"I'm losing it."
Oh bother. And if there was one thing proud Great Britain did not need it was a kerfuffle over its English language but, amidst eternal Brexit negotiations, a Coronavirus pandemic and Boris Johnson here we are for the nation’s proud, revered news organization, the British Broadcasting Corporation, has decided to drop the toxic and triggering word “fishermen” and replace it with the more inclusive “fisherpeople.”
The change occurred on Radio 4’s Today program and sparked instant backlash as fisherpeople took to social media to decry the change, the BBC’s continuing “wokeness” and to point out that a tiny fraction of commercial fisherpeople in the country are women.
Ashley Mullenger, who calls herself the ‘female fisherman,’ joined the fight and told the Daily Mail she only knows of six women also doing her job in the entire United Kingdom.
The BBC’s style guide declares: “Unless you are sure only males are involved, avoid words such as ‘newsmen, ‘businessmen’ and ‘policemen.'” And a spokesperson, when reached for comment, insisted that there was no “ban” on fishermen though “fisherpeople” was perfectly acceptable.
Anchor Piers Morgan, who used to be almost cable news famous in the United States, took to the airwaves infuriated.
“Here’s the point, it’s a rough old job, on the trawler boats on the rough high seas. I’ve never seen a woman on a trawler boat doing that. There must be some, I guess, but is there a single woman in the country who actually trawls for fish professionally… the whole language is being changed from fisherman to fisherpeople. There are certain jobs that women don’t like to do. And it may be that in a trawler, rough and tough in the North Sea at midnight on a Wednesday in January, it’s not up there on the to-do-list of the equality brigade.”
How much time do you think Piers Morgan has spent commercially trawling in the North Sea?
A few months a year?
More to our point, should we change the outdated and exclusionary word “surfer” for “surferpeople?”
Should DJ Paul Fisher change his potentially offensive last name/stage name to Fisherperson?
Much to ponder.
As long as I can still use the term “fishwife”
DEROGATORY
a coarse-mannered woman who is prone to shouting.
“the screech of a fishwife”
They can shove it up their jumpers: I’m an angler.
Good memory’s of a live show in Honolulu. Had to buy a couple CD’s.
Except the sleeping in my car afterwards part.
As a commercial fisherman, I decided to do some research on the matter and asked three accomplished lady fisherfolk their opinion. This is what they had to say:
1 Why don’t you shove that question up your syphiletic twat.
2 How about badass bitch that you have to follow around to catch anything.
3 Oh, Urch, you silly boy. Stone cold killer.
1987–Madonna would have still been late 20s I think.
You wrote all that just so you could put in a weak Fisher joke…..I admire your commitment to the art, you writerperson
A new teacher was trying to make use of her psychology courses. She started her class by saying, “Everyone who thinks they’re stupid, stand up!” After a few seconds, Little Johnny stood up. The teacher said, “Do you think you’re stupid, Little Johnny?” “No, ma’am, but I hate to see you standing there all by yourself!”
Yes Name like Fisher but Oh So expensive Price ?
In French it becomes even more complicated because “ pêcheur “ with the accent circonflexe is fisherman
while “ pecheur “ is a sinner …. while the Germans use as you suggested “ Fischer “
well if you’re going to get all logical..
us comMENtors could be in trouble.
This comment is off the scales …..
You’ve lost your edge….or something. It’s like you just don’t care about trolling anymore. Maybe you’re just tired.
Psychological projection is a defense mechanism in which the ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities by denying their existence in themselves by attributing them to others.
Conversations in real life must be difficult for you. What with cut n paste not being available and all.
Its easier to send you things that can be easily researched, otherwise you dive into some conspiracy about the deep state.
Your trolling has gotten so weak as of late. What happened to you?
He’s having Bidens remorse.
Oh, the “Commander-in-Thief”.
Boat
Labourers
Matter…
You don’t know me!
Is a VALperson a surferperson? Also, if I transitioned into a female and became a lesbian would I be a trans-lesbianperson?
Quit Dick.
I’ve worked for Madonna…. no.
Think icon before Madonna…. 70’s post hippy then 80’s glam.
Deborah Harry?
