Has political correctness actually gone mad?

Just discovered that “AD” and “BC” are falling out of favour. Too Christian, apparently. Discovered this in a fairly right on kid’s book my daughter is reading, all about famous wonen in history. They’re all born either BCE or CE. Not sure I approve.

Why?
 
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Busted :cool:
 
Women can wear sunglasses too. We can all ogle each other. Win win...
 
Dont know why she is worried about it

Probably assumes every man she's ever seen wearing sunglasses has been rabidly ogling her.

Alas, the truth might be even more upsetting than the fiction.
 
"Schoolchildren cannot unilaterally refuse to participate in the pledge,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement this week, noting that Texas is one of 26 states with similar Pledge statutes. "Requiring the pledge to be recited at the start of every school day has the laudable result of fostering respect for our flag and a patriotic love of our country."
Ugh.
 
Good grief.
 
Condensing the statement to its pedagogical essence we get this:

Schoolchildren cannot unilaterally refuse ... (the) fostering ... (of) love.
 
Not sure if this is quite right for in here but it needs to go somewhere..

Drivetime: Jeremy Vine calls for BBC to change name of radio show
BBC Radio 2's Drivetime show should be renamed because it celebrates "a form of transport that kills 1,700 people a year

Jeremy Vine was the victim of a foul-mouthed verbal attack while cycling in 2016
 
The media is responsible for so much of this shite being broadcast. The amount of silly articles you'll see (I've noticed particularly on BBC) about something SJW/PC related and the only source they have for it is a couple of sad cnuts on Twitter with 5 re-tweets and 2 likes.
 
The media is responsible for so much of this shite being broadcast. The amount of silly articles you'll see (I've noticed particularly on BBC) about something SJW/PC related and the only source they have for it is a couple of sad cnuts on Twitter with 5 re-tweets and 2 likes.
Pandering to an audience. News media in general has gone this way tbf...
 
It is so sad how people use this whole platform of change to profit and disrupt the whole movement. I love laughing at the stupid bullshit and especially the "informed" opinions on said matter, but I don't like to be taken advantage of, which is what the media are doing now. We should react on that instead of the bullshit they feed us.
 
So this one’s quite interesting. A graphic novel gets pulled because of online protests and - as far as I can make out - this all went down before any of the protestors had actually read the book.
Sounds it's already out there in some form tbh.

Gantos’s story was originally part of Here I Stand, a 2016 young adult anthology for Amnesty International, which said at the time that Gantos’s story “celebrates the power of books to transform lives”.

Never heard of a library described as a 'white space' though. Sounds kind of racist in itself.
 
I remember there was talk in the 1990s of some residents in NYC owning falcons that would prey on the pigeons. Being a falconer always seems like a cool hobby to me
OT uses birds of prey to reduce pigeons and it is pretty standard. Pigeon shit is corrosive and does damage.
The concourse at Waterloo is quite small considering how busy it is and gets very congested. They can be a genuine pain the arse.
 
OT uses birds of prey to reduce pigeons and it is pretty standard. Pigeon shit is corrosive and does damage.
The concourse at Waterloo is quite small considering how busy it is and gets very congested. They can be a genuine pain the arse.

I think I missed my true calling as a falconer. That would be such a cool job to manage those falcons.
 
I think I missed my true calling as a falconer. That would be such a cool job to manage those falcons.
Been on a couple of those experience days where you fly a bunch of them. It is super-cool. The barn owl was completely silent in flight and so precise. Would defo recommend it if you haven't done it.
 
Been on a couple of those experience days where you fly a bunch of them. It is super-cool. The barn owl was completely silent in flight and so precise. Would defo recommend it if you haven't done it.
I've done it on the West Coast Of Ireland at a place called Flying Eagles. It was very good.