If its not an offensive term, then I challenge you to go to Acocks Green in B.ham and ask the residents if it is OK to all them Pakis. ??

Yes - members of a community sometimes take on derogatory terms as a badge of honour; for instance black people sometimes call each other nigger and gay people sometimes call each other queer or dyke. They are still derogatory terms.

Personally I don't ever find the need to use Paki and I wonder why some people do.

Do we have a smug smile emoticon on here. We need one as some folks are full up of their own goodness

Looks like you are admitting that using the word Paki is bad then...

Also admitted here too, in the post above in reply to mine.

Everybody knows really. Why would one gratuitously say these things? There are plenty of other perfectly good ways to describe people.

Tell the truth you are bored and baiting....go play with yourself tara

They only use it as a racist term to cover up their own shortcomings, there is good comedian I have only ever watched since I moved to Spain thanks to Netflix and he (Russell Peters) goes quite explicit into their shortcomings as a race, have a watch of one of his notorious shows, he pokes fun at his own Indian culture as well as others cultures but it's not flagrant racism, it's more observational.

If its funny ill laugh and that is how it should be.

You do seem to frequent the nicest places.
No wonder you are such a bloody misery.

As explained it's best that those directly involved pass judgement on the term rather than ourselves and clearly many of them don't share your opinion.

Have you ever looked at the audience of these comics who poke fun at their own culture? They are 90% + white. certainly not the average man in the street from their own comunities.

Unlike some who live at the top of a mountain or in a suburban bubble some of us actually have some knowledge of the UK as it is.
If you had any knowledge of B,ham you would know that Acocks Green is on one of the main routes into the city centre, like Sparkhill another area with a large Asian population.
Obviously for you and others " Ignorance is Bliss ".

I wonder why it is that if i should use such words as stated above I am called a racist/sexist/homophobe etc etc and people start phoning the police to report me whilst those concerned can use the word amongst themselves with impunity
Isn't there some racism/sexist/homophobia in that


the problem is being English with limited knowledge of other languages, how do I know they are using a derogatory term about/against me

You do seem to take an unusual delight in wallowing in filth and the worst of everything and everybody, I wonder why ???

We are all well aware that such places exist and many of us have no doubt seen them.

We are equally aware that such places are not typical or the norm as you would obviously wish us to believe.

Maybe it has got something to do with the history between the so called superior white races and others.
Were white people slaves subjected appaling violence or degredation denied much of what we take for granted for centuries.
The terms some think are OK to use are the same ones used by those who abused them or worse and are still used today by the ignorant.

Funniest thing I ever heard, lol, I cant write for laughing at this !

As I thought you still live in a long ago bygone age of your own choosing.

Fortunately most of the civilised world, though never perfect, has moved on a long long way since then and unlike your sad miserable self, grown up and matured somewhat.