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[ToraToraTora]

Got myself what would normally be called "a black man's pinch" - what is the TROB term for that these days?

[retrocop]

Familiar expression used by my Mum and Dad. One was Devonian the other Welsh. Part of our British phraseology. I used a common, complementary term recently for a dark skinned lady and was admonished by a mod for using casual racism. You can't make it up. If this woke mod had listened to old seafaring shanties of yester year he/she would have a fit of the vapours listening to common old phrases which were complimentary and not offensive. When I told my wife she told me she wouldn't be offended one iota if she was described as such. I give up.

[Patsy33]

I was brought up in Gloucestershire, it was a very common description of a blood blister.

[barry1010]

I had never heard of it

[jno]

news to me - always been a blood blister to me, though thanks to Barry and others for enlightening [if that's the word] me.

[Maydup]

The term for it is blood blister. Dad was a cockney builder and we’ve all had plenty, but I’ve never heard it called anything else.

[Smowball]

My dad is still alive, and was a builder all his life, and he always called them that.

[maggiebee]

Oh right, seems to be a common expression in England - inherently racist? Not used in Scotland so far as I am aware.

[Old_Geezer]

"racist
/ˈreɪsɪst/
adjective
characterized by or showing prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized."

Since there is zero prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against anyone in the name/description, it's clearly not the slightest bit racist. However suggesting it is may stimulate the feeling of offence in folk who will understand that they have been described in a derogatory way.

[barry1010]

I'm smack bang in the middle of England. I have canvassed my various local groups, friends, relatives and none have heard of it. So not common throughout England in any age group

[douglas9401]

Blood blisters are vanishingly uncommon due to 'doing it yourself' , unless you forget to remove the sovereign rings.

[lankeela]

Always used it, never ever used as a racist term as virtually always caused by trapping skin or hitting it with something solid, and in the good old days we said it as we saw it eg looked like a pinch from a black man! Ridiculous to think anyone could be offended by such a term. Would I be offended if someone of colour had a blister and referred to it as a white man's pinch? Of course not.

[lankeela]

On the other hand, you could say it was a 'black' (which it looks because of the dark blood) man's pinch ie the man could be of any colour persuasion so not even remotely meant as an insult to black men.