A septic poll
Nov 12th 2006, 9:48 am
#76
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by Rushman
How stupid of me too assume that Cockney rhyming slang was not infact a product of cockneys but actually originates from Australia.
Nov 12th 2006, 9:49 am
#77
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by Rushman
The word "Paki" itself was never initially intended as a racial insult until the PC left wing Guardian reading do gooders poked their noses in and stirred up an unneccessary hornets nest.
Don't be an arse. It was the National Front and their neanderthal ilk - and you know it.
Nov 12th 2006, 9:50 am
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by Elvira
...........But I am of course incorrigibly PC...
Nov 12th 2006, 9:51 am
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who turned out the light?
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by elfman
So Guardian readers are responsible for turning "Paki" into a racial slur?
Don't be an arse. It was the National Front and their neanderthal ilk - and you know it.
Don't be an arse. It was the National Front and their neanderthal ilk - and you know it.
Nov 12th 2006, 9:52 am
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by elfman
So Guardian readers are responsible for turning "Paki" into a racial slur?
Don't be an arse. It was the National Front and their neanderthal ilk - and you know it.
Don't be an arse. It was the National Front and their neanderthal ilk - and you know it.
Nov 12th 2006, 9:54 am
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by elfman
So Guardian readers are responsible for turning "Paki" into a racial slur?
Don't be an arse. It was the National Front and their neanderthal ilk - and you know it.
Don't be an arse. It was the National Front and their neanderthal ilk - and you know it.
Nov 12th 2006, 9:55 am
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by Elvira
Pakistani may well use the term Paki for themselves - in the same way as some black people refer to each other as 'niggas'. Both terms are still highly offensive if used by anybody else. This may seem illogical to you, but makes perfect sense to me. But I am of course incorrigibly PC...
However it is often used in a sentence which is intended to cause insult such as "You f****** Paki b******".
As already pointed out Indians often find being called a "Paki" insulting in much the same way as I find it mildly insulting/irritating to be called English.
Nov 12th 2006, 9:59 am
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
...............insulting in much the same way as I find it mildly insulting/irritating to be called English.
Nov 12th 2006, 10:00 am
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP
Are you saying that Aussies are incapable of creating their own rhyming slang, and possibly even exporting a bit of it to the UK? (Then again, they couldn't get right their own version of Marmite, so you might have a point...)
in London ......
Nov 12th 2006, 10:02 am
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by gardnma
Consider it a compliment then, as it in fact is.
Indeed.
He ought to be grateful that he is not mistaken for a Dingo
Nov 12th 2006, 10:06 am
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by gardnma
Consider it a compliment then, as it in fact is.
Nov 12th 2006, 10:09 am
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by Elvira
Indeed.
He ought to be grateful that he is not mistaken for a Dingo
He ought to be grateful that he is not mistaken for a Dingo
up to 1796 they were sent to the US..
In 1769 Dr. Johnson, speaking of Americans, said to a friend, “Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be content with anything we may allow them short of hanging.”
and
The scene was a breakfast in 1844 at Dr. Ferguson’s in London. “I remarked how curious a fact it was that all American women look so genteel and refined, even the lowest; small heads, fine silky hair, delicate and marked eyebrows. The Doctor answered, ‘Oh, that is easily accounted for. The super-abundance of public women, who are always rather good-looking, were sent over to America in early times.’”
http://www.dinsdoc.com/butler-1.htm
Last edited by Ray; Nov 12th 2006 at 10:17 am.
Nov 12th 2006, 10:11 am
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Re: A septic poll
A Starting Crank
Nov 12th 2006, 10:15 am
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by gardnma
A Starting Crank
Nov 12th 2006, 10:16 am
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Re: A septic poll
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
Are you trying to say all Americans are cranks ??
And suffer from flatulence?
