Wobbly Bits Is The Essential Guide To Polite Conversation. Covering Everything From The Politically Incorrect To The Seriously Taboo, This Humorous Book Offers Over 3,000 Ways To Avoid Speaking Your Mind! Keep This Book As Your Secret Weapon (That ‘Distinguished, Cosmetically Different Person Of Size' Your Friend Keeps Mentioning Might Just Not Be Your Ideal Date!), And You'Ll Never Be Caught Out Again!subjects Covered Include Crime, Sins, Sex, The Body And Its Parts, Clothing And Nakedness, Bodily Functions And Secretions, Illness And Injury, Old Age And Death, Work, Poverty, Government And Politics, Warfare And Race.'Utterly Delightful And Instructive' - The Observera Selection Of Extracts From Wobbly Bits:terrified Of The Stigma Attached To The Word ‘Failure', Some Early 21St-Century Educationists Floated The Idea Of Replacing It With Deferred Success, But This Triumph Of The Euphemizer's Art, With Its Empty Promise Of Jam Tomorrow, Not Surprisingly Met With Little But Derision. Suspects Arrested By The Cia Are Deemed Circumlocutiously To Be Ill, And When They Have Been Jailed They Are In The Hospital. The Practice Of The Cia (Particularly In The Wake Of The Attack On The USA On 11 September 2001) Of Seizing Terror Suspects In One Foreign Country And Transporting Them To Another One (Typically One Where A Blind Eye Is Turned To Torture) Is Obfuscated By The Gobbledegook Term Extraordinary Rendition. The Politically Correct Lobby's Contribution To A New Non-Judgmental Terminology Includes [For Prostitute] Sex Worker Or Commercial Sex Worker (Csw For Short), And Also Sex Care Provider, Which Makes The Job Sound Like A Social Service. A More Upmarket-Sounding Alternative Is Executive-Stress Consultant (‘Knickerless Ukrainian Executive-Stress Consultants', A A Gill, 2007). To Air-Traffic Controllers, An Incident In Which Two Aircraft Nearly Collide Involves Merely A Loss Of Separation, And Those Who Have Charge Of The Nuclear Industry Characterize A Power-Station Meltdown As A Critical Power Excursion. Inherently Innocuous Food May Quickly Attract Taboos By Association, Notably In The Arena Of International Rivalry Or Enmity: Hence In The USA During World War I Sauerkraut, Associated With The German Foe, Was Renamed Liberty Cabbage, And The Reluctance Of The French To Cooperate With The USA During The 2003 Invasion Of Iraq Led To The Rechristening Of French Fries (I.e. Chips) As Freedom Fries.
| ISBN | 9780713678406 |
| Autor(a) | Ayto, John |
| Editora | A&c Black |
| Idioma | Inglês Britânico |
| Ano de edição | 2007 |
| Páginas | 352 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
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