There is such a thing as too far
Dec. 30th, 2005 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madwitchAnd we go there all too often. This is ridiculous.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4569006.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4569006.stm
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Date: 2005-12-30 01:22 pm (UTC)Right, that's it! I'm starting a campaign to have Whitechapel renamed - there are negative racial implications to associating a common term for caucasian people with an are where a notorious murderer routinely struck!
We ought to get rid of Whitehall, too.
And the Americans ought to be really careful with the Whitehouse (after all, doesn't that imply that only a caucasian is fit to govern the United States?)
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Date: 2005-12-30 01:25 pm (UTC)I'll go get some posters printed, then?
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Date: 2005-12-30 01:30 pm (UTC)Which is a shame, 'cause it's a great story.
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Date: 2005-12-30 01:43 pm (UTC)Or possibly just to annoy the demned colonials. :)
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Date: 2005-12-30 04:07 pm (UTC)Oh well, at least it makes a good song!
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Date: 2005-12-30 01:49 pm (UTC)Oh dear.
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Date: 2005-12-30 02:03 pm (UTC)But hey, we have cowbell. :)
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Date: 2005-12-30 01:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-30 02:02 pm (UTC)That bit. Over there. The droplet in the corner..
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Date: 2005-12-30 02:01 pm (UTC)You, me and all the other monochromes...
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Date: 2005-12-30 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-30 03:19 pm (UTC)Somewhere.
*rolls eyes*
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Date: 2005-12-30 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-12-30 03:37 pm (UTC)people who have fallen a vat of carmine red food dye!
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Date: 2005-12-30 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-30 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-30 03:54 pm (UTC)This is going to be tricky.
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Date: 2005-12-30 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-30 04:04 pm (UTC)We must all lock ourselves in boxes and never come out and speak to none unless using words from the pre-approved list of words taht don't offend for fear we may offend and oh gods what if my hair colour offends and aaaaaaaaaaargh pc overload aaaaaaaaarggh.
Alternatively, we could just say 'sod this' and carry on regardless. And though option A sounds compelling, I think option B is just more me. :)
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Date: 2005-12-30 04:31 pm (UTC)do you know what is most annoying to me as someone who has been brought up correctly, using the rules of courtesy and suchlike, to be further constrained in a needless fashion because some trumped up pseudo-intellectual states that words i am using politely or at least neutrally, are somehow offensive.
oh and yes lets re-name everything. black monday? unfortunate monday.
white-wash? oh and places...
like blackgang chine lol
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Date: 2005-12-30 04:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-30 05:57 pm (UTC)I now have a desire to wear black...oh wait, I am wearing black...
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Date: 2005-12-30 06:27 pm (UTC)Nope...failing to think of anything. We can wear purple!