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Is There No End To This Ridiculous Political Correctness?
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It's not really harmless fun if people are offended by it, though. And while one can take offence for the wrong reasons as well as the right ones, the only point I'm making there is that there shouldn't be an issue in giving more consideration to how what you say and do might be perceived by others. Of course, you can then choose to ignore them, and in general I'd support preserving that choice. You should have the right to be offensive... and the good sense not to -- or at least, not to go out of your way to cause offence for its own sake.
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This seems to me to be ridiculous. Lighten-up kids, for goodness's sake. We can all survive a bit of fun poked at us. I grew up with 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me'.
'Specky-four-eyes gumboil' was what the nastier kids in my junior school called me (I wore glasses). They meant ill. I was hurt, but rose above it. This festival is innocent fun and I cannot understand the furore.
'Specky-four-eyes gumboil' was what the nastier kids in my junior school called me (I wore glasses). They meant ill. I was hurt, but rose above it. This festival is innocent fun and I cannot understand the furore.
Jourdain
Quite. I have always thought of a fancy dress ball as:
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innovative
I just hate the way these so called intelligensia think they have to find some political correct agenda.
These students think they are so effing smart with their debates in the common room and have not yet knuckled down to the hard real slog of getting a degree.
God pity them when they get out in the real world and try to find a job if all they worry about in Uni is fancy dress.
Quite. I have always thought of a fancy dress ball as:
Theme lead
Topical
Satirical
innovative
I just hate the way these so called intelligensia think they have to find some political correct agenda.
These students think they are so effing smart with their debates in the common room and have not yet knuckled down to the hard real slog of getting a degree.
God pity them when they get out in the real world and try to find a job if all they worry about in Uni is fancy dress.
jim360
If you want to delve into your history books, in support of your anti-British views, then perhaps you should remember that we were once invaded by the Italians who had the cheek to build a wall, much in the way that such as you criticise Trump for suggesting something similar, and don't forget those marauding Vikings who raped and plundered our land, the Saxons, the Angles, not to mention those pesky Normans.
If you want to delve into your history books, in support of your anti-British views, then perhaps you should remember that we were once invaded by the Italians who had the cheek to build a wall, much in the way that such as you criticise Trump for suggesting something similar, and don't forget those marauding Vikings who raped and plundered our land, the Saxons, the Angles, not to mention those pesky Normans.
