Nanny Bans Fireman Sam

Fireman Sam has now been deemed outdated, and has been banned from promotional material by  Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue (LFR).

LFR made the decision after it received negative feedback regarding Sam not being inclusive enough. The character had previously been used by the fire service for station open days and advertising materials.

Instead LFR has introduced new mascots in the form of gender-neutral blue, red and yellow fire extinguishers called Freddy, Filbert and Penelope.

Chief fire officer Les Britzman is quoted by the Independent:

“Firefighters nationally and residents locally have raised some concerns that ‘Fireman Sam’ doesn’t reflect the fire service today, in terms of both the job itself and our workforce.

It’s important to us that our open days and community events don’t make anyone feel excluded and therefore we took this decision."

They are rather missing the more relevant point, that as Sam is made of plastic he would melt as soon as he went anywhere near a fire!

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We Have Descended Into Utter Madness!

There you go...be warned... pic.twitter.com/KBTauYrl3b

— Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft) August 2, 2018

Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad!

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Gender Neutral Shoes - Whither Clarks Commandos?

As per Clarks, as reported in the Mail:

"Clarks has a gender neutral ethos that anyone can choose any style they would like. Over the past few seasons, following customer feedback and market research, we have focused on creating more unisex shoes and we are looking at a number of elements of our business to promote this gender neutral ethos, both on our website and within our stores. 

As a large global company, it is not always possible to implement all the changes we want to make as quickly as we would like. However, we are looking to move as fast as we can to ensure this ethos is reflected throughout our brand.

Today we have more unisex styles in our range than ever before. This means we now have a wider range of closed-in styles, school boots and GORE-TEX® styles and these changes will continue in our Spring Summer 2018 range, which has been designed with an entirely unisex approach."

I am so old I remember Clarks Commandos and the commando handbook.

Oh, and in those days health and safety be buggered you could get your feet x-rayed in their shops too!

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Gender Neutral Shoes Pave The Way To Utopia!

Dolly Babe shoe has been renamed: CGNS1067386/2017B (Clark's Gender Neutral Shoe No: 1067386/2017 season, in black). There, that's better.

— Mark Sparrow (@Markgsparrow) August 13, 2017

Now that Nanny has sorted that "major injustice" out, she will turn her attention to the less pressing problems of world peace and an end to poverty and hunger!

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Nanny Bans Ladies and Gentlemen

The phrase 'ladies and gentlemen' is being scrapped from tannoy announcements on London Underground.

Tube bosses want to make the service more gender-neutral and have told staff to use phrases such as "good morning everyone" instead.

We want everyone to feel welcome on our transport network. We have reviewed the language that we use in announcements and elsewhere and will make sure that it is fully inclusive, reflecting the great diversity of London.

– Mark Evers, Director of Customer Strategy at Transport for London

Please can someone tell me why the phrase "ladies and gentlemen" is so offensive, when it is clearly being used in a polite manner?

I really don't understand this, am I so old and out of touch?


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