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General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: KKOB on March 25, 2016, 11:29:22 AM

Title: PC strikes again, again.
Post by: KKOB on March 25, 2016, 11:29:22 AM

Supermarket giant Aldi is set to change the name of its 'rape yellow' paint tins following an angry outburst from a sex assault victim.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, branded the product name 'offensive' after she spotted the tins while she was shopping with her son.

The furious customer said she started 'choking' when she came across the product at the Radford Road store in Coventry, Warwickshire.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3509124/Aldi-forced-change-paint-labelled-rape-yellow-complaints-sex-assault-victim.html

Does that mean that it'll be offensive to refer to the fields of yellow flowers that will be blooming throughout the UK soon, as rape ?

Will rapeseed oil become an illegal substance ?

Title: Re: PC strikes again, again.
Post by: Colwyn on March 25, 2016, 11:40:10 AM

I think it is offensive to refer to the Daily Mail.

Title: Re: PC strikes again, again.
Post by: KKOB on March 25, 2016, 12:07:07 PM

Here you go then. In a Red Top especially for you.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/aldi-agrees-change-offensive-paint-7625063

Title: Re: PC strikes again, again.
Post by: kevin3 on March 25, 2016, 12:37:58 PM

  Frankly I find groups or individuals that take offence at any form of criticism, or take offence on behalf of others  OFFENSIVE.     :)

Title: Re: PC strikes again, again.
Post by: badger on March 25, 2016, 14:19:42 PM

This type of content is why we stopped buying newspapers  >:(

Title: Re: PC strikes again, again.
Post by: KKOB on March 25, 2016, 15:30:18 PM

I haven't bought a newspaper in years.

But that's because I'm tight.  ;)

Title: Re: PC strikes again, again.
Post by: Colwyn on March 25, 2016, 15:38:48 PM

Quote from: KKOB on March 25, 2016, 12:07:07 PM

In a Red Top especially for you.

The Mirror was a half decent tabloid until 1973/4 when its owners decided to descend into the gutter to compete with the Sun. Not that it could ever approach the distinctive vileness of the Daily Mail.