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Political Correctness ..sometimes completely ridiculous

September 02 2010

I turn on the tv this morning to find that a School has decided that 'gay' is no longer an acceptable word in Kookaburra sits in the Old Gum Tree and its going to be replaced with 'fun'... The then talked a bout a number of other politically incorrect terms... The theme to Fred Flinstone... Heaven helps us if we were to have a GAY OLD TIME A delicious ice ream we have all enjoyed ... GAYTIME I wonder what else we should change that is politically incorrect... Can you think of any others ??

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  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    lolz.. I already commented on that in the song thread. What a joke eh? They could change the word "gay" to "straight"... i.e. "how straight your life must be".... Now I dont know about you.. but I figure where's the fun in that? Hugs Stalky

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    I luv em ! I tell ya I do ! Get a great idea and make it ordinary ! I have to say Sassy most of the time as a little inquisitive being that I am ..... that's another word for nosy ......each time I have looked this stuff up or investigated further its almost always rubbish ! Its made up by the same people that say Muslims dont like christmas decorations ..... I have muslim friends that come to my house for xmas day and have decorations on thier house ! .....fact ....so another yet another rubbish story (just another thing Muslims in fact recognise Jesus he is a prophet to them) ....... you gotta lurve a good media beat up ..... makes me think about boat people and alike ohhhhh now I feel like home ! Having said all that my children who are very young ......yes I have underlings ..... feel sorry for them ..... sing catch a "fella" by his toe rather than niger .......... I was about 28 before I understood that .....I said feel sorry for them ! Mooka you'd have a few committee stories I am sure ......Military love that gear ! Brae ....nursery rhymes king !

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    One of the brainless Comentee's on one of the morning shows actually supporting it by saying that the principal didn't want people using the word for bullying. OK so let us take the word out of context and re enforce to the younguns that it's a derogatory word. Sheesh we blame politicians for everything but we're taught by morons! If "gay" means "fun" then a kid taunting another with "geez your gay" is not a bad thing isn't it! Arrgh stop the world I want to get off!!!

  • Letsgetcrazy09

    Letsgetcrazy09

    14 years ago

    GollywogsNoddy & Big EarsThe Kookaburra SongHow bout we just bend them over the bench and...............But even that is probably seen as stereotypical gay stuff too isnt itTime for these numb nuts to grow a brain isn't it!!

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    I have a cousin in NZ and she works in child care,They are not allowed to sing Ba Ba Black Sheep, they must sing Ba Ba Rainbow Sheep....hang on, oh no, that is gay! They swapped racism for gay pride, oh deary deary me!There were some others too, but c'mon now, Ba Ba Black sheep is racist? Socks and wooly jumpers can be rainbow coloured but sheep can't, that is just plain silly.Looking2try....it really is ridiculous but not always made up did you know that when completing her child care quals, my sister (not cousin this time) was taught that you avoid using negative words like no....Example "No running inside" becomes "We use our walking feet inside"She was also taught that using pasta to make things like necklaces etc is not permitted as it is a wasteful use of food, starving children out there you know who could be eating that pasta.I understand changing rhymes like Eeny meeny miney mo....yes I and my children catch tigers by their toes but black sheep and gay birds? Does this mean I can not Sing a song of sixpence? There are black birds in that rhyme, Can i not Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross?...heaven forbid I sing the word cock YET......My daughter at 10 years old can attend the school disco and dance to songs like I kissed A girl and Apple Bottom Jeans.Could bang on all day...it is illegal to smack your child in NZ you know? xx Salina

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    There isn't anything except asking a particularly colored sheep if he has any wool, and finding that in fact he has wool for several people including the little boy who lives down the lane. (are there extra verses I don't know about? Where the poor sheep is forced to be shorn up the back of the shed?)

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Now I come from a committee family ......... My parents were and still are committee peeps ....... ! On committees and boards all over the shop crazy !I regularly blame my parents for some silly political correctness ! Annnnnnnd my folks where in childcare frack me ! Classic the rule enforced that childcare workers should pop on a fluro jaket if picking up kids from a school ! Not politically correct but very silly ! I think one of my mums rules ....????????? Yes lots are still made up, many times but silly silly well meaning people. Classic is amoungst the aboriginal communities where well meaning whities make up rules that make the local scratch thier heads. Did anyone anywhere ever really get upset by said black sheep being black ....... Is it possible modern teachers dont understand nor care about the correct use of the word "gay" faaaaaarck yes! I love the smacking debate ! I once smacked my child on the bum outside a shop in Newtown , the young mum inside stared and glared at me ....... I said can I help you ....... stared and shook her head ........ I walked up to her a calmly said to her "when your kids in jail because they never had any discipline and my kids the president of Australia I will make sure they look after prisoners ! Bye for now, search the truth and for god sake don't believe the TV ....... Find the truth yourself ! Brae

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    your on the ball there Brae PC is crap like other stupid american ideas...the best thing we can do is ignore it and remember we are aussies. and yes we know what a joke is :) i laugh at silliness like "not smacking your child" and figure 'chris issac doesnt have a sence of humor" and still my abo mate still calls himself Midnight..who will arrest him? speak up against stupid laws before its too late..

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Yes, Letsgocrazy09, it all started when poor old Enid Blytons characters were declared politically incorrect, Noddy, Big Ears, Golliwog, but the funniest of all was the scathing remarks because "Noddy, woke up feeling as little queer", I reread the books but up until now have not been able to ascertain which of his friends was the "Little Queer".

