Dr Deviant

I really starting to get stuffed off with codes of conduct and political correctness and all that jazz. It’s getting to the point that if you say most of the words in the English language they can be taken out of context and offend someone. Even to the point that you cannot say certain single words [...]

On site where they were discussing some of Scarlett Johansson’s better movies, one avid fan wrote…

The English language has a few really shit features I’m surprised it ever caught on. well, I suppose since the english ruled half the planet at one time a lot of people didn’t really have a choice. The 2 I want to berate today are the concept of context only words, and the use of [...]

That reminds me of the first time I heard the phrase “I’m not black, I’m African American”
Those of you who know me will know that I don’t really listen to every word that is said in a sentence so I can multi task quite effectively, however before I honed the skill my brain would fill [...]

It was the people being beheaded, it was their fault, they got in the way of the guillotine blade.
You can imagine the branding board. Hmm, if we blame the fishermen for the death of the dolphins, we’d have to do something about it, I know, lets blame the tuna for the way people hunt it.
Besides, [...]

Whatever the hell next! While I agree that a lot of so called ‘British born and bred’ types need help with their mother tongue, I cannot believe this news item made the BBC!!!
Back from holiday and I’m already becoming agitated! I want fewer of these crap damit!

Well, I thought I would revisit the turn of phrase camp pretty soon, didn’t realise that I would be bashing it because its being used to protect iddy biddy kiddies though.

Ihe world is a constantly evolving place, and yet political correctness takes a while to catch up. For instance calling someone a “Joey” back in my day was seen as the height of controversy, now once again, and quite rightly, the world has moved on and this term generally only refers to an infant marsupial.
 Now, [...]

So, “Man-flu” that’s a poor attempt at mild ccough, but “bird-flu“, well, that can kill.
Funny how the world works.

In common use it generally refers to a generic non-measurement of any kind in a similar vein to “widgets”, however it is actually a speed.
The barleycorn was used as a measurement of length in early Anglo-Saxon times, now, generally accepted as one third of an inch.
Therefore your average person walks at approximately 127,733,760 barleycorns per [...]