OMG:
Applying gun control logic to the above, I think that we should ban all backpacks. After all, nobody needs to own a backpack, which frees the arms and hands to perpetrate horrible atrocities like this one. Had the scumbag been carrying a suitcase, he wouldn’t have been able to do this.
Don’t even get me started on the high-capacity military-style backpacks, which have no place in civilian ownership.
Commonsense backpack control. It’s time.
And then there’s this development:
Google has announced the launch of an “inclusive language” function to help users eliminate politically incorrect words and expressions. The feature is being introduced initially to Google’s “enterprise-level” users and will include both warnings and suggestions as part of Google’s new assisted writing features in Google Docs.
Typing in the word “landlord,” for instance, generates a warning the term “may not be inclusive to all readers” as well as the suggestion to replace the offensive locution with “property owner” or “proprietor.”Similarly, Google takes issue with the word “mankind” and proposes substituting it with the more appropriate “humankind.” Use of “policemen” and “housewife” provokes a correction as well, and Google will urge replacing them with the gender-neutral “police officers” and “stay-at-home spouse.”
Curiously, the new software seems targeted only at a specific sort of communication infractions.
How nice. Wait till this feature turns into “obligatory” rather than just “advisory”…
My message to Google: take your wokist nonsense and stick it up your excretion aperture.
Oh, and fuck you. And your poxy email.
Change my mind.
Update: From Longtime Reader Bruce comes this little snippet of OzCop fuckery. They must have been trained by our Fibbies or else the New Jersey sturmtruppen.
Apparently, every ailment now means you have caught the ‘Rona:
Body aches, a runny nose and diarrhoea are among the nine new signs of Covid that have been added to the NHS symptom list.
The health service quietly expanded its list of all the tell-tale signs of the virus to also include a loss of appetite, feeling or being sick and a headache.
So now basically Covid has become the trawling net for all sickness, ergo the means whereby we could be isolated, locked down or similarly oppressed for having a cold, the flu, an upset stomach or being hung over.
…why I won’t use Microsoft Word:
The function produces a purple line beneath words or phrases it deems problematic while offering more ‘inclusive’ alternatives, and is included on the Office 365 version of Microsoft Word from 2019 onwards.
Recommended improvements to your usage:
- Whitelist > Accepted List
- Postman > Postal Worker
- Mankind > Humanity
- Maid > House Cleaner
- Showgirl > Performing Artist
- Master > Expert
- Mistress > Lover
- Manpower > Workforce
- Heroine > Hero
For the record, I quit using Microsoft Office decades ago, for all sorts of reasons, among them:
So I use Apache OpenOffice, which while it has a few drawbacks of its own, is at least free (Writer and Calc work just fine for what I do), and Thunderbird for email.
I remember pointing the Son&Heir at OpenOffice many years ago when he was at college, and he found it worked for all his writing assignments and math homework. He’s been grateful to me ever since, and I don’t think he’s ever used MS Office (although since he moved to Global MegaBanc Inc. that may have changed, I must ask him).
So fuck Microsoft, fuck their wokedom and by the way, fuck Windows 11, for which I’ve started getting those irritating little spam pop-up messages.
It’s a good thing I don’t fly much anymore, because had I been the older guy, this stupid Karen would be visiting her dentist, more than once, over the holidays.