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Monday, September 19 - 6:34amSanction this postReply
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Speaking as someone with epilepsy who works in a creative field, I'm personally going to keep using the word "brainstorming".

Actually, it's the censorship and the attitude of pity and condescension that I find offensive.



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Monday, September 19 - 6:42amSanction this postReply
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Thought showers?  Wouldn't that offend the ablutophobics? 



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Monday, September 19 - 7:27amSanction this postReply
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Oh, dear, the article says it's offensive to say "manila" as well ...

It's only been a couple of years since I found out they weren't called "vanilla folders."



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Monday, September 19 - 9:01amSanction this postReply
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Maybe they can call them 'nilla folders...:-)

Nitpick, from slave trade?  How droll - every mother know nits are what one picks out of kids' hair when they go to school and bring them home [also known as 'cooties'] - has nothing to do with slave trade...

And I have a brain - and am proud of it... if brainstorming is deemed incorrect, stuff it up the ass...




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Monday, September 19 - 10:42amSanction this postReply
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Sheeeesh, where does it all end.  Brainstorming is an everyday word.  At least in advertising.  It just means getting together and bouncing ideas around.  "Thought showers" is laughable, and completely waters down the meaning... I'm thinking dripping faucet versus a waterfall.   It certainly doesn't imply thinking hard or thinking creatively.  It implies no mental effort whatsoever. It merely sounds like a bad weather report...

Partly politically correct with a chance of thought showers by evening, blank-out by morning. 

When I am working on a project, about half the time when people want to change something they refer to nits, rather than edits.  For example, "It looks great, just a couple of nits here and there."   I never imagined this to be a racist remark at all.  It seemed to me more like they were half apologizing for being perfectionistic, but mainly that they were just making small changes, such as changing words rather than rewriting entire paragraphs.  In other words, "nits" refers to small but important details.  Any racial connotation, if there ever was one, is long gone.

I think the politically correct crowd is trying to create offense where there is none in order to promote their twisted self-righteousness and inflated sense of importance.  It's just udder foolishness in my book...  No offense to the cows    ;-)

Kat





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Monday, September 19 - 9:14pmSanction this postReply
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This is why we need the death penalty.



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Monday, September 19 - 9:15pmSanction this postReply
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For the guy who cut your hair?  (just kidding - if it's a gay guy tho, he should be shot at sunrise)

:-)




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Monday, September 19 - 9:42pmSanction this postReply
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For the guy who cut your hair?  (just kidding - if it's a gay guy tho, he should be shot at sunrise)

:-)

Haha!


Remember: there are no gay people, only gay actions.

- Cousin It




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Tuesday, September 20 - 7:13amSanction this postReply
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"Thought Showers<tm>" What the %$^&#?? It sounds like some kind of abstinence-based pervo activity.

I hated this quiche-eating PC bullshit when it first really reared up its head somewhere in the '80's, and it's done nothing but fester ever since.

I remember when employers used to use phrases like "nigger-whipping", for Chrissakes....

And it just spread out everywhere. Now artists are called "content providers".

Weak, weak, weak, stupid stupid stupid. Ptui.




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Tuesday, September 20 - 8:44amSanction this postReply
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Hey Lance,   Happy haircut!

I too remember the good old days before political correctness came along.  I once worked in an office where we had a Mr. Sexy contest at our Christmas party and November and December was like a political campaign season for the guys in the office running for the title. There was a lot of hot competition and it got rather dirty at times.   It was hysterical what these guys would say and do to win the title, get the Ken doll trophy and get to wear the speedos over their pants at the Christmas party while dancing around around to the song, "I'm too sexy for my...."




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Tuesday, September 20 - 8:41amSanction this postReply
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Not that it should even matter, but has anyone ever even heard of any human being ever being offended by the term "Brainstorming"  Perhaps the P.C. movement is trying to be pro active, realizing that their actions will turn a significant sector of the population into ridiculously thin skinned babies, and sanding all the rough edges off our language in advance.  



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Tuesday, September 20 - 11:15amSanction this postReply
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My theory on this one is that one day, people on some team were asked to brainstorm over some particular subject. The PC person (probably someone that was invited from the HR dept., or even more likely, some twit that doesn't work there anymore) had almost nothing to think about, except perhaps the sensitivity training class they had just taken (and probably suggested). Letting their mind wander unfocused (easily done), they thought about the word, and somehow, it became wrong to them. Very, very wrong. Wrong enough, in fact, that they decided they could score wonderful pointage by suggesting that the employee handbook be updated, to allow for this heinous state.

And so, they satisified their single, endless desire- to fuck with people who actually produce useful concepts when asked to brain, er, thought shower.

Internal policy making process in business is and always will be very risky business.




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Tuesday, September 20 - 10:26pmSanction this postReply
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"Thought shower" sounds like the thought of someone obsessed with brainwashing.


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Wednesday, September 21 - 6:19amSanction this postReply
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The brainwashing angle is valid provided that the shower in "Thought Shower" is interpreted as a verb; however as a noun it could give rise to a whole new family of terms:  Thought Bath, Thought Toilet, and just for a little continental touch, why not a Thought Bidet



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Wednesday, September 21 - 10:33amSanction this postReply
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Or maybe they meant "one who shows". Then you get a cheesy tv series title... The Thought Shower (NBC Thursdays)
 
Abstract: A shamanistic HR manager travels from department to department of an aging, male-dominated investment fund, transforming curmudgeon after curmudgeon into quiche-eating, politically-correct tubs of goo.




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Wednesday, September 21 - 12:43pmSanction this postReply
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Hey - buckle up, burgerbrain - there is nothing wrong with eating quiche...



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Wednesday, September 21 - 1:23pmSanction this postReply
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I'm ok with it. You know who I'm talking about.



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Wednesday, September 21 - 3:08pmSanction this postReply
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Now if you were talking about tofu  - that's something else...:-)



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