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Snowperson

  • 19-01-2018 9:00am
    #1
    Posts: 0


    I never thought I’d start a thread like this, yet here I am

    Just heard the presenter on Nova refer to a Snowman as a Snowperson and Snowpeople

    Apparently after googling it’s been politically incorrect to call it a snowman for a very long time

    where is the reset button?


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,290 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Stick another carrot just below the waist and then tell people to STFU


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    What a time to be alive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    Why does it bother you? No one is forcing you to say it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Owta Control


    Why does it bother you? No one is forcing you to say it.

    He's entitled to feel aggrieved....it's snow joking matter!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Why does it bother you? No one is forcing you to say it.

    My whole life myself and the whole world has been calling it a snowman. Now apparently that’s not correct, and you’re wondering why this bothers me? It’s a thread on AH. It’s a conversation starter

    Nobody is forcing you to reply, yet you did


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Q.What gender is a melting snow man?
    A.Gender fluid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭.red.


    How can you tell if it's a snow man or snow woman?
    Snowballs!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Make a complaint to the ombudsperson...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭cruizer101


    They're just as bad assuming that it wants to be called a snowperson. Maybe they prefer to be called snowmen but no one thought to ask them.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,178 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    everlast75 wrote: »
    Stick another carrot just below the waist and then tell people to STFU

    Amen to that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,164 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Another thread where people get outraged about people getting outraged.

    People that build snowmen are racist anyway. They only build white snowmen! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Another thread where people get outraged about people getting outraged.

    People that build snowmen are racist anyway. They only build white snowmen! :)

    I was warned against making one from yellow snow...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Another thread where people get outraged about people getting outraged.

    People that build snowmen are racist anyway. They only build white snowmen! :)

    Beware of yellow snowmen.


  • Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭qwerty ui op


    I never thought I’d start a thread like this, yet here I am

    Just heard the presenter on Nova refer to a Snowman as a Snowperson and Snowpeople

    Apparently after googling it’s been politically incorrect to call it a snowman for a very long time

    where is the reset button?

    Never heard snowperson till now. So now I've 2 words for the same thing, whats the problem? .
    Most Irish people wouldn't have a clue what your on about, if talked to them about pc.
    Can you describe a scenario where this becomes a problem? you being so weak as to feel pressure to conform to this is not a problem.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    ALways gets me when I hear a yellow weather alert for snow


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Never heard snowperson till now. So now I've 2 words for the same thing, whats the problem? .
    Most Irish people wouldn't have a clue what your on about, if talked to them about pc.
    Can you describe a scenario where this becomes a problem? you being so weak as to feel pressure to conform to this is not a problem.

    Jesus h Christ
    I think I’m going to be able to get on with my life after this
    I don’t feel like I have to conform, I’m going to continue calling it a snowman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    The only difference in a snowman and a snow person is snowballs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Malayalam


    HuMan.
    Just leaving that there ....:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,118 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Another thread where people get outraged about people getting outraged.

    They're all snowflakes

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Malayalam wrote: »
    HuMan.
    Just leaving that there ....:eek:

    Huperson


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,118 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Huperson

    Sibling Andy?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Well I suppose the snowflakes are entitled to it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Malayalam


    Dammy and Maddy?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    It's a snowman, if you happen to make a snowwoman then it's a snowwoman.

    Anyone that says snowperson is a gimp.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭sjb25


    I never thought I’d start a thread like this, yet here I am

    Just heard the presenter on Nova refer to a Snowman as a Snowperson and Snowpeople

    Apparently after googling it’s been politically incorrect to call it a snowman for a very long time

    where is the reset button?

    Jesus H Christ


  • Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭paulpd


    I think the OP was referring to SHOW people....not snowpeople...


  • Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭qwerty ui op


    Jesus h Christ
    I think I’m going to be able to get on with my life after this
    I don’t feel like I have to conform, I’m going to continue calling it a snowman

    I know you're going to struggle on and fight through this.
    I hear PC mentioned every now and again lately and I'm failing to see where the problem is. Your opening post certainly sounds like you are feeling some pressure to conform.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I know you're going to struggle on fight through this.
    I hear PC mentioned every now and again lately and I'm failing to where the problem is. Your opening post certainly sounds like you are feeling some pressure to conform.

