Honey Honey Posted December 29, 2017 Posted December 29, 2017 Just now, The Palace Fan said: I'm currently scrolling through this thread but I'm really not surprised that you've become a better human just by moving down south. A more boring one though
Administrator Batard Posted December 29, 2017 Administrator Posted December 29, 2017 1 minute ago, Kitchen Sales said: A more boring one though You could never be boring with that accent
Honey Honey Posted December 29, 2017 Posted December 29, 2017 7 minutes ago, Batard said: You could never be boring with that accent I use my telephone voice in Whole Foods
Administrator Batard Posted December 29, 2017 Administrator Posted December 29, 2017 Just now, Kitchen Sales said: I use my telephone voice in Whole Foods For some reason this sprang to mind
SirBalon Posted December 29, 2017 Posted December 29, 2017 11 minutes ago, Batard said: For some reason this sprang to mind Harry Van Dyke?
Dave Posted December 29, 2017 Posted December 29, 2017 In regards to the original post I have the displeasure some mornings of having a partner that watches Piers Morgan on a breakfast show before work. One morning he wouldn't drop what a previous speaker said that people were petitioning to allow boys as young as four to wear skirts to school if they wanted to. Even when the conversation moved on to elephants he was enquiring about if we need to be careful if the elephants would be offended by any gender specific terms. To me he had a point. Those people that think a four year old should be encouraged to wear skirts to school to me are the definition of snowflake. As is those who have got the name Dennis The Mennace changed to Dennis, as is those who encouraged Thomas The Tank Engine introduce steam trains of various genders and ethnicities, they're steam trains in a children's television show for fucks sake. The definition of being snowflake and being PC however is far different. Advising people that you can't call people that are homosexual certain words, or you can't make racial or anti semetic comments on a social media platform isn't being snowflake and being pulled up on it on a social media platform this size will happen. If twitter had the manpower to cut out the trolling to the level where people make jokes about rapeing Rebekkah Vardys daughter I'm sure they would. I see places like this as "If you wouldn't say it where your employers would hear you, why would you say it here?" Which is what all open forums have to be like. I accept that each background differentiates. The people that made those comments to Rebbekah Vardy I mentioned were loyal Manchester United fans from India and couldn't be prosecuted. In the UK we have somewhat moved our stance massively in the last five years. I remember as recent as 2013 Crystal Palace would sing "we scored five you scored none Brighton take it up the bum" to Brighton fans. That song was more about pissing Brighton off that in 2002 that game started the 'Andy Johnson Era' as he was new to the club, scored a hat trick, and it kicked off a beautiful era in our club. But last month we didn't dare sing it because of how distasteful it is and the media backlash it would receive. We just stormed the gates without tickets instead. I think anybody in the UK here agrees that the society were creating is too far. Police aren't allowed to protect themselves from people who are spitting as it's too 'inhumane', the head of the fire service is trying to get the name of 'Fireman Sam' changed, and phases such as the nitty gritty are being reviewed. That's all snowflake. Were far from a perfect culture by all means and I wouldn't want German, Australian, American etc members feeling like there's segregation here. As far as im concerned this country is fucked. But all members just need to bare in mind the 'employer' theory on all social media platforms as anybody can read it.
Kowabunga Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 A baby speaks his first words and offends many communities After several weeks uttering unconnected syllables, Miguel Fonseca, 14 months old, pronounced today his first word, instantly offending several communities. The baby said "mama" without realizing that he was indeed invisibilizating many minorities. "It is very sad that the chance of the first word is used in order to perpetuate the suffering of millions people who can not have children and, furthermore, the fact that it is done from the privileged position of a heterosexual white baby is disheartening," many users have moaned in social networks. According to close sources, the mother is ashamed for having given birth to a cis man who is dedicated to presume the gender of people only because of their looks. "Mom he called me and there he stood with his fat face, I could be his father, I could have a penis, it's quite scary to see how the new generations come," The mother told the press. The father also felt offended by the first word of his son: "It is clear that [for him] men are not involved in motherhood," he complained. The defenders of the LGTBI community are not happy either, because they consider that only cisgender white women such as his mother exist for the baby. "He has defined his mother as a mother, as if there could not be a male-mother or transgender mother women," they protest. "The worst of all is that he keeps repeating the word over and over again, that baby is already a repeat offender," they warn. Other minorities criticize that, being able to say words like "equality" or "justice", controversial words like "mama" are used every time the baby starts speaking. After becoming a "trending topic" in Twitter and being featured in some newspaper columns, the baby just limited himself to sleep and shit on himself as if nothing had happened, something that many consider another lack of respect. More and more people are demanding for the next word the baby learns to be "sorry," although they also warn that apologies may come too late. See more at El Mundo Today: https://www.elmundotoday.com/2018/02/un-nino-dice-su-primera-palabra-y-ofende-a-varios-colectivos/?utm_content=buffer2b8a7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Kowabunga Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 4 minutes ago, Spike said: Is El Mundo the Spanish 'Onion'? El Mundo Today, yes. El Mundo is a proper newspaper.
