The man who broke his leg in an FA Cup final is at it again....

Originally Posted by Jez Quigley

He apparently took part in a Nazi programme based in Wigan to create Aryan super soldiers by stitching together the best bits of 2 Chinese people into a Caucasian warrior

It failed though, when after a while it dawned on him that 2 Wongs don't make a white.

Dear Lord.

Originally Posted by Blagger

It's absurd to think that you can just take a word, separate it from the pragmatic and societal factors governing its use, and thus free its meaning from any racial connotations. This is most pressing in cases where there is mild invariance in the word's meaning: for instance, using it to refer to a meal, or restaurant, which bears historical and cultural ties to the ethnicity of the people towards which the word was employed as a pejorative.

Took the words out of my mouth mate.

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

define racist

chinky defines a restaurant or a meal and isn't racist in the slightest when used in that context

So on that basis if you went to a Caribbean restauarant you could call it the N-word without fear of reprisal?

Originally Posted by Jez Quigley

He apparently took part in a Nazi programme based in Wigan to create Aryan super soldiers by stitching together the best bits of 2 Chinese people into a Caucasian warrior

It failed though, when after a while it dawned on him that 2 Wongs don't make a white.

Originally Posted by dodger

So on that basis if you went to a Caribbean restauarant you could call it the N-word without fear of reprisal?

Depends if it was part of Nickeragua

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

define racist

chinky defines a restaurant or a meal and isn't racist in the slightest when used in that context

Were you In Luis Suarez's legal defence team?

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

define racist

chinky defines a restaurant or a meal and isn't racist in the slightest when used in that context

now i know you're a WUM.

Originally Posted by elhombre

Dave Whelan: When I was growing up we used to call the Chinese ‘chingalings’...

....In what was supposed to be an apology to the Jewish community.

'Apology accepted'

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

define racist

chinky defines a restaurant or a meal and isn't racist in the slightest when used in that context

That is one of the most stupid sentences I have ever read

Originally Posted by jaffo

That is one of the most stupid sentences I have ever read from you this afternoon, Throb

Edited.

Originally Posted by irk

by "politically correct" you mean, of course, "non racist". let's call a spade a spade here.

I'm not sure if you can anymore

If there was a scale to racism against the Chinese I'd say it was number 42

Originally Posted by forzagarza

If there was a scale to racism against the Chinese I'd say it was number 42

Interesting point - what scale of "racism" should be applied to:

Frog
Eye tie
Kraut
Jock
Pakki
Pom
taffy
Windie

The "n" word has clear negative connotations but how offensive are the above, any more than Brummie, for instance?

Originally Posted by Denis Irwell

Interesting point - what scale of "racism" should be applied to:

Frog
Eye tie
Kraut
Jock
Pakki
Pom
taffy
Windie

The "n" word has clear negative connotations but how offensive are the above, any more than Brummie, for instance?

If an Australian called me a Pom, or an American called me a Limey, or a person of colour called me a Honkey or if someone from Africa/ N or S America called me Eurotrash, I'd be:


Call me a Brummie:

Originally Posted by ashtonred

SAF, Sir Bobby, Ken Dodd............

The list is endless.

When Frog trod the line it was footy bantz. "Typical Germans" re cheating. Or "If Italians tell me it's pasta, I check under the sauce" etc

They cracked up. Because it was nothing vicious.

Originally Posted by forzagarza

If there was a scale to racism against the Chinese I'd say it was number 42

Originally Posted by #42

Speak of the devil.

Originally Posted by #42

7 years you've been waiting for that opportunity

Originally Posted by Blagger

It's absurd to think that you can just take a word, separate it from the pragmatic and societal factors governing its use, and thus free its meaning from any racial connotations. This is most pressing in cases where there is mild invariance in the word's meaning: for instance, using it to refer to a meal, or restaurant, which bears historical and cultural ties to the ethnicity of the people towards which the word was employed as a pejorative.

quality post

don't agree btw

Originally Posted by dodger

So on that basis if you went to a Caribbean restauarant you could call it the N-word without fear of reprisal?

no. the term in english is caribbean food i believe. jerk.

Originally Posted by Fat Al

If an Australian called me a Pom, or an American called me a Limey, or a person of colour called me a Honkey or if someone from Africa/ N or S America called me Eurotrash, I'd be:


Call me a Brummie:

They still routinely use the term Pom in Australia and on the whole I have no problem with that. It is the context and the tone which is the indicator as to whether offensive or racist