this country is going mad with political correctness as i found out to the extreme today..
my wife is a headteacher for bolton local authority and today she had an email put on the censorship list for using banned words..
when she rang up the IT section they informed her she had used a swear word on the banned list..
she had written down the site of the next PTA meeting..chorlton cum-hardy golf club
what will they ban next... clitheroe..scunthorpe.. !!!!!
God help those who have to write a letter to Penistone!
Trouble is, not only are the IT systems set up carelessly, but they're then expected to run automatically without an double-checking by a human.
That's how a newspaper not a thousand miles from Liverpool reported on a Swedish car called a Vulva and came within a whisker of printing an obituary to Dingo, Princess of Wales.
I deal with plants (flowers) one of our bulbs is called canaliculatus... guess what... i couldn't access it on our own website to change the price on it... the IT blokes did make me say it several times before they stopped laughing and allowed the word... and by the way it's a variety of daffodil before anyone asks
Carrie203's profile picture shows her standing next to a road sign with a town called "Twatt" on it !!!
Wonder what the memo looked like when the Local Council had to organise filling the Pot Holes in "Twatt"
There's a village in Austria called Fucking. They had a vote a few years ago on whether to change the name, but decided to keep it. I can't even guess the problems it causes giving people your address.
my mum nearly choked on a mint when we went to bnq and i asked the male assistant to give me a good length of wood!!! never occured to me it might have been a non pc statement, then later at tesco she used the term stupid mother after seeing a lazy mum leave a trolley next to her car so,,,, touche!!
Whilst browsing through the property supplement which came with todays papaer i have found the house of my dreams and if i win the lottery i shall be mine, my address would be
Bastard Hall .................
Suprised the co-op I.T boys haven,t banned one of thier own employees..I deliver wine samples for a guy named Paul Bastard..Genuine
@Reaper..since when has golf becum a swear word??
Wonder if any U.K councils would have the balls to Twin Town with that place in Austria?..Let,s see...Fuckin Hull?
There is a small town in Oregon where these PC comittee members might hold their meetings. I just put a photo on my profile of the local pub if you fancy a laugh!