Leodis
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Jesus, I bet you are a barrel of laughs... You keep labelling people racist for using common words like Jap and I will keep mocking you. Do you get offended by me calling you Taff as well?
RLJer crashes into taxi
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Jesus, I bet you are a barrel of laughs... You keep labelling people racist for using common words like Jap and I will keep mocking you. Do you get offended by me calling you Taff as well?
Leodis
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- Location
- Moortown, Leeds
As long as you don't mind me calling you a 'tard...
I find that discriminatory against the disabled.
Boris Bajic
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You make a very good point. I've had a quick glance at the history books and it seems that across the centuries my family has been treated abominably by the Hun, the Eyetie, the Dagos, the Japs, the Chinks, the Gooks, Johnny Turk, various brands of Colonial and just about every other race or breed who wear funny clothes, eat funny food, look a bit shifty and frankly smell bad. And that's just the British half...
Your incisive post has lit in my head a bulb of such clarity and brilliance that all the dark nooks of ignorance and half-knowledge are swept away. I thank you for that and feel free now to call foreign types by their proper names and hold them in low contempt for what their ancestors did. Luckily, we Brits have been noble and kind from day one, so we have nothing to fear.
On the matter of WW2, my father's brother was killed in Hong Kong in 1941 (along with most of 1 Middx. Regt). His parents and his surviving siblings enjoyed the use of Japanese consumer goods and the company of Japanse friends in the decades that followed. The worst I ever had to suffer was being asked not to watch Tora! Tora! Tora! while my grandparents were in the room. Similarly, my father was treated in a beastly way by Germans but we grew up post-war with many friends who had served in the Wehrmacht and some slightly dodgier military elements. History doesn't excuse offensive language where it is meant to offend.
Leodis
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- Moortown, Leeds
I give up you win, my work colleague likes me calling him a Jap, he reminds me a bit of you actually, you know a real japs eye.
4 pages of waffle and finally the point that counts. Well said.
semislickstick
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
Has anyone accused anyone else of being a Nazi yet in this thread? (Godwins Law)
Anyway, I thought it was brave of the RLJ to show his face(not that you'd recognise him once the swelling goes down) and say what he said, he'll probably get some stick, especially if he goes over the white line....or any where near it.
Anyway, I thought it was brave of the RLJ to show his face(not that you'd recognise him once the swelling goes down) and say what he said, he'll probably get some stick, especially if he goes over the white line....or any where near it.
I'm sorry - I didn't notice that's what you were doing. I thought you were just confusing yourself. By all means call me a Taff if you like. It will at least be a novelty, as I'm from Surrey.
Leodis
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- Moortown, Leeds
Nice.
Glow worm
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Boris Bajic
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Surely the most quintessentially English of all the counties.
Even when someone's telling you where they're from, they seem in the same breath to be apologising for it.
Taffs, on the other hand, just keep going on about having a country that sounds like a big fish, which is not quintessentially English at all.
Primal Scream
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Well that was an education 