I don't know about anyone else, but if someone tells me 'you can say [insert term here], you'll offend people' then I have an almost overwhelming urge to use said offensive term for the rest of the day.

Some is sure to get their knickers in a twist over this one.

Damn skirts are always causing problems.

Some = Someone.

/What are the odds that both my keyboard and mouse would get balky on the same day?

//Just gave them a nice bath in wine last night, too.

MissFeasance: Damn skirts are always causing problems.

You *do* realize that your name is now considered offensive, yes?

The booklet also admits that "no gender-neutral term has been successfully proposed" to replace 'waiter' and 'waitress', allowing parliamentarians to use these words in a restaurant or café.

Say What?
Here in America restaurants use the term server as a gender neutral term to describe both male and female waitstaff.

Psychotropic: The booklet also admits that "no gender-neutral term has been successfully proposed" to replace 'waiter' and 'waitress', allowing parliamentarians to use these words in a restaurant or café.

Say What?
Here in America restaurants use the term server as a gender neutral term to describe both male and female waitstaff.

Don't forget to slave that server to your client table.

what? stop looking at me like that....

New acceptable terms:

Babe
Sweetie
Toots
Little Lady
and the universal Hey You.

Weaver95: Don't forget to slave that server to your client table.

what? stop looking at me like that....

What, was there something wrong with that?

How about cum-dumpster? That sounds romantic.

Weaver95: I don't know about anyone else, but if someone tells me 'you can say [insert term here], you'll offend people' then I have an almost overwhelming urge to use said offensive term for the rest of the day.

I have a similar reaction whenever I see one of those smarmy Truth commercials. I usually smoke two cigarettes simply out of spite.

oldebayer: Some = Someone.

/What are the odds that both my keyboard and mouse would get balky on the same day?

//Just gave them a nice bath in wine last night, too.

its just as well, using the word one is offensive to siamese twins.

oldebayer: What are the odds that both my keyboard and mouse would get balky on the same day?

Don't be rediculose!

Maybe they're from Mypos?

Does this mean the end of the Mrs. Degree?

dustman81: Does this mean the end of the Mrs. Degree?

Yes. Now the correct term is "Taking Up A Space That Could Have Gone To Someone Who Will Use It" Degree.

Weaver95: I don't know about anyone else, but if someone tells me 'you can say [insert term here], you'll offend people' then I have an almost overwhelming urge to use said offensive term for the rest of the day.

I just use the term koontbag.

Ahh the idiocy of people.

I have a strong urge to whack Harold Romer in the head with a personhole cover.

Kliffoth: How about cum-dumpster? That sounds romantic.

And functional!

I'm surprised that Congress hasn't already run with this idea.

What do they put on the bathroom doors instead of Women
or Female.

atlanta_ufo: What do they put on the bathroom doors instead of Women
or Female.

XX for women. XY for men.

atlanta_ufo: What do they put on the bathroom doors instead of Women
or Female.

A quote on how women don't belong in politics and their bathroom is now a foot-wash.

Aarontology: atlanta_ufo: What do they put on the bathroom doors instead of Women
or Female.

XX for women. XY for men.

Hey, I like that.

Aarontology
atlanta_ufo: What do they put on the bathroom doors instead of Women
or Female.

XX for women. XY for men, and add the new word "it" for trans gender.

Chairman Obama told business leaders, "I don't like the idea of spending more government money, nor am I interested in expanding government's role."

how can he stand his own lying. We all know NOBODY, left or right, believed that statement. Is there a leftie who thinks that statement by Obama is true?

sorry wrong thread

If the European Parliament has money to spend on this nonsense, they can obviously sustain a healthy budget cut.

/not living in reality

Weaver95: I don't know about anyone else, but if someone tells me 'you can say [insert term here], you'll offend people' then I have an almost overwhelming urge to use said offensive term for the rest of the day.

I know I'd press the big red button too, but it doesn't make sense to give them their name based on marital status.

FYI: 'Sugartits' isn't sexist because men have manboobs.

Every authority that can write rules invariably comes up with a few funny ones. Some are even original.

The headline is a wee-bit misleading though. The guidance is for MEPs only, and with them getting close to a mil a year of tax-free cash from the EU taxpayers, I can see how they are imagining themselves some kind of new nobility, and feel the urge for a more "dignified" language.

Aarontology: atlanta_ufo: What do they put on the bathroom doors instead of Women
or Female.

XX for women. XY for men.

You can't do that. It'll offend people with Klinefelter's Syndrome

/I like the idea

That's terrible, subby!

How many times do I need to tell you: Never call chicks broads.

