Politically Correct Lunacy

[MR2]

Why don't we just ban the use of the English language - will that make all these idiots happy?

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by MR2

Why don't we just ban the use of the English language - will that make all these idiots happy?

Just be patient, we'll get there

[Richard]

Seems like much ado about nothing to get bent out of shape over to me - meh.

Where I grew up, we had "sack lunches" or "lunch boxes/lunch pails" (tin or aluminum) or "cafeteria lunches."

Coffee was plain or sweetened or with milk/cream. I drink it plain like my dad always did while my wife has a "vente cappucino non-fat milk extra dry with two sweet-n-lows."

Times change, sometimes for the better and sometimes not, and we often discover from others that those anecdotally recollected "good ol' days" often weren't all that good for many ffolkes out there when considered in an empirical sense.

Must be a slow kerfluffle day out there if something like this can generate such responses.

YMMV - and so it goes...

Richard

[alelks]

Originally Posted by Richard

Seems like much ado about nothing to get bent out of shape over to me - meh.

Where I grew up, we had "sack lunches" or "lunch boxes/lunch pails" (tin or aluminum) or "cafeteria lunches."

Coffee was plain or sweetened or with milk/cream. I drink it plain like my dad always did while my wife has a "vente cappucino non-fat milk extra dry with two sweet-n-lows."

Times change, sometimes for the better and sometimes not, and we often discover from others that those anecdotally recollected "good ol' days" often weren't all that good for many ffolkes out there when considered in an empirical sense.

Must be a slow kerfluffle day out there if something like this can generate such responses.

YMMV - and so it goes...

Richard

Be careful you said "non-fat milk". Chunky people like me might take offense to that word "fat".

[PSM]

Originally Posted by Richard

Where I grew up, we had "sack lunches" or "lunch boxes/lunch pails" (tin or aluminum) or "cafeteria lunches."

YMMV - and so it goes...

Richard

While, over time, words may evolve, devolve, or fall to the whims of fashion, it has not been by government mandate. At least not in the good ole U. S. of A. Yet.

Pat

[ddoering]

I'm more disturbed by the fact that they are foreigners and are in positions to force change upon us.

[98G]

Originally Posted by Guy

I almost spit my "black" coffee with "white" cream & sugar out.

I guess Seattle voters will decide. My guess is much depends on how their economy is supported. Dollars drive many local decisions. If tax paying residents who are not citizens make up a large part of their city revenues, then they will try to accommodate them.

For me, I ask for plain, black coffee when I go out. The barista/waiter/waitress/server invariably asks, "would you like cream and sugar with that?" That irritates me.

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by ddoering

I'm more disturbed by the fact that they are foreigners and are in positions to force change upon us.

I completely missed the foreigner aspect, good catch..

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by 98G

The barista/waiter/waitress/server invariably asks, "would you like cream and sugar with that?" That irritates me.

Just tell them:

No thank you, I am white enough and sweet enough as it is.

[98G]

Originally Posted by Paslode

Just tell them:

No thank you, I am white enough and sweet enough as it is.

I am not that sweet.

I just wish they would listen to what I said. Plain black seems self explanatory. It is that boredom people have with their jobs and the disregard to do the jobs well that is the real irritant.

It extends from the food service industry all the way to the White House. This idea that every day and every action are just another day; just another action. We are inundated with mediocracy.

[cbtengr]

Originally Posted by Paslode

I completely missed the foreigner aspect, good catch..

Can't call them citizens and they probably do not like to be called foreigner's. In the future please follow the proper guidelines and call them "residents." At least that is what the foreign guy suggested .,

[Richard]

Originally Posted by PSM

While, over time, words may evolve, devolve, or fall to the whims of fashion, it has not been by government mandate. At least not in the good ole U. S. of A. Yet.

I saw a lot of words banned by 'government mandate' when I was in government service; rightfully so.

Originally Posted by ddoering

I'm more disturbed by the fact that they are foreigners and are in positions to force change upon us.

Are they? Does anybody know or is that just an assumption because they were born in another country? Might they not be a couple of our country's many 'foreign born' but since 'naturalized' citizens?

Originally Posted by 98G

The barista/waiter/waitress/server invariably asks, "would you like cream and sugar with that?"

Originally Posted by Paslode

Just tell them: No thank you, I am white enough and sweet enough as it is.

Doesn't matter from what quarter it appears, a response like that to a straight forward question like the one 98G posited personifies the uncalled for, tacitly practiced form of racism underlying this issue.

Richard

[ddoering]

Originally Posted by Richard

Are they? Does anybody know or is that just an assumption because they were born in another country? Might they not be a couple of our country's many 'foreign born' but since 'naturalized' citizens?



Richard

We have many people who claim to be newly minted Americans yet they can't leave their foreign ways behind. Why should I care if a resident may get offended by my American ways? Fuck them. They can go home.

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by Richard

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Doesn't matter from what quarter it appears, a response like that to a straight forward question like the one 98G posited personifies the uncalled for, tacitly practiced form of racism underlying this issue.

Richard

It's only the issue you make it.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by Paslode

It's only the issue you make it.

Keep believing that - it is what it is...no matter what you seek to call it.

Richard