Hey, at 2.99 credits a sandwich, it’s a steal! It doesn’t look all that appetizing to me, but to each member of the Federation, his own:
Caution though: it’s hell on tricorder screens.
Meanwhile, in related (and real news), JammieWearingFool spots an interesting PC recursion in action in the Daily Mail. England’s youths are caught in a pandemic of epic proportions. They suffer from a condition…that must not be named!
In an age of widespread political correctness almost any term can be deemed to offend someone at some time.
But one council has been condemned after it announced it would consider banning the word ‘obese’ because it could offend fat children.
Town hall bosses want to want to replace it with the phrase ‘unhealthy weight’ so children are not stigmatised.
The move has caused fury among parents and anti-obesity campaigners who have branded the scheme ‘preposterous and laughable.’
OK, so “obese” would “stigmatize” children, but “unhealthy weight” wouldn’t? Of course.
I never know how seriously to take these sorts of hysterical-sounding articles coming out of England. As Virginia Postrel wrote several years ago, exploring the press pathologies of England, America, and the Middle East:
The British press corps serves its market, in turn, by passing on every rumor someone tells a reporter in a bar. The result are lots of juicy stories, some of them true. As a former U.S. news editor told her editors after 9/11, when asked why her paper wasn’t getting the great stories in the British press, “They’re great stories. But they aren’t true.”
But given that we keep seeing these sorts of articles describing the latest over-the-top (to use a phrase from WWI, and hence one that must be doubleplus ungood, or soon will be), some of them have to be true. And certainly, collectively, the PC madness has taken its toll on England.
Speaking of which, JWF catches this amusing comment at the Daily Mail:
If all these “offensive” words are banned, we’ll end up with a two word vocabulary, Yes, No and pointing. But thinking about it, even No has a negative connotation!
PC madness strikes again!
I’m pretty sure the two-word vocabulary doesn’t kick until at least the 12th or 13th edition of the Newspeak Dictionary, to end this post, as it began, on a sci-fi note.
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