Australia's national Qantas, tells staff to call Australia's settlement an "Invasion"
Is that a quote or did you just make it up?
It is so accurate it’s not funny.
It is so accurate it’s not funny.
No, he/she/it (Note: I am trying to be gender agnostic) didn't make it up, just misquoted so as to almost obscure the simple meaning.
The source of the original is lost in the mists of history, but has been used by Churchill, Margret Thatcher, a number of Australian politicians and pundits.
The original (Churchill) version was: "If you are not a socialist at twenty, you have no heart, if you are still a socialist at forty, you have no brains".
Tootle pip!!
PS: An earlier version seems to go back as far as John Adams in the mid-1700s.
And by the time you hit 60, you suddenly fall back in love with socialism again (Medicare, the PBS, pensions....)
But you’ve paid for it. All that bloody tax through your working life. That’s capitalism to me: return on investment.
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Leadsled; Yes, and was it not Margaret Thatcher who said something along the lines of that ..
'Socialism is fine until you run out of other peoples money...'
Once again, may have been someone else's comment.
'Socialism is fine until you run out of other peoples money...'
Once again, may have been someone else's comment.
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You think QANTAS has it wrong, look what the State of Washington did...
they tried real hard to get the 'man' and 'men' out of terms...they tried very hard to change the word women to womyn! No more penmanship (not that they are taught to write any longer)
Documents must refer to people living there as residents, not citizens, because they have so many undoc illegals.
On a side note, some that are still okay to use....
Airmen
Seaman
Man Hole
Conman
Family Man
No more Master Bedroom, now Main bedroom...yep and ALL official State documents have to be changed over time.
There's no good reason for keeping our legal terms anachronistic and with words that do not respect our current contemporary times,' Kohl-Welles, the 475-page bill's sponsor, told Reuters.
The state likely won't change the words 'airmen' and 'seaman,' for example, because of objections by the state's Washington Military Department, he said.
Civil engineering terms such as 'man hole' and 'man lock,' also will not be changed because no common-sense substitutes could easily be found, Thiessen said.
Nearly 3,500 Washington state code sections, out of a total of about 40,000 have been tediously scrubbed of gender bias, although most involve adding pronouns 'she' and 'her' to augment the existing 'he' and 'his,' Thiessen said.
Read more: Farewell to freshman - Washington State to remove 40,000 pieces of legislation of 'gender biased language'...but manhole survives | Daily Mail Online
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Looks like Abbot made sense for once!
they tried real hard to get the 'man' and 'men' out of terms...they tried very hard to change the word women to womyn! No more penmanship (not that they are taught to write any longer)
Documents must refer to people living there as residents, not citizens, because they have so many undoc illegals.
On a side note, some that are still okay to use....
Airmen
Seaman
Man Hole
Conman
Family Man
No more Master Bedroom, now Main bedroom...yep and ALL official State documents have to be changed over time.
There's no good reason for keeping our legal terms anachronistic and with words that do not respect our current contemporary times,' Kohl-Welles, the 475-page bill's sponsor, told Reuters.
The state likely won't change the words 'airmen' and 'seaman,' for example, because of objections by the state's Washington Military Department, he said.
Civil engineering terms such as 'man hole' and 'man lock,' also will not be changed because no common-sense substitutes could easily be found, Thiessen said.
Nearly 3,500 Washington state code sections, out of a total of about 40,000 have been tediously scrubbed of gender bias, although most involve adding pronouns 'she' and 'her' to augment the existing 'he' and 'his,' Thiessen said.
Read more: Farewell to freshman - Washington State to remove 40,000 pieces of legislation of 'gender biased language'...but manhole survives | Daily Mail Online
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Looks like Abbot made sense for once!
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You think QANTAS has it wrong, look what the State of Washington did...
they tried real hard to get the 'man' and 'men' out of terms...they tried very hard to change the word women to womyn! No more penmanship (not that they are taught to write any longer)
Documents must refer to people living there as residents, not citizens, because they have so many undoc illegals.
they tried real hard to get the 'man' and 'men' out of terms...they tried very hard to change the word women to womyn! No more penmanship (not that they are taught to write any longer)
Documents must refer to people living there as residents, not citizens, because they have so many undoc illegals.
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You think QANTAS has it wrong, look what the State of Washington did...
they tried real hard to get the 'man' and 'men' out of terms...they tried very hard to change the word women to womyn! No more penmanship (not that they are taught to write any longer)
Documents must refer to people living there as residents, not citizens, because they have so many undoc illegals.
On a side note, some that are still okay to use....
Man Hole
<SNIP>
they tried real hard to get the 'man' and 'men' out of terms...they tried very hard to change the word women to womyn! No more penmanship (not that they are taught to write any longer)
Documents must refer to people living there as residents, not citizens, because they have so many undoc illegals.
On a side note, some that are still okay to use....
Man Hole
<SNIP>
Manhole
Perxhole
I kid you not, this is a the "gender neutral" version of "perSONhole" with the "SON" removed from "person" replacing "man", all in the pursuit of the elimination of unconscious bias.
As I am sure you are, by now, aware, Mx, as in "Dear Mx LeadSled ---" is the preferred pre-nominal to cover all LBTIQUASSGF -- or any additional gender of choice that you want to be today.
So, there you go, wherever the unacceptable words "man" or "son" are found, just insert X.
I am certain the future of xkind dependes on it.
Tootle pip!!
What do I call that big hot thing that comes up every morning and sets every evening or is the spelling far enough removed? Same goes for the 7th day of the week. How far do we have to take this fecal matter?
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I dread to think what we are going to see on tickets, or hear on the PA system, "Paging Mx Fred Bloggs, please report to the counter"
Sorry, You didn't call my name
Not a shred of evidence from any source I can find that that was the case.
https://www.marchonwashingtonfilmfes...ur-time-is-now
Perhaps AJ can change the name "QANTAS" to "The Mad Hatter Airline", When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less.”
It could be worse: the non-aviator, expat British, Director of Flight Operations of Cathay Pacific quotes Chairman Mao at her pilots.
It could be worse: the non-aviator, expat British, Director of Flight Operations of Cathay Pacific quotes Chairman Mao at her pilots.
So, let me see if I have this straight (don't know what the non-gender waffle for that is).
With regard to the deliveries to my residence and or place of business by Australia Post I will now see a perxperx delivering perx to my perx box.
I think I have that clear, do I?
Not only do people get paid to dream up this rubbish but even more worrying is they (may depending on gender) reproduce and also vote.
CC
With regard to the deliveries to my residence and or place of business by Australia Post I will now see a perxperx delivering perx to my perx box.
I think I have that clear, do I?
Not only do people get paid to dream up this rubbish but even more worrying is they (may depending on gender) reproduce and also vote.
CC
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And it was only today that I was agreeing with someone on another thread that the place has just become so focussed on micromanaging every cost whilst massive waste goes unnoticed. This is just another pile of crap that will go unchallenged and continues to place a further divide between what management thinks happens and what the staff actually make happen on a daily basis.
