Please note, these all come from a country with a chattering class that believes the United States is just this far from a totalitarian fascist state. (They may be right, but that isn’t the point.) All via Weird Universe.
- Bournemouth Council bans 18 Latin terms, including the word “via”, because they’re too “elitist” and were worried about the self esteem of the immigrants who didn’t understand them.
- East Cambridge District Council closed down a tavern poetry-reading session for health and safety grounds meaning the pub had a “music” license, not a “spoken word” license.
- Liverpool City Council has told a small business office it must purchase an environmental disposal contract because sandwiches are apparently industrial waste.
- Salisbury Council has decided that the term color-blind is offensive to blind people and prefers the phrase “colour visual impairment,” other phrases to be avoided: “black,” “British,” “West Indian,” “moving forward” and “singing from the same hymn sheet”.
- Bromsgrove Council ordered gardeners to take down barbed wire because thieves might get hurt.