Is it rascist? Probibly yes I know!

MrIncredible | 00:34 Sat 26th Jun 2010 | Family & Relationships

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If your child comes home from school dirty or in from the garden dirty is it acceptable to call them a dirty arab? (NO i hear you cry out in unison)

I always use the term mucky pup but the other day i said dirty arab (not sure why, never used it before and probibly havn't heard the expression since the 1970's) and my wife was mortified.
but it made me think where it came from?
my parents might have said it to me as a child or most definalty my grandparents.....but were /are arabs dirty.......maybe filthy rich but why dirty or is this an expression confined just to my family relativesor area?

Clingy babies - do they cry 'to get their own way' or are they genuinely upset?

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craft1948

Mark.....really must do better.

MarkRae

Yes, you must.

mike11111

Just to interrupt the mutual antipathy for a moment and return to the idea of the original posting:

Do children today still chant the counting rhyme, 'Eeny, Meeny. Miney, Mo...', and if so, how does the second line go?

craft1948

Thanks for that Mike........why someone feels the need to come onto someone's thread just to correct their grammar is beyond me.

MarkRae

> Do children today still chant the counting rhyme, 'Eeny, Meeny. Miney, Mo...', and if so, how does the second line go?

I have no idea, despite having a beard...

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Kromovaracun

"'Eeny, Meeny. Miney, Mo..."

We always used to say 'Catch a tiger by the toe'

I have been known to use the... erm... alternative sometimes though (largely because I tend to find extreme racism funny).

joeluke

It's not the dirty Arabs I'm worried about, it's the fact that you used the phrase 'mucky pup'

How offensive do you think that is to dogs?

People refer to close friends these days as 'hun' (short for honey), but I don't think those friends are confused and think they are being refered to as:

1.A member of a nomadic pastoralist people who invaded Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. and were defeated in 455.
2.A barbarous or destructive person.
3.A German soldier in World War I.

At the end of the day they are just names so WHO CARES?

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