Political Correctness Gone Mad

[GirlySports]

THE Red Arrows have been banned from performing at the 2012 London Olympics as they are too BRITISH.

Barmy organisers claim the popular RAF display team’s military background “might offend other nations”.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007421005,00.html

I guess it's hard not to offend anyone these days. What your worst example of PC gone mad?

Mine would be "Schools advised to replace sports day with 'problem solving' on the grounds that they are too competitive and may damage pupils' self-esteem - this often reflects the schools' attitude towards competitive sports or competitiveness in general"

[ken0042]

Well, the Sun does tend to blow things a little out of proportion. But I would say that the millitary should have very little to do with a global sporting event.

Keep the politics out of it, or else we end up with Olympics like we saw in 1980 and 1984.

[Rhettzky]

I like tag.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,55836,00.html

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

I like tag.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,55836,00.html

I ran into a tetherball pole once playing tag

[llama64]

My elementary school banned us from playing marbles because it promotes gambling apparently. The year after that they banned us from playing Pogs.

So we resorted to playing wall ball against the school wall using muddy tennis balls.

[skins]

at my elementary school they used to shovel all the snow in the parking lot into one giant pile, then at recess we'd play king of the hill on top of it. basically the bigger kids pushed all the smaller ones off.

those were the days

[Jayems]

Originally Posted by skins

at my elementary school they used to shovel all the snow in the parking lot into one giant pile, then at recess we'd play king of the hill on top of it. basically the bigger kids pushed all the smaller ones off.

those were the days

Ah yes.. the days of king of the hill. I'm pretty sure they coincided (for me, at least) with the Chicago Bulls jackets that everyone had. Then there was one rouge kid who wore the pistons or something. haha.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by ken0042

Well, the Sun does tend to blow things a little out of proportion. But I would say that the millitary should have very little to do with a global sporting event.

Keep the politics out of it, or else we end up with Olympics like we saw in 1980 and 1984.

The Snowbirds flew over Calgary during the opening ceremonies in 88. I think having a flyover is perfectly fine, and not at all a political statement.

This is a ridiculous decision if it is being reported accurately.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by skins

at my elementary school they used to shovel all the snow in the parking lot into one giant pile, then at recess we'd play king of the hill on top of it. basically the bigger kids pushed all the smaller ones off.

those were the days

And you know what? Things like that teach kids more about life and the real world than any sterilized classroom ever could.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Snakeeye

And you know what? Things like that teach kids more about life and the real world than any sterilized classroom ever good.

yep. i appreciate how lax my schools were for things like that. we played a violent version of wallball. if you fumbled the ball, you had to stand at the wall and someone pegged you with the ball as hard as they could in the back. and if you roofed it, there was a semi-beat down (good times, good times)

i also remember a no rules football game we played which was just basically an excuse to hit each other. you just picked up the ball and ran, and tried not to get destroyed

[Agamemnon]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

yep. i appreciate how lax my schools were for things like that. we played a violent version of wallball. if you fumbled the ball, you had to stand at the wall and someone pegged you with the ball as hard as they could in the back. and if you roofed it, there was a semi-beat down (good times, good times)

We did the same, though I think in ours you nailed the person in the ass with the ball... I think it was called 'bums up'

[Sparks]

^^
Yeah, that's how I remember it.

[metal_geek]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

i also remember a no rules football game we played which was just basically an excuse to hit each other. you just picked up the ball and ran, and tried not to get destroyed

ROFL.. I remember a game like that at school only it was baseball, and well called it tackle 500's... Basically someone hit the ball out and 10+ people would fill a circle about 3 feet wide trying to catch the ball, elbows, pulling gloves outta the way, Pantsing was all fair game.... You wanna talk about life lessons...
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[GirlySports]

One of my co-workers came up with one that made me spit out my coffee.

"Political correctness went overboard in sport the day they switched from real pigeons to clay pigeons!"

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

i also remember a no rules football game we played which was just basically an excuse to hit each other. you just picked up the ball and ran, and tried not to get destroyed

Full contact basketball was our game... in the gym, supervised no less.

"Basketball would be better.... if it were more like hockey."

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by Snakeeye

Full contact basketball was our game... in the gym, supervised no less.

"Basketball would be better.... if it were more like hockey."

Tackle handball was our equivalent. That and a game called murderball that was played with a volleyball. It consisted of a "team" staging a successful takeover of the gym, and then holding power by keeping eveyone else out by drilling a volleyball at the head of anyone foolish enough to stick their head into the gym.

As far as gambling, we used to have a spare right before math one year, which was used for a highstakes game of poker using cigarettes for currency. Our math teacher usually had to track us down to get us to go to math ... if he could find us. He was actually pretty cool about it now that I think about it.

[Super-Rye]

Foot hockey was ours. Kids would brings their goalie gloves and blockers to school and we'd use the outside stair cases as goals. Full contact, was basically soccer with a tennis ball.

[Weiser Wonder]

Originally Posted by Super-Rye

Foot hockey was ours. Kids would brings their goalie gloves and blockers to school and we'd use the outside stair cases as goals. Full contact, was basically soccer with a tennis ball.

My brother did that too, they had a league and everything.

We played soccer and basketball, but I sucked at basketball so other kids would make me ref...haha.

[FlamingLonghorn]

Originally Posted by Super-Rye

Foot hockey was ours. Kids would brings their goalie gloves and blockers to school and we'd use the outside stair cases as goals. Full contact, was basically soccer with a tennis ball.

We played this with a crushed coke can. And if you got in the goalies way he could yell "IN THE CREASE" and pretty much do what he wanted to you. We had 2 kids get concussions playing that game and we still played it after that. Oh and if the can went airborne it also cut the living crap out of you sometimes.

[SeeGeeWhy]

Originally Posted by Agamemnon

We did the same, though I think in ours you nailed the person in the ass with the ball... I think it was called 'bums up'

We did too, except we called it "Hot Ass", or "Hot Butt" while in the presence of teacher pseud-authority.