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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 18:29:21 GMT
Interestingly the term "the nigger in the woodpile" is American - not English.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 10, 2017 18:36:12 GMT
I went to a private secondary school in surrey mainly inhabited by prat bankers and stockbrokers kids. There were one or two wogs as well. My best friend was an Iranian lad. Anyway at one point one of the white boys was going out with an asian girl. The other boys used to describe her as a "spearchucker". At the time it seemed fairly harmless but looking at it more closely it is quite offensive because she was not african. It would certainly be offensive now, but those were different times. We had a black guy in our year but I think he suffered no more or less teasing and bullying than other white kids. Kids can be mean and evil to each other, racist abuse is just a small weapon in their arsenal.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 18:39:13 GMT
Point I was making is a teenager does not think of calling someone a spearchucker. Its an old racial slur. They get it from a parent (this was before internet) . It shows ignorance of the meaning of offensive terms which makes them even more offensive.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 10, 2017 18:44:47 GMT
Point I was making is a teenager does not think of calling someone a spearchucker. Its an old racial slur. They get it from a parent (this was before internet) . It shows ignorance of the meaning of offensive terms which makes them even more offensive. Not sure I agree. We learn phrases - pretty much all phrases - from our parents. We can't be expected to look into the etimology of everything we might say just in case it might have a throwback to colonial days (many do!) and be offensive to someone. I would blame the parents for introducing the child to such a phrase, not the child from using it without considering its origins.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 18:47:39 GMT
I'm referring to the ignorance of the parents.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 10, 2017 18:49:37 GMT
I'm referring to the ignorance of the parents. Oh. In that case I agree.
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Post by kris on Jul 10, 2017 19:05:40 GMT
Oh a public school boy love in, have I just strayed behind the bike sheds?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 19:09:01 GMT
We didn't have bike sheds most kids driven to school in above average cars. I went by train as I was not local to the hellhole.
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Post by kris on Jul 10, 2017 19:10:53 GMT
I beg your pardon, you where both definately having a love in though.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 19:21:46 GMT
My parents never swear, I didn't learn to swear by listening to them or using the internet.
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Post by bettina on Jul 10, 2017 19:23:11 GMT
Some people are still upset by the after effects of colinisation. Yes - they all came over here and took all the social housing. The empire strikes back. Social housing - My Arse! I live on a boat, bought and paid for from my hard earned funds, which I made by "working my arse off over here". ** now that was a figurative term, I still have a fairly large bottom
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Post by tomsk on Jul 10, 2017 20:42:52 GMT
Who is Colin?
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 10, 2017 22:19:33 GMT
Niggerdly. There.
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Post by bodger on Jul 11, 2017 7:22:05 GMT
We didn't have bike sheds ............... OMG !! you were deprived as a schoolboy. I blame the parents. in my day, anything worth doing happened behind the bike shed.
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Post by kris on Jul 11, 2017 7:25:45 GMT
We didn't have bike sheds ............... OMG !! you were deprived as a schoolboy. I blame the parents. in my day, anything worth doing happened behind the bike shed. would you have gone behind the bike sheds with Nick Norman though?
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