Britain burns - Chavs ruin civilization

[derspiess]

FFS, move the comic geek crap to another thread.

[Ideologue]

I dunno, we're probably about done.

[DontSayBanana]

Well, derailing the derail, has anybody seen a check-in from Brazen?

[Brazen]

Well, derailing the derail, has anybody seen a check-in from Brazen?

I'm OK, we exported our violence to the Northerners as they can't afford their own.

I'm expecting a bit of trouble in Tottenham tonight (a week on from the original shooting) and some rumbling over the weekend quickly stomped on by da feds.

We had Boris in Enfield yesterday, he'll save us all!

[Richard Hakluyt]

Did you manage to get some booze, or had it all been looted?

The riots soon stopped when Boris got back from his hols, crikey!

[Duque de Bragança]

Yes, but in Continental Europe and the US that also means "retarded idiot", for historical reasons.

Meh, if Spanish-speakers can say polaco without it being offensive, we can use 'Polack'.  I've never met any Poles or Polish-Americans who actually get offended by the term anyway.

Polaco and Polonés have some specialised meanings as well but non derogatory ones, in Castilian at least.
Colour me sceptical. The Larch or Iormlund should confirm or not in any case.
Polonês in Portuguese sounds Brazilian to me while Polaco is the standard term in in Portuguese.
On the other hand, Polaque in French used to be derogatory not so much though now like Rital.

[Martinus]

And Poles around me use "pakis" to talk about Pakistanis (in Polish) all the time. Not sure what your point is.

[Martinus]

Except that calling someone with some Indian heritage a 'Paki' is lazy racism, as Brazen mentioned.  And in the UK, 'Paki' draws a much stronger reaction than 'Polack' ever has in the US.

Sorry missed this post. Ok, so if he was a Pakistani, calling him "Paki" would be alright, but if he is an Indian, it's not? Ok, so where were you, Brazen and others when Neil and others called me a "Russkie"?

Seriously, I'm beginning to side with Slargos that "it is not racist when you use a slur against a white person", apparently. 

[Brazen]

Like I said, Paki is the N-word of the UK, offensive WHOEVER it's used against. Unlike nigger it hasn't been embraced ironically by the cultures it was previously used against. No-one would look at you and call you anything on your appearance alone. A bunch of us have been chased down the street in urban Jamaica and had "whitey" shouted at us, but honesty there's no power to a word like that.

You're a pal Mart, but your ability to turn any thread about any important subject into me, me, me astounds me sometimes.

[The Brain]

IIRC someone on EUOT got his panties twisted something fierce when a non-native speaker made a joke about "Coffee" Annan. Apparently you had to be a Nazi not to know about his local word usage scene.

The Paki thing on Languish is pretty stale though. We've had this at least 100 times.

[Brazen]

From the Beeb's live coverage today:

Some more foreign reaction. State-owned Libyan TV has told its viewers that "The British Broadcasting Corporation has revealed that David Cameron is carrying out a large-scale terror operation against the British people". According to BBC Monitoring, the channel said that the rioters were "revolutionaries" fighting against "Cameron's mercenaries and brigades".

[Martinus]

I don't think "nigger" has been embraced ironically (it's not the same as "nigga"), at least not in the US. I'm willing to bet if you asked an average American (or in fact anyone, perhaps outside the UK, as you say), they would tell you that "nigger" is much more offensive than "paki".

P.S. Poles here freak out every time when someone English speaking says "Polack" - recently there was something akin to a low-key diplomatic intervention and a letter writing campaign to some newspaper that published a blogger who used the word online.

So, what I'm saying, the British context is not nessecarily relevant on the board which is compoased of international posters, where Brits are not even dominant. Your mileage may vary. Considering the relative ease with which people use here words like "Polack", "Nigger", "Faggot", "Kike", "Towelhead", "Kraut", "Beaner", "Mooselimb" etc. I find your overreaction weird for someone who frequents this board with regularity.

[Martinus]

From the Beeb's live coverage today:

Some more foreign reaction. State-owned Libyan TV has told its viewers that "The British Broadcasting Corporation has revealed that David Cameron is carrying out a large-scale terror operation against the British people". According to BBC Monitoring, the channel said that the rioters were "revolutionaries" fighting against "Cameron's mercenaries and brigades".

About time Libya recognizes the revolutionary government of Britain as the rightful sovereign.

[Tamas]

I don't think "nigger" has been embraced ironically (it's not the same as "nigga"), at least not in the US. I'm willing to bet if you asked an average American (or in fact anyone, perhaps outside the UK, as you say), they would tell you that "nigger" is much more offensive than "paki".

P.S. Poles here freak out every time when someone English speaking says "Polack" - recently there was something akin to a low-key diplomatic intervention and a letter writing campaign to some newspaper that published a blogger who used the word online.

So, what I'm saying, the British context is not nessecarily relevant on the board which is compoased of international posters, where Brits are not even dominant. Your mileage may vary. Considering the relative ease with which people use here words like "Polack", "Nigger", "Faggot", "Kike", "Towelhead", "Kraut", "Beaner", "Mooselimb" etc. I find your overreaction weird for someone who frequents this board with regularity.

This got boring about seven pages ago

[CountDeMoney]

This got boring about seven pages ago

Thank Hod I missed it.