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Christ Almighty. It seems like Britain sinks more into moonbattery every day. Stories like this make me think that Rachel is right:
A council has banned the term “brainstorming” and replaced it with “thought showers”.
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in Kent was accused of taking political correctness to extremes after instructing staff to make the change.The move came as council chiefs feared the word brainstorming might offend mentally ill people and those with epilepsy.
The buzz term is often used by executives to generate ideas among their staff.
But memos have been sent to staff asking them not to use it and some have been given training which encouraged them to use the alternative of thought showers.
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A spokesman for Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in Kent said: “We take diversity awareness very seriously.
“The majority of staff have taken part in training and been asked to use the term thought showers.”
There’s not a lot of commentary I can add to this that you aren’t already thinking. I just want to know who the blind-deaf retard is who thought that “brainstorming” would offend someone. And if it does, then so what?! Get the hell over it! I am SO tired of stupid oversensitive people hyperventilating over the most ridiculous, asinine things. If you have an issue, here’s a tissue (a little Austin Powers for ya’). Does anyone seriously believe that this kind of ridiculous bullshit actually achieves anything? I just really have to wonder if the idiots pushing this crap are actually buying their own brand, because I can’t believe that they actually do.
… and there shall be no more “thinking outside the box” lest we offend the agoraphobics.
Rob Farrington says: Maybe it’s a good thing that we have strict gun control over here in the UK, because I for one am about to go totally insane when it comes to the PC loons who run this country, and every story like this sends me a little bit more over the edge.
Maybe I could use a chainsaw instead. Surely they can’t have banned those yet, because we’re currently suffering from An Epidemic Of Evil Trees:
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article4176060.ece
Mat says: Unfortunately, it’s coming to an America near you…
The real problem is that there are enough people in the halls of power who want to make this country just like Europe. Hoo boy, I can hardly wait…
Rob Farrington says: I have asthma, so I DEMAND that all books about posh British children in the first half of the 20th century, where they say things like “what a jolly wheeze” be withdrawn and burnt.
Wheezing is never “jolly” at all. If Enid Blyton had ever been respiratorially-challenged like I am, she would never have published such insensitive claptrap.
ibendtin says: let’s have a Thought Showering event on how to make people use the term instead of Brainstorming.
It just does not resonate.
Mallard T. Drake says: Sounds like someone had a “thought tinkle” to even give this issue more than 5 seconds consideration. Can we say that their faucet wasn’t turned on all the way?
“It seems like Britain sinks more into moonbattery every day.”
Very, very true. What an utter lack of priorities. The multi-cult is ruining a great country.
~ Sisyphus, http://www.tsfiles.wordpress.com
R Johnson says: I think the chaps at Turds-Down-the-Well just wanted someone to notice them. Nothing has happened there since William Wallace threw all the local attorneys into the hole in 1294.
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