I can not keep up with political correctness these days.

I worry about homelessness myself though I'm not really at risk. But it gets to me people say "unhoused" vs. "homeless" as an example. And what did that do to help any soul living on the street for whatever reason it could be. Nothing. They made the term unhoused all about them.
 

Remy said:
I worry about homelessness myself though I'm not really at risk. But it gets to me people say "unhoused" vs. "homeless" as an example. And what did that do to help any soul living on the street for whatever reason it could be. Nothing. They made the term unhoused all about them.
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I just heard Bill Maher say almost exactly the same thing. I agree with you both!
 
January said:
I find these threads bring out all sorts of unrelated complaints.

Many PC things I do agree with - some I do not.

I try to judge each situation on it merits rather than having a blanket for or agaisnt view.

In OP case, the names are changing to the indiginous names of the places for one football round - Doug Nicholls Round
The AFL’s annual round recognising and celebrating indigenous players and culture is named in honour of Sir Doug Nicholls.

Doesn't seem an issue to me.
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I totally agree. When I was still working about 15 yrs. ago the company I was at decided to change our annual Thaksgiving celebration by renaming it the "Fall Food Festival". I did then and still do think that was ridiculous.

However, being from the American south I can totally see how having statues of Confederate heros on the grounds of government buildings is insulting to a large portion of our population and agree they should be removed. For those who say that is erasing our history, then put them in a museum, not on government property.
 

hollydolly said:
I absolutely agree, same thing is happening here... and on another note.. people are continually taking offence at the slightest comment and making it into something it's not.

This week a Japanese female in the UK sued her boss in court.. for saying she liked Sushi...

The Japanese woman said that the Boss, who it was proved in court had always been nice to the woman... was being deliberately Racist by saying Sushi was her favourite food.

The court found in the Boss' favour, and threw out the case... but more and more these types of cases are winning..
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I read an article on that case. Sounded absolutely ridiculous; she was looking for a fight.
 
Nathan said:
I don't spend one single moment worrying about the change/evolution of speech and society, change is what time brings...
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I watched a video the other day of an old Russian woman. She looked like she was living in a shack in some remote place. Her face was weathered, her beauty gone. And she spoke so wonderfully, so simply.

Essentially - we are all individuals, and we must live with ourselves, in our own heads. Everything that happens around us can cause us to react. We are, essentially, people in a constant state of reacting to what we let in. The solution? Don't let it in. Don't let it in, don't react.

There's a story going on at the moment about a Netflix show, something to do with a reindeer (something about being stalked). I can't tell you how many videos I've seen posted on the subject. How many people are talking about it on Social Media. And you know - what the hell are people talking about? What does any of it matter? Why are people reacting to a TV show that may, or may not, be based on an actual event? Why do they think it's worth their time to comment on? It's a madness.

A wise woman. Sitting in her dilapidated house. And she knows the simple truth.
 
Pepper said:
Unenviable. Old, ugly, poor, lives in a shack and worst of all, in Russia. What's the simple truth that she knows?
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Are you saying contentment comes from beauty, riches, and living in a palace? I don't know everything about the woman, but she appears to accept life not upon what she dreams for, but what she has. Not about what should could be, but what she is.

The simple truth, I thought, was obvious. But to state it again, her truth is that what matters is the self, and that much of what affects us is simply reacting to things which, most likely, has no relevance to every day life. While people in the west worry about the reindeer, the way young people speak, the sexual orientation, and so on - the simple truth is that none of it matters to the individual, and that reacting is an option too many choose.
 
Pepper said:
Unenviable. Old, ugly, poor, lives in a shack and worst of all, in Russia. What's the simple truth that she knows?
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I'm not seeing your point - does the value of what someone says depend on their appearance, their age, their nationality and their living conditions?????
 
VaughanJB said:
I watched a video the other day of an old Russian woman. She looked like she was living in a shack in some remote place. Her face was weathered, her beauty gone. And she spoke so wonderfully, so simply.
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Where was this Vaughn? I'd like to hear what she has to say. I could use some simple truth right now.
 
Mobilman44 said:
I was born in May 1944, while my Dad was off in a tank in the Philippines. When someone says I'm a "boomer" I say "absolutely not, I'm a War baby and proud of it"!
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Yea me too! November 14, 1945 a mere 27 days so spare from not being a Boomer, for which I am eternally grateful to my parents! A discerning reader will note that this is exactly 9 months after Valentine's Day; those rascals!
 
When do people supposedly become "Boomers". Something I read on here sounded to me as if I was being classified as a "Boomer", a term that I, personally, was not acquainted with?

Born in 1933. A Boomer or some other classification?
 
Silent Generation, generation of people sandwiched between the “Greatest Generation,” which fought World War II, and the “baby boomers,” the generation born during the surge in births in the United States and other countries in the years immediately following the war. The range of birth years ascribed to the Silent Generation varies slightly according to the generational scheme employed, beginning with either 1925, 1928, or 1929 and ending with either 1942 or 1945. In the early 2020s the Silents were mostly in their 80s and 90s.
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Generation Jones is the social cohort worldwide of the latter half of the baby boomer generation to the first year of Generation X. The term Generation Jones was first coined by the American cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who identified the cohort as those born from 1954 to 1965 in the U.S.,[8] who were children during Watergate, the oil crisis, and stagflation rather than during the 1950s, but slightly before Gen X.
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The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness and the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving. Pontell suggests that Jonesers inherited an optimistic outlook as children in the 1960s, but were then confronted with a different reality as they entered the workforce during Reaganomics and the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy, which ushered in a long period of mass unemployment. Mortgage interest rates increased to above 12 percent in the mid-eighties, making it virtually impossible to buy a house on a single income. De-industrialization arrived in full force in the mid-late 1970s and 1980s; wages would be stagnant for decades, and 401Ks replaced pensions, leaving them with a certain abiding "jonesing" quality for the more prosperous days of the past.
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The earlier "boomers" were the anti-establishment, counter-culture, free-loving beneficiaries of post-war prosperity.
 
Della said:
Where was this Vaughn? I'd like to hear what she has to say. I could use some simple truth right now.
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I'll try and search for it, it was something I came across on Youtube. Her truth was, indeed, simple. Simple yet profound. We control what we react to, and we have the option to not react simply by ignoring the stimuli. Individually, we're all single vessels. What we decide to let in with cause a reaction, so it's best we gate-keep our intellect.

Pepper said:
No, I was just teasing @VaughanJB. I enjoy that sometimes.
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At least you do it for fun, and with a smile. Others on the other hand........ :D

dilettante said:
The earlier "boomers" were the anti-establishment, counter-culture, free-loving beneficiaries of post-war prosperity.
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It's worth remembering - none of today's concerns are new. These things swirl around. Suspicion of the government and media isn't new either.
 

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