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Old 01-05-2012, 18:38   #54
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Re: How PC can you get?

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Originally Posted by Michael1954 View Post
Mong is also short for mongoloid. Ricky Gervais was in a spot of bother a while back for using the term. He was using it in the context of a spastic or retarded person. The word spas, pronounced spaz, was frequently used at my school, which was all boys. Spas is a shortening of spastic. It was used as an insult.
Perhaps to you 'mong' means that?
To others it is different, all depends on how nasty we want to inerpret it.

There is a word banned from AccyWeb it means a long sharp stick, a large fresh water fish, it is the Surname of many innocent people.
Why is it banned? For some reason someone went overly P.C. And used their power to say that P-I-K-E must not be used on the site, no doubt rather than think and return this word to the English language he/she/it will issue me with a warning for avoiding the swear checker, over the top? Ridiculous? P.C. Gone mad?
Of course it is, it was banned because the word is sometimes associated with gippo's, (can I say gippo's on site? Only the swear checker knows, if I can, why can't I say p-i-k-e?).
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