PC

Hmmm. Am I thinking about the term 'personal computer', or the term 'politically correct'? My personal computer has never been very personal, for me at least. It's like a stubborn little five year old. I ask it to do something (even simple), and it either refuses, or it doesn't listen to me screaming at it, and does something else! I don't even know how to discipline it when it acts up. It just sits there in total defiance, knowing it probably takes one little command, or key stroke, or point and click, and I will be rewarded handsomely. Instead of 'it' working for me, I feel I'm working for 'it'. It is extremely frustrating to have an ongoing love/hate relationship with an inanimate object. On to the 'politically correct' term. Here's another problem I face. Mankind, in general, has become so sensitive, and gets their feelings hurt over the slightest, most innocent gestures or comments, that you cannot speak intelligibly, or in complete sentences, in public. These days, how do you deliver a public discourse without a team of moderators? You could be speaking about something as noncontroversial as, say, animal control, and find your tit in a wringer by the time you're done! Animals need to be controlled, not inhumanely, but for the safety of the public and the animal. I've got a feeling PETA is probably going to TP my house, but only with unbleached toilet paper, because a bird could accidentally use it for nest constructing materials. Two politically incorrect terms I personally use, and use to describe people of politics, or nonpolitical figures, either in a correct setting, or in an incorrect light, are the words 'retarded' and 'gay'. The politically correct 'hate mail' should be flowing in any moment! If some politician says or does something to warrant negative public attention, that's 'retarded'. They have personally held back, or delayed progress of public progression. Now I ask, is that incorrect usage of the term? The mentally handicapped should not feel threatened by me, I mean them no ill will, but if someone is making decisions for the community as a whole, and happens to be retarding progress, that could affect the mentally challenged community negatively as well. We could have a politically incorrect riot on our hands! The term 'gay' when used inderogatorily correct, shouldn't be offensive, but, rather amusing. If the homosexual community takes offense, then maybe we can rephrase the term to say, ' that's so homo'. Yeah, that sounds better! Not! Maybe they could fire back with, 'that's incredibly hetero, or, 'can you believe how straight that is?' OOOH, feel the burn! So, I'm not a big fan of acronyms or abbreviations anyway, and this particular one just seems to get me in trouble no matter how I slice it. It all boils down to, my personal computer is so retarded, and it would just be 'gay' on my part to pretend to be PC.