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I took the liberty of editing your user name above. I hope that doesn't count as a racist/sexist rant
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I took the liberty of editing your user name above. I hope that doesn't count as a racist/sexist rant
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- Location
- Glasgow
I don't really get the British sometimes: it's not ok to shorten Jap for Japanese, it's fine to call a New Zealander "Kiwi" 
Not political correct to say anything remotely funny about Asians, but hilarious to slag the French and the Germans.
Oh well, I must try harder to understand.
Not political correct to say anything remotely funny about Asians, but hilarious to slag the French and the Germans.
Oh well, I must try harder to understand.
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As long as you don't call me "spaghetti head", can't abide the stuffI took the liberty of editing your user name. I hope that doesn't count as a racist/sexist rant
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[QUOTE 2532444, member: 1314"]You know where I hang out. My life is an open book. Meet you sometime.[/quote]
Can I just say that, me being a crazy cat lady, I find your signature distressing
Can I just say that, me being a crazy cat lady, I find your signature distressing
Ooooh! Well won't it all be nice when we can get past all this stuff and call people japs and wogs and chinks again? Oh, hold on a minute - remind me what's good about all that again..?
Boris Bajic
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The term itself need not be racist, but in the context it had a fairly nasty and negative tone. It appeared (unless the OP knew more than he suggested) to be a fairly broad descriptive lunge at a woman of East Asian appearence. There was a pejorative tone to the description that seemed somehow to focus on race, gender and accent. Many people will find that unpleasant.
The 'comedy' transcription of the brief apology then just descended into a slightly bitter version of the humour last seen in Love the Neighbour or It Aint Half Hot Mum.
At one level, it was a fairly funny insight into a complete loss of sense of humour. At another, it did have the slightly nasty smell of something left too long in the fridge.
Not a hanging offence, but not pleasant either. I guess the OP picked up on that - the removal of the thread looks to me like a tyre-squealing slamming of the gearbox into reverse and a mumbled apology.
Which should be applauded. I find it very hard to accept I was wrong, even on the Internets. Some people find it impossible.
The 'comedy' transcription of the brief apology then just descended into a slightly bitter version of the humour last seen in Love the Neighbour or It Aint Half Hot Mum.
At one level, it was a fairly funny insight into a complete loss of sense of humour. At another, it did have the slightly nasty smell of something left too long in the fridge.
Not a hanging offence, but not pleasant either. I guess the OP picked up on that - the removal of the thread looks to me like a tyre-squealing slamming of the gearbox into reverse and a mumbled apology.
Which should be applauded. I find it very hard to accept I was wrong, even on the Internets. Some people find it impossible.
Leodis
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[QUOTE 2532433, member: 1314"]Brandane. "Jap" is a racist insult. That's how Crankarm described her in a tone fitted into that racist context. Your post is a maggot's post with its cowardly maggotness.[/quote]
No it is not, so anyone who calls us Brits is a racist? Jesus H. Christ.
Blue Oyster?
No it is not, so anyone who calls us Brits is a racist? Jesus H. Christ.
Blue Oyster?
Leodis
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- Moortown, Leeds
I give up, the loonies have taken over the nuthouse.
Anyway where is Crankarm?
Edit... I cannot be bothered to argue with the PC brigade, the tofu might get stuck in my throat.
Us Brits are so arrogant and superior that we can make such decisions on behalf of the rest of the world; didn't you know that?
Since it's the 4th of July, Happy Independence Day to all our
Different words. Different meanings. Different uses. Different contexts. Different. As in Not The Same. Hope that helps.
Leodis
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You see to me this is where PC has gone mad. No wonder this country is in a mess, my old grandfather has the right to call them japs, he spent 18 months in a POW camp, starved, beaten and built their bridges, are you going to tell him its not PC to call his tormentors Japs?
Run that by me again - you can't tell one word or one context from another, so it's peeceegawnmaaaaaad? Was Crankarm tortured in a POW camp by the woman in the OP? I think we should be told...
Leodis
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Either a word is racist or it isnt. Someone said the term Jap was racist, I mentioned my old Granddad who has the right to use whatever term he likes against the Japanese, after all you would be talking Japanese with a German accent if it wasn't for him.
So (let me presume you are a honkie), if I said oi honkie what ya up too? Thats not racist, Crock says to me Oi honkie giz ya bike, thats racialist?
I don't have a granddad who fought in the war, he was only 12.
Leodis
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[QUOTE 2533128, member: 30090"]
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Racist, you are using a smiling Chinese person and it stereotypes all Chinese as closed eyes and all teeth, when some don't smile.
Reported.
[/quote]Racist, you are using a smiling Chinese person and it stereotypes all Chinese as closed eyes and all teeth, when some don't smile.
Reported.
Wrong - obviously. You might want to try thinking before you post. And inventing fictional POW experiences for your grandfather in order to justify the use of a term smacks of a desperate argument.