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Humphrey B Bear was removed cause he didnt speak or wear pants.... Dick and Fanny in Enid Blytons fab series The Faraway Tree have had name changes also... I misss the Golliwogs...sigh.... Teachers are not supposed to put their arms around a child even if they are crying (you try telling that to a 5yr old) especially if said teacher is male - no wonder they cant get many male teachers Kisses Focus

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    anyone remember when the 'fairy' penguins had to be called the 'little' penguins? also there was a sook about a dawf miniture pony. because call a pony a dawf is offencive apparently

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Sassy, the do gooders have changed the way of the world..I am not feeling myself today ! But i did last night !

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Ha ha Taipan. Too true. When in public you can prick your finger but not finger your prick. It is all in the order of things. They banned Noddy and BigEars for a while as well because they were a homosexual couple and BigEars was a touch cruel to Noddy.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Even our teen daughter was shocked when we heard this playing at a primary school last week... Blah Blah Blah lyricsSongwriters: Foreman, Sean; Hitch, Neon; Levin, Benjamin; Sebert, Kesha Rose;Coming out your mouth with your blah, blah, blahZip your lips like a padlockAnd meet me in the backWith the jack and the jukeboxI don't really care where you live atJust turn around, boy, let me hit thatDon't be a little bitch with your chit chatJust show me where your dick's atMusic starts, listen hot stuffI'm in love with this songSo just hush, baby, shut upHeard enoughStop, talk, talk, talking that blah, blah, blahThink you'll be getting this? Nah, nah, nahNot in the back of my car, ah, ahIf you keep talking that blah, blah, blah, blah, blahBoy, come on, give me rock stuffCome put a little love it my glove bagI wanna dance with no pants onMeet me in the back with the jack and the jukeboxSo cut to the chase kid'Cause I know you don't care what my middle name isI wanna be naked and you're wastedMusic's up, listen hot stuffI'm in love with this songSo just hush, baby, shut upHeard enoughStop talk, talk, talking that blah, blah, blahThink you'll be getting this? Nah, nah, nahNot in the back of my car, ah, ahIf you keep talking that blah, blah, blah, blah, blahYou be delaying, you're always saying some shitYou say I'm playing, I'm never laying the dickSaying blah, blah, blah 'cause I don't care who you are in this barIt only matters who I amStop talk, talk, talking that blah, blah, blahThink you'll be getting this? Nah, nah, nahNot in the back of my car, ah, ahIf you keep talking that blah, blah, blah, blah, blahBlah, blah, blahThink you'll be getting this? Nah, nah, nahNot in the back of my car, ah, ahIf you keep talking that blah, blah, blah, blah, blahBlah, blah, blahStop talkingStop talk, talk talking that

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Lmfao......

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    I saw the same story and following interview with the school principal who all but had to eat his words following the best interview Ive seen from those banal morning TV show presenters. I'd love to round up all fans of political correctness and subject them to 72 hours of clockwork orange & a few eps of The Twilight zone while hooked up to a IV of laxitives. Bloody twits...gawd....

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    does anyone care that Stephanie Rice said something like "suck on that faggots!!" on her twitter account? I get that it isn't something you'd probably broadcast out there as a heavily sponsored athlete... but I'm not outraged by it.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    I cared....albeit for est: 30 nanoseconds. For a reasonably well known athlete, sponsored by the public purse (initially) to demonstrate she has the intellect of a kitkat and a puerile vocabulary is shameful. I hope she loses whatever sponsorship she has & never represents Australia for anything at any stage.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Quoting 'Mynameonurlips' I saw the same story and following interview with the school principal who all but had to eat his words following the best interview Ive seen from those banal morning TV show presenters. I'd love to round up all fans of political correctness and subject them to 72 hours of clockwork orange & a few eps of The Twilight zone while hooked up to a IV of laxitives. Bloody twits...gawd.... and then .. I cared....albeit for est: 30 nanoseconds. For a reasonably well known athlete, sponsored by the public purse (initially) to demonstrate she has the intellect of a kitkat and a puerile vocabulary is shameful. I hope she loses whatever sponsorship she has & never represents Australia for anything at any stage. Lips, I am now confused, in one reply you rip into the Principal for his PC stance then in the next you are showing the same PC traits as the Principal in relation to Ms Rice. I actually feel sorry for Rice, if Ian Roberts hadn't got on his high horse, no one would have known and more to the point, no one would have cared. From the way I see it, PC is due to the apathy of the majority in letting a very small minority dictate their own personal paradigms and views to boost their own self worth. If the silent majority, that is the 99.99999% of the population actually stood up and told these minorities to deal with it, this country would be in a lot better shape. In fact I belong to the most pursecuted group in Australia - the middle aged white male. I can't say anything to anyone in case it is take the wrong way, yet can be soundly abused by everyone with them knowing I can't respond - it sucks!

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    the two. Its like comparing apples to oranges. One is a highly offensive aggressive slur made by a prominant tax payer funded national sporting representative in a very public forum and the other some poor unenlightened principal who openly admitted his actions were totally inappropriate & who only came under public scrutiny by chance. I also disagree with your comment regarding middle aged white males being the most persecuted group in Australia. Unless, of course, you are referring to the fact that 'poor unenlightened principal' is white, middle aged &...male. In which case its a clear case of 'no shit sherlock' LOL.