I am afraid it was posted in the Mail on Sunday edition on the 31st as well, around 11 am. http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/a...d=1770&ct=5

I suspect it is true, because if you google her name and barmaid, well, it comes up in multiple places. Sorry to have to tell you that, love

never mind sweetheart, just go & have a pint of something froffy darlin

The Daily Mail, Satan's own newspaper!

Refer to post 61. In which new legislation was enforced in the UK yesterday, regarding calling barmaids love, darling etc. Actually, i don't even know if we can still call them barmaids. Alcohol Technicians or Customer Service Executives, would be more PC.

Well no, the term barmaid is sexist. I read somewhere that waiter/waitress is incorrect and should be replaced by waitrons (sounds like an alien Captain Scarlett should be heroically fighting). So carrying on in the same vein they should be referred to as barmons but I like your train of thinking. Maybe Alcoholic Beverage Retail Distribution and Control Executives. I don't think any title including the term Customer Service is accurate, well not to the British bar staff I recall. Technician should also be avoided as it implies a degree of technical training beyond getting them to hold the glass open end upwards when pouring a pint.

Barmons sounds like some weird cult!

Barmons sounds like some weird cult!

Actually, in most parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire that would be an acceptable pronunciation of Barman.

Barmons sounds like some weird cult!

Actually, in most parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire that would be an acceptable pronunciation of Barman.

I hadn't thought of that!

Just read in the Bangkok Post that the inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos claim that they are the only true Lesbians and that the term "Lesbians" should not be used for homsexual women anymore. They are trying to enfoce this in court by sueing some gay-rights activist groups...almost spilled my coffee when reading this...

Just read in the Bangkok Post that the inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos claim that they are the only true Lesbians and that the term "Lesbians" should not be used for homsexual women anymore. They are trying to enfoce this in court by sueing some gay-rights activist groups...almost spilled my coffee when reading this...

Is this a joke?

according to the article, they mean it....here once again from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7376919.stm

Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the term "lesbian".

The islanders say that if they are successful they may then start to fight the word lesbian internationally.

The issue boils down to who has the right to call themselves Lesbians.

now that is a true PC dilemma...one minority fighting the other...while we can lean back and watch....

while we can lean back and watch....

Lesbians fighting, two questions.

1. Is there any mud.

2. Were do I sign.

Hang on, I've been to Greece, forget I asked.

So they claim that they are an island of lesbians eh? It should do wonders for their tourism industry!

Sadly all Lesbians should be shot......Why ?

Two women not interested in men. On the other hand Homosexuals should be lauded. Why ?

Two men not chasing the non-lesbians you are !!!!!!

Sadly all Lesbians should be shot......Why ?

If i was a woman, i'd be a lesbian too. There's something about men's dangly bits (including my own), that just doesn't do it for me

Sadly all Lesbians should be shot......Why ?

If i was a woman, i'd be a lesbian too. There's something about men's dangly bits (including my own), that just doesn't do it for me

Be careful mrbj, suiging has a point...

However, I agree, if I were a woman I'd be a lesbian too!

I was living in London in the late 80s when the PC thing was in full swing. At the time I was doing music workshops for people with disabilities except they weren’t called “disabled”, they were called people with “special needs” or “learning difficulties”. I was ok with those phrases but then they decided to use the phrase “people with extra challenges”. I made endless jokes about this ridiculous phrase.

However the other day I was thinking about what might happen if I were to have an accident on my motor scooter (as many in Thailand do) and be unable to walk. I thought I might not like to be referred to an invalid or a cripple but actually prefer to be someone with extra challenges.

I was living in London in the late 80s when the PC thing was in full swing. At the time I was doing music workshops for people with disabilities except they weren’t called “disabled”, they were called people with “special needs” or “learning difficulties”. I was ok with those phrases but then they decided to use the phrase “people with extra challenges”. I made endless jokes about this ridiculous phrase.

However the other day I was thinking about what might happen if I were to have an accident on my motor scooter (as many in Thailand do) and be unable to walk. I thought I might not like to be referred to an invalid or a cripple but actually prefer to be someone with extra challenges.

I wouldn't like cripple or invalid either but extra challenges??? I prefer special needs. Or even disabled.

I was living in London in the late 80s when the PC thing was in full swing. At the time I was doing music workshops for people with disabilities except they weren’t called “disabled”, they were called people with “special needs” or “learning difficulties”. I was ok with those phrases but then they decided to use the phrase “people with extra challenges”. I made endless jokes about this ridiculous phrase.

However the other day I was thinking about what might happen if I were to have an accident on my motor scooter (as many in Thailand do) and be unable to walk. I thought I might not like to be referred to an invalid or a cripple but actually prefer to be someone with extra challenges.

I wouldn't like cripple or invalid either but extra challenges??? I prefer special needs. Or even disabled.

I don't mind the term disabled. It gets me a little card that saves me thousands on rates, electricity, doctors, phamacy, etc. And I also get another little card that lets me park anywhere I like. You should see the looks I get from some of the oldies when I slip my large 4wd with bull bar into the disabled bay.

You're so wicked OC!

I am doubly disabled, speach recognition and castrated.

I was living in London in the late 80s when the PC thing was in full swing. At the time I was doing music workshops for people with disabilities except they weren’t called “disabled”, they were called people with “special needs” or “learning difficulties”. I was ok with those phrases but then they decided to use the phrase “people with extra challenges”. I made endless jokes about this ridiculous phrase.

However the other day I was thinking about what might happen if I were to have an accident on my motor scooter (as many in Thailand do) and be unable to walk. I thought I might not like to be referred to an invalid or a cripple but actually prefer to be someone with extra challenges.

I wouldn't like cripple or invalid either but extra challenges??? I prefer special needs. Or even disabled.

Or, as we used to say in the Army, "seriously fuc_ked up."

Or FUBAR...

FUBAR?

Fcuked Up Beyond All Recognition.

or Any Repair.

Sadly all Lesbians should be shot......Why ?

If i was a woman, i'd be a lesbian too. There's something about men's dangly bits (including my own), that just doesn't do it for me

there are specialized clinics in Thailand that can remove your problem in no time.....

Middle east is still perfectly acceptable!

Yes, parts of it are.

I meant as the general region. However, Palestine, to some, is unacceptable. Yet, Palestine has never been a country just a region and still is. It's like when we Irish don't lke the expression 'British Isles'. It's because it suggests Ireland is part of Britain, which of course, it's not. Although 6 counties of one province in part of the UK. Even very few British people understand the differance between Britain and the UK!

It's on me passport - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Where's 'Britain'? Anglicisation of Brittany? (Which should still be a part of Greater Britain)

Sadly all Lesbians should be shot......Why ?

If i was a woman, i'd be a lesbian too. There's something about men's dangly bits (including my own), that just doesn't do it for me

there are specialized clinics in Thailand that can remove your problem in no time.....

Yeah i know, you told me all about it, the last time we met. But i can't for the life of me, remember how much you said it cost you

Fcuked Up Beyond All Recognition.

or Any Repair.

Thanks Taddy.

Sadly all Lesbians should be shot......Why ?

If i was a woman, i'd be a lesbian too. There's something about men's dangly bits (including my own), that just doesn't do it for me

there are specialized clinics in Thailand that can remove your problem in no time.....

Yeah i know, you told me all about it, the last time we met. But i can't for the life of me, remember how much you said it cost you

Ha Ha Ha Ha

Great reply, PMPL......