UK Madness strikes again

[STEED]

OH COME ON!!!

The UK's most popular tissue brand, Kleenex Mansize, has been forced to clean up its image after consumers complained its name was sexist.

After more than sixty years Kleenex is phasing out the Mansize tissues name, deciding instead to call the disposable handkerchiefs "Extra Large" tissues.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/17/kleenex-ditch-mansize-tissues-gender-inequality-complaints/

What is the matter with these ding dongs? The world is falling apart and these fools think this is important! :doh:

[Sean C]

I suggest you crimestop your oldthink before thinkpol arrives and takes you to the joycamp.


Personally, this new name gives me a doubleplusgood bellyfeel. :up:

[Platapus]

First World Problems.

If this decision is what makes you upset about the world, you live a blessed life.

As for me, I don't think this issue would crack the top 10,000 on my give-a-crapometer

[vienna]

This is an important issue! You might think it trivial, but it snot!... :03:















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[Skybird]

What is the matter with these ding dongs? The world is falling apart and these fools think this is important! :doh:
But do you want to say you favour discrimination of women...? I'm shocked. This I have not thought of you.


Why boasting? I use to just do it without making words and a show about it. :D

[Skybird]

Unfortunately stupid stuff like this nowadays gets pushed to really threatening ammounts of power to crack down on society.



My most loved example still is what I already told in the past: that the new German IFV Puma, got delayed by a long time because their might be an emission by the fuel system for the engine into the cabin that might pose a risk to the amniotic fluid of pregnant soldieresses. At the same time the cannon needs a crook to fire straight, the turret had not enough space left for a decent medium machine gun and uses a small one only, and the cabin is limited to passengers with a height below 1,84m, for they messed up the planning of the design on all these three things. -Even Monthy Python could not tell a better joke. Needless to say, the Puma is the most expensve IFV in the world. Which might be the reason why they still have not a single customer buying it beside the German Bundeswehr, although they desperately seek customers.



Girls power! Pussy riot wins the war! :yeah:

[Reece]

OH COME ON!!!
What is the matter with these ding dongs? The world is falling apart and these fools think this is important! :doh:

You're not wrong STEED, totally stupid, this is the same as banning the term "Man hole" (ceiling access) from being used!!:doh:

This is an important issue! You might think it trivial, but it snot!... :03:<O>
:haha: :up:

[STEED]

I dipped into comment sections on news sites and even women find the whole thing stupid and how can this be sexiest. One comment made me think yea that be on the next list, white goods are raciest and so are white tissues. :03:

[Buddahaid]

If that's the case then I think feminine napkins are sexist and need to be relabeled too.

[Onkel Neal]

This is an important issue! You might think it trivial, but it snot!... :03:



:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

[Buddahaid]

But just think, there can no longer be man flu, or man-sized messes, etc.

[Jimbuna]

I dipped into comment sections on news sites and even women find the whole thing stupid and how can this be sexiest. One comment made me think yea that be on the next list, white goods are raciest and so are white tissues. :03:

Or sexist even.

[ExFishermanBob]

I was taught that:-


'man(n)' means 'adult human'
wo-man is adult female (somtimes wif-man)
were-man is adult male: not often used, now seen mostly in were-wolf (man-wolf) and in Scots 'fir' or 'fier'* (and Gaidhlg fear / fir) and 'vir' in a number of languages. You can also have wæpenmann (weapon-man) meaning male (and an innuenedo on weapon)



And thus 'man-size' = 'adult-human-sized' and manhole, chairman and so on are perfectly descriptive and not in the least sexist.


However, I am old, and usage changes... I have a horse in this race, though, as due to my surname, I am in danger of becoming Mr Personperson.





* Burns', Auld Lang Syne, 'And there's a hand, my trusty fiere!'

[Platapus]

If that's the case then I think feminine napkins are sexist and need to be relabeled too.

I thought that feminine napkins were what a woman used after oral sex

(rimshot)

[nikimcbee]

You're not wrong STEED, totally stupid, this is the same as banning the term "Man hole" (ceiling access) from being used!!:doh:


:haha: :up:


Zoinks, I'm afraid to look that term up in a Cali-fornia dictionary. I live on the West Coast, so you may need to explain what you mean.:o

[nikimcbee]

I was taught that:-


'man(n)' means 'adult human'
wo-man is adult female (somtimes wif-man)
were-man is adult male: not often used, now seen mostly in were-wolf (man-wolf) and in Scots 'fir' or 'fier'* (and Gaidhlg fear / fir) and 'vir' in a number of languages. You can also have wæpenmann (weapon-man) meaning male (and an innuenedo on weapon)



And thus 'man-size' = 'adult-human-sized' and manhole, chairman and so on are perfectly descriptive and not in the least sexist.


