How Things Change From 50 Odd Years Ago.

[SparklyKid]

I remember when corner shops were taken over by Asian owners. They were open 24/7 and every day of the year. Very handy and were known as "*** shops"

Chip shops also, lots taken over by Chinese, open Sundays, brilliant. We would say "Do you fancy a ch1nkie for tea"

It was not disrepectful just a way of describing the shops, then.

[Ken4155]

Bobs, probably became offensive because of the derogatory way in which it was most often used. The 'P' word was almost spat out of people's mouths and, in some quarters, it still is.

[Sqad]

1950's New Zealander at Med School was always called Kiwi.
Another guy from Ghana had a massive penis and was always referred to as "donkey "....no idea why.

Nobody took exception.

[Bobbisox1]

Ken , I must have been naive , I always assumed the being P*** was just a half of where someone came from ,the country abbreviated
Not sure why a Chinese person got called a ch1nky though, any ideas?

[paddywak]

Anybody is quite welcome to call me Paddy,after all it is my name even though I'm English,born pretty much in the middle of the country with a Geordie mum and a lancashire dad.I'm proud of my Irish ancestry and to tell the truth I dont mind what people call me apart from *** that is a word I really hate.Thirty years ago it would have been answered with a knuckle sandwich nowadays they'd just get a mouthful back which is about as much as I'm capable off

[pat2604]

Good best answer. My first boyfriend was called Taff. It was a while before I found out his real name!!

[Bobbisox1]

PP I’ve never suggested you’ve trolled me :0( I admit to skimming your posts though as I can’t follow them , if that helps ?

[pastafreak]

Lots of derogatory terms here...some quite nasty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs#D

[roadman]

is it disrespectful to the shop or the owners when you refer to it as the ethnicity of the owners lol doesnt make sense but hay ho

[Stickybottle]

Apologies to the Scots on here
My favourite derogatory word for a Scot is

Oatmeal savage

[Peter Pedant]

// to tell the truth I dont mind what people call me apart from *** that is a word I really hate.//

it wdnt rhyme with buck-wheat would it?

Buck-wheat completely harnless - rather unsuccessful competitor in the triticum family - so cd be called British buckwheat I suppose

[Peter Pedant]

aye - parridge
they like parridge alot in Dartmoooooor !

[Buenchico]

When I lived in Sheffield, P... shop was used simply as a synonym for 'corner shop' or 'convenience store'. Even if the owners of such a shop, and all its staff, were white, people would still say that they were going to to the local P... shop.

I even heard the young daughter of the (Indian) owner of such a store, when answering an enquiry from another girl about what her parents did for a living, happily reply with "Oh, didn't you know? Our family run the P... shop up the road".

[maggiebee]

"How Things Change From 50 Odd Years Ago"
Definitely, used to have s*x four times a week but now...................

[Mamyalynne]

But now the shop's shut Maggie?

[Lie-in King]

They've gone self-service...

[Peter Pedant]

oh right then

[Mamyalynne]

Not the convenience store it once was.

[Arksided]

Cor blimey! how you all must've struggled. Good to know you all survived to tell the tale about it all.

[Mamyalynne]

I must say, although I did hear the word used for the local corner shop - in our house we always used the owners name/s.

[bookbinder]

Bobbisox1 at 14:36. It seems that (according to Collins Dictionary) the term 'chinky' as applied to a Chinese person originated from the Chinese words 'ching-ching'. These words mean 'please-please', and were used as a greeting, a farewell, or a toast. The 'toast' meaning came to be used in English as 'chin-chin'.