#127

Not to mention Jim Davidson on prime time TV. The past is, thankfully, a foreign country. For all that we have to complain about there are plenty of things that are better now.

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#128

Hmm. We never did.

#129

OK, not everyone. A lot of people did. And most of them didn’t mean anything bad by it. It was just the shop that was owned by the Pakistani man. Except that he was probably not originally from Pakistan at all…

#130

Saw a school lad spit in the street the other day and his mum shout at him (in a real gravelly horrible voice):

"Oi stop it, i’ve told you not to spit like some dirty p***

Obviously totally inappropriate anywhere but even more so considering the demographic of the neighbourhood. Really saddened more than anything

#131

OK, thread could easily go off on a tangent here, and I’m lucky that my parents were pretty enlightened, but we just called it the shop. But you’re right - a lot of people did feel the need to differentiate.

#132

Bloody hell. In 2018.

:neutral_face:

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#133

And it is weird that my parents would say that because they consciously and deliberately brought me up to treat other people decently and without discrimination.

When we were planning to move - this was the mid-1980s - and they put the house up for sale our neighbours said to them to not sell to “wogs”. My parents were horrified at that and were really pleased to have an Indian family, with the woman in traditional sari, coming to view the property. My mum took a delight in showing them the garden, in the hope that the neighbours would see.

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#134

It’s political correctness gone mad!

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#135

There is also ‘William The Concreter’ in Hastings too, albeit significantly less inappropriate

#136

A very good friend of mine dropped the P word on me a few years ago. We were taking our kids to the park, where he noted “I probably shouldn’t say this, but there’s loads of P…s in this park.” I was massively taken aback, and could only manage “No, you shouldn’t really say that”.

He was mildly apologetic in that way of wishing he hadn’t said it in front of me, rather than wishing he hadn’t said it because it’s wrong. I’d known him 5 years before this and knew he was a proper Yorkshire guy, with some fairly Yorkshire opinions on everywhere that isn’t Yorkshire, but it was still a total shock. I think of it every time I see him, which is fairly often as in all other respects he’s an absolutely great guy. Apart from, you know, the horrendous racism.

This was before Brexit when I found out seemingly half the country thinks like that.

#137

We’re they Scottish? Seem to recall this coming up once as a thing that was said in Scotland maybe more commonly without any intended malice due to their habit of shortening names that way “Joanie, Janie etc”
No idea how true that us but certainly here in Aus shortening names to end in “oh” is endemic to the point where I hear them actually say “Reg-oh” to police referring to registration (of vehicles) and the Salvation Army are branded as Salvos.

#138

Kentish, not at all Scottish, no. But I remember it being a common thing when I was a child. It was starting to phase out though by then. Political correctness was starting.

#139

Ah Kent.

Yeah never heard it said in London although definitely heard the “Why don’t they let Pakistan play football?” ‘joke’ at school growing up. :roll_eyes:

#140

How have we moved on so quickly from theo thinking my trousers are rubbing on my shitty arsehole?!?!

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#141

For me it was when he started talking about rimming bugduv.

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#142

that’s what the extra flap on your culottes is for

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#143

I know - I was going to jump in and say about how it’s liberating to go commando every now and then, but it doesn’t seem like the time or the place now.

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#144

I thought your point was your arsehole wasn’t shitty?

#145

You said it was shitty. And that my trousers would be rubbing on the shit???

You made the point first!

#146

I admire your dedication to trying to resurrect beeves from nothing

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