what's wrong with you lot?
Mar 6th 2010, 11:45 pm
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Mar 6th 2010, 11:50 pm
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Mar 7th 2010, 3:50 am
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Re: what's wrong with you lot?
I tried to explain to my Canadian boss that "paki" is an offensive term in Britain and I think he thought I was mental..... His response was "so, what should they be called?", he had a point I guess, I didn't have an answer to that...
Mar 7th 2010, 6:21 am
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Re: what's wrong with you lot?
- I think that sentance is more offensive than the word Paki?Really infuriates me because its such a widespread term to refer to people of Indian origin IMO. Also IIRC calling an Indian a Paki is offensive for one part because they are from India not Pakistan.
Now, I can understand what your boss is saying, and referring to "them" in that manner is derogatory. How about telling him to learn who "they" are, where "they" are from and refer to "them" in the correct term.
Mar 7th 2010, 8:01 pm
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Re: what's wrong with you lot?
modern deffination of luddite...
destroyer, one who dosen't like change, opposed to 'the new', one who lives in the past, one who rants and bemoans.....for the mere sake of it! has no real opinion or worthy of comprhensive speech; just rants because they is bored outta thier tiny brains and can't move forward except towards the box!
destroyer, one who dosen't like change, opposed to 'the new', one who lives in the past, one who rants and bemoans.....for the mere sake of it! has no real opinion or worthy of comprhensive speech; just rants because they is bored outta thier tiny brains and can't move forward except towards the box!
Mar 7th 2010, 8:11 pm
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Re: what's wrong with you lot?
I was pondering this the other day: Canada has turned me into a Luddite. At least as far as cellphones are concerned. The enormous costs of receiving and making calls, data transmission etc. means that I have no interest in having the latest smartphone here, whereas I would in the UK. This whole mobile connectivity phenomen is passing me by........
Mar 7th 2010, 8:16 pm
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Re: what's wrong with you lot?
Thank you Dave, for paying my wages.
Mar 7th 2010, 8:17 pm
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Mar 7th 2010, 8:22 pm
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Mar 7th 2010, 8:22 pm
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Mar 8th 2010, 12:41 am
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Re: what's wrong with you lot?
- I think that sentance is more offensive than the word Paki?Really infuriates me because its such a widespread term to refer to people of Indian origin IMO. Also IIRC calling an Indian a Paki is offensive for one part because they are from India not Pakistan.
Now, I can understand what your boss is saying, and referring to "them" in that manner is derogatory. How about telling him to learn who "they" are, where "they" are from and refer to "them" in the correct term.
Since coming to Canada I've heard some racist things that have made my hair curl, the above being mild in comparison. Which is odd being as it's a multicultural immigrant society - I don't understand
Mar 8th 2010, 12:46 am
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Mar 8th 2010, 11:24 am
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Re: what's wrong with you lot?
As far as he sees it, it's the same as calling someone British a "brit" or an Australian an "aussie".... I'm not sure if he's making a distinction between someone of Pakistani or Indian origin however.
Since coming to Canada I've heard some racist things that have made my hair curl, the above being mild in comparison. Which is odd being as it's a multicultural immigrant society - I don't understand
Since coming to Canada I've heard some racist things that have made my hair curl, the above being mild in comparison. Which is odd being as it's a multicultural immigrant society - I don't understand
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