What does BGS mean?

[skluth]

BBlS

BKS, for any of you that use printers.

BSOC, for people who subscribe to political correctness jargon.

It took me a minute, but...  good one!

Except it can apply to black, brown, red, and yellow signs.

[1995hoo]

BBlS

BKS, for any of you that use printers.

BSOC, for people who subscribe to political correctness jargon.

It took me a minute, but...  good one!

Except it can apply to black, brown, red, and yellow signs.

Always gonna be someone who can't just accept a joke and has to overanalyze. 

[kphoger]

BBlS

BKS, for any of you that use printers.

BSOC, for people who subscribe to political correctness jargon.

It took me a minute, but...  good one!

Except it can apply to black, brown, red, and yellow signs.

In theory only, not in practice.

[NWI_Irish96]

Wow, we managed to make a 50+ post thread out of a question that had a clear, simple, 3 word answer.

[skluth]

BBlS

BKS, for any of you that use printers.

BSOC, for people who subscribe to political correctness jargon.

It took me a minute, but...  good one!

Except it can apply to black, brown, red, and yellow signs.

Always gonna be someone who can't just accept a joke and has to overanalyze. 

I've dated both Asians and Hispanics, and was in a long relationship with a Native American. You tell them they're not POC.

[kphoger]

White is a color.

[Rothman]

White is a color.

Dear heavens.

[hbelkins]

"People of color." Is that anything like "people of Florida" or "people of Walmart?"

I never got this whole "of color" thing anyway. The term really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If people can be "of color," does that also mean they can be "of penis" or "of vagina" or "of long/short/curly/straight/blonde/brown/red/(pick your descriptive term) hair?"

[Rothman]

"People of color." Is that anything like "people of Florida" or "people of Walmart?"

I never got this whole "of color" thing anyway. The term really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If people can be "of color," does that also mean they can be "of penis" or "of vagina" or "of long/short/curly/straight/blonde/brown/red/(pick your descriptive term) hair?"

No, it means that they are minorities that were typically victims of racist policies.  You know, like how segregation was legal in Kentucky up until my mother was a kid and she wondered why people got out of Wheelwright's pool when a black kid dared to get in after the pool was forced to be integrated.

[jeffandnicole]

We were on vacation with a friend of ours. When we went golfing, she called her orange golf ball a "ball of color"! Lol. We were cracking up. No idea why she does that because otherwise she doesn't use that term.

[1995hoo]

"People of color." Is that anything like "people of Florida" or "people of Walmart?"

I never got this whole "of color" thing anyway. The term really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If people can be "of color," does that also mean they can be "of penis" or "of vagina" or "of long/short/curly/straight/blonde/brown/red/(pick your descriptive term) hair?"

I wondered why "colored people" is now considered unacceptable yet "people of color" is apparently OK. Supposedly the difference is that the latter is said to emphasize that they are people, while the former is said to emphasize their race.

Getting back to road signs, my grandmother would have viewed BGSs as equivalent to the "BSOC" type of thing–insofar as "green" in the sense of olive tinge or light green is a skin color sometimes associated with Italians, my grandmother (who was a flaming racist) would equate "green" with "black" because she had a similar contempt for Italians as she had for black people.

[skluth]

"People of color." Is that anything like "people of Florida" or "people of Walmart?"

I never got this whole "of color" thing anyway. The term really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If people can be "of color," does that also mean they can be "of penis" or "of vagina" or "of long/short/curly/straight/blonde/brown/red/(pick your descriptive term) hair?"

I wondered why "colored people" is now considered unacceptable yet "people of color" is apparently OK. Supposedly the difference is that the latter is said to emphasize that they are people, while the former is said to emphasize their race.

There are entire books on how language changes, making some words acceptable and others unacceptable. George Carlin had several wonderful routines about it. Colored was already becoming offensive when I was a kid in the early 60's when Negro was the preferred term (and the female equivalent Negress, a cringeworthy word under any circumstance). Then it was black and now it's African-American. I understand the reasoning, but it's very frustrating and those making these determinations often tick people off (to put it mildly) by being overly judgmental when you haven't kept up with the latest PC lingo. I try to be somewhat PC, but at the same time the PC police are their own worst enemies by being both insulting and condescending way too often when language use doesn't keep up the PC language police's political speech dogma. I have no problems ignoring them when they freak out over things like Jim Jeffries' Bruce/ Caitlin Jenner comedy routine, quite possibly the funniest routine I've seen about some of the absurdities of PC speech.

[ClassicHasClass]

This thread is doomed.

[1995hoo]

This thread is doomed.

That's a word that would go with a different BGS: Big Goldenrod Sign.

[formulanone]

This thread is doomed.

If the green sign is no longer back-lit, is it dimmed?

[jon daly]

PoC seems like an inelegant construction but 1995hoo posted an explanation that I never considered.

What I am really wondering about is why K stands for Bl.

[US 89]

PoC seems like an inelegant construction but 1995hoo posted an explanation that I never considered.

What I am really wondering about is why K stands for Bl.

Color printers print using four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and "key" , which is black.

[jon daly]

PoC seems like an inelegant construction but 1995hoo posted an explanation that I never considered.

What I am really wondering about is why K stands for Bl.

Color printers print using four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and "key" , which is black.

Ah! I knew the other three but forgot about key.

Thanks.

[Rothman]

PoC seems like an inelegant construction but 1995hoo posted an explanation that I never considered.

What I am really wondering about is why K stands for Bl.

Color printers print using four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and "key" , which is black.

Most useful post of the day right here.

[kphoger]

Wow, we managed to make a 50+ post thread out of a question that had a clear, simple, 3 word answer.

Hey, we made it even further by talking about race!   



In other news, I have nothing more to add about the term 'BGS'.

[hotdogPi]

What would a Big Gray Sign be abbreviated as?

[kphoger]

What would a Big Gray Sign be abbreviated as?

BSOC.  See Reply #51.

[SoCal Kid]

White is a color.

Mom I learned something new today!

[renegade]

In b4 lock ... 

[1995hoo]

The various abbreviations prompted me to remember that when I was in college, there was one particular bus stop that was popular as a place for black students to congregate (I have no idea why that particular one), to the point where it became known as the "Black Bus Stop"  and even the black students started calling it the "BBS."  No idea whether that's still the case today.

(For anyone familiar with Charlottesville, it was the UTS bus stop on Central Grounds at the stairs between Monroe Hall and Maury Hall.)