The World Has Gone Mad

[Red Forever]

1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

Woke seems to be very resilient despite the normal majority rejecting it, whose behind this $hit, it would seem anybody in power, be it politics, media or police have lost their backbones. I remember some years ago at a German car firm an engineer seeing two new black technicians when he walked into the office asked, "Has there been a fire in the office", everybody, including the two black guys laughed but a woke secretary reported him to HO and he was sacked immediately, she was mobbed afterwards and didn't last long.

Seems like the lady who was mobbed and didn't last long was the victim of bullying and bigotry from the cowardly anti woke bad guys.

Hmm... woke wins this one.

[PETERTHEEATER]

2 hours ago, wombat said:

I got a 30 day ban in another place for using the word dyke 

Don't get me started on the story of a little Dutch boy and his finger!

[spidermike007]

2 hours ago, Dolf said:

Wait for 2060. 

If Gen Z is any indication of what future generations are going to be like I suspect the species won't last very long, it'll get at the point where a flu will take out a 12-year-old, the weakness level will be that great. 

 

Two days of pain and suffering and their life wains.

[jesimps]

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Personally, I despise PC. And social justice authoritarianism. I think it represents alot of what is wrong with contemporary culture, and especially America today. It is a major form of weakness, when you allow yourself to be easily offended, and take everything personally. Granted, there are things that can be perceived as offensive, but allowing yourself to be offended by tiny little things people say and do is a bit much! But, the people who are offended daily, by things others say, are just weak, and would benefit by growing thicker skin. Life can be rough and caustic at times, and for those of us who have grown thick skin, it is like water off a ducks back. No big deal, at all. Think what you want to think. It just does not mean anything to those with self esteem, and a sense of who and what they are. Granted, these are just my opinions, and some will take offense to them. LOL. 

 

The US is by far the most tolerant country in the world when it comes to the whole trans, non-binary, amorosexual, decide whatever you want today, if it fits mentality. No other country is as loose, driftless, and as silly as the US.

 

 

The notion that political correctness has “gone mad” is familiar to anyone who follows even vaguely any aspect of modern political or cultural life. The phrase, ostensibly referring to language or action that is designed to avoid offence or harm to protected groups, has become a sharp criticism. It is synonymous with a sort of cultural McCarthyism, usually committed by the left.

 

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/10/has-political-correctness-gone-too-far

 

No woman would survive more than 30 minutes in the NFL. Women will not participate in men's sports because they won't be able to handle the physical endurance required, nor the brutality, nor the talent level.

 

A woman ranked #5 on the WTA could not beat a #758 man on the ATP as John McEnroe so truthfully stated.

 

Hopefully all this craziness will pass and we'll return to some form of normalcy and indecency. 

 

The term first appeared in the Marxist-Leninist vocabulary following the Russian Revolution (really, a coup) of 1917 to describe strict adherence to policies and principles of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party. “Political correctness” was invented by the communists to camouflage the truth about events and policies in the Soviet Union that had resulted in mass murders, the starvation of millions, and slave labor camps. It was “politically incorrect” to reveal such facts; the “party line” was for all loyal communist party members to promote the same “politically correct truths” about the “good life” under totalitarian government. 

 

 

When I was in the British Army many years ago, the greatest nicest thing you could say about anybody was "You can say anything to him and he doesn't get offended". They were always the most popular people in the unit. The ones you didn't want in your unit were those who bristled at even the suggestion of an insult, the ones who caused you to walk on eggshells. One of those in your barrack room and all the joy and comradeship drained from the troop. Seems like that sort of woke behaviour is happening and being encouraged all over the west now. 

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, Red Forever said:

I feel flattered to be called woke.

It shows that I'm offending the right people.

You just got invited to my Ignore List. 😉 

[PETERTHEEATER]

43 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Don't get me started on the story of a little Dutch boy and his finger!

Dear Confused, try Googling 'The Hero of Haarlem'

[scottiejohn]

46 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Don't get me started on the story of a little Dutch boy and his finger!

