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• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Wed, Feb 26 2014 10:55 PM

  SweetiePie:

  Yes. Please. Everything & Anything else. Politics, Religion, Race, Sex, and Everything else. No moderation...just good old "Wild West".

  Well I would love a good old shootout, but when seemly innocent posts get deleted, there is no chance of this happening.

  We live in a PC world, and the only sure way of not offending someone is to say nothing!

  Today I visited a large customer of mine and was told they are no longer even allowed to tell someone they are "sacked".. They now must say, you have been let go to further your career opportunities. What utter bs,

  Last employee I sacked, I told them "you're  sacked, I could employ a monkey with more  intelligence  and initiative than you". 

  Needless to say they claimed unfair dismissal and went to court. and won some compensation (very little) but the sacking reasons were justified. Would I do it again?

  You bet.

   

• craigswan 31,567 Posts

  Thu, Feb 27 2014 12:04 AM

  Correct terminology .

  Actor: metamorphosing being, possessing great wealth
  
  Actress: metamorphosing being, possessing great wealth (and occasionally great beauty)
  
  Android: bipedal, non-human associate, bearing immense knowledge and skill
  
  Bag boy: agricultural product organizer
  
  Bald: follicularly challenged
  
  Bomb: vertically deployed antipersonnel device
  
  Boy: oppressor-to-be
  
  Brainwashing: cognitive accommodation
  
  Cafeteria: dining facility
  
  Car: earth-unfriendly, vertically-challenged mode of transport
  
  Car Wash Worker: vehicle-appearance specialist
  
  Cat: quadruped non-human associate
  
  Cheating: cooperative assignment
  
  Computer: machine bearing immense power and fallibility
  
  Criticism: unjust self-esteem reducer
  
  Dead: metabolically challenged
  
  Demand: propose strongly
  
  Derision: nontraditional praise
  
  Dirty Old Man: sexually focused, chronologically gifted individual
  
  Dumb: cerebrally challenged
  
  Evil: niceness deprived
  
  Exercise: body enhancement through exertion
  
  Failure: non-traditional success
  
  Fart: human ozone depletor; ecologically incorrect expression
  
  Fat: horizontally challenged: person of substance
  
  Garbage collector: sanitation engineer
  
  Gas Station Attendant: petroleum transfer technician
  
  Girl: pre-woman
  
  Guess: anomaly maneuvers: repetitive predictions
  
  Handicapped: physically challenged
  
  Heroine: hera
  
  Homeless person: residentially flexible individual
  
  Hurricane: himmicane (non sexist)
  
  Ignorant: factually unencumbered
  
  Incorrect: alternative answer
  
  Individualism: uncooperative spirit
  
  Information: overly structured trivia
  
  Insane: reality challenged
  
  Kill: creating a permanent state of metabolic dormancy; servicing the target (military)
  
  Lazy: motivationally dispossessed
  
  Lost: locationally disadvantaged
  
  

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Thu, Feb 27 2014 12:40 AM

  OK Craig please let me rephase,

  "You  cerebrally  challenged motivationally dispossessed, brain metabolically challenged non traditional  success, I am letting you go to pursue career opportunities" so get the fu@# out of my office.

  Better :)    

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Feb 27 2014 6:46 AM

  Golly. It can be tragic at times. Several properties over is where the Wongs reside. Dr.Wong is a surgeon & Mrs. Wong is a PHD instructor at CalTech. They had a baby that is both physically & mentally challenged and named him "Sum-Ting".

• drmoose 3,538 Posts

  Thu, Feb 27 2014 7:45 AM

  SweetiePie:

  They had a baby that is both physically & mentally challenged and named him "Sum-Ting".

   

  Do you suppose that's because two "Wongs" don't make a "Wight" /

  Doc :)

• Ducati916 1,116 Posts

  Thu, Feb 27 2014 8:47 AM

  Oh goody...no moderation...guess that makes handicapped jokes acceptable..Is it no moderation we're seeking...or just no class.

• xstinsonx 363 Posts

  Thu, Feb 27 2014 8:53 AM

  Ducati916:

  Oh goody...no moderation...guess that makes handicapped jokes acceptable..Is it no moderation we're seeking...or just no class.

  Reason why there can be no moderation threads at all. Always someone who gets their feelings hurt. You know what the thread was about so if you will get offended then don't read it ffs.

• Ducati916 1,116 Posts

  Thu, Feb 27 2014 9:18 AM

  xstinsonx:

  Ducati916:

  Oh goody...no moderation...guess that makes handicapped jokes acceptable..Is it no moderation we're seeking...or just no class.

  Reason why there can be no moderation threads at all. Always someone who gets their feelings hurt. You know what the thread was about so if you will get offended then don't read it ffs.

  Apparently, you got your feelings hurt because I said something...ironic...

  No moderation and sheer lack of class are two diferent things. you may have both....if you don't like my comment...don't read it ffs.  

  While "no moderation" does allow for " a more open discussion", does it have to mean that it becomes ok to bash races, genders, ethnicity, sexual preferences, handicaps, etc..or is "no moderation" just a cover to rationalize somone being a shi**y human beng. No moderation and self moderation are two different things.

   

• craigswan 31,567 Posts

  Fri, Feb 28 2014 12:35 AM

  "You cerebrally challenged motivationally dispossessed, brain metabolically challenged non traditional success, I am letting you go to pursue career opportunities" so get the fu@# out of my office.

  So is that like dress down friday .