Posted on 06/24/2021 12:45:59 PM PDT by DFG
A liberal arts college in Massachusetts has warned its students and faculty against using 'violent language' - even banning the phrase 'trigger warning' for its association with guns.
Brandeis University in Waltham has created an anti-violence resource called the Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center which provides information and advice to students and staff.
It lists words and idioms, including 'picnic' and 'rule of thumb,' which it claims are 'violent' and suggests dreary alternatives such as 'outdoor eating' for the former and 'general rule' for the latter.
The college claims that 'picnic is often associated with lynchings of black people in the United States, during which white spectators were said to have watched while eating, referring to them as picnics or other terms involving racial slurs against black people.'
Picnic is derived from the French 'pique-nique,' originally used to describe the taking of one's own wine to a meal, which later evolved to encompass the sharing of food outdoors and started being used in England in the 18th century.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Oppressive language / Possible Alternatives
Brandeis diploma / Waste paper; unemployment ticket
Brandeis faculty / Brainless retards; lobotomized fishcakes; Stalin’s little helpers
Brandeis University / Unfunny Joke; Clown College; Bottom of the Barrel
Brandeis student / Duped moron; cash cow; pathetic laughingstock
Brandeis needs to change its name because branding is trigger to the slaves who were marked as the property of their Democrat masters.
I would love to beat Nancy using the rule of thumb, then hang her during a picnic, but then I would have to issue a trigger warning. Sorry for going off the reservation with this!
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People like that should be shot.
In the future, Roy will be identified as the "Singer Who Rode A Horse With No Name".
And you are probably too niggardly to spend enough money to do it properly as well.
A classic case of too many people with too much time on their hands, the students as well as the “adult” administration and professors
Hey, somebody has to be held responsible for all the self-pity and emotive indulgence of the nitwits.
But on Boondock Saints, a fat, ugly dyke broad made an issue from one of the protagonist's use of the term. She hit him and he knocked her out.
America - Horse with no name?
Please, oh please, let someone get a speaker-truck and ride around that silly little pretend campus broadcasting all those trigger words. Call it a peace protest. Beat up all who try to stop them. Burn things. After all, the media and Democrats have told is that this is OK. And as a bonus, we off a worthless institution. Just kidding. No, wait.....
From Wikipedia (Yeah, I know ... not the most reliable source):
The exact origin of the phrase is uncertain.[4] Its earliest (1685) appearance in print comes from a posthumously published collection of sermons by Scottish preacher James Durham: “Many profest Christians are like to foolish builders, who build by guess, and by rule of thumb (as we use to speak), and not by Square and Rule”.[1][5]
The phrase is also found in Sir William Hope’s The Compleat Fencing Master, 1692: “What he doth, he doth by rule of Thumb, and not by Art”.[6] James Kelly’s The Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, 1721, includes: “No Rule so good as Rule of Thumb, if it hit”,[7][8] meaning a practical approximation.[6]
Historically, the width of the thumb, or “thumb’s breadth”, was used as the equivalent of an inch in the cloth trade; similar expressions existed in Latin and French as well.[5][7] The thumb has also been used in brewing beer, to gauge the heat of the brewing vat.[2] Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes that rule of thumb means a “rough measurement”. He says that “Ladies often measure yard lengths by their thumb. Indeed, the expression ‘sixteen nails make a yard’ seems to point to the thumb-nail as a standard” and that “Countrymen always measure by their thumb”.[9] According to Phrasefinder, “The phrase joins the whole nine yards as one that probably derives from some form of measurement but which is unlikely ever to be definitively pinned down”.[4]
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A modern folk etymology[10] relates the phrase to domestic violence via an alleged rule under English common law which permitted wife-beating provided that the implement used was a rod or stick no thicker than a man’s thumb.[6] Wife-beating has been officially outlawed in England and the United States for centuries, but enforcement of the law was inconsistent, and wife-beating did continue. However, a rule of thumb permitting wife-beating was never codified in law.[3][11][12]
LOL - love that!
“Hey BooBoo, there’s a picnic basket” “No, Yogi, you can’t say picnic anymore”
I never use Trigger without Buttermilk or Nellybell.
“Unhoused” seems to be a favorite.
Instead of ‘take a shot at it’
use ‘throw a spitwat at it’
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