hey up Ms!

Subject: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:28 pm

Euro chiefs ban 'Miss' and 'Mrs'

YEAAAH

at last!

Synth

xxx

Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:55 pm

Philip Bradbourn, another Conservative MEP, vowed to ignore the booklet, which he described as a "waste of taxpayers' money" and called on Mr Romer to reveal its cost.

He added: "I will have no part of it. I will continue to use my own language and expressions, which I have used all my life, and will not be instructed by this institution or anyone else in these matters."

EXACTLY clap

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Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:03 pm

Ehrm... I don't understand something here... why is this a reason to be happy or angry? Seems like a waste of time and money to me. Don't we have an economic crisis over us? Does the European Union has anything better to do than this?

Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:22 pm

I guess not sir!! tongue

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Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:22 pm

Maxmordon wrote:

Does the European Union has anything better to do than this?

Apparantly not!

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Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:31 pm

MoonRaven wrote:

I guess not sir!! tongue

You're right, miss! erhm... ma'am!

Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:05 pm

I think that if people want to be known by a gender neutral phrase then fine but I do hate Mrs and Miss but wouldn't mind it if there were diff ones for men, you wouldn't when filling out a form, after asking for a man's title ask if he is married! It is totally irrelevant and it buggs me so much when colleagues at work assume a young woman or an old woman is a Mrs or Miss.

Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:06 pm

Oh for Goddess sake! Mad

There are people struggling to pay bills, to keep a roof over their heads and to keep their jobs. There are people living in constant fear of going into debt. There are people starving in our own countries and the European Parliament cant think of anything other than this. It's political correctness gone arse up.

Pft! I've always loathed the term "ms"

Helen Damnation (MRS) and damned bloody proud of it heart

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Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:15 pm

helen damnation wrote:

Oh for Goddess sake! Mad

There are people struggling to pay bills, to keep a roof over their heads and to keep their jobs. There are people living in constant fear of going into debt. There are people starving in our own countries and the European Parliament cant think of anything other than this. It's political correctness gone arse up.

Pft! I've always loathed the term "ms"

Helen Damnation (MRS) and damned bloody proud of it heart

My thoughts, exactly! I mean, what the hell? Are they avoiding important issues while searching on the bottom of the "What-to-do" bin?

Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:18 pm

They have to justify their massive expense accounts Rolling Eyes

We were actually having a similar discussion at work today about being adults but constantly being told what to do by those in power. I am very tempted to use an extremely rude word right now but I'm a lady so I will refrain from so doing

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Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:23 pm

helen damnation wrote:

They have to justify their massive expense accounts Rolling Eyes

We were actually having a similar discussion at work today about being adults but constantly being told what to do by those in power. I am very tempted to use an extremely rude word right now but I'm a lady so I will refrain from so doing

It reminds me something that happened in Spain a while ago. A minister refered the people as "members and mebressess (some sort of feminine version of Member)" she was so upset to find there was no female version of "Member" that she requested one to be made by the largest dictionary of the Spanish language... and she's still a joke about political correctness.

Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:25 pm

In the UK being referred to as a "member" is a bit of an insult! Laughing

Since our firm became a limited liability partnership, all of the partners are now known as "members" and I cant think of a group of people more deserving of the name Laughing

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Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:25 pm

Maxmordon wrote:

helen damnation wrote:

They have to justify their massive expense accounts Rolling Eyes

We were actually having a similar discussion at work today about being adults but constantly being told what to do by those in power. I am very tempted to use an extremely rude word right now but I'm a lady so I will refrain from so doing

It reminds me something that happened in Spain a while ago. A minister refered the people as "members and mebressess (some sort of feminine version of Member)" she was so upset to find there was no female version of "Member" that she requested one to be made by the largest dictionary of the Spanish language... and she's still a joke about political correctness.

Mebressess??? It almost sounds like something you would find in your cranium. Rolling Eyes

Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:28 pm

Succubus wrote:

Maxmordon wrote:

helen damnation wrote:

They have to justify their massive expense accounts Rolling Eyes

We were actually having a similar discussion at work today about being adults but constantly being told what to do by those in power. I am very tempted to use an extremely rude word right now but I'm a lady so I will refrain from so doing

It reminds me something that happened in Spain a while ago. A minister refered the people as "members and mebressess (some sort of feminine version of Member)" she was so upset to find there was no female version of "Member" that she requested one to be made by the largest dictionary of the Spanish language... and she's still a joke about political correctness.

Mebressess??? It almost sounds like something you would find in your cranium. Rolling Eyes

That's my translation... the actual word she used was "miembros y miembras"... apparently miembras is something related to bullfighting.

Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:31 pm

So this minister associated a word for female members that also associated with bullfighting ? Shocked

Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:33 pm

She didn't know what was it. I bet since Word approved "Miembra" she let it in thinking it was a female version of "miembro" (member) without knowing it was related to bullfighting.

Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:40 pm

helen damnation wrote:

In the UK being referred to as a "member" is a bit of an insult! Laughing

Since our firm became a limited liability partnership, all of the partners are now known as "members" and I cant think of a group of people more deserving of the name Laughing

Member as an euphemism for penis?

Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:44 pm

Indeed and I work for six of the biggest ones in the history of the World and I dont mean that in a complimentary way Laughing

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Subject: Re: hey up Ms! Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:47 pm

This is as idiotic as those "scientific studies" that get millions of dollars in grants that serve no other purpose but to tell us that "Eating Mickey Ds and sitting on the couch will make you fat".

Actually, no this is five million times more idiotic.

Until I start reproducing asexually, I will be weirded out by gender neutral terms.