Cher
Yeah, the story seemed way more Cher than beautiful Deb
bingo
Grace Slick? But that’s 2 words. –oh, seeing Cher below.
Just turn on your email alerts, easy post address on past story and we can keep Bex out of the loop.
I was sure you were Bielmann…. no wonder he didn’t reply to my message… heeheee… and you did say Ted Talk. I listen bro.
You sound way less insular than Hippy
You almost sound aussie.
Not sure how to take that bex, but I enjoy your style very much.
I like your stories too and you are way less insular than the other Seps on here. But still,
like when you and others ask why we’re interested in US stuff, for me it’s a strange thing to say.
Only because we are embarrassed at the bullshit here bex. Your interest shows a natural curiosity intelligent people share.
Fuk that
US is awesome
I cannot wait for Trump news channel, its gonna be huge, everyone will watch it, even people who hate him.
It will be like he’s still President.
I can’t wait till he kicks the shit outta all the miserable lefty fukwits!!
Not you buddy, you’re good.
There’s a rumor that AT&T, due to having financial stability problems, is looking to unload CNN. How great would it be for Trump to buy CNN, kick the current clown crew to the curb and then destroy Fox?
The news in the USA should be burnt to the ground and started over.
edit; the world
“Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.” ……?
Translated on Kong’s T-shirt as
KILL THEM ALL ! GOD WILL KNOW HIS OWN “ …. but who today will play God ?
OMG, that would be the TV gold!
Bring it!!
Anderson and Cuomo could do a Gerry Springer style show
No one will loan him the money Otto…. not even Deutche
Unless he does business with familiar Russian Oligarchs.
Doesn’t matter anyway, he’s headed into legal peril 1/21/21….
Legal peril for doing what?
Hyperbolic rants without merit based purely upon a crazed notion that political retribution is justified to satiate the leftist mob is tired. There was once a time when crimes were investigated in order to find the person(s) involved. The left now believes it their duty to investigate the person in order to find the crime. If Trump is unsuccessful in his legal challenges he will start a Trump News Network and there is nothing the left can do to stop him, and there is no financial barrier preventing it’s creation.
People be lining up to invest
Trump and co argued that a sitting president cannot be indicted for a crime, why make that argument if you have not been indicted for a crime?
That’s retarded logic. Try again. Trump hasn’t been indicted for a crime.
Did I say he was indicted for a crime? NO I did not, the reason he was not indicted for a crime was because of the Justice Department’s opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted for a crime.
“I believe a reasonable person looking at these facts could conclude that all three elements of the crime of obstruction of justice have been met, and I’d like to ask you the reason, again, you did not indict Donald Trump is because of the OLC (the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel) opinion stating that you cannot indict a sitting president, correct?” Lieu asked.
“That is correct,” Mueller asked.
Another key quote that backs up my previous comment even further.
“Could you charge the president with a crime after he left office?” Buck asked.
Mueller responded, “yes.”
Your logic fails you again. Mueller knew damn well Trump did not commit obstruction. If there was no injustice because of collusion, there can be no finding of obstruction of justice. Not to mention everything Trump did was well within his Executive Powers. You believe anything Mueller’s says. A bunch of DOJ hacks.who could spout BS in a bullshit political hit piece report but know goddamn well that if Trump was afforded his Constitutional right to a defense, the war path he’d embark upon would destroy the deep state for good. You’re living in a dream Goldilocks.
None of this is my logic by the way, I am simply quoting a line of questioning.
Secondly, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t have “Mueller knew damn well Trump did not commit obstruction.” and follow it up with “You believe anything Mueller’s says.” This is what is called doublethink.
DOJ hacks, so you agree that General Attorney Barr is a political hack. That I can agree with you on.
Just so you know the Attorney General is the Presidents legal counsel so I’m not really sure what you are referring to in regards to “Constitutional right to a defense.”
“By delegation from the Attorney General, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel provides legal advice to the President and all executive branch agencies.”
The Dems are talking about prosecuting Trump after he leaves office. Barr would bit be his counsel.
The DOJ hacks on Mueller’s team. Bunch of Trump hating fuckwits who pulled doddering Mueller in directions he couldn’t keep up with. Mueller testimony was sad. He hardly looked all together there.
Bottom line, Trump won’t be prosecuted for anything.
