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Council bans brainstorming | |
2008-06-22 | |
A council has banned the term "brainstorming" and replaced it with "thought showers". Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in Kent was accused of taking political correctness to extremes after instructing staff to make the change. The move came as council chiefs feared the word brainstorming might offend mentally ill people and those with epilepsy. The buzz term is often used by executives to generate ideas among their staff. But memos have been sent to staff asking them not to use it and some have been given training which encouraged them to use the alternative of thought showers. Even charities representing epileptics said the ban was taking political correctness too far. Margaret Thomas, of the National Society for Epilepsy, said: "Brainstorming is a clear and descriptive phrase. Alternatives such as thought shower or blue-sky thinking are ambiguous to say the least. Any implication that the word brainstorming is offensive to epileptics takes political correctness too far."
A spokesman for Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in Kent said: "We take diversity awareness very seriously. The majority of staff have taken part in training and been asked to use the term thought showers." | |
Posted by:Steve White |
#10 #4: Ban thinking while you're at it. Don't need to, Moonbats don't think, they "Emote". |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-06-22 17:10 |
#9 Ban thinking while you're at it. No need to ban something they aren't doing. |
Posted by: lotp 2008-06-22 16:58 |
#8 But did they also ban blamestorming? |
Posted by: AzCat 2008-06-22 16:25 |
#7 The last whimpers of a great western power as it slowly collapses like a flan in the cupboard. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2008-06-22 14:32 |
#6 Thought showers! What a cleansing idea. Now brainstorming involves several people of one, two, or more sexes doing this together. It's starting to sound like fun to do thought showers, if you do them with the right sort of people. If you don't do them with the right people, then it could be risky. Think what might happen if you were to drop the thought soap and then bend over to pick it up. Yeh, it's good to be careful. |
Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-06-22 12:24 |
#5 Our hopes and prayers are with our brethren folks in England. When the majority of the populace get more excited over a football (soccer) game than about what their proud nation is coming too, we can only fear the worst. It's coming here to the States also and hopefully, by watching the outcomes of follies such as this one, we are more cognizant of their beginnings and able to stop them early on. Sadly, we are being somewhat lax at that too. |
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2008-06-22 12:05 |
#4 Ban thinking while you're at it. |
Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-06-22 11:21 |
#3 Damn. Beat me to it, ed! |
Posted by: Raj 2008-06-22 09:29 |
#2 And a really great thoughts, like the this council's, shall henceforth be known as Golden Showers. |
Posted by: ed 2008-06-22 09:24 |
#1 Truly we are at the end of days! |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-06-22 05:29 |