In another of those endless streams Daily Mail headlines about how some jobs-worth has once again completely failed to use any common sense, and has instead applied some dunder-headed groupthink, we find that Nathaniel Newton Infant School in Nuneaton has disciplined two boys for playing "Soliders".
So, in the usual style, one will hear the appropriate, but now dreadfully tired "Political correctness gone mad" chant. I'm not sure if people actually say this any more, newspapers seem to like to just bung the phrase into the story somewhere.
But the jobs-worth's have their own tiresome buzzwords and phrases too. The school in question labelled the Boys' behaviour as "Unacceptable". A current favourite weasel word of politicians, used almost as often as "lessons learned". It's one of those infuriating uses of a word, like people who put "FACT" at the end of a sentence, as if that somehow makes it true.
If something is "Unacceptable", please follow it up with detailed reasons why. Doing otherwise is completely unacceptable. FACT.
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