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Black Bess, **** Turpins Legendary horse now known as Bess


Everything I've seen refers to the horse as Black Bess, can you point out where it's now called only Bess ?
 
manticle said:
Funny how it's only ever white blokes crying about not being able to use the word '******'' anymore.
And only white people who say that the booing of Adam Goodes isn't racially oriented....

Time for a beer.

JD
 
manticle said:
Funny how it's only ever white blokes crying about not being able to use the word '******'' anymore.
Quentin Tarantino uses it so gratuitously in his movies it would make Ice T blush. But I guarantee if ENIMEM used it in a rap he's be crucified. Why the double standard?
He's crying all the way to the bank.
 
Buddy Franklin has a nasty habit of going into tackles late and wiping out players, if hypothetically he was booed for the said offence are the booers racist?

Seamad, I read it about 6 months ago when a list of unacceptable words were printed out, black board was in that list, it said it was now to be called chalk board manticle said he checked that out and it was not true but I haven't checked that as in the original post I made I put down white board.
 
wide eyed and legless said:
the Black Prince does he now have to be called Prince,
Well...he is still black....not sure what he likes to be called now

prince_purplerain1.jpg
 
Dave70 said:
Quentin Tarantino uses it so gratuitously in his movies it would make Ice T blush. But I guarantee if ENIMEM used it in a rap he's be crucified. Why the double standard?
He's crying all the way to the bank.
Well...it would not be a Tarantino movie without the use of nearly every offensive remark known to ( white ) man
 
wide eyed and legless said:
linked article, no mention of blackboard ?

Home Office minister John Denham has been criticised by the police for using the phrase "nitty gritty" because of race relations rules.
Mr Denham used the phrase during a debate at the Police Federation conference in Bournemouth.
He was told that police officers could face disciplinary charges for saying "nitty gritty" because it dates from the slavery era.
Some rank-and-file officers say the rules about language have become "a minefield" and have made them inhibited in doing their job.
Has political correctness gone mad? How much care should be taken by police over language?
 
wide eyed and legless said:
Buddy Franklin has a nasty habit of going into tackles late and wiping out players, if hypothetically he was booed for the said offence are the booers racist?

Seamad, I read it about 6 months ago when a list of unacceptable words were printed out, black board was in that list, it said it was now to be called chalk board manticle said he checked that out and it was not true but I haven't checked that as in the original post I made I put down white board.

The thing I don't understand is how many hurt feelings reports get submitted every time someone uses the word 'racist'. Presumably it's because it is considered a derogatory term but it's just a word. Nothing happens if someone calls you a racist. You don't get leprosy or the mumps. If you can't handle the implications of a simple word like that, maybe reconsider why so many other simple words, often used in a derogatory context and with a history of general unpleasantness attached, including extreme violence and hatred are not welcomed by others.

As for the Adam Goodes thing (getting dull now) - how many people have suggested it was because he pointed to a 13 year old spectator and shamed her when she used racially charged language? It has racial motivations - it's hard to argue with that. Were people booing before that event on this level?
 
From wikipedia:


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See also: Loony left
In the United States, left forces of "political correctness" have been blamed for actions largely carried out by right-wing groups, with Time citing campaigns against violence on network television as contributing to a "mainstream culture [which] has become cautious, sanitized, scared of its own shadow" because of "the watchful eye of the p.c. police", even though protests and advertiser boycotts targeting TV shows are generally organized by right-wing religious groups campaigning against violence, sex, and depictions of homosexuality on television.[40]
In the United Kingdom, some newspapers reported that a school had altered the nursery rhyme "Baa Baa Black Sheep" to read "Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep".[41] But it was later reported that in fact the Parents and Children Together (PACT) nursery had the children "turn the song into an action rhyme.... They sing happy, sad, bouncing, hopping, pink, blue, black and white sheep etc."[42] This nursery rhyme story was widely circulated and later extended to suggest that other language bans applied to the terms "black coffee" and "blackboard".[43] The Private Eye magazine reported that similar stories, had been published in the British press since The Sun first ran them in 1986.[44] See also Baa Baa White Sheep.
 
I do remember from my time in the Armed Forces when I was an instructor in electronics when we were no longer allowed to use the word "blackboard". A whiteboard was fine as was chalkboard. It seems one way traffic these days.( copied from link)

I definitely wouldn't be offended about being called a racist if not true, nor would I get mumps, but people do get highly offended and hurt by being called racist unjustly because some people like to call others racist, why, maybe it makes them feel superior being up there on that moral high horse, I don't know.
 
goomboogo said:
I have had my shyness misinterpreted as misanthropy.
reminds me of visiting london in the punk late 70's as a kid, saw a bit of graffiti.. The meek shall inherit the earth, to which some wit had added..if that's alright with the rest of us.
I'm sure it wasn't that original but it's stuck in my memory.
 
manticle said:
Funny how it's only ever white blokes crying about not being able to use the word '******'' anymore.
Lief was much easier when the the person making the racial slur decided whether it was racist or not.
 
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