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Talk of brainstorming 'may offend epileptics
Telegraph ^
| 7/3/05
| Liz Lightfoot
Posted on 07/03/2005 7:04:19 AM PDT by paltz
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Somebody without epilepsy was probably offended and thought of this. It's always the case.
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:04:19 AM PDT
by
paltz
To: paltz
LOL! My mind is full of stormy thoughts that sends the political correctness police up the walls. Brainstorm away!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:06:12 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: paltz
"Thought shower" may offend the incontinent.
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:06:19 AM PDT
by
John Jorsett
(scam never sleeps)
To: paltz
Whoever came up with "thought shower" seems to be experiencing heavy cranial fog.
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:07:09 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
To: paltz
Arn't people with epilepsy supposed to be on some island in the Pacific?
(how is that for non PC)
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:08:06 AM PDT
by
Lokibob
(All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
To: paltz
Just wow. As Yoda would say, "Break me a freaking give."
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:08:50 AM PDT
by
Shalom Israel
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
To: paltz
Someone had a brain fart. Utterly asinine.
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:09:37 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
To: Lokibob
"We also contacted people with epilepsy in the community and the overwhelming response was that 'brainstorming' implies no offence to people with epilepsy, and that any implication that the word is offensive to people with the condition is taking political correctness too far." People found it more offensive that the question was being asked of them, she said.
People with epilepsy wanted to send the surveyors out to an island in the pacific
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:10:34 AM PDT
by
paltz
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To: paltz
It's really nothing to through a fit over!
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:11:36 AM PDT
by
zzen01
To: paltz
I don't get this one.
How can "brainstorming" be offensive?
This is just Morons-on-Parade, compliments of the local school board. Stupids teaching stupids. The mommy-nanny nation tying us all to her apron strings, stripping life of independence, keeping babies as babies so mommy-nanny will feel needed.
It's all about them, the mommy-nannies, NOT about children. Pure, unadultered, unmigitaged arrogance and egoism. mememememe.
To: zzen01
It's really nothing to through a fit over!Hahaha. Good one.
We WERE all searching for the right phrase. YOU got it.
To: paltz
I wonder what made them decide to re-print this (it's two years old, and I remember the last time it was posted here).
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:16:41 AM PDT
by
Sofa King
(MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval.)
To: Baynative
Blind people that I have known have a sense of humor. Not once is there "anguish" for a phrase.
I had a paster once who was accident prone. Always with a cast or a bandage. One day, I spotted him on crutches, and told him "You must not live right". He had no anguish, sorry, thought it was funny.
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:16:48 AM PDT
by
Lokibob
(All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
To: Baynative
My name is John and I'm offended everytime someone says they have to go to the John.
SHEESH.
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:18:12 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
To: Lokibob
Most people aren't offended by this type of nonsense out of the gate. It usually takes a large body of liberals telling everybody how offended they should be before this stuff becomes an issue.
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:20:21 AM PDT
by
Sofa King
(MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval.)
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To: Lokibob
Arn't people with epilepsy supposed to be on some island in the Pacific? You're thinking of leprosy and they have a cure for that now. LOL
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:24:20 AM PDT
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: cripplecreek
I used to have a co-worker named John and he would give me a dirty look whenever I forgot and used that word for the toilet. ;o)
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posted on
07/03/2005 7:26:31 AM PDT
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: paltz
People are starving in N. Korea and Africa. Child predators are roaming the streets of our country. Cancer is epidemic. Our schools are rotten and our Universities are worse than rotten. Our rights are disappearing at an exponential rate. And we should worry about a phrase that has been around for as long as I can remember?
I recommend the people who thought this up do a little brainstorming on the really important problems.
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