However, I am old, and usage changes... I have a horse in this race, though, as due to my surname, I am in danger of becoming Mr Personperson.





* Burns', Auld Lang Syne, 'And there's a hand, my trusty fiere!'


I live too close to Portland(ia), Ore-gone. You may need to clarify this for the 45 different gender types they have here. Not sure how this all "trans"-lates to British PCness? Queen Victoria must be spinning in her grave? (not a sexual term)


East end boys, West end girls? What does that even mean? Is it like a transgeordie or a scousersexual? Christ, how do I even fit a Steed joke in here? ...then there's the convicts, from convict island? What sort of debauchery....nevermind.




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[ExFishermanBob]

Well... if they were listed by number, one could go for NN-man (e.g. 33-man)


...or maybe not!
:o

[em2nought]

Let them eat...
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmycouponexpert.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F03%2Fmanwich-and-buns.png&f=1:D:D:D

[STEED]

King & Queen sized beds could be next, royalism? :haha:

[ExFishermanBob]

Manwich. Deary me - is that a real product? (I'm loth to google for it).

[Platapus]

it is and it is nasty. There is a real "chemical" taste to it. It's not that difficult to make "sloppy joes" as they are also called, from scratch.

[vienna]

I remember Manwich from the cafeteria in one of the high schools I attended; back then, the days of the week often dictated the fare, such as "Taco Tuesday", "Fish Stick Fridays", etc. One of the schools had Manwich Sloppy Joes on the same day every week and you could see the very large, institutional pack cans of Manwich sauce if you looked back into the kitchen area...


...and, yes, Manwich is truly vile; but, then again, the usual high school fare was, in general, vile back then in the days before good nutrition...












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[ExFishermanBob]

It's funny - some processed cheap foods were actually nice: I remember the scrambled eggs we used to get, made from powdered eggs. Instead of actually being scrambled, it was a sheet of yellow. Bloody marvellous. Plus glow-in-the-dark school curry. It was quite a shock when I finally had a real 'curry' (Masala or whatever).


And fish-finger sandwiches... mmm. Nowadays I am medically obliged to eat the vegan ones, which are just as 'dirty' (you wouldn't know they weren't real ones... that probably tells you more about what goes into cheap fish-fingers than you would wish to know).


I've just remembered - we used to have a dinner lady with only 5 fingers across two hands: used to scare the hell out of us when she came around and told you to eat up your sausages. :arrgh!:


And don't forget:
https://c7.alamy.com/comp/C394Y9/can-of-hunger-breaks-the-full-monty-C394Y9.jpg

[Aktungbby]

SO I CARRY HANDCUFFS FOR A LIVING; I SUPPOSE IF I SLIPPED THE BRACELETS ON A THREE HUNDRED POUND VICIOUS BLACK LADY WITH FOUR INCH ORANGE FINGER NAILS- NOT ON HER 'HAPPY PILLS' IN A SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE (I'VE DONE THAT...AFTER SHE LAID OPEN MY BLACK PARTNER'S CHEEK WITH A SWIPE OF HER PAW), I CAN'T SAY ....I USED 'MANACLES':O:?

[ExFishermanBob]

heh. Personacles. Do you work in Personhatton?

[Bleiente]

Well - after the "Brexit" there is nothing left.
We destroyed the British Empire. :O:

So we Germans have won World War I. :03:

:yeah:

[Jimbuna]

https://i.imgur.com/nwmdUyj.jpg

[vienna]

SO I CARRY HANDCUFFS FOR A LIVING; I SUPPOSE IF I SLIPPED THE BRACELETS ON A THREE HUNDRED POUND VICIOUS BLACK LADY WITH FOUR INCH ORANGE FINGER NAILS- NOT ON HER 'HAPPY PILLS' IN A SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE (I'VE DONE THAT...AFTER SHE LAID OPEN MY BLACK PARTNER'S CHEEK WITH A SWIPE OF HER PAW), I CAN'T SAY ....I USED 'MANACLES':O:?


Wanna get into a bit of fight with your lady? Mention to her that the Spanish word for handcuffs, esposas, is the same word they use for wife...














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