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Even worse when did they change Somoas to coconut delights??? Its hard for me to be so PC. I had an argument with a girl scout about this just the other day!
No more "suicides"...welcome "ladders"
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- Jun 12, 2015
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This is just regional. They use two different bakeries. Where I live they're called Samoas. In some places they're Caramel Delights. And, this is nothing new or different. I can't remember it NOT being this way. The things that people get worked up about are kind of funny, you have to admit. It's an overpriced cookie. Who cares.
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The loudest complainers are the ones against changes. Sometimes a company will make a quiet change to be more sensitive to one group or another, and I only hear about it because of all the screaming protests about snowflakes. From snowflakes, apparently.
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- Feb 17, 2014
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Who cares really? I don't think folks are any more soft because they don't want to use the word.
DD's HS softball team started calling them gasers this year. The city and the school corporation have been doing a lot of work bringing awareness to teenage suicide. It's a change I understand.
While I also agree that our country is getting soft, this change has nothing to do with it.
DD's HS softball team started calling them gasers this year. The city and the school corporation have been doing a lot of work bringing awareness to teenage suicide. It's a change I understand.
While I also agree that our country is getting soft, this change has nothing to do with it.
People who think the change was good have zero understanding for ideas from people who think the change was wrong.
People who disagree with the change have zero understanding for ideas from people who agree with the change.
Everyone's right in their own mind and refuse to even see the others point of view.
That's what we teach our kids and we wonder why things are like they are
People who disagree with the change have zero understanding for ideas from people who agree with the change.
Everyone's right in their own mind and refuse to even see the others point of view.
That's what we teach our kids and we wonder why things are like they are
- Jun 1, 2015
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I've always/only ever known them as "UCLA"s. Not sure where the name came from, truthfully. We've just always called them UCLAs. I had a JV basketball coach who was a Republican/conservative but a smartass at the same time - when I played my first year of JV ball in 2003, he used to joke and say, "On the line for UCLAs - can't call 'em 'suicides' anymore or they'll send us all to group therapy". He could be an rear like that. Most of the schools I've coached at probably called them 'suicides' because none of the kids knew what "UCLA"s were until I explained it.
The actual problem is people having no compassion for other human beings.
EDIT: This topic needed more than a single glib response. See the next post.
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I haven't heard anybody complain about it, but I can't even imagine being so determined to use a specific term for no reason other than that's the term you know that you'd just not even consider how it could potentially affect other human beings. It's truly baffling to me, honestly.
Let's make this a specific example.
You call them suicides because that's what they're called. I still call them that (because that's the common term and it's easier), so, hey, I won't judge. Then one of your players, a child, comes up to you after practice one day. She says, "Coach, my older brother committed suicide a couple years ago. Every time we run and you call them 'suicides,' it reminds me of what he did, and it hurts. I don't mind the running, but can we just call them something else so I can focus on practice?"
If you call that kid a "snowflake" and insist on using an arbitrary term despite what doing so does to her, you're a monster.
Being considerate of others is not a sign of weakness. It's literally one of the most important, if not the most important, things we should be teaching kids.
Let's make this a specific example.
You call them suicides because that's what they're called. I still call them that (because that's the common term and it's easier), so, hey, I won't judge. Then one of your players, a child, comes up to you after practice one day. She says, "Coach, my older brother committed suicide a couple years ago. Every time we run and you call them 'suicides,' it reminds me of what he did, and it hurts. I don't mind the running, but can we just call them something else so I can focus on practice?"
If you call that kid a "snowflake" and insist on using an arbitrary term despite what doing so does to her, you're a monster.
Being considerate of others is not a sign of weakness. It's literally one of the most important, if not the most important, things we should be teaching kids.
I'm going to use the term ladders from now on.
