Christopher Biggins is Inappropriate

All comments are capable of causing offence :

[ especially around "showbiz types" { RAGING QUEENS } ]

"That's not your best side"

"You have a bit of crap on your face, just here *indicates corner of mouth* "

"I loved you on 'Casualty' last year - you had that leg crushed by that forklift!"

"BarrowMAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!"

"...euphemism and absurd circumlocution. 

Karl Marx had demagogically promised that his philosophy would change the world; 

the Deconstructionists only want to change all the names. 

There is no more right or wrong, good or evil, only appropriate and inappropriate. 

Language is supposedly being purged of : 

Ableism

Ageism

Borealocentrism

Ethnocentricity

Eurocentricity

Hegemonism

Heightism

Logocentrism

Lookism

Phallocentrism

Racism

Sexism

Scentism 

and 

Smellism. 

Nobody is fat anymore; 

they merely possess an alternative body image. 

The bald must be called "follicularly challenged" or "differently hirsute." 

To be dirty is to be "hygienically challenged," to be tall is to be "vertically endowed."

 If you're old, you become "chronologically gifted." 

It will be noted that this supposed rebellion afflicts language with all of the horrors of the worst Pentagon bureaucratic prose. 

Think of "collateral damage" when targets were "serviced" during the Gulf war, killing innocent civilians.

 "Ethnic cleansing" is a politically correct term for Genocide. 

Thus, political correctness offers no hope to the homeless, but it demands they be called "underhoused," "involuntarily undomiciled," or "houseless." 

The jobless become "non-renewed." 

Political correctness is radical nominalism, in which the verbal signs take the place of ideas and things. As always, this radical nominalism is never very far from paranoid schizophrenia, where the victim believes that by changing the name or sign, he has altered reality itself. 

As the experience of Baroque Europe (Lyly, Marino, etc.) shows, such ways of talking go together with 

THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILISATION."