Air Bubbles?? PC nonsense.

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Berek's post is priceless....

Had a similar experience at the cousin's house Christmas Eve. We were visiting the wife's cousin and family. The son was showing me his two deer racks he got last week along with his rifles. Later, after all the rest of the kids/spouses/boy/girlfriends, were there, son asked for my phone number so he could reach me to go shooting sometime. As I was getting my notepad out of my carry bag, I showed him my Steyr S40. Then handed him my Kel Tec 3AT. The croud of 20 something folks were starting to get big eyed by this time. He asked if I had anything else in the truck and I said sure. I pulled my riot shotgun from behind the seat, then proceeded to open the case in the back with two AKs, and one shotgun, and ammo. I explained the other AK and shotgun were my wife's. The crowd got really big eyed and moved to the other side of the yard. No one even suspected the wife and I were armed at all........I have to plead guilty to being part of the generation that caused all this PC bs. Most kids of the 60s and early 70s wanted to be cool hippies like the people, use the term lightly, from San Friggincisco........and it shows.......chris3
 
Personally, I would tell my child that she is never to refer to them as "air bubbles" and is to only refer to them as "bullets" or "bullet points" and if the teacher gives her any grief, to tell the teacher to call me.

My daughter once came home with a quiz in which one question was:

I can play with a______
A. sun
B. gun
C. etc. - other "intangible" things ending in "un"

The correct answer was B.

I called the school and told them to have the teacher call me before 3:00 PM (I had to leave for work at 3:15) or I would tell my daughter that that teacher was a total idiot and she was never to listen to that teacher again.

She called within half an hour and we had a polite conversation about her doing a disservice to every child in the class, and was undermining the safety lessons I had taught my child. I also told her that I expected her to explain to the class that she had made a mistake and that guns were not to be played with.

I questioned my daughter about it that evening and she reported that the teacher did tell the kids that she had made a mistake and that guns were not toys.

(The teacher was trying to convey the idea of things that could be touched vs things that were not touchable).

Some things, parents must be willing to go to war over and setting a child up with cutsie or dangerous knowledge is such an item.
 
In my thirty-four years of typsesetting, we called them bullets
and had several styles (no, NOT FMJ, HP, SWC, LRN, JHP).

In my fifty-seven years of living I have heard of few things
sillier than calling bullets bubbles. This is doing violence to
the English language.

The Thornburgh-Boccardi report says that Producer Mary Mapes
sent Reporter Dan Rather a set of BULLET POINTS in a memo in 2004.
Jeesh, you would expect CBS to be PC, IYKWIM.

Soon we will be sent to re-education camps to unlearn our evil ways
and be taught to think only pure, peaceful thoughts cleansed and
implanted by our betters.
 
Come on, let's not jump the gun, go off half-cocked here. the teacher may be just a little gun shy about using the terms in front of a class, not knowing what the parents may think. May just be trying to keep the powder dry in terms of her career. She may turn out to be just fine, lock, stock, and barrel.

What other gun talk can we show her that really has nothing to do with guns, depending on the context?
 
Standing Wolf said:
A sterling example of moral and intellectual cowardice in action.
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How about a counterfeit silver plated brass example, instead? These yokels don't deserve sterling anything, imho. ;)
 
I pray to god I am rich enough to send my future children to private school or have a free enough schedule to home school them. School stopped teaching long ago and moved to indoctrination.
 
Speaking of PC Stupidity.....

I work in a hospital, surrounded by VERY liberal R.N.s & Doctors. I also walk slowly with a cane due to nerve damage. All my friends/co-workers call me "Gimp."

A new nurse was waiting for me to move out of the way so she could get by.

Me: "Sorry, I'm handicapped."

She: "NO, you're DIFFERENTLY-ABLED."

Me: "Oh! What did I say?"

She: "You said 'handicapped.' "

Me: "Man, I'm so sorry. I certainly hope I didn't OFFEND myself."
 
I wish..

that Todd Beemer had actually been able to 'lock and load' on that fateful morning, along with passengers on three other airplanes. He, and others, obviously had the intestinal fortitude to get the job done that morning..if only they would have had the proper tools.

migoi
 
rick_reno said:
Aren't they still named "bullets" in the Microsoft pull down menus? I wonder how long it will take MS to change the name.
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Let's accelerate the revision. We can contact MS and demand that they start calling "bullets" something else.

Bombs?

Grenades?
 
Of course, we all know Winchester was using "PowerPoint" as a trademark for decades before Microsoft even existed. That someone would use "bullets" in their "PowerPoint" presentation seems kinda self-evident.:rolleyes:
 
My kids are supposed to sit "criss cross applesauce" in the school library because indian style is offensive to the indians who invented it.

I have no idea why someone would want to sit in applesauce...
 
jsalcedo said:
My kids are supposed to sit "criss cross applesauce" in the school library because indian style is offensive to the indians who invented it.

I have no idea why someone would want to sit in applesauce...
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Criss cross is offensive to applesauce. Now I sue ... ACLU! :neener:

India's Indians or Native American Indians?
 
Carl N. Brown said:
Soon we will be sent to re-education camps to unlearn our evil ways and be taught to think only pure, peaceful thoughts cleansed and
implanted by our betters.
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We need a giant bunker for THR members, in case if this does happen, will have enough SHTF supplies, guns, and ammo we could all last for a year.

Dang, thats a lot of ammunition.
 
My kids are supposed to sit "criss cross applesauce" . . .
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Wait a minute, wait a minute . . . criss CROSS applesauce? Are they mocking Christian symbols, or trying to sneak in Christian symbols?

What if they were told to sit "criss Menorah matzo" or something?

Call the ACLU!

(And take note of my .sig)
 
Well I have an idea ... just so we can be PC let's all call those big round dots on Powerpoint, etc "tits" :p


Actually, I hate those "bullets" for other reasons ... why can't they just number their statements so you don't have to count them? It especially bugs me in official documents, where you have to refer to section 5.3.1, Bullet #3 :rolleyes:
 
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