what on earth does it matter what title we use,change it, and sooner or later it will become the next non preferred word. Things, people, attitiudes HAVE to have a name.........so how does that ONE word become offensive?.in my day a homosexual was a poofter or queer, now we have a totally innapropriate word, Gay. THAT used to mean ''Happy'', or pleasing.........not now it doesnt! Black is a colour, most ''Blacks'' are a varying shade of brown. ''book'', shall we dispose of THAT title and call it a Tome? My wife hates the abreviation Ms. she is a Mrs. I find it difficult sometimes writing letters to a company, Dear Sir? or Madam? 'Dear Head of dept'. usually gets used....... Bob

julie thats a very battist thing to say. you are generalising that all bats are blind. i am quite offended and so is my mate batty. paul....

Should we also stop using Postman? some of em are Femail........(sic)

When I was little we had a dog called Nigger. This was never a term of abuse in my book, and is a term I have often heard people of Afro-Caribbean stock use to each other. He was, obviously, a black dog. I understood the word either derived from Nigeria, or from a foreign word for black. The only black skinned people I can think of are Australian Aboriginals. As has been already stated, most non-white people are varying shades of brown. Please inform the Lord of PC that I object to being called a Caucasian, and in future wish to be referred to as White English. (Unless Diana is listening and then I will be called Pink English)

I like the story about the Mum who was going to School to see her wee boy in action at sports day. 'You will be able to meet my friend Paul.' he said. When they got there he said, 'There's Paul with those other boys.' Questioning established that he was the one with the blue tee shirt with a picture of Spiderman on it. It never crossed his mind to point out that Paul had the darkest coloured skin in the school.

Just a thought. The seven dwarfs are portrayed as kindly hard working gentle men in the pantomime. Does this mean that Tolkien ( and Peter Jackson ) should not use the word Dwarve and portray them as gold digging axe weilders then? Just wondering ...... Claire xx

My wife went back to the Guest House after the Panto season but it later occurred to me that had she not been asked to move out and did so simply because she was scared of them perhaps the dwarves would have been offended........... We have no problem with the landlady's request and understand the feelings of the dwarves........but not political correctness