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Freddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."

How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)

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This is a QotW answer smoking
back in the early 80's when I was at junior school, our teacher used to smoke a pipe in class.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 13:05, closed)
This is a QotW comment How does this fit the qotw?

(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 14:02, closed)
This is a QotW comment Nobody
smokes pipes nowadays, which is a shame. They should get Wayne Rooney or Ant & Dec to promote them.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 14:56, closed)
This is a QotW comment My Terrestrial Ecology teacher smokes a pipe.
It's a bendy, Sherlock Holmes-style* pipe, too.

*Yes, I know he actually smokes a straight pipe in the books. But that sine-shaped pipe has become so embedded in the public consciousness as Holmes' pipe that I reckoned people would instantly know what I meant.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 15:48, closed)
This is a QotW comment WTF
is "Terrestrial Ecology"?
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 9:43, closed)
This is a QotW comment Me too
I don't know what the fuck it has to do with the question like, but I hit upon the idea of smoking a proper old-man tobacco pipe and got myself one.

I had to send off to deepest darkest Wales for it on t'internet mind, but I got some nice flavoured baccy, and actually feel relaxed yet sporting while charring a couple of bowls when fishing.

I'm 27!
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 15:49, closed)

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