oversensitive
I got hauled up in front of a disciplinary panel because an Asian girl complained about me using the phrase "Indian giver" in the office. Despite it being impossible to uphold as a complaint once I had forced them to look it up as a phrase, it got raised every appraisal as an example of poor conduct.
Twats
(kaptinkurtz, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 11:43, 11 replies)

you're a fucking horrific racist and i hope you die

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 11:47, closed)

it's political correctness gorn maaaad
I called a guy at work niggardly and heard many gasps the stupid ignorant cuntflaps

but the etymology for this phrase is racist if not to Asian Indians
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 12:03, closed)

You should've just belmed at anyone who pulled you up on the usage of 'niggardly'.
Although urban dictionary does list it as 'word that will get you fired, even though it isn't offensive'.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 13:46, closed)

I just did look it up as a phrase.
It's racist and you're a prick for using it.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 12:04, closed)

"When an Indian gives any thing, he expects to receive an equivalent, or to have his gift returned."
It's not the worst thing in the world, but it's definitely impolite to say the least. I suspect that it gets brought up at appraisal less because you used it and more because you seem unable to still understand why it may be construed as racist. A simple 'Sorry, I didn't appreciate where the term came from' may have been better than acting as though you were the offended party.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 12:13, closed)

I'm going to hazard a guess that he's over 50, obese, and wears jeans, a rugby shirt and a blazer to the pub.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 12:19, closed)

It's interesting and historical, is what it is.
See also "Chinese gift exchange" which is common here in Canada.
I have a Canadian friend of Chinese parents who acknowledges that the term is racist in a quaint way (ie, that it implies that the Chinese will steal from each other) but thinks that people who complain about it are desperate to prove everyone else is a racist and are weird.
It's not the same as calling Chinese Chinks for example.

You're right though, an apology and an admittance of ignorance usually works wonders.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 13:00, closed)

Tho I've belted you and flayed you, by the living God that made you
you're a better man than I am GungaDin.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 23 Aug 2012, 12:49, closed)

I'm not
sure it's any more offensive than 'going Dutch'.

The Dutch people I've met have been more than happy to buy a round when it's their turn.
(dchurch bah, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 12:53, closed)

I just made a round-about ref. to
"Dutch courage" in another thread. Guess it's better than "French courage", right?
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 23 Aug 2012, 13:00, closed)

I just want to call a spade a spade.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 13:18, closed)