/Victoria Jackson still doesn't belong in broadcasting.

Womyn, phallocentric subby.

Weaver95: I don't know about anyone else, but if someone tells me 'you can say [insert term here], you'll offend people' then I have an almost overwhelming urge to use said offensive term for the rest of the day.

Me too.

90% of this PC stuff is only for retards who read waaaaay to far into things.

For example, when I write a generic report about something, using the pronoun 'he', I don't see why that has to be interpreted as "females excluded." There isn't a gender neutral pronoun to use and using 'he or she' is cumbersome.

Words like "waitress" or "hostess" are gender-biased, but are they really offensive? They don't mean anything, they are simply the names of certain professions. There's no reason why those terms should be offensive and if you see sexism in that, you are looking too hard for it.

The EP must be confused.
From my experience it is calling them 'Mr' that offends them, not 'Miss' or 'Mrs'.

I just call them incubators.

laughing at your double-plus trampling of rights

Weaver95: I don't know about anyone else, but if someone tells me 'you can say [insert term here], you'll offend people' then I have an almost overwhelming urge to use said offensive term for the rest of the day.

I feel the same way whenever I see a MADD ad. I get over it by getting shiatfaced and running down an old lady with my car.

Always makes me feel better.

Howabout people stop being less offended all the time and we start working on real problems like war, hunger, disease, homelessness and poverty?

Last I checked, a 500-lb bomb didn't stop to check if it called you Ma'am or Sir before it blew your village to smithereens; and AIDS seems to kill you regardless of whether you refer to women as equals or "weapons-grade cumbuckets." (Kudos to whomever came up with that term)

I mean, really, people, what the f*ck is wrong with you dumbasses?

sacrileg: Weaver95: I don't know about anyone else, but if someone tells me 'you can say [insert term here], you'll offend people' then I have an almost overwhelming urge to use said offensive term for the rest of the day.

I know I'd press the big red button too, but it doesn't make sense to give them their name based on marital status.

True, but TFA said they aren't supposed to use "Senorita". Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you always supposed to use Senorita because Senora implies she's old??

Gyrfalcon: Howabout people stop being less offended all the time and we start working on real problems like war, hunger, disease, homelessness and poverty?

Last I checked, a 500-lb bomb didn't stop to check if it called you Ma'am or Sir before it blew your village to smithereens; and AIDS seems to kill you regardless of whether you refer to women as equals or "weapons-grade cumbuckets." (Kudos to whomever came up with that term)

I mean, really, people, what the f*ck is wrong with you dumbasses?

Because its easier to enact some horseshait PC nonsense than to work on the real problems. I'd say this pretty much typifies the level of competence that we can expect in just about any legislative body anywhere in the world.

If I made my 2 cents, I think we should mostly be looking at people's intent.

When my grandmother called black people negroes or people of color, that was what she learned as a kid and it was a hard habit to break. She was simply describing someone, not insulting.

On the other hand, you've got people like Ann Coulter who calls all Arabic people Camel Jockeys. Everybody knows full well that his intent is to insult people in a bigoted way.

There's a difference.

Aw for cripes sake.....

lhinds: Gyrfalcon: Howabout people stop being less offended all the time and we start working on real problems like war, hunger, disease, homelessness and poverty?

Last I checked, a 500-lb bomb didn't stop to check if it called you Ma'am or Sir before it blew your village to smithereens; and AIDS seems to kill you regardless of whether you refer to women as equals or "weapons-grade cumbuckets." (Kudos to whomever came up with that term)

I mean, really, people, what the f*ck is wrong with you dumbasses?

Because its easier to enact some horseshait PC nonsense than to work on the real problems. I'd say this pretty much typifies the level of competence that we can expect in just about any legislative body anywhere in the world.

PC: The death of civilization.

The EU Parliament is a bunch if ninnies. For that matter, most European politicians are ninnies.

So maybe if these persons get offended by simple traditional forms of respectful address they are too farking petty and sensitive to be trusted with the responsibility that they have?


Not their fault though, unless they are in fact biatching about it. It could be that Harold is a blithering idiot and the women are making fun of him as much as we are.

quantum_jellyroll: The EU Parliament is a bunch if ninnies. For that matter, most European politicians are ninnies.

FTFY

//First time I ever did that, feel dirty now. Not sure if I like it yet though.

ArthGuinness:
On the other hand, you've got people like Ann Coulter who calls all Arabic people Camel Jockeys. Everybody knows full well that his intent is to insult people in a bigoted way.


What you did there...I see it.

If the chicks/broads/gals didn't have that thing between their legs, I wouldn't talk to them at all.