the political correctness and do gooders have gone too far

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Originally Posted by akelly

Some of the things I bang on about are acceptable to me but offensive to others.

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That is one of the reasons I sympathise with the moderators in their attempts to be even handed in keeping us from kicking sand in each others eyes in the sand pit.

Sometimes the things we do or don't find acceptable are quite illogical. Other times they are a bit predictable based on our background.

I remember an example I heard about fifty years ago to illustrate how illogical and inconsistent we can be. It was certainly true then and may still be the case.

The example pointed out that working class people think nothing of sharing a common drinking cup at the water tank or of all drinking directly from the spout of the canvas water bag, yet they would hesitate to share a toothbrush. Upper class people were the exact opposite. They might share a toothbrush with their partner, but didn't like to drink from the same mug as someone else.

When I heard that comment, I was working in a timber yard and it was certainly the attitude of my workmates.

It isn't always easy for us to immediately see why someone else finds something unacceptable, because our attitudes to some things are not as logical as we might like to think they are.

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Originally Posted by incisor

it's not cool but sometimes things get let to run so they can self moderate...

picking the line is not always black and white tho some would like it to be....

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No. Fair enough. I wasn't suggesting the mods are cool with it, poor choice of words.

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Originally Posted by AndyG

Does AFL fall into the religion category :wasntme:

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According to the wonderful poem "Life Cycle" by Bruce Dawe, it is even more important than that.


Life Cycle (for Big Jim Phelan)
by Bruce Dawe

When children are born in Victoria
they are wrapped in club-colours, laid in beribboned cots,
having already begun a lifetime’s barracking.

Carn, they cry, Carn … feebly at first
while parents playfully tussle with them
for possession of a rusk: Ah, he’s a little Tiger! (And they are …)

Hoisted shoulder-high at their first League game
they are like innocent monsters who have been years swimming
towards the daylight’s roaring empyrean

Until, now, hearts shrapnelled with rapture,
they break surface and are forever lost,
their minds rippling out like streamers

In the pure flood of sound, they are scarfed with light, a voice
like the voice of God booms from the stands
Ooohh you bludger and the covenant is sealed.

Hot pies and potato-crisps they will eat,
they will forswear the Demons, cling to the Saints
and behold their team going up the ladder into Heaven,

And the tides of life will be the tides of the home-team’s fortunes
- the reckless proposal after the one-point win,
the wedding and honeymoon after the grand final …

They will not grow old as those from the more northern states grow old,
for them it will always be three-quarter time
with the scores level and the wind advantage in the final term,

That passion persisting, like a race-memory, through the welter of seasons,
enabling old-timers by boundary fences to dream of resurgent lions
and centaur-figures from the past to replenish continually the present,

So that mythology may be perpetually renewed
and Chicken Smallhorn return like the maize-god
in a thousand shapes, the dancers changing

But the dance forever the same – the elderly still
loyally crying Carn … Carn … (if feebly) unto the very end,
having seen in the six-foot recruit from Eaglehawk their hope of salvation.

I won't stand for this unmitigated attack on the working class. I can't believe the hide of some inner city latte sipping gay whale loving watermelon sheeple that would suggest working class heroes are somehow lesser because they chose to save water, the environment and generally carry this great nation on their muscled, bronzed shoulders by sharing a cup.

How dare you, Sir!

I wasn't going to have a beer tonight, but you talked me into it.
The best beer is the next beer, i better slope off & get a six pack of SP:)

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Originally Posted by incisor

it's not cool but sometimes things get let to run so they can self moderate...

picking the line is not always black and white tho some would like it to be....

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You'll have the ethics board on your case for running unchecked social experiments Inc. :D
Sitting in social research classes often has me musing about the results of a social experiment on here would be.
But then I remember that I hate social research with a passion and go back to reading tech threads in lectures :angel:

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Originally Posted by akelly

I won't stand for this unmitigated attack on the working class.

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I was going to disguise my slur on the working class by referring to then as "blue collar workers".

However since the colours blue and puce have come to have political connotations on this forum, I was concerned about breaching the restrictions on political comment.

Am I right in assuming that you have used the salutation "Sir" to imply that I am so far removed from the working classes that I have been added to the list of those to receive a knighthood?

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Originally Posted by incisor

read the rules :p

it doesn't say what you seem to think it says...

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Soooo, basically anything goes if we ask foist?
And how many of the peeps in this here Forum actually ask a Mod before they post something?
I recently got Mod-ed because I wrote the word God in one of my posts.
It wasn't negative, it wasn't positive. But the post got removed. It was part of a one liner.
Seems to me, the rules are as clear as the mud inside my wheel arches.
How do I become a Mod?

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Originally Posted by discovery39

Soooo, basically anything goes if we ask foist?
And how many of the peeps in this here Forum actually ask a Mod before they post something?
I recently got Mod-ed because I wrote the word God in one of my posts.
It wasn't negative, it wasn't positive. But the post got removed. It was part of a one liner.
Seems to me, the rules are as clear as the mud inside my wheel arches.
How do I become a Mod?

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Next time instead of God use Dios and you will be Ok :D

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Originally Posted by Chucaro

Next time instead of God use Dios and you will be Ok :D

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Will do.:cool: