PC nonesense

Is it the 1st of April? ?

Waaaah! If anyone ever came into my office, we'd all be sacked on the spot for our total lack of PCness ?

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If they're productive maybe they can be golden thought showers?

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I took an HNC in 2005 and we were told that we weren't allowed to use the term "brainstorming" for that very reason. Needless to say most of the students went on to call just about every activity brainstorming ? "Anyone coming out for a quick fag brainstorm" etc.

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The phrase thought showers are commonly used in education (at least in my LEA) and it makes me cringe everytime I hear it.

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I heard that one ages ago. If I thought brainstorming as a term was genuinely of great offence ot people with epilepsy then fair enough, but really, surely it cannot possibly be? Where is the prejudice, or the intention to denigate? It's just super silly.

You beat me to it ?

I have suffered with epilepsy and I have to say I think this is ridiculous, and I am in no way offended by the use of 'brainstorming'.

The Brainstorming/thought showers thing isn't a new thing. Keep up, Nick. ?

We had a consultant who told us not to use the term too. ?

This is from the Epilepsy Action website:

"We are often asked about the word 'brainstorming' and whether its use is acceptable. Our view is that it depends upon the context: if the word is being used to describe a meeting where participants are suggesting ideas, then its use is not offensive to people with epilepsy. However, it should not be used to describe a seizure or the electrical activity within the brain during a seizure. "

WSS. ?

well its new to their firm, and new to me. i am passe ?

ah well you see, to me, anything education/school related = socialist nannyism, so i avoid it.

Thought showers are a big buzzword at my Uni at the moment - we laugh about them when the lecturer has gone out of the room though ?

Well as someone who works in brain injury, where many patients suffer post traumatic epilepsy I can honestly say I've never known someone be offended by the term!

I was told about this at college, but they used cloud bursting instead ? (or slightly more sensible mind mapping)

Brainstorming is something we jump around to everyday - It'sa song sung on a children's programme on Playhouse Disney , Imagination Movers.

mechanical digger is another term , now it's classed as a road maintenace equipment.

Blimey, for once the world of Education is ahead of the game. Might know it's about something stupid. We were discouraged from using the word 'brainstorming' about 8 years ago - it must be this long because I was at my previous school. We favour 'mindmapping' these days which is slightly different and more useful anyway. Trouble is I can't do it as I don't have a sense of direction.

[View:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1428379/Talk-of-brainstorming-may-offend-epileptics.html:550:0] (from 2003)

I heard of this a few years ago as well...but I didn't have to courage to mention to my manager the "golden thought showers" joke funnily enough!?

You beat me to it and have outdone me too as I was going to say I heard of this 5/6 years ago when I worked in stroke research. I also heard not long after that that it was apparently okay to use again.

Anyway, I should know, I'm PC Kaz ?

i do remember you getting very annoyed with someone using the word 'nutter' laugh]

I have a mild form of epilepsy and this PC crap irritates me. To be fair I'm not disabled/afflicted in anyway. You'd never ever know I have it (although you do now!).

You see gigi i dont even think youre supposed to say "afflicted" anymore ?

Person suffering from <<condition>>, person not suffering from condition referred to as 'mainstream' - I believe from recent capital grant from DoH application.