Chalk Boards

daviesee
daviesee Posts: 6,386
edited October 2013 in The cake stop
Why chalk boards?

They are boards. They are black.

Has anyone ever really been offended by the word blackboard?

Can white people get offended by the chalky inference?

Just curious.
None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.

Comments

  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    How about white boards, I find that very offensive :wink:
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

    seanoconn
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Exactly.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    Agreed then, from now on no 'black boards' or 'white boards', just educational visual interface devices :wink:
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

    seanoconn
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    arran77 wrote:
    Agreed then, from now on no 'black boards' or 'white boards', just educational visual interface devices :wink:
    JEVIDs it is then.
    But will that offend Jevids?

    This could get tricky. :wink:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    daviesee wrote:
    arran77 wrote:
    Agreed then, from now on no 'black boards' or 'white boards', just educational visual interface devices :wink:
    JEVIDs it is then.
    But will that offend Jevids?

    This could get tricky. :wink:

    Yes, the Jevid-ite's are an easily offended bunk :wink:
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

    seanoconn
  • Is this in response to my post on "Office Notice"?

    Always good to get a mass debate going.

    Could this turn into a helmet thread?
  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    No helmets or mass debates here please, keep that for BB :wink:
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

    seanoconn
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    A mass debate would be heavy going.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • daviesee wrote:
    A mass debate would be heavy going.

    Messy.
  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    daviesee wrote:
    A mass debate would be heavy going.

    Messy.

    We'd need that cleaning lady that pinerello001 uses after Susanna Reid's been over at his place :wink:
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

    seanoconn
  • simonhead
    simonhead Posts: 1,399
    arran77 wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    A mass debate would be heavy going.

    Messy.

    We'd need that cleaning lady that pinerello001 uses after Susanna Reid's been over at his place :wink:

    Is that the one that also does crime scenes?
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  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    simonhead wrote:
    arran77 wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    A mass debate would be heavy going.

    Messy.

    We'd need that cleaning lady that pinerello001 uses after Susanna Reid's been over at his place :wink:

    Is that the one that also does crime scenes?

    Well judging by the picture he posted of her yesterday she does do something other than clean but I don't think it's to do with crime scenes :shock: :wink:
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

    seanoconn
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,921
    daviesee wrote:
    A mass debate would be heavy going.

    Surely that would belong on the milk board thread?
  • arran77 wrote:
    Agreed then, from now on no 'black boards' or 'white boards', just educational visual interface devices :wink:

    They are not necessarily used for education, not if any of the bollox I've seen management write on them during meetings is anything to go by.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    daviesee wrote:
    Why chalk boards?

    Is it because they is black?

    BTW do such things even exist anymore?
    Faster than a tent.......
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Rolf F wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    Why chalk boards?

    Is it because they is black?

    BTW do such things even exist anymore?
    Google Shopping search for blackboards brings up a big list of chalkboards. :?
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    Rolf F wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    Why chalk boards?

    Is it because they is black?

    BTW do such things even exist anymore?

    That is racialist innit :wink:
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

    seanoconn
  • daviesee wrote:
    Why chalk boards?

    They are boards. They are black.

    Has anyone ever really been offended by the word blackboard?

    Can white people get offended by the chalky inference?

    Just curious.

    School chalk isn't even actual chalk - it's calcium sulphate (Plaster of Paris*) rather than calcium carbonate ("real" chalk).

    David

    *I'm assuming it's OK to use that term. Or does it have "protected geographical indication" and is only Plaster of Paris if it's manufactured in France? ;)
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569

    School chalk isn't even actual chalk - it's calcium sulphate (Plaster of Paris*) rather than calcium carbonate ("real" chalk).

    David

    *I'm assuming it's OK to use that term. Or does it have "protected geographical indication" and is only Plaster of Paris if it's manufactured in France? ;)

    And what about Mars bars then.
  • mrfpb wrote:

    School chalk isn't even actual chalk - it's calcium sulphate (Plaster of Paris*) rather than calcium carbonate ("real" chalk).

    David

    *I'm assuming it's OK to use that term. Or does it have "protected geographical indication" and is only Plaster of Paris if it's manufactured in France? ;)

    And what about Mars bars then.

    According to Wikipedia there are 3 places in France named Mars plus another 2 in the US, so not entirely implausible. ;)

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    I think they only exist in African classrooms these days ... And on the back of motorbikes in the poorer cycle races of course. It does amuse me when the whizzy, all singing all dancing interactive whiteboards crash as they often do.... Utter chaos
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,424
    mrfpb wrote:

    School chalk isn't even actual chalk - it's calcium sulphate (Plaster of Paris*) rather than calcium carbonate ("real" chalk).

    David

    *I'm assuming it's OK to use that term. Or does it have "protected geographical indication" and is only Plaster of Paris if it's manufactured in France? ;)

    And what about Mars bars then.

    According to Wikipedia there are 3 places in France named Mars plus another 2 in the US, so not entirely implausible. ;)

    David

    In Fance they only eat Mars bars in March :D
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    In a cross thread coincidence........

    They have installed blackboards on the walls opposite all the lift doors in our office building.

    They are supposed to have varying inspirational messages.

    They are blank. :lol:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    daviesee wrote:
    In a cross thread coincidence........

    They have installed blackboards on the walls opposite all the lift doors in our office building.

    They are supposed to have varying inspirational messages.

    They are blank. :lol:

    I've started a thread for you Daviesee to generate some 'inspirational' messages for you to impart on your colleagues :wink:
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

    seanoconn
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,921
    Removed. Wrong thread. :oops: