Therapist Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 You couldn't make it up. The PC brigade strike again. http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91248-1309489,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart MacD Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 At least Noddy will have company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deek Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Travellers selling pegs and white heather? Is there something not true in that statement? Thats what they do when they come round my street. But stereotyping is seen as non PC in todays world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boaby Ewing Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Travellers selling pegs and white heather? Is there something not true in that statement? Thats what they do when they come round my street. But stereotyping is seen as non PC in todays world. Really? They tend to just break into cars round my way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmiyaRomanova Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 For fox sake.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felix Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 The BBC should move with the times and depict minorities accurately. They could have borrowed "scoop" and "dizzy" from the set of Bob The Builder and had Basil and the gypsies doing some dodgy tarmac work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Really? They tend to just break into cars round my way. I think the correct term is "giving expression to their unique cultural and ethnic identity by nicking stuff". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julio Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Sadly the world has gone PC mad......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Buaben Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Really? They tend to just break into cars round my way. Or manhole covers or clothes of the washing line.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovecraft Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 How did they see it If they don't have a TV? I would be checking to see If they had a paid up TV license before taking it any further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deek Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Really? They tend to just break into cars round my way. I am not allowed to say that Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djf Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Is there a more boring or redundant phrase than PC brigade or any of its variations. They stereotyped a whole group of people and recieved one complaint. Woop de doo. How this is even news i'll never know. Perhaps people should take a look a bit further away and realise whats actually important in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Therapist Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 Is there a more boring or redundant phrase than PC brigade or any of its variations. Sadly, the PC Brigade is very real and are influencing more and more of our daily lives. Currently they control our words, but unless we do something it won't be long before they control our thoughts too. :mad: :mad: Time for the Great British Public to show a bit of back bone and send a message to the PC Brigade that we won't have their attitudes foisted on us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djf Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Sadly, the PC Brigade is very real and are influencing more and more of our daily lives. Currently they control our words, but unless we do something it won't be long before they control our thoughts too. :mad: :mad: Time for the Great British Public to show a bit of back bone and send a message to the PC Brigade that we won't have their attitudes foisted on us. Fight the power man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Therapist Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 Fight the power man. Will do. Thanks for your support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Thor Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 My one question to said 'traveller' would have been this; Do you have a television license? On a side note i've yet to see a traveller selling pegs or heather, the ones i've seen so far in my 40 years have tended to be destroying someone elses land with oil drum BBQ's, bits of washing machine, stray dogs and ferral kids scattered about the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambo121 Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 My one question to said 'traveller' would have been this; Do you have a television license? On a side note i've yet to see a traveller selling pegs or heather, the ones i've seen so far in my 40 years have tended to be destroying someone elses land with oil drum BBQ's, bits of washing machine, stray dogs and ferral kids scattered about the place. Or supporting the Wee Team :107years::107years: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Therapist Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 It seems Basil's in the clear. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/7307828.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narrative Arc Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 the best line i ever heard about PC'ness was that, in the late eighties and early nineties, was that...if your name was Guy Chapman and you were playing the comedy store, they would have introduced you as...Person Person Person... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Weathers Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Sadly, the PC Brigade is very real and are influencing more and more of our daily lives. Currently they control our words, but unless we do something it won't be long before they control our thoughts too. :mad: :mad: Time for the Great British Public to show a bit of back bone and send a message to the PC Brigade that we won't have their attitudes foisted on us. Fight the fight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eckauskas Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Maybe if they don't like people mocking them, they should get proper jobs and move into a proper house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Cockade Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Boom Boom!!!!! Don't worry - Mr Derek will sort it out or was it Mr Roy..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemclaren Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Fight the fight! Yes, we should all be more like Bernard Manning and the world would be a better place.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boaby Ewing Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/opinion/columnists/guest-blog%3a-basil-brush-20080318803/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Weathers Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Yes, we should all be more like Bernard Manning and the world would be a better place.... Well said! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djf Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 It seems Basil's in the clear. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/7307828.stm I guess political correctness hasn't gone "mad" after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of the North Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Sadly, the PC Brigade is very real and are influencing more and more of our daily lives. Currently they control our words, but unless we do something it won't be long before they control our thoughts too. :mad: :mad: Time for the Great British Public to show a bit of back bone and send a message to the PC Brigade that we won't have their attitudes foisted on us. what a ridiculous post. How are the PC brigade 'very real'? Who is in them? Do they have uniforms? How do you join? One numpty complains about Basil Brush and gypsies, is rightly ignored by the police, yet somehow this is evidence of 'PC gone mad'? Whatever the feck PC means... As for 'it won't be long before they control our thoughts too...' - what a ludicrous thing to say. Are Guardian reading lefties going to insert microchips into your brain while you are distracted reading your Daily Mail? Ignoring nonsense stories like this, the term PC is completely meaningless, and is generally only used by people who want to do things ordinary people would consider unacceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Spackler Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 what a ridiculous post. How are the PC brigade 'very real'? Who is in them? Do they have uniforms? How do you join? One numpty complains about Basil Brush and gypsies, is rightly ignored by the police, yet somehow this is evidence of 'PC gone mad'? Whatever the feck PC means... As for 'it won't be long before they control our thoughts too...' - what a ludicrous thing to say. Are Guardian reading lefties going to insert microchips into your brain while you are distracted reading your Daily Mail? Ignoring nonsense stories like this, the term PC is completely meaningless, and is generally only used by people who want to do things ordinary people would consider unacceptable. How do you define what an ordinary person is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Therapist Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 the term PC is completely meaninglessIncorrrect. Individuals such as yourself - who are rabidly PC - may not like it, but it is a well defined and meaningful term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of the North Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Incorrrect. Individuals such as yourself - who are rabidly PC - may not like it, but it is a well defined and meaningful term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness What is interesting, if you read the link you provided, is that 'the term is used almost exclusively in a pejorative sense' i.e. the term is weighted in a way that implies disapproval. It is not a neutral phrase. The article also says that 'critics argue that the term "political correctness" is a straw man invented by conservatives in the 1990s in order to challenge progressive social change'. A straw man, i.e. creating something that doesn't exist to attack something that does. Example - UEFA decide that the singing of songs which are derogatory to different races or religions are unacceptable. The cry goes up ' Next we won't be able to sing anything at the football. This is PC gone mad!'. Straw man created, we are all going to hell in a handcart etc... From your own link - a term invented by conservatives in order to challenge progressive social change. Casual racism and bigotry are unacceptable now - that's not Politically Correct, that's just correct. Casual racists and bigots, like yourself, don't like it - so you reach for a cliched, meaningless and easy phrase you think backs up your case - PC. Any time I see anyone use the phrase PC, it simply proves they klnow they are fighting a losing battle. Having said that, the viewer who complained about Basil Brushwas not being 'PC' - they were just fecking stupid. And as for your assertion that I am rabidly 'PC'... wrong yet again. I don't like racism, sectarianism or Rangers FC. In fact, there are some particularly un PC songs about Rangers which I have no problem with. Be wary of defining anyone who disagrees with Hearts fans singing Hun songs as PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 What is interesting, if you read the link you provided, is that 'the term is used almost exclusively in a pejorative sense' i.e. the term is weighted in a way that implies disapproval. It is not a neutral phrase. The article also says that 'critics argue that the term "political correctness" is a straw man invented by conservatives in the 1990s in order to challenge progressive social change'. A straw man, i.e. creating something that doesn't exist to attack something that does. Example - UEFA decide that the singing of songs which are derogatory to different races or religions are unacceptable. The cry goes up ' Next we won't be able to sing anything at the football. This is PC gone mad!'. Straw man created, we are all going to hell in a handcart etc... From your own link - a term invented by conservatives in order to challenge progressive social change. Casual racism and bigotry are unacceptable now - that's not Politically Correct, that's just correct. Casual racists and bigots, like yourself, don't like it - so you reach for a cliched, meaningless and easy phrase you think backs up your case - PC. Any time I see anyone use the phrase PC, it simply proves they klnow they are fighting a losing battle. Having said that, the viewer who complained about Basil Brushwas not being 'PC' - they were just fecking stupid. And as for your assertion that I am rabidly 'PC'... wrong yet again. I don't like racism, sectarianism or Rangers FC. In fact, there are some particularly un PC songs about Rangers which I have no problem with. Be wary of defining anyone who disagrees with Hearts fans singing Hun songs as PC. Same thing innit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of the North Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Same thing innit? It certainly is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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