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UK idiots: Council bans 'brainstorming' and replaces the term with 'thought showers'... for fear of offending epileptics

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PostSubject: UK idiots: Council bans 'brainstorming' and replaces the term with 'thought showers'... for fear of offending epileptics   Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:59 am

Brainstorming has undoubtedly generated some bolts of brilliance and flashes of inspiration over the years.

But in genteel Tunbridge Wells, the council decided it might lead to the traditionally Disgusted residents of the town becoming Offended as well.

So now the expression brainstorming has been banned. And in future, meetings to generate new ideas will be referred to as 'thought showers'.

Brainstorming, first coined in the 1890s, was used by psychiatrists to refer to severe nervous attacks. And although since the 1940s it has meant a meeting to produce new ideas, councillors are concerned it may prove offensive to epileptics.

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PostSubject: Re: UK idiots: Council bans 'brainstorming' and replaces the term with 'thought showers'... for fear of offending epileptics   Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:24 am

CovOps wrote:
And in future, meetings to generate new ideas will be referred to as 'thought showers'.

The "council" is a gaggle of drips!

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councillors are concerned it may prove offensive to epileptics.

Has the "council" received any complaints?
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