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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)

(unknown, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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Union City Blues-Part One.
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In Manchester, the UMIST Student Union building used to be called the Barnes Wallis building after the inventor of the bouncing bomb and other warlike devices. And this being the PC '80's, certain students decided that it was high time to rename the building to show that they disapproved of such evil war-mongers. So a motion was passed to rename the building. This was where I came in.

By packing the Union with metal heads, punks and other rabble rousers I came within an inch of renaming the Barnes Wallis building to the Bruce Willis building arguing that it would save the union money as we'd only have to change a few letters.

Only lost by a few votes and the PC crowd named it the Nelson Mandela building.

Cheers
(I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 3:03, 10 replies)
Hehe smashing :) But surely
They'd have to add a paint job and a shit load of screen doors?


/Al blog
(I helped save b3ta! baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 3:37, closed)
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Is it compulsory for the Leftie crowd to rename everything "Nelson Mandela (whatever)"?
(Big D, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 10:43, closed)
Just so you know (the repliers)
It's still called the Barnes Wallis building, even though UMIST has now been absorbed by MAnchester University. (Biggest mistake UMIST ever made by the way).

Cheers
(Strange_things, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 11:37, closed)
You Lie..
Don't you?

I left Manchester in '97 and it definitley the Nelson Mandela building. Have they changed it back?

Mancs - report in.




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(I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 14:22, closed)
madness
Wasn't Mandela thrown in jail for blowing up stuff in the first place? Then after he was jailed the group he founded went on to blow up civilians?
(pmsc, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 16:47, closed)
Definitely the Barnes Wallis building.
It's absolutely, positively still called that, and i'm sure it has been for at least 10 years?
(I helped save b3ta! Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 20:34, closed)
Fishcake is right
It still is the Barnes Wallace building, and I graduated this summer. It holds the Beer Festival.

MancUnion is the Steve Biko building, mind.
(I helped save b3ta! mr_wicksy is.... old., Mon 26 Nov 2007, 10:23, closed)
Mandela
Every seat of educashun in the late 80's/early 90's had at least one building or bar named after Nelson. Or Biko.

I think there was a law or something.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 14:04, closed)
Yep
I mean we can't have a building named after someone who fought those lovely Nazis, can we.
(I helped save b3ta! The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 15:32, closed)
I almost
went to UMIST, got accepted and everything, but decided I could only afford to stay at home.

No interestingly-named buildings at Newcastle :/
(puerile is really getting into seagulls lately., Mon 26 Nov 2007, 23:12, closed)

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