howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
I think the piece is a bit "tongue in cheek" but worth scrolling down to the bit about alternative phrases.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/phrases-like-bring-home-bacon-13680469Guest 2846- Registered: 9 Sep 2018
- Posts: 18
#2
I think the commentators
tend to take it more realistically.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#3
A local councillor was thrown to the wolves by his friends and colleagues over the use of out dated terminology. In retrospect he could have said "descendantofslavesafricanamericanpillarofsociety in the woodpile" and everyone would have been happy.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
#4
We could update some of those politically incorrect jokes while we're at it, like:
What's better than a dead vegan?
Arte et Marte
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#5
The fear in all of this is that people are frightened to speak openly on many issues due to this political correct often nonsense at times
We have some pushing it all the time on DTC spending 30 minutes deciding what to call a a
Chairman
In end I said look, if we haven't anything better to discuss I will be off im here to promote a better not waste 30 mins on this
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