Have we gone completely bloody mad????

[Bobbisox]

http://www.thesun.co....-of-Chinese-pair.html

so next time I am away from home and someone asks me to say" Whay Aye"(which has happened often) or strikes up a rendition of the Blaydon Races
do I report this to the Police? and have them done for blatant racism....too daft for words imo!

[ixion]

N1 Gromit

[Gromit]

Is Deli also used as an offensive word.? There is ambiguity as to when Pakl is Meant as a good word or bad word. It can be taken offensively when non is intended.

[anneasquith]

boo................... your not a silly as you look are you ? :) :)

[Gromit]

Docspock

The quote from the Sun in the OP is somewhat different:

// Simon, who is on bail until today, wrote on Facebook: "If the lad who phoned the police is reading this, WHAT IS WONG WITH YOU? Sorry, what is wrong with you?" //

The Mail has missquoted to support their claim that no racism took place. The silly FaceBook quote reveals the truth. So they have left it out.

[B00]

oh i am Anne.

;-)

[nightmare]

Gromit,
are you suggesting the DM did not report with 100% accuracy ?

[Gromit]

It does spoil a good story if you include the truth.

It is very naughty to edit a direct quote to change the story.

[sp1814]

Bobbisox

I think there's something odd with this story. I saw it myself in the paper on the way to work, and at the time, I thought "something isn't right..."

If a Chinese fella had gone to the police complaining about being racially abused, they would've taken down his story and interviewed the alleged abuser - but this is the bit that doesn't make sense - do you think that a Chinese person walking past a bar where a song is already playing would take offence, unless something else happened?

It doesn't fit, does it?

We've got one side of the story - how do we know that's the truth?

How do we know what ACTUALLY happened, as opposed to what the singer says happened?

[Bobbisox]

you make an excellent point here sp

[Bobbisox]

Stevie,,,stopppiiittt...lol

[joeluke]

Fish and Chip shop = Chippy
Off Licence = Offy
Chinese takeaway = Chinky

End of

[Bobbisox]

Joe ...:+)

[Bobbisox]

Fact is Pinks, I was trying to say a lot of people used it and if you read the rest of this thread, I was obviously wrong

[boxtops]

It's a bit Alf Garnett, I've not heard chinky for years apart from referring to the takeaway. I guess we have been PC'd out with some of these terms. When I lived in Birmingham there was a particularly gaudy colour some people painted their houses, commonly known at that time as w0g blue - you'd never get away with that now....

[Bobbisox]

I would agree if you were literally going up to people and doing this, that would be offensive, I just happened to say it was a term widely used when getting a take away, no more sinister than that