General Chat

Good point Claire, And what about Terry Pratchett?

It gets ridiculous when you have to re-write history. Guy Gibson, leader of the Dam Busters squadron, had a black Labrador dog named Nigger, who was sadly run over and killed by a truck just before the famous raid. In his memory the code word for successfully breaching the first dam was 'Nigger'. In a recent re-make, the code word was changed out of political correctness. Next we will have The Black Prince renamed The Genetically Suntanned Prince.

Well ........... I'm going to offend an awful lot of people now. We have 3 BLACK cats, 1 BLACK cat with WHITE bits here and there, and 1 tortoiseshell, which is WHITE, BLACK and GINGER. Oh - and our 'part-time doggie', my parents' dog, is a BLACK labrador/collie cross. There! I've done it. So does this apply to animals too? I take it that it does; after all, we can't be animalist, can we. (No offence aimed at anyone here, but oh boy, when does all this PC stuff end?)

Paul (from Hampshire) PMSL Glenys I to have a black and a black and white cat and that's the way they're going to stay lol *Julie refuses point blank to paint them despite being threatened by PC police lol

Brian, THAT should NEVER have been rewritten Nigger was the word.....and nigger it should stay. Dah dit, di dit, dah dah dit, dah dah dit, dit, di dah dit. N............I............G..............G.............E........R Bob

Nana, Can't you just tell the PC brigade to PC off. Present your pantomime. Then it is up to them to prove that you were being offensive which I am sure would be impossible to prove.

Brian, out of interest what was the word changed to? Jim,/anyone. Have the PC brigade actually got any LEGAL powers? Bob

im so glad this has been put on boards, im offended that they think short people will be offended by snow white and severn dwarfs, its unbelieveable, im 4ft 11, and i never thought of myself as a dwarf, dwarfs are cartoon characters in pantos, or disney, im so angry that these people (political correctness brigade) think they can call shorter people dwarfs how dare they, next theyll be calling the big friendly giant, the rather taller than average man, let kids pantos stay as they are

Quite right Julie! United we stand, eh. I get the general impression on this thread that the plebs that make up the PCB aren't held in high esteem! Oh - good question, Bob. x

the word bob was changed to gnome, and bashful is to be called basher, cos bashful could offend those who are shy, how ever theyve just made a perfectly happy dwarf violent