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Politically Incorrect Terms On Stamps

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Posted 02/12/2016   9:26 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ikeyPikey to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Good grief, rlmstamps2012 ... where were those the days, or what?
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Edited by ikeyPikey - 02/12/2016 9:28 pm
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Posted 02/12/2016   11:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I think I like retardo the best. Brings back memories of my childhood!

Once in a studio I worked in, many years ago, a broken computer monitor had a post-it note on it on which someone had written DISABLED. I put attached another that read CHALLENGED. By the end of the day, the monitor was covered in post-its with every work you could possibly imagine to describe the poorly departed computer.
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Posted 02/18/2016   12:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 51studebaker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I assume that most folks would find this word politically incorrect?
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Posted 02/18/2016   11:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add cobie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
In reply to jamesw, I remember, a few years ago, how a head of department for which a new building was being desgned, describing how he had learnt the important difference between a "toilet for the disabled" and a "disabled toilet" ....

In addition to verbal PC, how about picture PC? As a collector of nonhuman primate stamps, I have always felt that the earliest issue of suc a stamp occurred in 1906 in Africa, at a time where Western countries would show heads of state and other luminaries ...

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Posted 02/18/2016   11:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add cobie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry, meant to imply how here is a new African country showing a monkey and maybe thumbing its nose at Western Royalty?
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Posted 03/19/2020   4:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add angore to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
In a related aspect, I had to see a movie before I realized fuzzy wuzzies were actual people! The British gave us an interesting history during their colonization.
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