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It may well be common sense but just wait until the first serious incident. It will very quickly look like playing the odds with children’s lives and well being.
I think it had all gone a bit far, especially because we had this fantasy that if the checks were carried out properly every child would be safe. That meant that any child who was harmed was somehow the fault of the “authorities” – whoever they were.
It’s just very difficult to turn back the clock. Who will the press and the public find responsible after checks have been relaxed and a volunteer children’s club organiser abuses a child?
Cough
Oh no – that was yesterday’s word and the day before!
#-o
My throat is still there after last night’s coughing only someone has kindly sanded it for me.
:roll: :(
Very touching and too too painfully true.
But o how unfasionable in today’s world.
I’m sure our millionaire prime minister understands.
@jen_jen wrote:
Stark raving political correctness!
One of my wholesalers is steadily expanding across Europe and is planning to launch an Italian website this year. For this he needs an Italian speaker to work on the website so he called the job centre to place an advert. He was told.. can you believe.. that advertising for an Italian speaker is racist and prejudicial against non-Italian speakers. He saw red, and not one to mince his words, he demanded to know if he was hiring a brain surgeon could he could advertise for one with actual brain surgery ability or just throw the job open to any passing butcher who fancied it?
After much discussion he finally spoke to a supervisor who made him fill a form in and sign that an Italian website could only be translated and run by an Italian speaking person, the form had to sent to a special department whose job it is to decide whether he was allowed to use the words “Italian speaking”.
Absolute madness!
Not only is it not racist – it is actually plain incorrect.
In law you are allowed to advertise for people with special skills if they are required to do the job. Playing Charles Dickens in a play of his life can quite acceptably involve advertising for and hiring a white middle-aged male. Being a social worker for an Urdu speaking population can involve an advert saying that the ability to speak Urdu is preferred or actually required.
Advertising for someone who is white, Asian, from Bolton, speaks Italian, Swahili etc. is only discriminatory if it is not required by the job and you just fancy being around, say, Italians or people who grew up in Bolton for some reason. In that case you are deemed to have excluded people who could quite reasonably have done the job.
Not political correctness gone mad so much as giving yourself a bad name by not knowing the facts when you patently should. I have every sympathy with your wholesaler.
#-o
@thin ice wrote:
@anc wrote:
Tis just a wind-up, as per normal :lol:
me starting a wind up never
now make the most of this thread before its hi jacked:lol:
Hi jack.
Oops, i’ve done it now
#-o
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@anc wrote:
@melody wrote:
Champagne breakfast, a walk in the snow with the dogs, a watered lunch and watching top of the pops in good company and smelling a Christmas feast cooking in the oven (poor turkey). . . . Does it get any better than this?
Nope! and snap! :)
I had a lovely day yesterday too, hope it was good for everyone. :D Not a good day for turkeys of course, you are right mel… poor turkeys :(
Teapot
Least they only have one bad day. It’s bad for chickens every day.
:shock:
@gazlan wrote:
Just thought i would add a link to a free program, it’s called open office, it’s virtually the same as microsoft word and includes a utility that also creates presentations just like powerpoint, i use it myself so can recommend it. The whole kit includes various other utilities based on document creation etc, a very good word alternative. You can download
the FREE-office-Suite-HERE :)Have to second that. I use both microsoft (on Vista) and open office (on XP and Ubuntu) – have one system and two virtual systems on my puter. When you compare microsoft aint worth the extra.
Hope everyone had a good day yesterday, and that Eddie enjoyed his tuna.
8)
Merry crimbo one and all.
Expecting to hear the sound of ripping wrapping paper soon.
Hope you all experience love and comfort this Christmas, whatever your race, creed, religion or pet owning status.
Seriously though – have a good one and I am sure we will all spare a thought for those less fortunate than us.
Love to you and yours.
:)
@anc wrote:
“The decline in church attendance is entirely the decision of the white majority.”
Bit racist innit (and, untrue)?!!
Not racist at all. You are of course aware of the context of the posting.
Churches as overwhelmingly attended by white people in the UK, and attendance has indeed declined mainly because Christianity is now less important to that white majority. The point is that it has not happened because of Muslims or non-whites preventing people from attending Church, or because of any political correctness.
But to return to more happy thoughts Christmas is upon us and presents will be opened soon.
Peace and goodwill to all men (and women of course).
Hope you have a great Christmas, whether you are religious or not, and that the next year brings you and yours the happiness you seek.
:)
