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Political correctness & other nonsensical rubbish
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Harry said:
Yeah, I blame Rosy for this. She opened this forum 13 years ago, and has now facedbook me in. It's a chronic disease that will never go away....
Classic PC gone mad. Sydney Telegraph ran front page story that Cheltenham Girls school banned use of term 'girls' in favour of gender neutral terms. Backed up with outraged editorial. Miranda devine wrote it without talking to any parents or staff at the school. None of it was true. Apparently a junior teacher had suggested in a meeting that some students don't like term 'girl' and maybe use different term for them.. Wasn't approved, kyboshed at meeting. School denied it and said it was still called a Girls school. Telegraph has refused to retract story or apologise, even though its generated massive social media hate, saying the NSW education dept is covering it up. that people, is PC gone mad 101.
antman said:
Sorry I was a bit oblique, just making point that exposing the truth of a PC gone mad outrage generally gets ignored. People keep believing what they want to keep believing, whether its PC gone mad, climate change is a conspiracy for scientists to get more funding, whatever.
Its clear from the way Murdoch front pages the PC gone mad stories or similar, and puts the inevitable apology, retraction, clarification in a tiny box on page 12.
Student Body Vice President Suspended After Saying "#ForgetBlackLivesMatter, More Like AllLivesMatter"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/01/student-body-vice-president-writes-a-forget-black-lives-matter-post-and-a-university-erupts/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/01/student-body-vice-president-writes-a-forget-black-lives-matter-post-and-a-university-erupts/
A british reporter has had enough, very funny, very true but a warning, there is lots of swearing
some nonsensical rubbish for you:
Archie Roach got a traffic fine, at his own funeral
Ran a red light in the hearse and i doubt he was wearing his seatbelt
I knew someone once who almost got hit by a funeral motorcade. The doctor said it was only because they were going 10km/hr and had their lights on that he wasnt bruised. Just 20 metres to the right, and he would probably have had to stop walking. And that was a white funeral procession.
I reckon its great when police get out there and catch the real criminals.
They should deport his remains to NZ.
www.theguardian.com
Archie Roach got a traffic fine, at his own funeral
Ran a red light in the hearse and i doubt he was wearing his seatbelt
I knew someone once who almost got hit by a funeral motorcade. The doctor said it was only because they were going 10km/hr and had their lights on that he wasnt bruised. Just 20 metres to the right, and he would probably have had to stop walking. And that was a white funeral procession.
I reckon its great when police get out there and catch the real criminals.
They should deport his remains to NZ.
Archie Roach mourners fined for running red lights will not have penalties dismissed
Victoria police confirm at least seven infringements totalling $462 each were issued for ‘serious traffic offences’
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Gotta love the pedantics....some nonsensical rubbish for you:
Archie Roach got a traffic fine, at his own funeral
Ran a red light in the hearse and i doubt he was wearing his seatbelt
I knew someone once who almost got hit by a funeral motorcade. The doctor said it was only because they were going 10km/hr and had their lights on that he wasnt bruised. Just 20 metres to the right, and he would probably have had to stop walking. And that was a white funeral procession.
I reckon its great when police get out there and catch the real criminals.
They should deport his remains to NZ.
Archie Roach mourners fined for running red lights will not have penalties dismissed
Victoria police confirm at least seven infringements totalling $462 each were issued for ‘serious traffic offences’
Don't have much sympathy for the hearse driver. Different if the procession is halfway through the intersection and people are trying to keep up, but driving the hearse through is just going to encourage others to follow.
Doesn't traffic naturally stop when these processions take place? As they move slowly, could've been a case where the driver passed the green (or yellow) and then the light 'quickly' flashes back to red well before they have crossed the intersection. I've seen a lot of lights flash in a millisecond from green to red.
It would be but the way VicRoads acts nowadays, even I wouldn't know. I suppose the driver felt unsure on what to do or wasn't concentrating.....who knows. Maybe thought it would be waived for a funeral.
