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[Cockles & Whelks]

Elon can I have a place on your Mars colony. I'll do anything, cleaning, dishwashing. Just get me off this planet.

Marks & Spencer: Midget Gems change name after academic's campaign - BBC News

A Liverpool disability academic told M&S the word midget has its roots in Victorian freak shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ParaSeoul]

Surprised these weren't changed sooner.

 

[funkygunther]

giving a fuck about the names of sweets is some intense-British thing

NOT MY OPAL FRUITS

 

[Artoris]

Elon can I have a place on your Mars colony. I'll do anything, cleaning, dishwashing. Just get me off this planet.

Marks & Spencer: Midget Gems change name after academic's campaign - BBC News

A Liverpool disability academic told M&S the word midget has its roots in Victorian freak shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

Anything

 

[nush]

I'm gonna do doughnuts in the street outside this academics home.

 

[Drew1440]

Are Marks&Spencer still requiring their staff to wear pronoun badges?

 

[FunkMiller]

giving a fuck about the names of sweets is some intense-British thing

NOT MY OPAL FRUITS

It’s still a fucking MARATHON TO ME YOU BASTARDS!

 

[nush]

It’s still a fucking MARATHON TO ME YOU BASTARDS!

What about Treats? Fuck M&Ms.

 

[cormack12]

Pathetic 'academics'.

Dr Erin Pritchard, a lecturer in disability studies at Liverpool Hope University, argued the word midget was a form of hate speech.

midget
/ˈmɪdʒɪt/
noun
noun: midget; plural noun: midgets

1. 1.
   OFTEN OFFENSIVE
   a person of extremely or exceptionally small stature.
   
   
2. 2.
   something that is very small.
   "the country was an economic midget compared with its extraordinarily rich neighbour"

adjective
adjective: midget

1. designed or made in a smaller size than usual; very small.
   "a midget submarine"

 

[Cockles & Whelks]

I just went to Tesco.

As a person of Whiteness, I resent this implication that I'm creamy and not mysterious like Brown and Dark.

 

[bitbydeath]

Time for a smoke OP.