George Carlin Bit Becomes Reality

[abbey1227]

He pointed out that whenever 'they' replace a word with a a larger word containing more syllables, it usually means they're trying to baffle you with BS. 

U. Toronto police department ‘rebrands’ itself as ‘Special Constable Service’
Dave Huber - Associate Editor •August 14, 2021

After a “sustained 116-year history,” the University of Toronto will be ditching the word “police” from its campus law enforcement branch in order to make its officers more “approachable, accessible and distinguishable.”

According to The Varsity, the UT Campus Police will be known henceforth as the University of Toronto Campus Safety Special Constable Service.

Part of the reason for the change is a two-year-old law which forbids “special constables” from using the word “police.” Another is the “increased scrutiny” cops have gotten from the campus community, which has included calls to defund them.

The report cites several controversies which have contributed to such, including a quintet of officers who had “approached and questioned” members of the UT Graduate Students’ Union who hung a “Cops off Campus” banner.

Last year, the UT Students’ Union demanded an apology from campus police for its “historically unjust behaviour towards Black, Indigenous, and other racialized and marginalized students.”

www.thecollegefix.com/u-toronto-police-department-rebrands-itself-as-special-constable-service/?fbclid=IwAR3gXC2_UourPJMoXp-6s_iWtBc14KsqgIBCjLzZQYuPtea23b6NErvP9_E

[Prometheus]

I know which bit you're talking about and I get where they're coming from, but changing a name isn't really going to change perceptions.

I knew a guy in high school named, Jimmy. He was a goofy kid and had about as much luck picking up girls at a school dance as a fly has at picking up an elephant. One day, he decided to start using his middle name - Spence (not Spencer) - instead of "Jimmy" because he thought that "sounding" cooler would make him cooler.

It didn't. He still couldn't talk to girls without giggling or making stupid jokes... and he danced like a caricature of Jim Carrey doing a caricature of white guys dancing. Seriously, I've seen people with Huntington's with more rhythm. That isn't very PC, but you get the point.

Spence then figured that he should try to act as cool as his name, but as you may have guessed, he went waaaay over the top and ended up looking like an even bigger asshat. He even went stag to the prom and tried picking up girls who were there with other guys.

In college, he did a better job with re-inventing himself, since no one knew him, but he wasn't having the same "success" with women as his contemporaries. In his dejection, he went back to calling himself "Jimmy" and gone was the "Spence Pretense" as well as his juvenile goofiness. He met a beautiful woman. Got married and had three wonderful children and even has a couple grandkids now.

There's a lesson in there for the folks at U. Toronto, should there care to look for it.

[abbey1227]

Aug 17, 2021 3:59:42 GMT Prometheus said:

I know which bit you're talking about and I get where they're coming from, but changing a name isn't really going to change perceptions.

I knew a guy in high school named, Jimmy. He was a goofy kid and had about as much luck picking up girls at a school dance as a fly has at picking up an elephant. One day, he decided to start using his middle name - Spence (not Spencer) - instead of "Jimmy" because he thought that "sounding" cooler would make him cooler.

It didn't. He still couldn't talk to girls without giggling or making stupid jokes... and he danced like a caricature of Jim Carrey doing a caricature of white guys dancing. Seriously, I've seen people with Huntington's with more rhythm. That isn't very PC, but you get the point.

Spence then figured that he should try to act as cool as his name, but as you may have guessed, he went waaaay over the top and ended up looking like an even bigger asshat. He even went stag to the prom and tried picking up girls who were there with other guys.

In college, he did a better job with re-inventing himself, since no one knew him, but he wasn't having the same "success" with women as his contemporaries. In his dejection, he went back to calling himself "Jimmy" and gone was the "Spence Pretense" as well as his juvenile goofiness. He met a beautiful woman. Got married and had three wonderful children and even has a couple grandkids now.

There's a lesson in there for the folks at U. Toronto, should there care to look for it.

George saw so much of what they're doing years ahead of others. No wonder he seemed to get more grumpy as he aged.

None of us kids really listened to much elderly advice.......... but I think the best lesson to take away from that is to realize that your teens and early 20s are not and will not be your entire life experience.

So many of the things you feel are important will cease to be later on. And peer pressure or the opinions of others really should not be taken all that seriously.

heheheheh  'Spence Pretense'