As the boy never existed and I doubt  if a human Dyke let a boy put his finger in said human Dyke what is your dam point?

 

[farangkinok]

18 hours ago, Martin71 said:

Mary Poppins film age rating raised over 'discriminatory language'

Mary Tyler Moore told David Letterman on The Late Show on March 23, 1993 that one of the lead actors in the film Mary Poppins had changed his name at the beginning of his career, because it originally had been Pənis van Ləsbian.

[Stevemercer]

4 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

The terribly dangerous aspect of all this sense of victimhood, safe places and a lot of this other woke and PC nonsense is that it's fostering a spectacularly weak generation of people who are not prepared for any of the problems that life will throw their way. Any of the challenges they might face in the coming years or something catastrophic like war and famine, and they would just crumble. The slightest issues, problems or catastrophe might be too much for this overly coddled group to handle.

 

Gen Z could be the weakest generation in the history of mankind. We are most definitely moving backwards as a civilization. Social media combined with the lost art of parenting are primarily to blame. 

 

I agree. If World 111 threatens to break out, the wokists would all be for appeasement despite the lessons of previous wars.

[steven100]

This world has really lost the plot .....   thanks to the stupid do-gooders   !!!!

 

I read this news 2 days ago in the US ....      It's the usual do-gooders ridiculous antics.   Baa Baa Black sheep have you any wool .... Manhole cover in the street ... Coon cheese in Australia .....    

 

and in the UK they are going to remove all the swings in the country because of safety concerns.

 

 

 

[spidermike007]

2 hours ago, jesimps said:

When I was in the British Army many years ago, the greatest nicest thing you could say about anybody was "You can say anything to him and he doesn't get offended". They were always the most popular people in the unit. The ones you didn't want in your unit were those who bristled at even the suggestion of an insult, the ones who caused you to walk on eggshells. One of those in your barrack room and all the joy and comradeship drained from the troop. Seems like that sort of woke behaviour is happening and being encouraged all over the west now. 

 

I love what Clint Eastwood, a real man, said about PC. 

 

In an interview, he elaborates further: “I’m never cautious about what I say because, you know, I’ve been around a long time, what can they do? The political correctness era that we’re in is really not doing anyone any good. It’s taking everyone and weakening society. It doesn’t seem that people have to take themselves so serious,” Eastwood said. “It seems like, I’m just lucky that I grew up in an era where we all lived in an area where everybody joked about everything. Nothing was politically incorrect because everything was always a joke with a sense of humour. People sometimes are losing that and taking themselves and everyone else seriously. I think they’re missing a lot and not enjoying the differences that we all have.”

 

I am the least PC guy you will encounter. It is not a lack of respect. I have plenty of that. It is all about the cancel culture, and the extreme weakness that PC creates within a culture. I just will not have anything to do with any of that.

 

As I get older, I am developing a new skill set. I am becoming very good at ignoring nonsense, ignorance, naivety, and overly judgmental people. 

They barely register on my horizon. Social media seems to have amplified things and the media itself is "overly woke", which essentially means unconscious. 

 

I just don't care. Water off a ducks back. Don't have time for the foolishness.

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, Stevemercer said:

 

I agree. If World 111 threatens to break out, the wokists would all be for appeasement despite the lessons of previous wars.

They would pee in their pants the moment the bullets started flying. 

[JensenZ]

20 hours ago, Martin71 said:

Mary Poppins film age rating raised over 'discriminatory language'

Just saw this on the bbc UK news...unbelievable..... also a sub article at the bottom of the page Watership Down (the kids cartoon version) would have it's age classification raised because of 'strong violence' and 'unacceptable language'......

 

Some people out there really do need to get a life.....they must just spend their life trawling the internet looking for things to be offended by...pathetic...

 

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68402362

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35924936

Perhaps you don't know that "Hottentot" was used extensively by South African White people in the 60s and 70s when this movie came out as a general derogatory term for all black, dark-skinned, and even mixed race people, similar to "Kaffir". I know this as I was a white person growing up in South Africa in the 70s, during the height of Apartheid. It was the Dutch who started using this term due to the sound of the native language of the Khoekhoe people.

