For the latest in PC fashion! (Anyone here with a Master’s Degree?)

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28 October 2020 at 00:32 #503811
Anonymous
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28 October 2020 at 00:32 #36134
Anonymous
28 October 2020 at 01:23 #503813
Steviegtr
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Oh my god. Sir i think my small piston cylinder that operates my clutch is leaking. What!!!!!!!.

steve.
28 October 2020 at 06:59 #503818
Ady1
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What's known as "first world problems"
28 October 2020 at 08:33 #503829
Farmboy
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Don't think they had degrees, but many of my ancestors were ~~Master~~ Primary Carpenters
28 October 2020 at 09:14 #503834
Peter G. Shaw
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This might not go down too well with some people, but I'm absolutely fed up of people trying to change the way we speak and think. I resent it. And above all, the actual effect on me is the exact opposite of what is going on.

Peter G. Shaw
28 October 2020 at 09:16 #503837
Michael Gilligan
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Very well-intentioned, I’m sure …

But I feel obliged to mention that the Master/Slave relationship is not intrinsically Racist

… There are many examples of same race enslavement.

Perhaps Firefox needs to improve its vocabulary before trying to right the wrongs of the world.

MichaelG.
28 October 2020 at 09:30 #503840
John Baguley
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What a load of rubbish! Totally agree with Peter.

John
28 October 2020 at 09:30 #503841
Mick B1
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I do wonder if they're expecting to be taken completely seriously.
28 October 2020 at 09:53 #503844
Baz
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Totally agree with Peter. What about Master and Slave chucks, are they now supposed to be called primary and secondary chucks? The worlds going crazy!
28 October 2020 at 10:01 #503847
Circlip
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Wot is firefox????

Regards Ian.
28 October 2020 at 10:27 #503850
Douglas Johnston
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Just because we have used certain terms all our lives and don't think about them as being linked to things like slavery, perhaps we should move away from some of the old terms which clearly cause offence to others.

Doug
28 October 2020 at 10:29 #503852
Peter Sansom
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Master an slave is commonly used in IT. Glad I am getting closer to retirement. Yes I have a Masters Degree.

Peter
28 October 2020 at 10:45 #503858
blowlamp
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Does anyone know the names of the different races?

Martin.
28 October 2020 at 10:58 #503861
Steve Neighbour
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I'm a Electrical Engineer (semi retired) and there are many references to the two words mentioned which we now appear to not be able to mention !!!

Two transfomers in a electricity grid station were always reffered to as 'M and S' pretty much anything that has a primary and secondary was always called M and S

The world really has gone mad

(Now, I must pop out and feed my rainbow sheep with my gender neutral grandchildren)

Steve
28 October 2020 at 11:03 #503863
mechman48
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What a load of b******s… just another platform being PC!. The PC brigade should get out & find a proper job.Too much of it.

George.
28 October 2020 at 11:16 #503869
Hopper
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Seems like a primary example of Master baiting to me.
28 October 2020 at 11:23 #503871
blowlamp
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If it gathers pace then Jaeger-LeCoultre will need to change their range.
28 October 2020 at 11:48 #503884
Brian Sweeting 2
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Posted by blowlamp on 28/10/2020 11:23:17:

If it gathers pace then Jaeger-LeCoultre will need to change their range.

I was a little confused with their description of the glass. Is 'outwardly curving' be the new 'convex'?
28 October 2020 at 14:46 #503904
Rik Shaw
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VIZ was very good at lampooning this sort of posturing "wokeness" scrawled in the OP's link. Millie Tant would have been proud of this bunch of prats.

Rik

Edited By Rik Shaw on 28/10/2020 14:54:42
28 October 2020 at 15:16 #503908
Tony Pratt 1
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Perhaps we should move away from the culture of being offended by anything & everything.

Tony
28 October 2020 at 15:44 #503910
Paul L
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Posted by Tony Pratt 1 on 28/10/2020 15:16:15:

Perhaps we should move away from the culture of being offended by anything & everything.

Tony

Its the culture of being 'offended on someone else's behalf' most of the time.
28 October 2020 at 16:23 #503912
KWIL
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Do I now have to refer to a flat digging implement as opposed to a Spade?
28 October 2020 at 16:57 #503924
Mick B1
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I always hope that if I ignore it long enough it'll go away.

Giving it the attention it's receiving here only encourages it.
28 October 2020 at 17:19 #503933
pgk pgk
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Posted by KWIL on 28/10/2020 16:23:14:

Do I now have to refer to a flat digging implement as opposed to a Spade?

You have to keep gardening stuff out of it or you can't riddle or hoe or it goes against the grain to sow oats let alone turning the sod over or bedding anything.. for fork's sake's. I had a nice pear, a couple of plums and picked my melons this year…

pgk
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