Question:
In view that you are not suppossed to smack your children some idiot the other day said that putting your child in a pram or car seat with restraints(belts) could be called child abuse if not done for safety reasons.
I know one mum that put her toddler in the car for ten mins as a punishment for being naughty and also a paramedic was carpeted after a parent complained when he cuddled her child after an accident,Has common sense flown out the window.
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I will NEVER call a woman Ms..she is either Miss or Mrs.
I call a fireman a fireman,a firewoman a firewoman.
I hate the word 'chairperson.'
If enough of us rebel against it..it will soon peter out.
A reasonable smack teaches a child a lesson, he will learn not to be naughty.You can't reason with young children..spare the rod and spoil the child.
Remember..no-one is condoning the physical abuse of children.
common sense should tell anyone were the line is.
Kids in school should n't be shouted at in case it traumatises them..diddums.You must not hit a burglar who is threatening you in your own house..it violates HIS human rights.
Criminals are caught on camera..in the process of commiting a crime,but their faces must n't be shown on TV or on posters.Why??...you've got it ..it violates their human rights.Pretty soon it will be illegal to jail murderers as it will violate their human rights to be free.
WE MUST NOT LET THIS FARCE GET OUT OF HAND!!
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do-gooders and political correctness will be the downfall of this country..the place has gone mad with racism, terrorism etc, you cant say anything to anyone anymore without someone saying that someone might find it offensive, what happened to freedom of speech .... ..... good question by the way!!Does any one know how a trucker would obtain their DAC report? And...?
I am of the opinion that yes, PC has definitely gone too far - it almost verges on oppression sometimes - I certainly think that parents should be allowed to punish their children how they wish - as long as it is done with love - not malice.Common sense has definitely left the building. We are in a state of idiocy with all this 'political correctness'.
Things will get a lot worse before the PC crew realise what they are doing to us and we go back to the good old days.
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political corectness, health and safety call it what you will, we cannot use common sense anymore. this is what it boils down to.you can be attacked by a thug, but if you hurt him more than he hurts you, you are punished.
we can't use common sense, and common sense is not being applied to the carrying out of guidlines.
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Common sense has as you said flown out the window. Every time I look at the newspaper there is another story about something riduclous that has just been brought in as a law or a change in the way things are done e.g.:What to do when car spun out (fish-tail)?
Not allowed to play tag
Not allowed to play conckers
Not allowed to say black board (it is black, it is a board - so what)
WI not allowed to bake a cake for old peoples' home'
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The list is endless and it makes my blood boil. We are truely not allowed to use our common sense or allow our kids to grow up in a sensible way.
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I'm thinking about starting a rebellion. I'm going to beat kids and stop women from joining in.
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yes we have went to far and yes common sense is long gone. Hang on because it is only going to get worse.Which will give a more accurate speed reading sat nav or car speedo?
oh yes. madness. and its only going to get worse.Can I make it with this tread?
in a word yes,it's not just the pc brigade but the human rights lot too,
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this country is going to the dogs
cuddling a kid who is upset or distressed is human nature.
these people need to get a life!!
You could ONLY live in the UK and feel the need to bring this up.
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We are in the grip of lunatics.
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EVERYONE in their right minds know that cuddling children is utterly destructive and can leave mental scars for life, in much the same way as smacking them does.
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ALL children should be placed in air-conditioned glass bubbles and fed through tubes; leaving you free to cuddle the cat and stroke the dog.
In addition, when children get older, they should be encourgaed to run three miles in the morning and three miles in the evening; thus ensuring that they are safely 42 miles away from danger within the week.
Why don't school buses and public transit systems have seatbelts?
YES! here's my ramblings---What would our world be like if our Founding Fathers were in the correctness world of today?!
Paul Revere would be labled "cruel"to his horse! The Boston Tea Party would be a lawsuit from tea shippers and environmentalists! The Minutemen would be shot by the FBI and ATF! The Declaration would never have been signed because John Hancock didn't want to offend anyone that spoke "proper" english!
The state of Indiana wants it to be a felony to spank your child. And a $1000 fine to smoke in your car with a child present. Never mind that Indiana has child restraint laws for vehicles and you can always see kids jumping around in cars wherever you travel!
My 8 year old daughter is being denied a proper education in school because teachers are not allowed to correct kids that disrupt the classroom.
Imagine what things will be like when kids of preschool age of today are of adult age. Kinda scary huh?!
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Oh How I long for those far off days when a Pansy was a Flower and Women minded their own business...and I could order a suit in N- igger Brown material..Which is the best radar dectector and/or blocker?
Well thankfully at least in good ole U.S.A. things haven't good as bad as they seem to over there.Now I wouldn't call myself an all out conservative,but your right. Things seem a little tuppsey-turvy these days and I believe that's why the younger generation has a lesser sense of moral compass now than generations past.Now this is not nessercialy mean I endorse child abuse or sexual harrasement as such,but come on,everyone needs to learn that they're such things as limits or U can't get always get what U want.Isn't that one of the tenaments of being a normal mature adult I think!?Otherwise we seem to see society all falling apart.
Appertently, they don't teach manners or good-old fashion common sense at Harvard or Yale these days don't they!?
