General Chat

Dwarf Conifers Maggie...reminded me the of Dwarf Geraniums.

maybe someone should email the prof with all the things we have mentioned and see what they think!!

Florence in the hebrides

LG, I am verticaly challenged at 5' 0" and one chap I worked with is 6' 7" and we were known as little and large because that it what we were, our job was in a uniform and we both had problems buying trousers to fit. :-D :-D

I am horizontally challenged being a lot wider than I should be. If anyone makes comments I don't care as I am what I am :-D :-D.If nobody don't like me then b***er them

:-D :-D :-D :-D

What about newspapers that report things like 'giant' house spiders, or 'giant' rats -they're normal sized, but the word 'giant' seems to make the story, well, a story!

Surely, using the word 'giant' purely to attempt to make something more interesting, is insulting to those of above average height, who may be very boring? :-D

My nick name has always been PORG because I am the shortest in the family.
Person Of Restricted Growth but I'm not offended at all.It was a family joke.

Or vertically challenged :-D :-D :-D

Weirdly, I always thought of the word 'midget' meaning small, but perfectly formed.
What will 'dwarf conifers' be re-named, I wonder. 'Conifers of restricted growth?'

On a different angle, not sure what would happen on "Fathers' day" when making cards if you had 2 mums! Up to when I left, that situation had not arisen. I was in a small rural school as opposed to a large city school .

I guess "parents day" will be the new norm!

Florence in the hebrides

Edit: I shall go on munching me midget gems and calling them that even after the name is changed.Snickers will always be a marathon bar.

Maggie in school the word black was removed from many things as it could have racist undertones. Ie if you only had 1 black child in the room they could find the "Black board" offensive. All schools now have a smart board instead.

Also the black sheep in the family doesnt fit with the new "Inclusion" programme.

I'm so glad I'm actually retired now and out of it. It became so PC you were actually afraid to say very much at all incase you offended someone.

In nurseries they have dolls that are black & white, male & female & non gender!!! Fgs the world has gone mad.

Florence in the hebrides

What's wrong with a black sheep?
It's their colour - can they not have white sheep, beige sheep, or even multi-coloured sheep - Baa Baa Jacob sheep?

I love Llion midget gems. I never for one minute associated them with dwarfism.
Its getting too PCj these days.
Florence 61
We had to change it to baa baa fluffy sheep :-D

Sticks and stones springs to mind.

:-D :-D :-D@ maggie

One place where I worked, there was an option to put your preferred 'pronoun' - (he/she) after your name on emails. I was so tempted to put 'it'! :-D :-D

Why do so many want to be labelled?

It beggars belief that this sort of thing is going on.

Some people are easily upset over nothing.

Just checked. Her name was Dr Erin ...,.. , a lecturer at Liverpool Uni, and she has dwarfism.

It can be a minefield at times, Kense, so I always try my best to understand the other's point of view. I don't always succeed, but I do always try. :-)

Perhaps fruit cake should be renamed to avoid upsetting idiots.

I caught this on telly too. I was busy doing something else but I believe it was a female professor (Elizabeth someone?) who raised the subject. I believe she raised it on behalf of herself or her students - either she, they or all of them were shorter people. I wish I’d taken more notice now!

I don’t mind the change to mini gems if it gives people more peace of mind and it does nothing to hurt anyone else ... a rose by any other name …..

I still don’t like those sweets though. Yuk!

When i was working with nursery children, they had to change the words to baa baa black sheep to green sheep. Instead of the little boy who lived down the lane, it was changed to the boys & girls who lived down the lane.
Even the blackboard went and a new"smart board" replaced it.

Maggie, the word men being replaced with persons is discrimination gone mad!

Florence in the hebrides

I makes me wonder who complained if anyone did, and who to, I don't believe anyone did but that it was made up by the press to sell the paper.