micturator

someone who pees, cf. The Guardian, Thursday, August 6, 2009

higher McLearning

Amazing, now you can even get your A-level at McDonald’s, cf. “McDonald’s and other big businesses will award their own qualifications equal to GCSEs, A levels and degrees, in subjects such as fast-food restaurant management, the Government will announce today.

Network Rail, Flybe and McDonald’s will become the first companies to be given such powers by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). Gordon Brown will announce the move today as he seeks to regain the initiative over the issue of the unskilled unemployed from the Conservatives. “

quoted from: The Times

offensive pigs

“A story based on the Three Little Pigs fairy tale has been turned down by a government agency’s awards panel as the subject matter could offend Muslims. The digital book, re-telling the classic story, was rejected by judges who warned that ‘the use of pigs raises cultural issues’.”

cf. BBC online news

This, to my mind, is political correctness taken too far and smacks of censorship.

Christian values in Britain

In a way, the views of British MP Mark Pritchett about attempts to move Christianity to the “margins” of British life [see BBC online news] fit in nicely with the previous post.

merry-go-round at a British hospital

According to the Guardian Wrap there are plans by Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust to turn the beds of Muslim patients towards Mecca five times a day if they request it and a look at the Trust’s website confirmed that this is already being done at one hospital at least: to my mind another example of political correctness gone too far.

need money, steal roof

It’s quite interesting what ingenious thieves come up with: now the actually steal roofs – leaden ones, that is – and not even churches are sacrosanct any more, as the example of Tewkesbury Abbey in England shows.