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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 s****s? Leg or breast? A bit of stuffing? Packing fudge?

'sgone mad I tell yah! ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 12:24 pm
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Ban this filth


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 12:38 pm
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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 : 08/09/2009 12:40 pm
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How would you like your rump?


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 12:41 pm
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[i]Flintshire Council headquarters in Mold.[/i]

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


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 12:42 pm
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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 ๐Ÿ˜†


 
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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 : 08/09/2009 12:45 pm
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Blame Socailism.


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 12:46 pm
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What will they call Cock flavoured soup?

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Posted : 08/09/2009 12:47 pm
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Flintshire Council headquarters in Mold.

You should try living there ๐Ÿ™


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 12:48 pm
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They'll be banning the meat and two veg next! ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 12:49 pm
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How is it political correctness then?


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 12:49 pm
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One incident at one canteen at one council is newsworthy!?


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 12:50 pm
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Vagina Cradock will be turning in her grave.


 
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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.


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

More socialism


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 12:52 pm
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Funniest thread for ages.


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 12:56 pm
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Coq au Vin anybody? ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 1:00 pm
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stories like this are usually revealed to be either not true or exagerated

shame tho cos it iz funny


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 1:01 pm
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Anyone having the Creme of Sum yung gai?


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 1:02 pm
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Double post edit.


 
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what a bunch of dicks


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 1:07 pm
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Two sticky buns and a cream horn please ...


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 1:14 pm
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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 : 08/09/2009 1:16 pm
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Is this revisionist right wing journalists applying Marxist techniques to their writing?


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 1:43 pm
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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 : 08/09/2009 1:46 pm
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Surely it's people using cliches like 'political correctness gone mad' as a substitute for independent and / or critical thought?


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

Very offensive not to mention rather unhygienic! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

TS


 
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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"


 
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uplink - Pics, etc.


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 1:57 pm
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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 : 08/09/2009 1:59 pm
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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.


 
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2.12


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

'is your bike wet....' ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 2:26 pm
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CaptJon, superb, thanks!

The 'Dam really is like that as well!


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 2:32 pm
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Well I wont mention my 3" King Dick then, especialy as it's so rusty.


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 2:40 pm
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Klaus Armstrong-Braun, a county councillor, said: "I couldn't believe it, it seemed ludicrous. Spotted Dick is part of our heritage.

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3"?

Bigger than any of mine - I've got a 2 3/4" crowfoot I think


 
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And don't start me on Cove Bikes!


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 2:50 pm
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I'd like a big pud with cream on top


 
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it's been called spotted richard in a cafe near me for the past 15 years, seems crazy but not worth getting all twisted out of shape about. Let the PC Nazis do that......


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 3:12 pm
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when i was at high school one of the highlights of the day was asking for an iced cream ring from the bakers at lunchtime.


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 5:42 pm
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If I remember correctly, Innerleithen has a curio/antique shop by the name of "Gloryhole"...

Disgusting.


 
Posted : 08/09/2009 6:09 pm
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I heard of a hospital where they were told to stop referring to mentally ill patients as "loonys"..........shocking; it's madness gone politically correct I tell you.

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