Jeremy Kyle using filthy language this morning?

[bc7683023]

When he was talking to the big girl did he say at one point that if she went on his bootcamp she could "Throw a paddy'' in the middle of the field and it wouldn't matter as no one was there to hear? Im assuming "Throw a paddy meant throw a wobbly as in get angry, have a strop etc.. I was just coming into the tv room when I thought I heard this. Surely jeremy kyle wouldn't use a racist and obnoxious term like this? That would've been career suicide and would have been edited out right? Does anyone know whether he said this or something similar?

[mike11111]

If Paddywagon is racist, what about its synonym, Black Maria?

[ummmm]

Paddywagon is not racist....nor is throwing a paddy if you read what Jack and Naomi have said. Not that I would consider them to be anyway..

[ethandron]

(hey ummm, hope you've noticed that i finally got my head round posting links:) i have the steps needed written down, it's the only way i can remember)

[jno]

bc, you are correct: according to the Cassell Dictionary of Slang, which is the biggest and best in this field, 'throwing a paddy' did indeed originate from the idea of 'behaving like a hot-tempered Irishman'. So it was in fact racist, despite what everyone else says. Whether it still is, is another matter; I suspect not.

[jno]

incidentally, 'Paddy' comes from St Patrick.

[ummmm]

Well done Ethandron :-)

That's what I always thought jno....But I wouldn't consider it racist.

[jno]

oh, and paddy wagon comes from the USA, with the suggestion that in the north-east states many Irishmen were policemen; but it may also come from padlock, though that sounds less likely.

[Everhelpful]

With questions like this People won't be able to open their mouth's shortly.suggest you get a life and live in the real world,bc7683023.

[4getmenot]

so where was the filthy language?

[ummmm]

I take it throwing a paddy is the filthy language..

[4getmenot]

I thought that was the racist language

[ummmm]

Lol...I know where I live. Down the road from the shop that sells cheap wine...

[jno]

it's all basically racially-tinged language... Indian giving, Dutch courage, throwing a paddy, Spanish practices: the English like to attribute anything they disapprove of to foreigners. Sometimes they become so firmly fixed in the languge that people forget where they came from (as per many of the posts above). But a century ago it would have been aimed directly at ummmm, along with the signs saying 'No dogs, no Irish'.

[mike11111]

Russian roulette
Chinese torture
French letters... any more?

[ummmm]

And no blacks...

[jno]

there weren't many blacks around in those days, ummmm, so prejudice was much more likely to be directed at the Irish. If you look at old Punch cartoons, the Irish are usually shown as sub-human gorillas.

[Mrspoppins]

Never mind whether it's racist or not (and as an Irish woman I take absolutely NO offence at the term, in fact I use it often myself), every word that comes out of Jeremy Kyle's mouth is utter dross, and I find his programme the most offence thing on telly.

[McMouse]

Turkish Delight comes to mind.

[mike11111]

Turkish Delight comes to mind.

Wish I'd thought of that! Was thinking of having a curry for my tea but seeing the rice was grown in a paddy field perhaps I'd better not.