Jan 12 2009
Not the News of the World
I’m not entirely sure what’s newsworthy about a group of guys having nicknames for each other as The News of the World reports that Prince Harry called one of his fellow cadets a ‘paki’. Apart from the fact that the story is years old so hardly ‘news’ and The News of the World is hardly without blemish itself, this simply is not interesting.
In his position as a member of the Royal Family, so the mindless ones say, one should be more of aware of, and more sensitive to, these issues. True, but we don’t want to have to have every single word we utter subjected to a political correctness check before we get permitted to utter. And with that comes the possibility of – shock, horror – an error of judgment!
In a World increasing sullied by the hysterical rants of those pea-brained muppets in the Politically Correct Ministry the real tragedies of life struggle for exposure. So, unless Jock tells me he doesn’t like being called Jock then Jock he is; and I don’t really expect Bruce is going to stop calling me ‘pom’ but the PC brigade will have us believe this somehow prevents social integration. Crap. Different cultures don’t integrate because they don’t understand each other and probably don’t want to integrate but that doesn’t mean there can’t be mutual respect. After all, we will never understand the French love of snails nor will they understand why roast beef has to be in an oven for a ruinous period of time before we ‘ros-bifs’ deem it edible. This is a culture only a few miles away so what chance for one thousands of miles away?
Young men in groups, working together for long periods such as the military, tend to give one another nicknames. Sometimes these sound derogatory but rarely are. It’s been like this since before records began and the combined efforts of the PC brigade and the media are not going to stop it. Why? Because it’s none of their damn business; it’s not illegal and the people getting the nicknames don’t seem to be complaining. If you’re such a sensitive soul that being called Jock, Yank, Brit, Pom or even Paki is offensive I guess you’re not going to be much bloody use in Afghanistan where lavender water and soft toilet tissue could be in pretty short supply.
My sympathies to Prince Harry and I hope someone gets the bastard who nicked the video…
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Totally agree. I also like what Clint had to say about PC comments…!
Quoted from the Guardian
While Eastwood may have been a model of modesty at yesterday’s ceremony, he was rather more outspoken in an interview earlier in the week. Speaking to the German magazine Der Spiegel, Eastwood, currently seen in cinemas as an unreconstructed racist ex-soldier in Gran Torino, railed against what he sees as a culture of political correctness that has effectively outlawed jokes about people’s nationality or ethnicity. “People have lost their sense of humour,” he insisted. “In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. [But] you can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth, otherwise you will be insulted as a racist. I find it ridiculous.”
He added: “In those earlier days every friendly clique had a ‘Sam the Jew’ or ‘Jose the Mexican’ – but we didn’t think anything of it or have a racist thought.”
Another ‘scoop’ from the News of the World this weekend. Prince Harry’s pink nail varnish!
I can’t think of anything less interesting really.
Maybe the News of the World has disposed of the one remaining journalist it had left. That’ll be down to the recession then
So, where do they get their stories from? Must be club bouncers, office cleaners and taxi drivers…