Yes it's gone too far. You can barely move without being told you're doing it wrong. I'm all for human rights but ridiculous civil liberties are eroding basic freedoms (which is actually contradictory if you think about it) and I have to wonder when we'll all get fed up and start fighting back?
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Yes, Yes, 1000 times YES! P.S. I live in the U.S. and it is even worse here! We (as a nation) have gone and done lost all our senses!Ok people, I need some help here....?
Yes, we have gone too far. Sooner rather than later common sense must prevail.What is better drive slowly or fast at an accident prone area?
I completely agree, the world has gone insane!Where will it stop? OMG black and white chess pieces! thats obviously racist, along with using black ink in exams! I mean have you actually met anyone who was offended by some of the terms that are politically incorrect today? All political correctness was made by government officals for who it didnt apply.
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A true story about this was when an escaped murderer evaded the police by hiding on a roof. Soon after 2 policemen came along beneth him, so what did the escapee do? I know! he chucked bricks at them, so the policemen, instead of arresting the man, they fetched him a KFC because they were afraid of endangering his human rights by forcing him to stay on the roof!
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Everything has gone to pot!
Really,how unsafe is teen driving?
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When you have to ask for coffee without milk and in schools English as a second language is on the curriculum,and step over some screaming kid in a supermarket whilst its mother is reasoning with it to behave you have to ask that question.The p.c. brigade need to get a grip on life and reality and give us all some peace.Common sense has flown out of the window. You can't do anything for fear of the health and safety police coming and getting you. I read that someone suggested cutting down palm trees in Torquay in case they were blown over in a storm! That is utter madness and they have been there for years. What, do we cut down all trees in public places or put a fence around them? It's not child abuse to put belts as restraints on children especially when they are in the pram during shopping, because little ones like to lean foward and try to take things off the shelf. We can't do anything now and I'd say a cake baked by the WI would be cleaner than some of our MRSA infected hospitals. Councils say they won't put up Christmas decorations for fear of them falling down, but I can't recall an accident being reported in any national paper. What about calling Christmas a Winter Festival for fear of offending other religions? This is a national holiday celebrated for years and the UK is a Christian country, so how dare they try to rename it! Bonfires being banned on Guy Fawkes' night, lessons on how to put things correctly on your desk and drug addicts saying it's wrong for them not to be allowed drugs in prison and being allowed to sue! It's utter madness nowadays and the government has created a society which is far too PC.
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Yes its all nonsense.Car crash by Short Hills Mall?
A Chairman is the person chairing a meeting - not a chair - that's just a piece of furniture.
Why do some seatbelts get twisted in that thing they go through if the manufacturer made them right?
What is wrong with using appropriate adjectives - black and white, these describe colour, they do not imply anything else.
I have even heard it said that you have coffee with milk - I always call this white coffee and coffee without milk - what used to be called black coffee.
The old english pudding spotted dick is now know as spotted richard - how silly can it get.
I worked for an organisation trying to recreate the past. We had female firemen, female signalmen and female drivers. We will not use terms like fireperson, signaller etc as these terms were not used during the period we seek to recreate.
What if a car has no seatbelts. Do you still put her in the car seat?
PC is just plain nonsense.
In trying not to offend anyone, we often cause greater offence.
I think definately!! Soon its gonna get so out of control, people wont be able to speak without being politically incorrect!!
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J9 spot on ! only 'will be the downfall of this country' should read 'Is the downfall of this country' I depair at what is happening to our once great country. I think its beyond repair, due to the Lily Livered politicians we elect, emmigrating soon, you can all get on with it ! ByeI believe we have let PC go too far, but we have only ourselves to blame. We elect the politicians that allow these rules to be implemented and become law. What we need is, a "Common Sense" party. which will not have any of our current bunch of vote seekers.
We need REAL leaders, who are not afraid of saying what needs to be said and not cowards that will dress their words in "Political Correctness." Say it as is; then there is no doubt left in the meaning.
What this current government have introduced, is (to use that awfull expression) spin. That way, the cowards can put what ever meaning they wish. They make my brain hurt.
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Yeah it's absolutely ridiculous.But why let it affect you ?
Use your best moral judgement to be the best person you can.
Though it has nothing to do with Political Correctness, in my view ill treatment of children is indefensible. That doesn't mean you shouldn't smack them or punish them in other ways - properly delivered these things are not ill treatment. A smack or being sent to bed early etc. etc. are quite in order but fastening a child in a car is definitely unsafe and foolish.
To answer your question - yes PC has gone much too far and though I am not anti any of them, it is also heavily biased in favour of ethnic minorities, imigrants, black people, sexual deviants, homosexuals etc.
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Our attitude to Health and Safety is another matter over which we have gone crazy. Interestingly it is rarely Health and Safety Regulations that stops or restricts the stupid things we hear of. The regulations mostly just advise reasonable and appropriate caution and protection - either by physical barriers or education. The problems are caused by idiotic interpretation of the regulations and fear of being sued by this litigeous society!
Common sense died when PC was born. Correctness was shoved down its throat until it croaked.
The only way to resurrect it would be a planned cull of government spindoctors and promoters of idiotic legislation.
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Yes PC has gone too far, I mean you can't hit your own kids for being naughty, I had the slipper when I was young did me no harm. No winder kids are worse today. What's next you can't shout at them!!What in your opinion is the best way to get a tailgater off your behind?
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