Of course they are talking about prosecuting him after he leaves office, the DOJ forced their hand by stating he couldn’t be indicted while in office. Which I have now pointed out to you twice. They delayed the inevitable. Not only that Mueller is a lifelong Republican, which is why he didn’t indict Trump to begin with, he never was going to.
And on top of that, there is a massive case being built in the Federal Court of New York.
He will 100% be prosecuted, the doubt lies in whether he will be found guilty.
You do understand what would happen when Trump puts on a defense right? The SDNY will be gutted by Trump’s defense lawyers. Their days of political prosecutions will be over.
It’s not gonna happen.
Ah yes the great legal mind of Rudy Giuliani who was laughed out of court today.
https://dailycandidnews.com…
It’s Sidney Powell they best worry about. And Giuliani is a great legal mind. He may be pompous but no one with good sense can question his legal acumen, not after what he did to the NY mob families.
He did something 30 years ago, now hes a kook.
Here’s a factoid for you, Bexy–in 2016 the biggest predictor of a Trump voter was someone who had not moved more than 30 miles from where they grew up. Another: GWBush Jr. upon assuming the presidency (thanks, Supreme Court) had only been to Mexico. Compare this to most of the lefties you hate–we’re well travelled and well read. Cosmopolitanism is a thing we appreciate. Notice urban areas vote blue–where people are ok with diversity, including of nationalities. Here’s something from the best American writer of letters–makes me think you come here to talk a lot of shit because you’ve probably lived in the same Oz city your whole life and only travel to the gay bars (not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course, but I wonder if your closet is getting tiresome):
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
You have such a narrow view of the wofld and its people.
Open your mind son.
There’s a difference in being a tourist and living and working in another country with a different language and culture, of which I’ve lived and worked in Brazil, Hong Kong, and the Phillipinos.
I think I’ve been to about 15 other countries, its not a lot of travel for some.
Your attitude is the exact reason I hate the left
Know it all fukwits, tell people how to think
Youre a sad cunt
Fun fact
Millions voted trump in all major cities
At what age were u able 2 suck your own cock?
I just got my passports out, UK and Australian.
I’ve been to 12 countries all together, I’ve also lived and worked in UK for 2 years but didn’t count that as its the exact same culture and language as Aus.
I taught ESL in brasil and Philos and did a remedial construction job in Hong Kong.
Take your hand off it and you’ll enjoy yself more
😘
“ the word ‘man’ was originally gender neutral, meaning more or less the same as the modern day word “person”. It wasn’t until about a thousand years ago that the word “man” started to refer to a male and it wasn’t until the late 20th century that it was almost exclusively used to refer to males.
Before “man” meant a male, the word “wer” or “wǣpmann” was commonly used to refer to “male human”. This word almost completely died out around the 1300s, but survives somewhat in words like “werewolf”, which literally means “man wolf”.
Women at the time were referred to as “wif” or “wīfmann“, meaning “female human”. The latter “wifmann”, eventually evolved into the word “woman”, but retained its original meaning. The word “wif” itself eventually evolved into “wife”, with its meaning obviously being changed slightly.
Interestingly, the word ‘men’, meaning “to think” or “to have a cognitive mind”, was also gender neutral and connected to “man”, which meant “the thinker”.
So we can see from that how “man” originally referred to all humans.“
There’s no gender neutral in the latino languages.
Just about every word has a gender.
Good luck with that lefty kooks.
Not you CK.
Youre just a lefty
Dude… have you heard of latinx? 😂 I think it’s from the Bay Area
And I don’t think it has had much sway outside of certain us based areas. Roundly rejected by Spanish speakers according to Wikipedia, seen as a form of linguistic imperialism imposed by woke brunchafarians
Sounds hella gay.
Hey that’s Jen’s slang….
Ya, idk, its like, hella rad!
I’m all for inclusive language, but at times it goes a hit overboard
Botany Bay?
It’s mainly Greek round there.
And has possibly the worlds quietest international airport trying to stick its protruding runway into the birthplace of a white nation …..
Thanks bexy
I love reading about Herstory!
I also listened to that episode of Lexicon Valley.
Fascinating stuff.
Which episode is that? There are so many.
Edit: Found it. Eureka!