Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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Working with tardsMany years ago, I worked in with the mentally handicapped (as they were known then) when care in the community came along (and they became clients exhibiting challening behaviour). One of our clients was a right stroppy bugger, and we had a thing like a childs reins that was really a short webbing strap with a velcro loop on one end (round his wrist) and a handle on the other (in the carers(!) hand. Stopped him running off, acting about etc a treat. No need to discipline, drag or whatever him, just the thing round his wrist and he behaved
Berkshire Social Services said we weren't to use it. First time out, under a car (minor injuries) he got up, and slammed into a bus (major dead)
Nice one. More to follow.
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 19:19, 3 replies)
My father delivers medical equipment with the dribblies....Part of the local government initiative is deciding that they are fit to work without fully trained supervisors. Me dad supervises one normally 2/3 times a week and has had no training whatsoever as to what special care is required. He's employed to install medical equipment in various OAP's houses.
He regularly tells me stories of these random dribblers getting out of his van and walking down the road, oblivious to traffic. He's had them crying in the work van
Whoever made this ruling in Parliment ought to be served for attempted manslaughter, the fucking idiots. They've got less sense than the disableds.
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 19:51,
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Shit!He died? Really? That's fucking horrible! They should be tried for murder.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 1:53, closed)
Yeah, but...... I bet that poor guy's family are terribly glad that his last moments were spent free of such a draconian torture implement. Death is a small price to pay to avoid having a lightweight fabric loop around your wrist.
Fucking cretins.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 16:43, closed)
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