General Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

PCorrectness...in Aus', is this correct?!

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Rambling

Rambling Report 16 Nov 2007 11:16

Just seen it on another forum '
"Has anyone picked up on this. There are quite a few pages if you Google
Santa, Australia.

It seems that they have now been asked not to say 'Ho Ho Ho' in case it
offends women. Some pc fool who has probably been watching too much
Oprah or other US daytime shows has picked up on this word and gone
stupid."

Researching:

jen yorkshire

jen yorkshire Report 16 Nov 2007 11:17

sheesh,, it just gets worse.we wont able say anything before long. we will have to mime.

Rambling

Rambling Report 16 Nov 2007 11:20

why would anyone think of that in the first place! unbelievable if it is true.....

Researching:

Sue

Sue Report 16 Nov 2007 11:23

I could say I am lost for words but that isn't true I have plenty to say on all this pc cr*p.

Problem is I am not allowed to say it!!!

Sue x

Rambling

Rambling Report 16 Nov 2007 11:26

lol Sue, I can't understand why people spend their lives looking out for 'un PC' words etc certainly not this sort of thing!....but it seems they do...poor old Santa!

Rosexx

Researching:

GI YID

GI YID Report 16 Nov 2007 11:33

..the world is gona disappear up it's own a**e

Rambling

Rambling Report 16 Nov 2007 11:38

lol George, I didn't see it on General yesterday.....have PMd Mo !

Crazy isn't it.....!

Rosexx

Researching:

Rambling

Rambling Report 16 Nov 2007 11:47

No 'Christmas'...has to be the 'winter holiday' i think?....certainly was that some places last year!

Researching:

SuperMum

SuperMum Report 16 Nov 2007 12:01

What is this world coming to? I so wish I was a few years younger, when living was actualy fun!

Angela

GI YID

GI YID Report 16 Nov 2007 12:02

George..............
keep ranting............

you're saying what a lot of people are thinking...........

Good on yerrrrrr

Sue

Sue Report 16 Nov 2007 12:31

I am not supposed to wear a cross in work as I work with Jehovah's Witnesses, they personally don't care but in theory they could insist that I don't wear it.

I wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they made a formal complaint against me. I have a mini Christmas tree on my desk each year, just to make a point.

I attended a seminar a couple of weeks ago where we, as company managers, were told what could and couldn't be said to members of staff...............I am not changing the way I speak to them and that's that.

Sue xx

Carole

Carole Report 16 Nov 2007 14:36

The men and women who fight for this country are being let down, cos we are no longer free. We are being taken over by ..........well we all know. My rant over. Carole

Researching:

Merlin

Merlin Report 16 Nov 2007 15:00

Well how,s this for being PC. In Australia around 1996,They Allowed a "Bloke" with "Hairy Armpits" to enter a "Womens Beauty Comptition" ( you cant get more PC.than that) The Irony of it is " He Bl**dy WON". **M**.:o))))))>PMSL.

Researching:
Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Wend,Prickly,Island,GG.+CC.+DIZZY & Mersey.