 

It's easy to sit here and think it's crazy, but maybe we should consult South African black people to hear their opinions. I don't believe children's movies should insult any particular race or nationality unless it's a historical documentary.

 

Try using the term in South Africa, and you'll discover that the term is not trivial.

Edited February 27 by JensenZ

[AgMech Cowboy]

21 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I try to ignore those woke idiots.

And it seems more people are annoyed with those woke idiots.

I don't know if it has to get worse before it will get better or if we are already at that point.

Luckily Thailand is far away from the woke idiots from America and the rest of the west.

We can see what they do over there and laugh about it and ignore it.

I agree OMFarang, but have you noticed, people on here have quit using the word katoy or lady-boy. It's transgender now...  TG I'm passed my prime. I'll probably never stop calling them katoys even if it becomes 'the law'.

[OneMoreFarang]

2 minutes ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

I agree OMFarang, but have you noticed, people on here have quit using the word katoy or lady-boy. It's transgender now...  TG I'm passed my prime. I'll probably never stop calling them katoys even if it becomes 'the law'.

I didn't notice and as far as I see the three terms are interchangeable. 

[cowellandrew]

And you watch the BBC ?

😂😂😂😂

[Gilligan In Drag]

And Merry Poppins is just the tip of the iceberg. Your just getting started with yer Merry Poppins and Dick Van Dyke and his top o' the morning to ya atrocities, and so It starts there and proceeds and before you know it you're in Shark bar on Soi Cowboy where the unspoken rule till after the fact of having ordered a drink is that a drink is actually two drinks, buy two and get only  one  and you have 15 minutes to drink it and get out or be charged for two more drinks and so on every fifteen minutes, but you didn't know that until you read about it 6 months later on Stickman. So what am I now, buying lady drinks for myself? Is that why I've  come all the way from my turnip patch in Nova Scotia so that i can buy myself lady drinks? And then do something else they don't like, the first one being showing up anywhere near the bar in the first place, you should just leave them alone at the gogo bars in Thailand, theres plenty of supermarkets and great socks selections in the department stores in Thailand to spend your time on than to have to go to Soi Cowboy and they also have temples you can go to so leave the, alone stop imposing your culture and privilidge on them they want to be left in peace and quiet. So where was I? Oh yeah, do something else they don't like at Shark bar  such as reject the two Pillsbury Dough girls who invited themselves to sit down  with you initially and call someone else over who at least doesn't look angry and like they got run over by with the ugly rolling pin stick twice two many times for a drink logically leaving the only thing left to do with you is  charge you for nine drinks,

buy 9 get one and you can't drink it till you cough up the 3000 baht. We don't have any change and Throw 2 thousand more baht at them as a tip and the bouncers put you in  a head lock and drag you out and you're good to go. But its OK, that happens to everyone now its just a misunderstanding that happens repeatedly fo 6 months to everyone who goes in there a failure of the bar staff to communicate, to learn quickly  and they'll soon be putting it on the menus that you're under the gun as soon as you step in or so they tell me on Stickman!

[Kinok Farang]

Supercalifragilisticexpi<deleted>mecrazy.

[spidermike007]

17 hours ago, soalbundy said:

Woke seems to be very resilient despite the normal majority rejecting it, whose behind this $hit, it would seem anybody in power, be it politics, media or police have lost their backbones. I remember some years ago at a German car firm an engineer seeing two new black technicians when he walked into the office asked, "Has there been a fire in the office", everybody, including the two black guys laughed but a woke secretary reported him to HO and he was sacked immediately, she was mobbed afterwards and didn't last long.

It is likely less than 1% of the population is driving the woke agenda, and yet the progressive wing of the democratic party in the US has been completely paralyzed and hypnotized into buying into it, and supporting it. When you add in the entire educational system and universities it's gotten to the point where 99% of the people who are not buying it, are expected to support it. Just say no to the nonsense and do it in an adamant fashion. 

 

People who insist that they need safe spaces are a coddled generation that know nothing about strength, and conviction, and take solace and comfort in claiming to be a victim. We know how fake that is, and we know how nonsensical it is. No thanks. I won't play that game. 

[damian]

19 hours ago, soalbundy said:

Woke seems to be very resilient despite the normal majority rejecting it, whose behind this $hit, it would seem anybody in power, be it politics, media or police have lost their backbones. I remember some years ago at a German car firm an engineer seeing two new black technicians when he walked into the office asked, "Has there been a fire in the office", everybody, including the two black guys laughed but a woke secretary reported him to HO and he was sacked immediately, she was mobbed afterwards and didn't last long.

What would he have said if they were two new white technicians I wonder. 

 

Cheers to the secretary.

[Purdey]

There are still some comedians out there who can really offend yet be popular, like Jimmy Carr. 

[thaibeachlovers]

On 2/27/2024 at 5:40 AM, SingAPorn said:

Europe and the west are slowly destroying their identity and culture and are pauperising their populations with all the absurd environmentalists, co-funders-wokes-feminists and pro-migrants and pro Russian sanctions imposed by the USA.

I agree, which is why I believe that the west's time as a world power is nearly over. All civilisations rot from within, and ours is exceedingly rotten, IMO.

[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

I agree OMFarang, but have you noticed, people on here have quit using the word katoy or lady-boy. It's transgender now...  TG I'm passed my prime. I'll probably never stop calling them katoys even if it becomes 'the law'.

Can't say I have noticed that. It's usually ladyboys IMO.

[soalbundy]

9 hours ago, damian said:

What would he have said if they were two new white technicians I wonder. 

 

Cheers to the secretary.

not really, we were always taking the pi$$ out of each other, it was something we enjoyed doing, especially with the Spanish girl, us 'th' instead of 's' when speaking to her, she gave back as good as she got but we were all close friends, it was laugh in that office, the two black guys joined in once they had settled in.

[soalbundy]

8 hours ago, Purdey said:

There are still some comedians out there who can really offend yet be popular, like Jimmy Carr. 

Ricky Gervais, my hero.

[soalbundy]

On 2/27/2024 at 4:08 PM, Red Forever said:

Seems like the lady who was mobbed and didn't last long was the victim of bullying and bigotry from the cowardly anti woke bad guys.

Hmm... woke wins this one.

No, she knew the easy going pi$$ taking atmosphere in our office, she just didn't fit in and she was a bit of a snitch anyway, once a rep came into our office and asked me where our boss was, I told him he was with a group drinking coffee in the kitchen, he asked me what he looked like, "Hmmm, have you watched the muppets at all"?   "Yes"   "Well he looks a lot like miss Piggy", she overheard that and couldn't wait to tell him.

[CG1 Blue]

On 2/27/2024 at 10:43 AM, Stevemercer said:

 

I agree. If World 111 threatens to break out, the wokists would all be for appeasement despite the lessons of previous wars.

Did I miss 109 World Wars somehow? 

(Sorry, couldn't resist 😆)

[CG1 Blue]

1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

Ricky Gervais, my hero.

Same here. Ricky is a genius of comedy, and a brave man who deserves a huge amount of kudos for fighting back against the woke BS.

I do fear that he'll be silenced somehow in the not too distant future. But I hope not.

 

[Dexxter]

On 2/27/2024 at 4:05 PM, topt said:

What about the boy who put his finger in the dyke..........oops I meant dike..........

He ended up with a smelly finger

[soalbundy]

On 2/27/2024 at 2:35 PM, AlexRich said:

Yes, and so you should. But if you put Dick and Van before it, your fine.

What about carpet munchers? Probably not eh, one would have to say "she isn't like other girls".

You can't say a woman is fat any more in Germany, she is 'voll schlank' or 'full slim' what a lot of rubbish.