Blackmail

[tamborine]

is there a pc replacement ?

[squarebear]

You can still blackmail people via email but you would have a record of it and so would find it easy to prove. Can you expand your question a liitle please?

[tiggerblue10]

A politically correct blackmail?

[tamborine]

it sounds racist.....wots the alternative word

[squarebear]

Not sure how blackmail is racist? Is this a joke thread?

[craft1948]

Extortion by intimidation............

[tiggerblue10]

Afro-Caribbean mail?

[cazzz1975]

so is "whitewash" rascist?

[snags]

''it sounds racist''

And sexist...

f fs...

[Davethedog]

Black is a colour. Its use is not racists.

The word is variously derived from the word for tribute (in modern terms, protection racket) paid by English and Scottish border dwellers to Border Reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment. This tribute was paid in goods or labour (reditus nigri, or "blackmail"); the opposite is blanche firmes or reditus albi, or "white rent" (denoting payment by silver). Alternatively, Mckay derives it from two Scottish Gaelic words blathaich pronounced (the th silent) bl-aich (to protect) and mal (tribute, payment). He notes that the practice was common in the Highlands of Scotland as well as the Borders.[4]

[Davethedog]

From Wiki

[starone]

Didn't I read somewhere that black is a lack of colour?

[Davethedog]

Starbuck - yep when all colours are absorbed you get Black

[McMouse]

Royal Mail........another word for extortion.

[tamborine]

that's it Mcmouse, extortion ! thanx