Administrator Batard Posted February 7, 2018 Administrator Posted February 7, 2018 This is clearly satire. Or the world is full of fucking idiots
Bluebird Hewitt Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 32 minutes ago, Batard said: This is clearly satire and the world is full of fucking idiots Fixed.
Guest Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 I don't think this generation snowflake thing is as bad as people make out. With social media people are a lot more awere of what people are thinking. Also in now days it is(rightly in my opinion) unexeptable to be racist' sexist' homophobic so of course some people are gonna get offended by things people didn't use to. It's pretty much a fact every generation moans about the next.
SirBalon Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Gunnersauraus said: I don't think this generation snowflake thing is as bad as people make out. With social media people are a lot more awere of what people are thinking. Also in now days it is(rightly in my opinion) unexeptable to be racist' sexist' homophobic so of course some people are gonna get offended by things people didn't use to. It's pretty much a fact every generation moans about the next. Some things seem like something they’re not intended to be by overly sensitive people... = snowflake.
Guest Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 1 hour ago, SirBalon said: Some things seem like something they’re not intended to be by overly sensitive people... = snowflake. What??
SirBalon Posted February 10, 2018 Posted February 10, 2018 11 hours ago, Gunnersauraus said: What?? Exactly!
Panna King Posted February 13, 2018 Posted February 13, 2018 Mostly todays Students and the growth in these far left people believe anything and influenced by something that is topical like Trump, Immigration and Brexit etc The mealiness protests around the world really have started this revolution, the word Racist labeled at everything also for people that don't agree with them. Frightening future created by weak governments are to blame.
Bluebird Hewitt Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 Probably not quite a snowflake story but whatever. Today's laughable story involves Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson, who decides to have her hair in dreadlocks/braids and posts it on Instagram. Normally, the general public would not really care too much and life goes on, but this is the age of the snowflake and the snowflake's have criticised her for 'cultural appropriation' (by offending black people...............somehow) and many have called for her to apologise as a result. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43126568 For fuck sake.
6666 Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Cultural appropriation outrage is always fun because it's usually nothing situations involving celebrities whose fame is built in a lane that airheads occupy. These types of celebrities have so little character that even the outrage around them is fucking bland.
Panflute Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 On 2/9/2018 at 21:29, Gunnersauraus said: I don't think this generation snowflake thing is as bad as people make out. With social media people are a lot more awere of what people are thinking. Also in now days it is(rightly in my opinion) unexeptable to be racist' sexist' homophobic so of course some people are gonna get offended by things people didn't use to. It's pretty much a fact every generation moans about the next. It becomes a problem when people pretend that they have a right to not be offended (which is entirely subjective) and try to anchor that sentiment into government and corporate policy.
Panflute Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 7 hours ago, 6666 said: Cultural appropriation outrage is always fun because it's usually nothing situations involving celebrities whose fame is built in a lane that airheads occupy. These types if celebrities have so little character that even the outrage around them is fucking bland. It's so hard to care about it, like those generic news stories about how some school says 'happy holidays' instead of 'Merry Christmas'. Snore.
Danny Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Are people actually outraged though or have they just plucked a few tweets and decided there is outrage? Its tricky because black culture often gets taken and sold in the media as a white phenomen, I.e. Kim Kardashian attributing braids to Bo Derek rather than black people, ditsy white girls wearing bindis to festivals when you know some of them have probably called someone a p*ki or made curry jokes, bud bud ding ding etc...but at the same time you can't be annoyed when someone genuinely just likes the hair do. Thats the problem with Twitter is that it doesn't take the general consensus into acct, normal people won't be constantly tweeting about things and normal people would probably just bypass the discussion of should the white girl from a girl band wear braids because most people will have an each to their own mentality.
Dr. Gonzo Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 On 2/20/2018 at 12:28, Bluebird Hewitt said: Probably not quite a snowflake story but whatever. Today's laughable story involves Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson, who decides to have her hair in dreadlocks/braids and posts it on Instagram. Normally, the general public would not really care too much and life goes on, but this is the age of the snowflake and the snowflake's have criticised her for 'cultural appropriation' (by offending black people...............somehow) and many have called for her to apologise as a result. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43126568 For fuck sake. Imagine if the Romans had never appropriated culture from the people they conquered Getting offended at the notion of "cultural appropriation" is fucking stupid - especially in the age of the internet and globalisation. Other cultures being appropriated and blended into different cultures is 1.) nothing new, 2.) leads to things like art, literature, music, etc.... aka humans building more culture. One of the people I drink with regularly at my local has dreadlocks and is basically a harmless hippy that loves everyone. He was accused of racism/cultural appropriation for being a white guy with dreads. That was a funny conversation.
Inverted Posted March 7, 2018 Posted March 7, 2018 Apparently reading and understanding books makes you a snowflake. I must have been a snowflake age 14, before they were even a thing, because that was the message I got from the book.
6666 Posted March 7, 2018 Posted March 7, 2018 There are definitely instances where the idiots on the right mistake intellectualism as being a snowflake. Complex thinking is seen as a sign of weakness.
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