[Stoat]

Also:

Council bans term 'brainstorming' for 'thought showers' for fear of offending epileptics Mail Online

Instead the council have sent hundreds of staff on training courses to teach them to adopt a new phrase - 'thought showers'.

Let's meet in my office...for a thought showering session KentOnline News

But the National Society for Epilepsy says it is "political correctness gone too far".

A spokesman for the charity said: "It's not offensive. It is a term we use as a charity in our working environment.

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[TangoLimaSierra]

Come on. That has to be Scrappleface.

[sinanju]

Is there anyone out there with the “falling sickness” who could weigh in?

Do epileptics actually use the phrase “brainstorm” in connection with their condition?

[Free State Four]

I’m sorry. That sounds too much like “golden showers”. I am offended. You cannot say that. Go back to the retraining centers, you troglodytes.

[Big Mack]

It has to be true, cause no one could make this crap up.

[M203M4]

I won’t “LOL” because I might offend a mute (or someone without a mouth).

[mnehring]

I wonder how they came up with the name “thought showers”... hmmmm.. maybe a brainstorming session?

[BenLurkin]

This is satire.

Isn’t it?

[Deaf Smith]

If they come up with what they think is a good idea during a Thought Shower, they can call it a Golden Shower.

[Stoat]

You just can’t make this stuff up :-)

[ThomasThomas]

While I have no trouble with the word “storming” the word “brain” and “thought” both suggest that someone was thinking. For use of the Council I propose a term that better scribbles their process of not thinking. “Muddle Puddle”

[reagan_fanatic]

Insane.

[coloradan]

More like thought sprinkles ... or maybe a thought drip.

[TexasNative2000]

"We take diversity awareness very seriously."

You also take stupidity very seriously.

[Fox_Mulder77]

'thought showers'

Hm, sounds flaming gay!!

[snarks_when_bored]

Council bans brainstorming (Word is deemed offensive to epileptics; hundreds of staff retrained)

The inane phenomenon of our age: pre-emptive inoffensiveness.

[onedoug]

No talking, lest you offend the dumb.

[Salvation]

Totally ridiculous.

[knarf]

So, some think tank thought they mind farted this $h!t out only to discover that it really is just a load of $h!t ?

What?

They're serious?

Someone .... please ..... flush.

[CHEE]

I insist that the NBA drop the term “SLAM DUNK”. I live in a power chair and am insulted, nay dissed, when the term is used as I can not do a slam dunk.

[isrul]

Others need to be retrained just because some folks have a fit about a word?