Originally Posted by MickeyTong (Post 9240558)

Who? Jim?

Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus (Post 9240590)

Pete Tong

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 9240566)

Actually the poster in question has been spoken to more than once about it. Just because its not done in public doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It might help if more people reported comments they find offensive instead of expecting the mods to be mind-readers.

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 9240566)

Actually the poster in question has been spoken to more than once about it. Just because its not done in public doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It might help if more people reported comments they find offensive instead of expecting the mods to be mind-readers.

Originally Posted by bcworld (Post 9240216)

Let's be honest...it's just being pedantic to exclude abuse based on nationality from the common definition of racism...it's all one and the same.

The Racial Discrimination Act which has been around probably a little bit longer than the time people have been obsessed with the term 'PC brigade' covers acts which are done because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the other person or some or all of the people in the group.

Originally Posted by fish.01 (Post 9240756)

As a pedant I'm not sure it is the same. I thinking mixing the two in together cheapens the word racist and waters it down for real racism + includes things that are not racist at all. Just because the act was written that way does not make it racism in fact IMO - just legally.

Originally Posted by fish.01 (Post 9240756)

As a pedant I'm not sure it is the same. I thinking mixing the two in together cheapens the word racist and waters it down for real racism + includes things that are not racist at all. Just because the act was written that way does not make it racism in worldwide common parlance - just a legal shorthand in our particular acts.

Originally Posted by jazzys (Post 9236427)

Well guys i've been here 3 and a half years now and today i got my first nasty racist comment. Not bad eh!

Apparently us immigrants think we can come to australia and take over the place. So there ya go.

Not sure what he meant really, apart from his prime minister is welsh and his head of state is English. :rofl:

Originally Posted by fish.01 (Post 9240756)

As a pedant I'm not sure it is the same. I thinking mixing the two in together cheapens the word racist and waters it down for real racism + includes things that are not racist at all. Just because the act was written that way does not make it racism in worldwide common parlance - just in legal shorthand in some particular acts.

Originally Posted by steve_kelly_and_boys (Post 9236437)

well yesterday a fella nearly hit my little boy in our small little close

i was up the road but my wife saw it and had a go at him for driving like an idiot

he then tells her to fook off back to dandenong

i had to have a double take as i thought he had said back to England

dandenong....... we have the most common cockney accents going

actually gave me a giggle that

Originally Posted by bcworld (Post 9240816)

Just to be clear...I wasn't suggesting the example given by the OP was 'racist'.

What I was commenting on was the oft used BE retort of '<insert nationality> is not a race'. And what I'm saying is if someone hates someone else just because they're Indian OR they hate all South Asians there's really no difference.

Originally Posted by fish.01 (Post 9242332)

You sure know how to pick your threads ;) From memory that retort is almost always used when the two people in question are the same race.

Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus (Post 9242345)

I could be an Eskimo for all you know. :p

Originally Posted by ukecadet (Post 9242532)

Nanuk of the Northwest;)

Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus (Post 9242345)

I could be an Eskimo for all you know. :p