The puntastic thread diversion thread

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Rules

No individual post can be on the same subject as any other post or can be a response to or quote from another post. No swearing, shouting, smilies, accusations, slander, pictures. Double points for any puns ! No private PMs or repping for posts on this thread. Ready ? Ok I'll start.

Brave New World, 1984, nanny state, mind-control, useless on board and platform train announcements, video surveillance, SZ, discuss. :p

Ooh damn I'm out already

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Bloody hell, Tone, where have you been... glued to that armchair of yours?!

:finger:

 

[loz]

i blame immigrants, Mick McCarthy, and the Daily Mail.

Matt's out by the way. oh balls, So am I.

 

[J]

why can you say "ginger" with referrence to a carrot top, but not ****? In referrence to someone from Pakistan?

 

[MrB]

It's all the fault of middle class mothers driving gas guzzling 4x4's 200 yards to drop Jemima and Tarquin off at private school.

Oh and don't trust carnival folk.

 

[steveo]

If you call an black person blackie, why do people assume you are referring to their skin colour and not their hair colour?

 

[chadded]

This thgread is **** because it hasn't been randomly dragged up from three years ago.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Why on Waterloo Road recently did they see the need to have a black parent called Mr White?

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Why on Waterloo Road recently did they see the need to have a black parent called Mr White?

Like the British 4x400m relay team where the only white man was called Black and one of the other afro-caribbean members of the team was called White!

 

[Napster]

why can you say "ginger" with referrence to a carrot top, but not ****? In referrence to someone from Pakistan?

easy. because the proper term is Pakistani and the word **** is a derogatory term used since the 70s, and everyone knows it as such. therefore it is racist.

 

[chadded]

Cool. I expect to be called ginger from now on. As ginge is an Abbreviation, it must be derogatory, so anyone calling me ginge is racialist.

 

[Napster]

Cool. I expect to be called ginger from now on. As ginge is an Abbreviation, it must be derogatory, so anyone calling me ginge is racialist.

I didn't say that an abbreviation is derogatory, just that the word itself is.

 

[chadded]

Yea but thats boring :p

 

[Prodigal Son]

easy. because the proper term is Pakistani and the word **** is a derogatory term used since the 70s, and everyone knows it as such. therefore it is racist.

I never get this, I work for Americans who call me a Brit because I am British.
So what about that?

 

[Napster]

I never get this, I work for Americans who call me a Brit because I am British.
So what about that?

Do they call you a Brit with hatred in their eyes? Do you they call you a Brit, even though you prefer the term English?

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

I never get this, I work for Americans who call me a Brit because I am British.
So what about that?

Threaten litigation for personal gain!
I'll lower my finders-fee to 3% in your case!

 

[steveo]

I never get this, I work for Americans who call me a Brit because I am British.

You blokes are all out as you are breaking the rules by replying. Me too now, as i dont get it either. Called A bloke form Scotland a Scot, thats fine, a bloke form Germany is a germany so surely a bloke from Pakistan can be a ****

 

[MK Shrimper]

And I get castigated for a bit of thread diversion. Jesus, this is blatant fishing.

 

[Napster]

You blokes are all out as you are breaking the rules by replying. Me too now, as i dont get it either. Called A bloke form Scotland a Scot, thats fine, a bloke form Germany is a germany so surely a bloke from Pakistan can be a ****

Unfortunately, it's Pakistani, not ****. And it's usually preceded by "bloody", which makes it racist.

ps I'm on a loser here so I'm out.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Unfortunately, it's Pakistani, not ****. And it's usually preceded by "bloody", which makes it racist.

ps I'm on a loser here so I'm out.

You're not on a loser here, you've been spot on.

steveo - you might as well be asking why the letters b-r-e-a-d have been put together to mean a dough-based comestible. They just have, that's all!

Rightly or wrongly, the word "****" was expropriated by the likes of Combat 18 during the 70s and 80s and used as a term of racist abuse. And that's the end of it - it's a racist word because others have made it racist. I can't see you turning back the tide now. Please drop this particular bone of yours.

Thanks.