    The force is strong with this one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    While we're on the topic, what about Mother Nature?
    Is it 'Parent' Nature these days?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mrcaramelchoc


    I'm waiting for the guy with the you tube clip.there's usually one in every thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    My whole life myself and the whole world has been calling it a snowman. Now apparently that’s not correct, and you’re wondering why this bothers me? It’s a thread on AH. It’s a conversation starter

    Nobody is forcing you to reply, yet you did

    No one said you can't say it nor did they say it was incorrect. Others choose not to say it. What's the issue?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    I'm waiting for the guy with the you tube clip.there's usually one in every thread.

    Sally who :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭qwerty ui op


    The force is strong with this one

    What???
    Seeing as you started the thread, do you mind answering a few of my questions above.
    I'm just trying to get my head around the problem.

    and yes there seem to be some sort of problem, I see posters having a winge every now and again about this.
    I'm not sure,but it seems to be connected to this extremely weird(for Ireland) left wing / right wing thing you see online over the last few years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    The idiot that initially proposed that needs a damn good kicking.

    However realistically no one actually gives a crap about **** like this and these ‘issues’ are dreamt up by idiots employed in state run concern/liberty groups who have to justify their existence and salaries and so they scour the media for something to complain about. Real people who live in the real world don’t actually care.

    The media should challenge these stupid notions more but I guess the media also thrive on the reaction to their playing ball with whacko civil liberties and PC groups.

    I say carry on as before.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    No said you can't say it nor did they say it was incorrect. Others choose not to say it. What's the issue?

    What’s the issue?
    It’s called a snowman :-)
    The issue is that people that call it a “snowperson” are making a conscious decision to avoid calling it a snowman, as if they are dodging some PC bullet

    The presenter was talking to a child.
    He asked the child did he build a snowperson, and then referred to them as snowpeople

    I was surprised that someone was trying to obviously choose their words so carefully when referring to a lump of snow which has culturally been referred to a snowman for as long as I can remember

    People are free to call snow whatever they like
    And we are all free to raise an eyebrow and start a thread in AH :-)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Anyone know if Burnley vs Personchester United is on tv this weekend?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    They're all snowflakes

    At least this time we find some use for snowflakes,make snow men from them.

    Next we'll all be racists too as the snowmen are all white and there's no ethnic diversity among them. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    What about man-made structures? Postman? Milkman? Breadman? Bin man? Coal man? Are these aresholës going to thrown wobblers over those terms too?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,671 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Do the stones on the body of he snowperson button to the left or the right :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    mariaalice wrote: »
    Do the stones on the body of he snowperson button to the left or the right :p

    Only use zips :/



    Kinda wish it was snowing now to make one


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    mariaalice wrote: »
    Do the stones on the body of he snowperson button to the left or the right :p

    Did you ever see tits on a snow person?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,386 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    Did you ever see tits on a snow person?

    If it's a snow woman then they look like they're pregnant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    I would just like to take this opportunity to announce that I now identify as an attack helicopter.

    A model fluid one btw.

    So today I woke up identifying as a Bell AH-1 Cobra. Yesterday it was as a Mil Mi-24. Tomorrow? Who knows? Perhaps as a Aspatiale Gazelle?

    So if you disagree with this, or have an issue with it, then you are obviously Heliphobic and are worse than Hitler.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,471 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    What about Seamen?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,671 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Grayson wrote: »
    If it's a snow woman then they look like they're pregnant.

    Well if she is pregnant its the zip ups its very difficult to get the buttons closed over the bump.

    Commercial radio is very cut throat anything to up your profile.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    This kind of snow-signalling isn't a regular enough occurence to stick.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Can you imagine if a call for conscription ever came down in this day and age.

    God help us all if it ever did.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    I saw the title of the thread and my first thought was that that's just plain wrong.

    After reading the op , it's still wrong.

    I'm getting my snow shovel out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    Frosty the Snowman just called...he wants to know where to put his carrot next Christmas?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    This is how Genocide was invented


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