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# This was topical, ooh, 15 years ago?

(note that I do not endorse the word 'coloureds', but it's use was necessary in order to A. Make the joke work and B. reflect the awful attitude that apartheid sprouted from.)
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:43, archived)
# The
original's even better, though

and now I've said that I can't find the bloody thing

but it contained lots of apologies for Bush in French

(Wong Fei-Hung - now with added flickr.com (see profile), Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:46, archived)
# You mean
this?
Yeah, I used that tag because it was the only decnt picture I could find (didn't have it in Google, I'm always on Snopes).
Ooh, and have you been on Thomas Bihn's messageboard? It's hilarious
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:49, archived)
# Snopes spoils the internet :-(
(The Spelling Police, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:50, archived)
# How so?
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:53, archived)
# By spreading lies!
www.snopes.com/photos/shark.asp
(I helped save b3ta! Rev. A-MOL is lurking around these parts again, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:55, archived)
# is that real?
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:01, archived)
# Tells me things aren't really true...
It even says the shark/bridge/marine is a fake!
Gollygeewillickers
(The Spelling Police, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:55, archived)
# Spellcasting...
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(I helped save b3ta! Rev. A-MOL is lurking around these parts again, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:56, archived)
#

I have always used the word, coloured.......is that bad? Thought that was a more PC word to use??
(I helped save b3ta! TBR, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:48, archived)
# the PC word
is darkies.
(schnurricane, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:48, archived)
# I thought
it was Sooties
(I helped save b3ta! Bling Blong Bling Blong, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:53, archived)
#
I still can't believe they made Robinson's remove the classic "Golly" from their labels because of this sort of thing.
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:54, archived)
# it was a gollyWOG
and it had a litle black guy with massive lips on it doing a silly dance. no, i don't understand why either..
(GoldenFanjita whistle posse blow! horns crew i can't hear you!, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:55, archived)
# Yeah, but if it
had been a little white guy with massive lips doing a silly dance it would have been fine. It was just a logo, was it really that offensive to anyone? I know it panders to racial stereotypes, but it's no worse than having pictures of Frenchmen with big noses, stripey shirts and baguettes in my eyes, and besides, it's not like it said "this is what all black people are like" on the side.
Or am I just being incredibly ignorant here?
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:57, archived)
# PC is hypocrisy
and always has been hypocrisy.
(Indole Ring, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:08, archived)
# Robertson's
surely?
(I helped save b3ta! ilovemy5dollarhorse All things considered, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:07, archived)
# Yes indeed
Stupid me.
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:07, archived)
# its apparently quite offensive
i used to go out with a negro girl and she told me so
(GoldenFanjita whistle posse blow! horns crew i can't hear you!, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:49, archived)
#
bugger.........don't like using the word black, connotes too much badness.
(I helped save b3ta! TBR, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:50, archived)
# Persons of afro-carribean origin.
Or Darkies.
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:53, archived)
# you can say anything you like
as long as you put it into context by saying

"I'm not RACIST but..."

before you say it.

NOTE: This also works with sexist, ageist, facist and so on.
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:58, archived)
# what about "poofist"?
(klondyker, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:14, archived)
# whenever i hear that word
it conjures up images of crime and disorder
(GoldenFanjita whistle posse blow! horns crew i can't hear you!, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:53, archived)
# Hmm
But then you have things like the Music Of Black Origin awards...
(....., Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:54, archived)
# the thing is, and i have to give them this one
basically all music nowadays has black origins
(GoldenFanjita whistle posse blow! horns crew i can't hear you!, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:56, archived)
# Aye
But I could see a "Music of White Origin" awards getting slammed riotously which is a bit hypcocritical. Mind, it would be mostly Country music i guess so possibly it's for the best.
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:05, archived)
# We should start one
Just to see what happens.
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:09, archived)
# Indeed it is
Unless Western Classical is your thing.

Which it isn't for me.
(....., Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:28, archived)
# Same here
But in this PC World*, what are we going to do?

*no, not the shop. Anyone who thought that is a twunt and has obviously spent far too much time on b3ta.
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:55, archived)
# I always thought it was un-PC
Not due to issues of accuracy (which I will not comment on) but because of the negative inflections the word gained through it's use in apartheid and in 20th century America.
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:52, archived)
#
darn it, going to have to find another word to use.

Although I won't have to use it much, don't get that many round my way.

My sister was 8 years old when she saw her first black guy, we were shopping in Morrisons and she couldn't stop staring!
(I helped save b3ta! TBR, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:57, archived)
# Aye
My friend Bretty (from down south) was agog when I said "I've never seen so many black people" at Alton Towers on Friday...I in no way meant it in any negative light, I was merely commenting on how unvaried the racial mix is up here in Warrington.
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:00, archived)
# In my small central Scottish town of
8,500 there is ONE (1) black person.
(Small Beer, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:02, archived)
# One of my dads friends told of his first trip to london
back in 1960, he saw a black guy pointed and shouted "Fuck me, it's a n*****" (having only heard his dad call them that). He was chased for quite a while.
(I helped save b3ta! magnum, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:09, archived)
# So what is the right word?
Non-white? Afro-[insert nation of residence here]? Differently pigmented?
(Small Beer, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 11:55, archived)
# can't be 'non-white'
because that would be suggesting that white is standard and being coloured is inferior*

*taps nose*

*might be a large pile of wank
(Mr. Partyhat, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:05, archived)
# I don't see what's wrong with "black".
I had several mates at Uni called "Matt". To distinguish them I had long-haired Matt, geek Matt and black Matt. Fairly sure I never caused him offense at that, but probably amused him with my naive questions from time to time!

I know I was probably long-haired or hippy Sam (at the time).
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:09, archived)
# We had a guy in school
Who we called LBT (Little Black Tom) because there was, of course, more than 1 Tom around. Nobody ever dared to do it to his face because he was a fucking psycho and would probably actually find a way to take offense in it.
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:11, archived)
# updated


woo to yours..
(I helped save b3ta! beaubodor blogless, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:04, archived)
# Damn you
I should have known never to try political comedy when we have such a skilled master of satire around.
Woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Mon 28 Jun 2004, 12:08, archived)