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Political correctness & other nonsensical rubbish
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Panthera tigris FC said:
Thanks Panthera.
Just another example of a lefty social-engineering group speaking on behalf of minority groups, thinking they are "protecting" them, when if you went and asked Islamic people, Asians, and builders, the majority would think this kids story is good fun and would have no problem with it.
As I've said before....these groups are a blight on our society and the thing that is worrying is that the majority of people who would be groaning at this petty and pedantic garbage are likely to condemn the Islams, Asians, and builders thinking they are behind this fiasco, when I'm tipping you will find that they have had no say and have made no complaints about this whatsoever.
Its a joke, a farce, and a disgrace.
Political correctness gone mad?
No...just lunacy of the highest order.
They also warned that the story might "alienate parts of the workforce (building trade)".
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That story has got to be a wind up.
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That story has got to be a wind up.
It's minority groups like straw and stick house builders, that are sending the world as we know it to ruin.
Why can't we all be brickies?
:cutelaugh :rofl
Why can't we all be brickies?
:cutelaugh :rofl
It annoyed me during the A-league season, it annoyed me during the Socceroos/Qatar game, and now it is annoying me when at the cricket....but what is all this soft, political correct garbage in not showing incidents on the big screen in case they upset some of the crowd?
If it happened.....show it....and if the ump got it wrong, then bad luck....but to censor replays because it might allow a few people in the crowd to boo the umpire of stand up and yell a few naughty words, is wrong.
Shoe what happened and let us judge!
If it happened.....show it....and if the ump got it wrong, then bad luck....but to censor replays because it might allow a few people in the crowd to boo the umpire of stand up and yell a few naughty words, is wrong.
Shoe what happened and let us judge!
Six Pack said:
No it hasn't, Sixpack.
You watch this rubbish creep into the AFL now....we'll have censored replays at Tiger games....was it a goal or not? did the ball cross the line or not? we won't know until we go home and watch the replay ourselves.
Six Pack said:
I've sat at both the Dome, MCG, and other places and watch replays of incidents on the big screen for years.
I've even watched games on TV at home and heard the crowd "boo" and the commentator say that they have just shown a replay ont he big screen and that is whyt he crowd are going beserk.
I think 6pac may be right, I have been frustrateted for years at the lack of replays available live, especially at the 'G. And it is not just controversial incidents, even at the footy the replay facilities are pathetic with replays showing a guy slotting the set shot through from 15 metres rather than the brilliant lead up play.
Is this world going SOFT? ???
No Valentine's roses for Stockholm school children
Published: 14 Feb 08 13:46 CET
A Swedish primary and middle school said Thursday it had decided to no longer sell roses to students on Valentine's Day to protect the feelings of sweetheart-less students."We decided to stop selling roses ... because some students received dozens and others received none," the vice-principal of Gärdes school in Stockholm, Lars Wikander, told AFP.
He said pupils who received no roses could feel excluded and suffer "from getting no attention at all throughout this special day."
"In the best of worlds, each student would receive a rose on Valentine's Day," Wikander said.
According to a study published on the website of the Swedish organization Friends, which combats bullying in schools, more than two-thirds of youngsters feel left out on Valentine's Day.
"Valentine's Day is a very positive day ... but there is also the flip side of the coin, which is that many youngsters feel bad," said Friends spokesman Magnus Jägerskog, adding that the day should be used to discuss friendship and how to treat loved ones.
The survey, which questioned 1,027 youths aged 14 to 24, was conducted by the Cint institute during the second week of February
http://www.thelocal.se/9985/20080214/
No Valentine's roses for Stockholm school children
Published: 14 Feb 08 13:46 CET
A Swedish primary and middle school said Thursday it had decided to no longer sell roses to students on Valentine's Day to protect the feelings of sweetheart-less students."We decided to stop selling roses ... because some students received dozens and others received none," the vice-principal of Gärdes school in Stockholm, Lars Wikander, told AFP.
He said pupils who received no roses could feel excluded and suffer "from getting no attention at all throughout this special day."
"In the best of worlds, each student would receive a rose on Valentine's Day," Wikander said.
According to a study published on the website of the Swedish organization Friends, which combats bullying in schools, more than two-thirds of youngsters feel left out on Valentine's Day.
"Valentine's Day is a very positive day ... but there is also the flip side of the coin, which is that many youngsters feel bad," said Friends spokesman Magnus Jägerskog, adding that the day should be used to discuss friendship and how to treat loved ones.
The survey, which questioned 1,027 youths aged 14 to 24, was conducted by the Cint institute during the second week of February
http://www.thelocal.se/9985/20080214/
Personally I'd ban Valentine's Day, not because it alientates the Pig Ugly amongst us but because it's a concept based on little more than an idea from a greeting card company's marketing department.
What's romantic about a guy sending flowers because he's scared he'll lose his nads if he doesn't?
What's romantic about a guy sending flowers because he's scared he'll lose his nads if he doesn't?
Is the AFL serious?
Surely whether you play AFL or not doesn't mean all of a sudden your dignity and morals are erased....and to me, players using the 'stresses of playing AFL' to commit any type of abuse on women is plain crap.
For the AFL to make such a DVD to me is feeding this crap.
Players don't need to be given educational DVDs about situations that 99.9% of the population already know.
Don't bed your mate's girl, says AFL
February 21, 2008
SHOULD you pretend to be your best mate so you can have sex with his girlfriend?
