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Stoner - Member

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/wales/8243648.stm

The traditional suet pudding Spotted Dick has been renamed "Spotted Richard" at a council canteen - because customers keep making jokes.

The new name for the dessert, with another alternative Sultana Sponge, has appeared on the menu at Flintshire Council headquarters in Mold.

The council said catering staff made the decision after "immature comments" and it was not a policy decision.

But one councillor described the move as "political correctness gone mad".

Where would we be without a few childish sniggers? Leg or breast? A bit of stuffing? Packing fudge?

'sgone mad I tell yah!

Posted 2 years ago #
donald - Member

Ban this filth

Posted 2 years ago #
wombat - Member

I assume they won't be be selling plums, melons, pears, cream horns, filled baps, meatballs or any sort of bun or muffin then.

Posted 2 years ago #
CaptainFlashheart - Member

How would you like your rump?

Posted 2 years ago #
grynch - Member

Flintshire Council headquarters in Mold.

I am offended by the name of the place... I think they should change it.

Posted 2 years ago #
mrmichaelwright - Member

mrsMW did some research in a sweet factory for her PhD and it actually had a fudge packing department, it had a sign on the door and everything

Posted 2 years ago #
robdob - Member

I love a good cream horn myself.

I suppose in that particular establishment there has been sustained personal jokes aimed at staff then it might be a good idea. It might not be nice if you spend your time serving people who keep making sexual comments to you based on what you're serving them. In this case it may have been a sensible thing to do, who knows?

Posted 2 years ago #
roddersrambler - Member

Blame Socailism.

Posted 2 years ago #
roper - Member

What will they call Cock flavoured soup?

Posted 2 years ago #
RaveyDavey - Member

Flintshire Council headquarters in Mold.

You should try living there

Posted 2 years ago #
jova54 - Member

They'll be banning the meat and two veg next!

Posted 2 years ago #
grumm - Member

How is it political correctness then?

Posted 2 years ago #
Harry_the_Spider - Member

There used to be a shop in St. Ives called "The Fudge Box"

Also...

Gruntle Snibbitt Yakyak etc

Posted 2 years ago #
CaptJon - Member

One incident at one canteen at one council is newsworthy!?

Posted 2 years ago #
roper - Member

Vagina Cradock will be turning in her grave.

Posted 2 years ago #
grynch - Member

RaveyDavey - Member

Flintshire Council headquarters in Mold.

You should try living there

I live in a village called Mies "pronounced ME".. this causes great fun for my family in the states

where do you live
me
no really
yes me

sorry.

Posted 2 years ago #
roddersrambler - Member

One incident at one canteen at one council is newsworthy!?

More socialism

Posted 2 years ago #
Bunnyhop - Member

Funniest thread for ages.

Posted 2 years ago #
wombat - Member

Coq au Vin anybody?

Posted 2 years ago #
grievoustim - Member

stories like this are usually revealed to be either not true or exagerated

shame tho cos it iz funny

Posted 2 years ago #
CaptainFlashheart - Member

Anyone having the Creme of Sum yung gai?

Posted 2 years ago #
CaptainFlashheart - Member

Double post edit.

Posted 2 years ago #
mr potatohead - Member

what a bunch of dicks

Posted 2 years ago #
birky - Member

Two sticky buns and a cream horn please ...

Posted 2 years ago #
Mattie_H - Member

Like Grumm said: what does this have to do with political correctness? It's a lot of things, but it it's got sweet FA to do with politics or correctness

Posted 2 years ago #
aP - Member

Is this revisionist right wing journalists applying Marxist techniques to their writing?

Posted 2 years ago #
TandemJeremy - Member

I have told you lot before FFS

Its " political correctness living with mental health issues"

I shall report you to a safety nazi ( or is that a different thread?)

Posted 2 years ago #
Mattie_H - Member

Surely it's people using cliches like 'political correctness gone mad' as a substitute for independent and / or critical thought?

Posted 2 years ago #
tankslapper - Member

Our local Milkman is 'Dick the Milk'; has it plastered all over his van!

Very offensive not to mention rather unhygienic!

TS

Posted 2 years ago #
uplink - Member

I have an email from our HR dep't asking us not to use the phrase 'cock up' any more in case it offends some - unspecified - person

Saying that - my female boss, only this morning, failed to adhere to this when she claimed "my arse is on the line with this one, I don't want any cock ups"

Posted 2 years ago #
CaptainFlashheart - Member

uplink - Pics, etc.

Posted 2 years ago #
uplink - Member

You wouldn't want them

Thankfully it was a conference call & I managed to mute the line before she heard my shrieks of laughter [I think]

Posted 2 years ago #
BigDummy - Member

One of the chaps in my office sometimes phones me up especially to call me a cock.

I listened this morning to an incredibly angry argument that a woman on the train was having with her boss. She was furious, yelling, but the language was very civil and formal. It would clearly have been better for her nerves to have called him a nob-twerp and told him to depart and befoul himself. But instead they were clearly having a slanging match the goal of which was to prove that they were reasonable people.

Posted 2 years ago #
CaptJon - Member

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAGJpISVERg

2.12

Posted 2 years ago #
marsdenman - Member

CaptJon - invoice for new keyboard is on its way to you .......

'is your bike wet....'

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