Mixed Message

[vernonk]

pop star JAMELIA, on the Loose Women panel today, said "You're not supposed to say Mixed Race anymore -the correct term is Dual Heritage". We're you aware of this?

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

/// Where, exactly, is this PC Office which has the clout to remove words from the English language? ///

I think it is situated in the bowels of the Race Relations office, or something similar.

[ummmm]

I'm happy with any Murphy :-)

[ummmm]

What's factual about that, TWR?

[jackthehat]

So the PC Office doesn't really exist anywhere except in your imagination?

TWR - You don't seem to have got the hang of contributing to threads in the News section.

[TWR]

You don't seem to have managed your Sarcasm, very hard for you to do.

[jackthehat]

Please don't call me names. Thankyou.

[-Talbot-]

Start a thread in Chattebank TWR.

You know it makes sense. (I'll pop in for a chat)

[ummmm]

I know who it was aimed at, TWR, but telling someone to take a walk and then ask if that's factual enough is a bit daft.

[anotheoldgit]

MallyJ

/// ooooo my dad was Welsh, my mother English, my grandmother was French and her parents Belgian ..and they are just the ones I know about .... does that make me of quadruple heritage???!! ///

No Mally just a 'mongrel' now before you condemn me for being offensive we are always being called a mongrel race, but that is deemed perfectly reasonable to say, but if one dared to describe a person of mixed heritage the same and all hell would be let loose.

So yes I am also offended at my race being called 'mongrel'.

[Baldric]

According to second definition Mongrel is derogatory

http://www.chambers.co.uk/search.php?query=MONGREL&title=21st

[anotheoldgit]

TWR

/// White Cliffs of dover has just been re-named, those Hills overlooking the English Chanel, what the hell is the Stupid Country coming to. ///

Can't put English Channel or you will offend the French.

[jackthehat]

Ah......that would be an example of 'personal rudeness', AOG. The sort of thing of which you profess to heartily disapprove, as I recall.

[mccfluff]

AOG - are you going to answer me or carry on ignoring me?

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

/// So the PC Office doesn't really exist anywhere except in your
imagination? ///

/// TWR - You don't seem to have got the hang of contributing to threads in the News section. ///

Oh, Oh, Oh, LOL, LOL, LOL, that's rich coming from you.

Why you can't differentiate from a tongue in the cheek comment to actual fact. ie 'the PC office'. what person would actually believe such an office existed?

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

/// Please don't call me names. Thankyou. ///

Who was that directed to and what were these names?

[-Talbot-]

AOG - are you going to answer me or carry on ignoring me ....too?