How to be 'Politically Correct'

[APA-168]

Originally Posted by Sakrison

When I worked as an ambulance crew chief years and years and years ago, on one particularly bad night at the Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club, I heard an ER doc refer to a dead person as "metabolically challenged."

I'm not sure where this quote comes from, but it seems to sum up the topic pretty well:

"Political Correctness is a doctrine--fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority,
and rabidly promoted by misguided educators and an unscrupulous mainstream media--which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible
to pick up a turd by its clean end."

No worries,
--David

Not sure about the liberal bit, but I agree with that quote in spirit.

[John Bowden]

Hey Aaron.............. when I did the tech support stuff my favorite response was........

There's a nut loose on the keyboard...................usually they don't get it and ask if they can tighten it themselves or do they need to send it to us.

One of my better ones was..........when asked about the slow response time the caller wanted to know if out signal was having trouble getting to him should he go outside and adjust the antenna...............Since this was a Mainframe network with "dumb terminals", I said...........sure........go up on the roof and turn it a quarter of a turn and call me back if it doesn't work.............never heard from him again............guess it worked, or he's still trying to find the antenna:p

Sometimes...............



john

[shrike]

One of the classics is 'short between the headset', although I know of a mechanic (AWA approx '95) who was up before a disciplinary hearing for just that entry in the logbook - until it was pointed out that the problem REALLY WAS an electrical short between the two halves of the headset

[Ashrunner]

When I was stationed at Kincheloe AFB in the U.P. of Michigan 1973, we had a home-grown terrorist-type plant a bomb under our propane storage tanks. At that time, I was a working fuels specialists. The bomb went off and luckily did little damage considering what the idiot who planted the bomb was hoping would happen.

Anyway, things got real serious after that and on our nightly security checks of our million gallon storage tanks (I worked swing shift at the time), we would have to log in "any suspicious looking characters lurking about," among other things. On my first trip to the storage area, I checked things out, talked a bit with the security police canine patrol walking the line around the tanks, and went to make my log entry.

Seeing the other entries above mine all saying the same thing, "All Secure - (time and last name)", I decided I would follow the security directive as it was written, and logged in with "No suspicious looking characters seen lurking about - (time and last name)."

The next morning I was called to our C.O.'s office and when I got there, asked why I made such an entry in the log book. I pulled out the printed sheet given to all of us which contained security procedures and what to do and listed a little ways down the page was a statement similar to "Report whether or not any suspicious looking characters were seen lurking about." It went on to say we were to describe such characters in as much detail as possible. The captain looked at me, then at the paper, then at me and without a hint emotion said, "Get out of my office."

That evening when I reported for duty, I was handed a revised security document. It included instructions for properly logging in security reports.

[CMDRTED]

Back when I smoked a cigar or two a week, I had to stop by home depot for something. I took the last few puffs of a great tasting Punch magnum and dropped it into the parking lot to be weathered and breakdown as all natural elements do. Some Birkinstock wearing Hetero challenged ? female, picked the damn thing up and cleared her throat and said "I think you driopped this". I gave her a real worried look and ssaid thankyou, oh and by the way I have Hepatits C which is transmitted thru saliva and such, have a great day. She threw the thing further than an NFL qback and went screaming into the store.
( I do not have hep c)

[John Bowden]

Now THATS funny............I don't care who you are!:D

[lee4752]

What about all of the people we can no longer call fat, brawny, hefty, big-boned, etc. thet're of course "gravitationally challenged."