PC word substitution game

[SleepyWitch]

i had a nutty idea for a game today when i looked up a word in a dictionary. I dunno if there are that many phrases where it works, but the idea is this:

take a phrase that absolutely requires a non-politically correct word (politically uncorrect word?) and replace this word by the politically correct term ---> it sounds stupid.
example:

the fairer sex --> the fairer gender ???:p

[alhara]

black people in finland ----> african americans not acctually from america or africa
you wanna here the really good bit I said that, they have infected my brain with the pc nonsense

[SleepyWitch]

:)
well, it was worse in the Victorian age: they called bulls "gentleman cows" in order to avoid anything that sounds like "male" (bull = male cow. male= reference to gender/sex = reference to intercourse= SHOCK :lol: )

[alhara]

I kinda like gentleman cows(beside the fact it sounds more like the thing they were trying to avoid that being genitalia) the term makes me think of cows or bulls or whatever wearing ties and smokeing pipes i think i want to use that one... it´s just too funny

heres another one

spouse of a gay dude- the life patner of a man with sexual tendencys out side the "normal" spectrum
that one i heard but didn´t actuallly say

[SleepyWitch]

hehehe :)

oh yeah, here's another one

"best female actor in a TV series"

[Pendragon]

"Politically Correct" itself is an oxymoron, like “Limited War”. But I found these in a little book I have here of Politically Correct Nursery Rhymes:

womyn
wimmin
“…was by no means incapable of doing things herself or to be considered in any way inferior because she accepted the help of a man …”
“…height impaired person…”
“… three sight-impaired rodents, with docked rear appendages as a result of an incident with a mentally impaired womyn..”

Ah, the insainity, the insainity! :crash:

[RobinHood3000]

Ever wonder just how uptight you'd have to be to take offense from the spelling "woman"? Doesn't it suggest that a woman is more than a man? Or that at least they're from the same species? Sheesh!

Thank God - "Large quantities of gratitude upon a deity of the speaker's choosing"

[Taliesin]

Somebody once propose the idea of a fantasy (RPG) kingdom where political correctness would be the law- so calling a dwarf a dwarf would mean imprisonment - you had to say "vertically challenged".

And we also like Pratchetts term "vitally challenged" - dead.

[Whifflingpin]

"calling a dwarf a dwarf would mean imprisonment - you had to say "vertically challenged"."

How dare you say that dwarves are vertically challenged. Tall people have a higher centre of gravity, so they are the vertically challenged ones. Tall people also tend to have more mass, and therefore require more food, so they are ecologically challenged as well.

[Pendragon]

Not only that, Wiff, but we are "clothing challenged" as well. Not only is it almost impossible to find shirts in a size 3xlTALL, but they charge excessive prices for them. I am willing to pay for the extra material it took to make the shirt, and the fact that they don't make many. But you'd think they are cut from gold cloth! And all because I was raised to tuck my shirt. Otherwise, I wouldn't have to buy them in a TALL. I'm only six-foot. My inseam is less than 29 inches. The height is in my trunk, so I must have a shirt that tucks. Being 351 pounds doesn't help, and before everyone goes ape, I eat very little. I'm mostly solid. The rest was put there by a discontinued medication, and now I can't get rid of it! This entire year, I gained only 22 pounds of muscle. I live in a world to small for me...:(

[Nightshade]

oooh good game:lol: but I need to think a bit
:D

[grace86]

I heard something in class yesterday - sorry this isn't really part of the game..but it was so PC I have to mention it...a girl said that on the news that they are now referring to the homeless as "people with low food stability." Just makes one wonder....

[mir]

:lol:

Little Red Riding Hood - Vertically Disadvantaged Undiscriminatorally Colored Humanely-Mounted Hood.

[Pendragon]

Homeless-- Didn't that used to be "Person With No Fixed Address, Of Less Than Advantageous Prosperity"? ;)

[Misscaroline]

Perhaps... but it seems that the Homeless Coalition took offense at the term Advantageous because they felt they were given little opportunity to pursue anything near an advantage...

[SummerSolstice]

Like some people have said, this isn't in a phrase (although I did like the Little Red Riding Hood one!), but I've just gotta say that I'm in more than a little disbelief at "illegal aliens"="undocumented workers." Uh, no, see, they're illegal. They broke the law... that's why we're talking about them in the first place... :brickwall

[RobinHood3000]

I live in a world to small for me...:(That just makes you more like Superman, as far as we're concerned, Pen. :nod:

[Taliesin]

A chronologically gifted fart.

[aeroport]

How dare you say that dwarves are vertically challenged. Tall people have a higher centre of gravity, so they are the vertically challenged ones. Tall people also tend to have more mass, and therefore require more food, so they are ecologically challenged as well.

