Dave A
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in my daughters school the following things wind me up:
Blackboards are now called chalkboards.
Whiteboards ar now called writing boards
singing baa baa black sheep is racist aparently
brown bread cannot be asked for at lunch time, its now called wholemeal bread
brown sauce is now banned
bloody patheric IMO
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Colin
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Yes the country has went pussy soft!!
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Danny P
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quote: Originally posted by Dave A
brown sauce is now banned
Eh, why? Because its Brown?
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ajscorsa
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quote: Originally posted by Dave A
in my daughters school the following things wind me up:
Blackboards are now called chalkboards.
Whiteboards ar now called writing boards
singing baa baa black sheep is racist aparently
brown bread cannot be asked for at lunch time, its now called wholemeal bread
brown sauce is now banned
bloody patheric IMO
brown sauce banned surely thats a piss take
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abdus
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should have called it 'tanned' sauce..
yes, totally wrong...they are definitely not being used in a 'racist' or 'offending' way...
got that problem last week at work...they were deciding on which colour to paint walls of a corridor, I (jokingly) suggested black with no offending intent, BUT a 'white' teacher wasn't too happy that I said to paint it 'black' BTW I'm not black, not white, not brown, but 'beige' or tanned
No, seriously....
[Edited on 04-02-2007 by abdus]
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quote: Originally posted by Dave A
in my daughters school the following things wind me up:
Blackboards are now called chalkboards.
Whiteboards ar now called writing boards
singing baa baa black sheep is racist aparently
brown bread cannot be asked for at lunch time, its now called wholemeal bread
brown sauce is now banned
bloody patheric IMO
welcome to 2007 your 3 years late
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Dave A
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yes, brow sauce is banned
thing is, these items are in no way racist or have any trace of discrimination in them until they get labeled as such by the daft people that make up these rules.
by changing a 'blackboard' to 'chalkboard' it makes blackboard racist. whereas it wasnt thought as such before!
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Carl
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Where does it lead though? soon they will be saying that you can't call the colour black or brown. It's rediculous, its a board and its black, simple as, no racsim or racial hate in that is there!
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Matt H
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I waiting untill they do away with white & brown sugar, then milk because its white, then coffee because its black without the milk etc etc
[Edited on 05-02-2007 by Matt H]
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jammo20
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pmsl this is utter crap its all gone way ott
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drax
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I feel a guy fawkes plot coming on
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jay kay
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but we have a big bottle of HP downstairs that says BROWN on the front of it lol. Am i racist because my sauce is brown?????
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Carl
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quote: Originally posted by jay kay
but we have a big bottle of HP downstairs that says BROWN on the front of it lol. Am i racist because my sauce is brown?????
My spunk is white, I must be an innate racist.
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k e l
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i do alot of work in schools and they cant put christmas trees up and celebrate christmas in some schools because its unfaire to diferent religions.
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Craig W
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Kids are so innocent... my nephew is halfcast/mixed race/whatever and watched the new Rocky film with me and asked why the 'brown man' won He just turned 6 bless him.
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drax
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Cheers for ruining the film.
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d4za
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St. Georges Day is a prime example of this. Every other country in the U.K has their own patron saint and they celebrate them. in good old england, this doesnt happen but there are always roads closed off so other religions can celebrate their festivals.
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stuartmitchell
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They have cancelled Easter too so as not to offend our immigrant friends 
may as well cancel Ramadan aswell then eh?
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d4za
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may as well cancel Ramadan aswell then eh?
yes, but then that would be a gross infringement on their civil rights.
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jay kay
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quote: Originally posted by Carl
quote: Originally posted by jay kay
but we have a big bottle of HP downstairs that says BROWN on the front of it lol. Am i racist because my sauce is brown?????
My spunk is white, I must be an innate racist.
That means we are allll guilty unless someone has different coloured spunk....
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abdus
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quote: Originally posted by sarahdaz
may as well cancel Ramadan aswell then eh?
yes, but then that would be a gross infringement on their civil rights.
This thread is about colour problems iirc or am I getting something wrong?
...or maybe you have something that suggests you have a hatred against certain people?
Some people just make things worse....have you even completed primary education? 
[Edited on 04-02-2007 by abdus]
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Robin
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Abdus, it was in response to Stuart's 'they've cancelled easter...' comment.
If they've cancelled one religious festival, they should cancel them all, but that won't happen...
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abdus
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Ramadan was never a festival anyway, it's just a month in the Muslim calendar, in which people fast, but they do NOT impose it on anybody (not saying Easter is imposed on people)..The celebration day is Eid (only one day) and there is no holiday for this (not asking for one either)
[Edited on 04-02-2007 by abdus]
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corsa5dr
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I was told the other day that the word Brainstorm wasnt too be used because it is offensive to people with brain conditions. We are now to use 'Mindmap'
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Robin
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That is also true.
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