Sad, just sad.
 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/05/28 ... index.html

hake: Idiots.

She says a lot of people are having fun finding new titles for Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" which presents problems with every word except "and" and "the." Ravitch said old is ageist, man is sexist and sea can't be used in case a student lives inland and doesn't grasp the concept of a large body of water.

Very, very sad.

Whats actually sad is the REAL reason this is being done; litagation.

Wow, you guys are really whoring the euphemisms.

Dianne Ravitch was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Some of th stuff she talked about was sad, but funny none the less. Shows how really stupid people are.

What the fuck? That has got to be some of the saddest drivel that I've ever read. Someone has to shoot themselves after all this.......I hope it's that crazy biotch.

I saw that episode, she said like you cant tell a stry about a black man whos a great athelete, because its a stereotype, or you cant talk about a woman who washes dishes for her husband and became a hero, because its a stereotype. Thats messed up shit right there

I hate text books now a days. They are toooo P.C. ALthough I found a pic in a math book of these 3 rich white kids (1 guy two blonde girls naturally!) drinking lemonade. Below them at their feet were 4 black kids digging a trench and sweating their asses off.

Those are the type of laws I've never understood. oOo: So dumb.

one day i swear...
mad:

Only in America........ biggrin:

I just want to take a second to express my view on this:

fuck, shit, ass, bitch, cunt, faggot, fudge packer, codger, old as shit, blind retarded mofo, SEAmen, dyke, lesbo, switch hitter, liberal.

Whew.

"Pleaze don't band me from this site!!"

*cocks back M-60 bolt*

"LT, warm up the MH-53!"

But Shit,Ass,and other select words can be on TV? What a load of fucking shit....

[quote="Chronic Diarrhea":8c099]I just want to take a second to express my view on this:

fuck, shit, ass, bitch, cunt, faggot, fudge packer, codger, old as shit, blind retarded mofo, SEAmen, dyke, lesbo, switch hitter, liberal.

Whew.

"Pleaze don't band me from this site!!"[/quote:8c099]

liberal?

funny, every conservative I know is a dumb shit who doesn't like me using cuss words around them, not any liberals I know oOo:

Every conservative I know swears 24/7 (not like thats a good thing).

[quote="Chronic Diarrhea":00996]Every conservative I know swears 24/7 (not like thats a good thing).[/quote:00996]

interesting, quite a few I know are religious nuts who don't cuss at all

hake: Sad, very sad... hake:

The US government has gone way overboard on censorship. hake: And you say you have a free country, at least in Canada, we're allowed to print words like "old", "blind", "hell", etc. in our textbooks. hake:

Redhawk, you must not of read the whole article. It's talking about made for Children textbooks that contain great American stories in them, and they censored out Hell. Who gives a Damn?

I can walk over to Borders right now and buy the book " The History of Fucking: Bob Saget Biography" and no one could give a damn. In a few years it'll be happening in Canada, just watch.

...nevermind.

What? Just noticed this, eh Ferich:

"no place in American primary and high school textbooks."

It's not just textbooks, music and tv in the states is also much more highly censored than in Canada. Eg: In the US, images of women in thongs are censored on tv, but are not in Canada.

we dont really need that kind of stuff on tv anyways

Screw the "Politically Correct" ways...

I agree.

Language on TV here is pretty lax.

Shit can be said pretty much any time of the day.

I watch american TV and they beep out ass. I always thought that was stupid.

I don't know how you guys handle the Osbournes in the states but here its on CTV which pretty much everyone gets at 10:00PM and they don't bleep anything out. Ozzie says Fuck about a million times on that show. I don't think kids need to hear that stuff. I mean I don't really need to hear that, but it is kind of funny when Ozzy says it as every second word. But kids today at 7 stay up till like 1am and watch this stuff. Not to mention all the sex and stuff on TV.

Okay Jeff, Canada is better than the United States, you win. Here's your trophy, a big fat " Who gives a fuck."

[quote="redhawk_six":6e4ea]hake: Sad, very sad... hake:

The US government has gone way overboard on censorship. hake: And you say you have a free country, at least in Canada, we're allowed to print words like "old", "blind", "hell", etc. in our textbooks. hake:[/quote:6e4ea]

This crap has nothing to do with our government. The publishing companies are too afraid to "offend" anyone, so they are the ones employing censorship.

http://www.hispaniconline.com/a&e/people/speedy.html


Lol.

[quote:f07cc]Hasta el momento, agrega Cueto, se han reunido en su portal mil 500 firmas en favor de Speedy González, la mayorÃ*a provenientes de los estados de Texas, California, Georgia, Florida y Colorado.[/quote:f07cc]

heh even the spanish community likes speedy

I like Speed.... I mean Speedy too.

Uhh...OK, I never said canada was better than the US. I'd rather have the words bleeped out liek the US does, instead of the Canadian way.

How er... non-heterosexual...

Why don't they just ban talking altogether? Let's just revert back to grunts and screams.

They tried that shit her in the UK a few years back. Feminists tried to force the dictionary to change the word "man-hole" to "person-hole".

It failed of course. Especially since the only people that work in man-holes are actually men anyway.

Fucking politically correct bullshit.

No matter how much you refine speech you will always manage to offend someone.

And then you have people like me that will never change the way I talk. I will go out of my way to use the "non-pc" words if you tell me not to.

Yeh, speech is there so we can clearly communicate what we want to portray to others.

Sticks and stones and all that...

These PC people are just complicating and confusing this. A cow is a cow, for fuck sake, not a bovine dairy producer.

Oh, hold on I just offended vegans by saying "dairy".

Oh, hold on I just offended cows by demeaning their use in life.

Oh, hold on I just offended dead people by using the word "life".

What a load of bollocks.

welcome to the 21st century. biggrin:

You want to know why we get this pc garbage like this? Its because of ths shit going on like this ---> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,88107,00.html

mad:

ok guys ok ok sshhhhhhh.....Lets just sit down and relax. This is non of our problems therefore ignorance is the best solution.

[quote="Stinger_Dude":289b8]ok guys ok ok sshhhhhhh.....Lets just sit down and relax. This is non of our problems therefore ignorance is the best solution.[/quote:289b8]

Absolutely not. If I just sit here and let these losers make one excuse after another for why nothing is their fault, I am just encouraging more of the same. I just cant do it, I have to speak my mind. And why's it always got to be my state?

[quote=pest]Absolutely not. If I just sit here and let these losers make one excuse after another for why nothing is their fault, I am just encouraging more of the same. I just cant do it, I have to speak my mind. And why's it always got to be my state?[/quote:5938a]

I agree. Has it ever occured to them those students may be stupid and/or not care about passing? When I took my graduation exam last year, I passed all parts of it the first time, and I noticed no honkey cracker cultural bias. Well there were Civil War questions on the history part so I guess that must have been what pissed them off.

Pest I hate to break it to you but Florida is Yankee/liberal land these days. Last year I was at my grandparents' house in Orlando and there's this trailer dealership that's owned by a Yankee. We were driving around the area because it was new and the Yankee came out and started yelling at my grandad because we were getting to close to his property. That pissed me off but I didn't care because my grandad is 6'4" and just ignored him. Sorry guys but most Yankees I know are assholes. There was this cool girl in my class, but that's about it.

Ignorance is the best solution..... biggrin: cool: oOo:

[quote="Chronic Diarrhea":1842e]
Pest I hate to break it to you but Florida is Yankee/liberal land these days. [/quote:1842e]

Amen to that. Flippin carpet baggers are ruining this place.