All too true, I'm afraid... (6'3'' 160-ish lbs)

[mir]

Meh. it's interesting, though this is slightly random - i'm considered short, and people are always telling me that. but i've never been anything BUT short, so i don't FEEL short. i see the world from my height, so i don't identify myself as small, i identify everyone else as big! :p

anyways. Jamesian, being tall is cool.

also! Abortion - Near-Life Experience
Alcoholic - Anti-Sobriety Activist

[Pendragon]

Please, Mir, I am a "person of size". Sounds so much better than "That bloody great lump!" My sons, age 15 and 18, are 6'2" and 6'5" respectably. I am 6' even, but very strong and weigh 351. You would be "petite". I always loved that word, reminds me of elves and fairies. I would be a gentle troll! ;)

[Nightshade]

6'5 :eek2: wow!
thats like wow good gracious me ....a foot and more taller than me.... 16 inches to be exact ...... :eek2:
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nomanslandmilitaria.com/tall%2520short%2520guys%2520%2520205.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nomanslandmilitaria.com/ww1_items.html&h=693&w=492&sz=36&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=-KLmNmwgiNH5ZM:&tbnh=139&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dshort%2Band%2Btall%26ndsp%3D20%26svnu m%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DHPEB,HPEB:2006-34,HPEB:en%26sa%3DN

[Taliesin]

So, Pen, your sons are over six metres tall and you weigh 351 kilograms?
My, that is really large.

[grace86]

Please, Mir, I am a "person of size". Sounds so much better than "That bloody great lump!" My sons, age 15 and 18, are 6'2" and 6'5" respectably. I am 6' even, but very strong and weigh 351. You would be "petite". I always loved that word, reminds me of elves and fairies. I would be a gentle troll! ;)

I've sometimes been told I look like an elf, and to use your words: I am petite :D

Let's make a movie Pen!

[Nightshade]

pounds tal ! thats ummm.... 25 stone. and there are 7 kg in a stone...
unless arerican pounds are differant from english pounds?

[Taliesin]

*insert random rant about the strangeness of using the pound-stone-bunch-of-dogs systems officially*
We wonder how do you manage in physics. Do you have your own units for power, voltage, magnetic currents et cetera?
And how big is the radius of the hydrogen atom, for instance, in imperial system?

So Pen weighs 175 kg?
And he is about 180 cm tall?
And his sons are about 185 and 192 cm tall?
And Jamesian is 187?

[Nightshade]

:lol: I dont do physics...
But I was totally confused when I first came here but umm accordeing to my converter he wiegh 159 kg
But Im pretty sure from the look of them that the heights are right I mean 180 is 6' and 185 is definatley 6"2:nod:

[Nightshade]

No wait according to this ....http://www.teaching-english-in-japan.net/conversion/feet_inches
pen is 182.88 cm
his sons are 187.96 cm
and 195.58
again with the wows ....
Im only 156 cm (5'1 and a bit ) your all giants... which is good I guess no one in your house has to climb on to tables to reach the cupboards huh?

[mir]

Please, Mir, I am a "person of size". Sounds so much better than "That bloody great lump!" My sons, age 15 and 18, are 6'2" and 6'5" respectably. I am 6' even, but very strong and weigh 351. You would be "petite". I always loved that word, reminds me of elves and fairies. I would be a gentle troll! ;)

Yep! A very nice troll. :p

"Petite" seems to involve everybody i know at some time or other slinging me over their shoulder or attempting to play catch with me. Trolls get the nice end! :D

Wow! My brother is 6 foot at 16 (well, nearly 17) years old, and i thought he was the tallest person ever! Well, it's a good thing i don't live near you (in one regard, at least, because that would be fun! ;) ); i'd get cricks in my neck having to look up all the time!

[Pendragon]

*insert random rant about the strangeness of using the pound-stone-bunch-of-dogs systems officially*
We wonder how do you manage in physics. Do you have your own units for power, voltage, magnetic currents et cetera?
And how big is the radius of the hydrogen atom, for instance, in imperial system?

So Pen weighs 175 kg?
And he is about 180 cm tall?
And his sons are about 185 and 192 cm tall?
And Jamesian is 187?

I totally suck at physics, Tal. They tried to convert us to the metric system back in the 70's, and I think the military uses a lot of it. For myself, it makes a lot more sense, but the conversion tables were hard to understand, and I never really figured them out: Accorind to the online converter I weigh 159.21 kilos.

[Nightshade]

I think english pounds and american ones are differant I know our tonnes are:nod:

[Misscaroline]

Ah, well... metric. That's all I have to say. Aimus can attest how horrendous I am at "standard"-metric conversions...

Question: I;ve been recruited to write a holiday play for my school. How the heck to I keep it PC??? I have no idea, without pulling out the kid show card and having everyone be all happy together even in diverse beliefs and celebrations. But that seems over the top for a one-act, and then where's the conflict? I don't get it! GAH!!! Help....

[Misscaroline]

No, for serious- I need help.

Emotionally unbalanced hormonally-driven young adult- adolescent

[mir]

. . . Okay . . .

well, why don't you make it about Jack Frost or something? Make it non-denominational, just about winter, and avoid the problem altogether! :)

[Pendragon]

Mir-- is there a PC was to say "You're out of luck!", to put it nicely? :lol:

[Misscaroline]

Thanks mir! Stupid PC Americans...