The answer might be self-evident but the AFL believes its players need to be instructed on how to handle this and other scenarios, and is producing an interactive DVD designed to improve player attitudes to women.
In one scenario, a player is called by his mate's girlfriend into her bedroom, as she thinks the player is her boyfriend. The player is asked: "Do you: (a) go and hop into bed and pretend to be him or (b) do you walk away?"
In another example, a player is with a girl who has had too much to drink. "Do you: (a) get her some water, (b) call her a taxi or (c) take her back to your place for sex?"
In a third scenario, the player's mate and his girlfriend are having sex. "You can see them. Do you: (a) watch or (b) not watch?"
While refusing to release the text of the questions, the AFL yesterday confirmed draft questions and scenarios had been scripted.
The DVD - involving seven actors, 15 crew, and four days of shooting at the MCG and a private house - is aimed at educating players and increasing their respect for women.
AFL communications manager Patrick Keane said the DVD was part of the league's respect and responsibility program, introduced three years ago.
"The program deals with a number of things including attitudes to women, racial vilification, illicit drugs and responsible gambling," he said.
Collingwood president Eddie McGuire supported the DVD.
"The point the AFL is trying to make is that young men come into football and they go from the year before not being able to get a date for the social to suddenly half the nightclubs throwing themselves at them," Mr McGuire said. "They go from being very ordinary young boys living in the suburbs to be in extraordinary situations.
"I guess what the AFL is trying to do is just put these extraordinary situations to them so that they have actually been trained, that this is a response."
The program's co-ordinator, Melanie Heenan, for 15 years an expert in dealing with sexual assault, said the DVD was built around world's best practice.
"The scenarios that we've been depicting in this multimedia package depict situations that young people tell us more broadly in the community are difficult situations for them to negotiate," Dr Heenan told Melbourne radio.
"We do have large numbers of young people saying to us that they are engaging in sexual activity in situations where they have been drinking heavily or they've been taking other kinds of substances and they're making poor decisions.
"The idea is that we can build role-plays or scenarios that participants can engage in and that prompts their confident decision-making in situations that can be quite complex."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23249167-601,00.html
Surely whether you play AFL or not doesn't mean all of a sudden your dignity and morals are erased....and to me, players using the 'stresses of playing AFL' to commit any type of abuse on women is plain crap.
For the AFL to make such a DVD to me is feeding this crap.
Players don't need to be given educational DVDs about situations that 99.9% of the population already know.
Don't bed your mate's girl, says AFL
February 21, 2008
SHOULD you pretend to be your best mate so you can have sex with his girlfriend?
The answer might be self-evident but the AFL believes its players need to be instructed on how to handle this and other scenarios, and is producing an interactive DVD designed to improve player attitudes to women.
In one scenario, a player is called by his mate's girlfriend into her bedroom, as she thinks the player is her boyfriend. The player is asked: "Do you: (a) go and hop into bed and pretend to be him or (b) do you walk away?"
In another example, a player is with a girl who has had too much to drink. "Do you: (a) get her some water, (b) call her a taxi or (c) take her back to your place for sex?"
In a third scenario, the player's mate and his girlfriend are having sex. "You can see them. Do you: (a) watch or (b) not watch?"
While refusing to release the text of the questions, the AFL yesterday confirmed draft questions and scenarios had been scripted.
The DVD - involving seven actors, 15 crew, and four days of shooting at the MCG and a private house - is aimed at educating players and increasing their respect for women.
AFL communications manager Patrick Keane said the DVD was part of the league's respect and responsibility program, introduced three years ago.
"The program deals with a number of things including attitudes to women, racial vilification, illicit drugs and responsible gambling," he said.
Collingwood president Eddie McGuire supported the DVD.
"The point the AFL is trying to make is that young men come into football and they go from the year before not being able to get a date for the social to suddenly half the nightclubs throwing themselves at them," Mr McGuire said. "They go from being very ordinary young boys living in the suburbs to be in extraordinary situations.
"I guess what the AFL is trying to do is just put these extraordinary situations to them so that they have actually been trained, that this is a response."
The program's co-ordinator, Melanie Heenan, for 15 years an expert in dealing with sexual assault, said the DVD was built around world's best practice.
"The scenarios that we've been depicting in this multimedia package depict situations that young people tell us more broadly in the community are difficult situations for them to negotiate," Dr Heenan told Melbourne radio.
"We do have large numbers of young people saying to us that they are engaging in sexual activity in situations where they have been drinking heavily or they've been taking other kinds of substances and they're making poor decisions.
"The idea is that we can build role-plays or scenarios that participants can engage in and that prompts their confident decision-making in situations that can be quite complex."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23249167-601,00.html
Sad to say guys.....but most of the examples they used have had close similarities to real life events involving AFL and NRL players.
As Eddie said on radio this week, for this stuff we need to stop thinking "what does the average guy believe" but almost "what does the lowest common denominator believe". Remember AFL attracts all sorts, look at two of the all time greats who have been getting court time recently.
As Eddie said on radio this week, for this stuff we need to stop thinking "what does the average guy believe" but almost "what does the lowest common denominator believe". Remember AFL attracts all sorts, look at two of the all time greats who have been getting court time recently.
jb03 said:
evo said:
I guess we're only getting a glimpse of the stuff ATM. I think the ethical questions are well worth discussion.
That certain worthy geniuses are able to provide us with World Best Practice answers doesn't surprise me. Vlad is, after all, such a prodigy.
I very much look forward to their guidance.
