Things you never could have predicted

[PC66]

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I once got into trouble for calling school kids 'children' instead of 'young people'. Sheesh!

Just when you think the lunacy can't get much worse.....

[Trickyvee]

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That is strange that now somebody gets offended over two words placed back to front. The PC term that makes me laugh is that now a gay person is an "LGBT" (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender). To me it sounds like either a garden railway train or something you would order for lunch: "I'll have an LGBT with extra bacon, fries and a chocolate shake."

Lol it's true. The terms get longer and longer. I'm pretty sure that one will soon become LGBTASEOTS (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Asexual or Somewhere Else On The Spectrum). I work in an environment where people are ridiculously PC and get right on their high horse if you don't say the latest term. I once got into trouble for calling school kids 'children' instead of 'young people'. Sheesh!

[Richard1978]

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I'm not sure about that, where I work we constantly preached "diversity" and have jobs created for it. Not to mention all the phobias, isms and ists that exist everywhere today, which generate from left leaning media, read the Guardian/Independent or watch C4 news it's all quite rife.

I'm the sort of person who has benefitted from that kind of thinking, I could easily still be living with my parents & claiming benefits, claiming I couldn't work.

[HG]

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Though most of the time it's the right wing press blowing things out of all reportion.

I'm not sure about that, where I work we constantly preached "diversity" and have jobs created for it. Not to mention all the phobias, isms and ists that exist everywhere today, which generate from left leaning media, read the Guardian/Independent or watch C4 news it's all quite rife.

[Richard1978]

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And who would have predicted that today we'd have this sort of "PC" nonsense being rammed down our throats at every opportunity? (Just one example out of many.)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...elie-bins.html

Though most of the time it's the right wing press blowing things out of all reportion.

[PC66]

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The PC term that makes me laugh is that now a gay person is an "LGBT" (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender). To me it sounds like either a garden railway train or something you would order for lunch: "I'll have an LGBT with extra bacon, fries and a chocolate shake."

And who would have predicted that today we'd have this sort of "PC" nonsense being rammed down our throats at every opportunity? (Just one example out of many.)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...elie-bins.html

[victorbrunswick]

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The quality of technical books published by Pitman et al used to be very good. It's sad that we don't seem to have publishers maintaining that same standard today.

My favourite publisher was Model & Allied Publications (MAP), particularly their books on model engineering.

[PC66]

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One of the things I collect are old technical books, particularly ones published before WWII. I might also add that some of the best technical books were the ones published in the UK.

The quality of technical books published by Pitman et al used to be very good. It's sad that we don't seem to have publishers maintaining that same standard today.

[amethyst]

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That is strange that now somebody gets offended over two words placed back to front. The PC term that makes me laugh is that now a gay person is an "LGBT" (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender). To me it sounds like either a garden railway train or something you would order for lunch: "I'll have an LGBT with extra bacon, fries and a chocolate shake."

Gay marriages all in the open now, going back it was hush hush you wouldnt have seen gays walking down the street holding hands,programmes on tv 2 gay people buying a house together

[victorbrunswick]

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That gave me a great chuckle to start the morning, but it's quite depressing to think that what was a comedy piece back then contains things which some of lunatic fringe now actually take seriously. Except they take it to even more ridiculous extremes: I remember I got blasted by some loonie-leftie a few years ago for referring to a "disabled person," which I was told in no uncertain terms carries negative connotations. The "PC" term is, I was told, "person with a disability." Say what?! If you have some sort of disability then you're disabled in some way, so what's the difference?

It's this sort of nonsense which, I believe, is deliberate: Arbitrarily declare some innocuous term to be offensive, then keep changing the "accepted" term for something every couple of years so that nobody can possibly keep up with it all (even if he wanted to). Then they can just keep pointing the finger and shouting "Witch!" every time somebody just uses the normal English language he grew up with.

That is strange that now somebody gets offended over two words placed back to front. The PC term that makes me laugh is that now a gay person is an "LGBT" (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender). To me it sounds like either a garden railway train or something you would order for lunch: "I'll have an LGBT with extra bacon, fries and a chocolate shake."

[victorbrunswick]

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I'm the same. My library is mostly older technical books, but having an actual printed book beats trying to work from a screen for me. Certainly I've benefited greatly in more recent years from people who have scanned certain hard-to-find material to make it available in PDF form, and it's allowed me to obtain some reference materials which would otherwise have been very difficult and expensive to acquire. But whether it's a couple of pages of schematic diagrams or a 500-page reference manual, I still like to print it out so it can go in a suitable binder on the shelf.

One of the things I collect are old technical books, particularly ones published before WWII. I might also add that some of the best technical books were the ones published in the UK.

[Shado66]

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It sometimes works the other way round. If someone had told me in the 70's that we still wouldn't have had bases on the moon and travelled to Mars by 2013, I wouldn't have believed them. On the flipside though, I wouldn't have believed that remote landers and rovers would be so sophisticated that they actually they make going to another planet fairly redundant.

[xmark1234]

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i think we would never be talking about the past on one off the best forums in the world who would off thought back in the 70s 80s that now we would be posting on the internet bout our self wha we did and what we had lol

[darren]

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oh i must agree with you on this.

i know a fella who has his entire face covered in tattoos and most of the rest of his body covered in them.



another is the influx of people from overseas coming here mostly from europe but some from africa as well etc.

its more the sheer amount of them.

Young male and females with large tatoos especially on their arms,working in shops dont like them you can call me old fashioned but I think they are horrible to look at.If you have them then cover up.Seen this at Tescos Lidl

[amethyst]

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Young male and females with large tatoos especially on their arms,working in shops dont like them you can call me old fashioned but I think they are horrible to look at.If you have them then cover up.Seen this at Tescos Lidl