PC Police Invade Seattle
In Seattle city employees are being cautioned about the use of some offensive words. The offensive words in question are brown bag (as in lunch) and citizen. Check out the ridiculous reasons why at the link.
Comments
Talk about diversity, Detroit is going under and Seattle is going crazy.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/04/13 at 08:30 AM
Banned words
Here are some non PC words you had better avoid as the truth often upsets!
Please use the PC alternative....
Alive Temporarily metabolically abled.
Bald Follicularly challenged
Body Odor Non-discretionary fragrance
Broken Home Dysfunctional family
Caretaker Site Engineer
Clumsy Uniquely coordinated
Criminal Behaviorally challenged
Dead Living impaired
Dishonest Ethically disoriented
Drunk Chemically inconvenienced
Dustman Sanitation Engineer
Fail Achieve a deficiency
Fairy Petite airborne humanoid with mystical powers
Fat Horizontally challenged
Foreign Food Ethnic cuisine
Ghetto Economically disadvantaged area
Girlfriend Unpaid sex worker
Gossip Speedy transmission of near-factual information
Housewife Domestic Engineer
Ignorant Knowledge-based non-possessor
Illegal Aliens Undocumented Immigrants
Jailer Custodial Artist
Jungle Rain Forest
Late Rescheduled arrival time
Lazy Motivationally deficient
Lumberjack Tree Murderer
Natural Disaster Global Warming occurrence
Prostitute Sex worker
Sex change Gender reassignment
Short Vertically challenged
Shy Conversationally selective
Spendthrift Negative saver
Talkative Abundantly verbal
Tall Vertically enhanced
Trailer Park Mobile Home community
Tramp Homeless person
Ugly Cosmetically challenged
Unemployed Involuntarily leisured
Vagrant Non-specifically destinationed individual
White Trash Monetarily challenged Caucasian
Worst Least best
Wrong Differently logical
Cut and pasted - not responsible for spelling or grammar errors. :ohh:
Here are some non PC words you had better avoid as the truth often upsets!
Please use the PC alternative....
Alive Temporarily metabolically abled.
Bald Follicularly challenged
Body Odor Non-discretionary fragrance
Broken Home Dysfunctional family
Caretaker Site Engineer
Clumsy Uniquely coordinated
Criminal Behaviorally challenged
Dead Living impaired
Dishonest Ethically disoriented
Drunk Chemically inconvenienced
Dustman Sanitation Engineer
Fail Achieve a deficiency
Fairy Petite airborne humanoid with mystical powers
Fat Horizontally challenged
Foreign Food Ethnic cuisine
Ghetto Economically disadvantaged area
Girlfriend Unpaid sex worker
Gossip Speedy transmission of near-factual information
Housewife Domestic Engineer
Ignorant Knowledge-based non-possessor
Illegal Aliens Undocumented Immigrants
Jailer Custodial Artist
Jungle Rain Forest
Late Rescheduled arrival time
Lazy Motivationally deficient
Lumberjack Tree Murderer
Natural Disaster Global Warming occurrence
Prostitute Sex worker
Sex change Gender reassignment
Short Vertically challenged
Shy Conversationally selective
Spendthrift Negative saver
Talkative Abundantly verbal
Tall Vertically enhanced
Trailer Park Mobile Home community
Tramp Homeless person
Ugly Cosmetically challenged
Unemployed Involuntarily leisured
Vagrant Non-specifically destinationed individual
White Trash Monetarily challenged Caucasian
Worst Least best
Wrong Differently logical
Cut and pasted - not responsible for spelling or grammar errors. :ohh:
Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 08/04/13 at 10:18 AM
Given the similarity in the definitions of girlfriend and prostitute, I'd say this list was originally drawn up by a chemically inconvenienced owner of a Y chromosome.
Posted by TheCannyScot in Atlanta, GA on 08/04/13 at 03:07 PM
I can imangine what would happen if a guy brought a girl to meet his parents and said "This is my unpaid sex worker"! 😖
Posted by BMN on 08/04/13 at 03:07 PM
Sorry about the format. It was spaced perfect but the website changed it. If I had known I would have just put/edited a - between. I don't agree with all the comparisons but thought it would be a interesting addition to the topic.
Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 08/04/13 at 05:35 PM
Its great list BD! I tend to be uniquely coordinated myself so that is my favorite one.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/04/13 at 06:59 PM
BD, here's one you missed:
Elliott Bronstein - Total F**king Idiot
Elliott Bronstein - Total F**king Idiot
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/05/13 at 12:00 AM
Cannyscot: or someone under the influence of a healthy dose of sarcasm.
Posted by Richard Bos on 08/18/13 at 02:23 PM
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