This made me smile this morning...

Can’t wait for the new system that gets you quickly through to the reception, sadly it just means it’s a faster path to getting told there’s no availability left.
BTW when we do currently get through it’s not to see the Doc, just to get a return phone call from a Doc.

The system has been bugg erd deliberately to push folk to private practices that are already advertising such services. Fine if you can afford it, too bad if you can’t.

Terry

GMJ said:

What a shame ...

UKIP on brink of wipeout after losing all seats in local elections

UKIP has lost almost all of its councillors, as the Eurosceptic party struggles to redefine itself.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Perhaps they’ll take the Tories to court for theft, after all they did steal all their promises and a lot of their membership.

So no need now for a far right loon party that can trash the country, the one in power at present has shown it’s already got those capabilities.

Terry

I can't offhand think of any other colour described beers or even drinks as not been to a pub in 25 years.
But there must be many coloured named items and even 'pale' ales or 'brown' beers that just could annoy some overly sensitive person looking for confrontation.
I don't know how long the White Faced beer has been in existence. If before the latest sensitive era then why not. I disagree with having to change many historical names and items just because it's now out of fashion or vaguely upsetting to a new minority group who want everyone else to bow to their ideas.

Yes it does seem your comment "You may as well say that every brand using the word white or black cause problems, but clearly and for very obvious reasons they do not." is selective and is often taken out of context so some overly sensitive or antagonistic person can jump on their particular bandwagon.
We, or maybe just me, are almost living in fear that some innocent comment can now be pounced upon as racist or offensive by one group or another.

Just another thought, are "Lazy Boy sofas" still being sold? Apparently yes. La-Z-Boy UK | Recliners, Sofas, Chairs | Official Site | La-Z-Boy UK or maybe a "Lazy Susan" is now a defamatory name?

I still say it's bordering on the absurd or crazy.!

Ray.

As already said Ray it is the combination of the word white or black with another word which may cause offence Ray. If someone refers to a black man that is fine but if he referred to a black bast..d that would be highly offensive. I am sure you can see that difference between an offensive combination of words and an acceptable one.

There are no combinations in your recent list that would offend a reasonable person and that is what considerate people would take into account when naming things, or when considering whether the context or acceptability of a name that's been around for a while had changed.. Obviously as standards evolve we adjust our behaviour. We don't keep slaves anymore even though it was perfectly acceptable years ago. We wear seat belts, most don't drink and drive, few smoke these days and we don't send children up chimneys. These are some of the changes in what were previously the norms. Most of those changes annoyed some people as they were adopted. Slavers had to be paid off to stop their trade for example.

Finally there is a considerable difference between someone who deliberately looks for things to take offence at and a brewery, or any business, changing a name partly out of consideration, I assume, and almost certainly because it is so very easy to see how doing so could increase the number of stockists and increase sales.