Politically Correct or Incorrect Bullshit Of The Day

[buttsie]

Originally Posted by snowy25

I know someone who is a street cleaner/sweeper. In the old days that was the job title as it basically described perfectly the role. No one would apply and be surprised by what they were expected to do. Now though he is called something along the lines of an urban regeneration and hygiene operative. If you saw an ad for that job, especially with all the double-talk involved with job ads, you wouldn't have a clue what it actually involved.

Theres a guy in australia Dr Neil james who set-up the plain english foundation who cuts through the layers of pure bullshit with common sense explanations

Have listened to him on 5AA 1395 AM in Adelaide South Australia

Hes like a verbal filter

You have to wonder why they need to dress up a job thats little more than cleaning

Its quite illuminatiing

https://www.plainenglishfoundation.com/neil-james

Theres an link in the first paragraph top left called fancy pants titles

What are fancy pants job titles?

Once upon a time, job titles used to tell us what people did for a living. They were bakers or doctors or lawyers or plumbers. But in recent years, it seems we don’t want people to know what we do, so we fancy-pants the title. Here are some classic examples:

Waste removal engineer - Garbage collector

https://www.plainenglishfoundation.c...r-and-in-print

[old alal]

Originally Posted by lothian

Were you born with a white penis ? Tut tut , you'll have to do better in 2017.


https://youtu.be/Yn-_tfaz_ZM

and I thought just being born with a penis was the reason for all my faults. Now I have something else to fret about. Bring on the drugs to help anxiety and depression.

[lothian]

Originally Posted by old alal

and I thought just being born with a penis was the reason for all my faults. Now I have something else to fret about. Bring on the drugs to help anxiety and depression.

Drugs ? you don't want drugs . You just need a dose of feminism .



https://youtu.be/DURLKPOHKHU

[Bill derBerg]

Originally Posted by snowy25

Maybe you are right. There is certainly a lot more done for them these days and life is in some aspects easier. I mean back in the day you had to go to the library search for books to study. These days they basically cut and paste shit off the internet.

However we also live in a world where people, especially kids are over protected. Kids getting obese before they even hit puberty because their parents don't let them play out. Fear of them getting sick or the paedophile bogey-man snatching them means they keep them wrapped in cotton wool. They sit upstairs on their games consoles eating and not exercising.

You're right on both counts. People don't have to think for themselves anymore. For proof look no further than the recent events around "fake news". Instead of looking for facts to prove/disprove a story it is just accepted as gospel. Odd, however, that it was a politician who started the discussion as it is politicians who cherish an uninformed populace.

Your point about obesity is also spot on. Find a photo from the 60's or 70's and the first thing you'll notice is how slender everyone appears. This started to change in the 80's with 24hr food outlets. The problem snowballed when manufacturers started adding sugar to all of our food. Check any label and you'll see sucrose, dextrose, glucose and fructose or all of them. People are slowly waking up to this epidemic but it's going to take a long time to turn the tide.

[snowy25]

Yeah I think you are right about additives and sugars etc. I think if you look at today's food health advice everyone born in the 40's and 50's should be dead. Their diets pretty much consisted of everything they now say is bad for you. Bacon, eggs, lard, butter, cream, cheese, red meats and such like. Yet we now have an aging population with many reaching 80+ years old. The French paradox shows that whilst the French should be walking heart attacks with their diets they suffer less CVD. I believe the reason is not the types of food but the quality of the food that's the problem. I think here its cheap foods that are killing us. As you say sugar is a component now that is added to a lot of foods. Refined sugar is dangerous and as you say people are more aware now and are looking for reduced sugar products. The problem is we now eat a lot more out of the home so its harder to keep an eye on your intake.

[Estreeter]

I couldn't stop laughing today over an idiot on the radio.

A talk back caller, the topic being Christmas, said she didn't like saying Merry Christmas and preferred one we don't use here much, Happy Holidays It is used but not often at all. She said she didn't want to offend anyone who may not be of Christian origins and yet at this time of year here being Summer a lot of the nation will be on annual leave from work for a few weeks plus school holidays and so on, so she prefers the Happy Holiday greeting. Apart from me thinking she was stupid, the program host made her look even stupider pointing out the word Holiday originated from Holy Day

Made my day that did
One misguided and misinformed Politically Correct sheep shot down

[footstep]

For 2 years now ,Some town's mayor here hesitate to build a Christmas tree in the city hall
because as Estreeter noted :"didn't want to offend anyone who may not be of Christian origins" and because secularity is in all public places.
That's BULLSHIT politically correct but not in our tradition.

[snowy25]

If someone is upset because someone else says to them Merry Xmas then they have some serious problems. If someone is upset because of a Xmas sign or display then they really need to check themselves into a psych ward. No matter your religion you have to respect others celebrations otherwise you cannot expect them to respect yours. If Muslims or Hindus for example are upset by a Xmas display then maybe we shouldn't allow Diwali or Eid displays.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by snowy25

need to check themselves into a psych ward.

The thing is, this place is culturally diverse, when I was growing up my hometown had a population of around 150,000. You could have split that about 50/50 with those having English roots, and the rest could have been from anywhere. Never was it a problem at Christmas time, The only people that have a problem with it those soft clowns who think the minorities might have a problem when in fact they don't. I think they dream up the problem that don't exist

[snowy25]

Yeah the minorities often get the blame when in fact they are not the ones complaining. Its these professional pen pushers whose sole job it is to be offended on others behalf so they can keep their job.