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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Dago on November 12, 2004, 06:45:30 PM
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Watching television this morning before going to work when I saw a guy being interviewed on the local NBC affiliate. He was representing Marshall Fields, a large somewhat upscale retail department store. They put on a unique and festive Xmas display each year. The local store is doing a version of Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs with a Christmas theme. BUT, the guy kept referring to the dwarfs as "the little men". What?
Yep, numerous times referred to "Snow White and the Little Men". Then he also explained the "little men" are to be a group of diversity, with a mix of white, black, asian and hispanic little men. Give me a freaking break, it's one thing to be sensitive to peoples race, gender, disabilties and handicaps, it's a whole nother thing to completely mess with a classic fairy tale.
Wait till I tell the boys in the militia about this! :D
dago
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Yep, sad.
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Why the half measures?
Just get it over with and re-title it to 'Snow Person and the Seven Little People'.
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You are a numerist as well as bigoted against height challenged persons. It must be named "Snow-person and some others"
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and the evil witch, must be renamed, differently aligned magic practicioner.
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Yeah, crap like this is getting out of hand.
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I'm going to make a formal challenge to the name of one of the little people; Dopey.
It's a slight against drug addicts everywhere.
Since Dopey was, for all intents and purposes, an idiot... and since he was the only one to be completely bald and beardless, I submit this petition to rename him "Drippy".
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Originally posted by Lizking
You are a numerist as well as bigoted against height challenged persons. It must be named "Snow-person and some others"
Inertist...
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Originally posted by Nash
Why the half measures?
I don't appreciate you using he term "half measures" in a tread like this.
:(
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keep up, the proper term is "vertically challenged"
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Originally posted by vorticon
and the evil witch, must be renamed, differently aligned magic practicioner.
And the character changed to a middle aged heterosexual white male, preferably a practioner of christianity...
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the little peoples names have been changed from sleepy, grumpy,sneezy, doppy to whitey, blacky,beaner, etc
i think a movie about a young white female virgin and seven little men living together sounds like a porn flim.
hi ho hi ho it's off to "work" we go
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Shoot next thing you know, you cant call it Snow White any more. It will be labeled as saying the title is racist against blacks.
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When Snow White was made, blacks and Jews weren't allowed to work at Disney.
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That is a bold statement, got any facts to back it up?
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What's red and has seven dents in it?
Snow White's cherry.
(Old, bad joke. But topical)
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Dunno about more PC but it would be more modern to rename it Little Boy Blue and the Seven Little Men. ;)
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ROFL Dago!
Yep, some children's books have been banned here - even the somewhat innocuous Enid Blyton books - because of references to "Golliwogs". Even the children's nursery rhyme, "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie" came in for some stick. To make it completely PC, it would have to be something like "four and twenty green birds of mixed racial origin, baked in a pie".
Ever hear Ian Dury's "Hit me with your rhythm stick"? One line is "Hit me with your rhythm stick, two fat ladies click-click-click". This had to be sanitised for the radio. The word "persons" was dubbed over "ladies".
What next....
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Dwarves are real ? What about goblins, gnomes and elves, should we still call them that? I don't want to offend any mythological creatures.
Poor man has been coerced into stupidity by his fear of lawsuit.
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Originally posted by Suave
Poor man has been coerced into stupidity by his fear of lawsuit.
I think it has more to do with the shrill screeching of "sensitive" liberals who would rather watermelon in thier own hat then risk offending someone. But, that is just my angry opinion.
dago
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you guys ever see the crow scene in Dumbo?
lazs
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quite a few years back I got roped into chaperoning a field trip for one of my daughters. on the way to our destination the kids start singing '99 bottles of beer'. this smug little teacher gets up and tells the kids that they have to sing "99 bottles of root-beer".
she was so full of herself and proud as she sat down, confident that she had somehow saved this bus load of kids from joining the Nazi party, ending up on skid-row, or whatever boogie man is waiting around the corner for those who don't play the PC game.
I've kinda got a look of nausea/stunned disbelief going on as she turns to me and says "people would be offended to hear kids this age singing about alcohol."
"you think? personally I'm much more offended by people who bastardize harmless traditions for no other reason than political correctness and a little rush of self-righteousness" was all I could really think of as a response.
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
I've kinda got a look of nausea/stunned disbelief going on as she turns to me and says "people would be offended to hear kids this age singing about alcohol."
"you think? personally I'm much more offended by people who bastardize harmless traditions for no other reason than political correctness and a little rush of self-righteousness" was all I could really think of as a response.
:rofl That must have made for an interesting trip! (good point though)
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the wheels on the bus song must be altered, as it is discrimatory to vehicles that move with treads or skids.
i suggest
"the locomotive friction points on the people moving vehicle make us move move move"
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I tend to use the opposite philosophy from PC-speak. I've found it a good rule of thumb that if what you have to say doesn't piss someone off, then it probably doesn't even need to be said.
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Originally posted by lazs2
you guys ever see the crow scene in Dumbo?
lazs
Ehhh... Didn't someone shot that little dumb fck ?
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Have you heard the amusing anecdot concerning the altitudinally challenged Native American person of the distaff gender from the far North who fell in love with the unipedinally handicapped, capitalistic exploiter of non-human beings of the equine persuasion?
It's a real hoot!
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No, please tell!
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Well, there was this pygmy Eskimo woman who fell in love with a one-legged jockey and...
...Oh...have you heard this one already?
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Nope. Any joke is a good one as long as it includes classic rock FM DJ's
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Originally posted by Dago
Wait till I tell the boys in the militia about this! :D
:lol
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staga... shot dumbo or the crows?
lazs
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Originally posted by Montezuma
When Snow White was made, blacks and Jews weren't allowed to work at Disney.
Snow white was'nt wrote by Disney, it's an older tale than the cartoons.