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# New Saturday night game show 'in the public interest.'
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:13, archived)
# pikeys on spikes
I'd watch that
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:13, archived)
# ^this
There's a bunch of them breeding next door but one from me, if they need contestants.

They're up to four kids already, and have turned the front yard into their own personal scrap yard.

Thank god they're only renting. Presumably when Mr. Pikey manges to get Mrs. Pikey up the duff again, the council will pay for them to move to a larger premesis. Hopefuly this will happen before they buy a fucking pit bull.
(I helped save b3ta! Halibut If you think education is expensive, try crack., Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:19, archived)
# there is some debate over whether 'pikey' is an unacceptable racial slur
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:22, archived)
# unacceptable to whom?
(I helped save b3ta! Halibut If you think education is expensive, try crack., Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:24, archived)
# Pikeys
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:25, archived)
# aha - I don't know
I'm sitting on the fence
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:26, archived)
# go on...
'fes up...

you're trying not to say "pikeys", aren't you ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Halibut If you think education is expensive, try crack., Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:28, archived)
# Scum.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:26, archived)
# I read that in the Guardian
the lady concerned wouldn't answer my comment when I pointed out that Frank Gallagher describes the whole cast of Shameless as pikeys in the opening credits of every episode, yet she only got it together to write an article when Hammond implied that he might be one in Top Gear...but then the Guardian love to knock Top Gear and anyone that watches it
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:28, archived)
# "Pikey" is an abbreviation of "turnpike"
and, as such, derives from a reference to itinerant labourers in the 17th and 18th centuries ("turnpike riders", IIRC). It's got connotations of snobbery, but I don't see the racism...
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:28, archived)
# Travellers are a race now
which is why you can't say gyppo either
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:31, archived)
# funny that.
When the "Gyp" in Gypsie comes from "Egyptian", and has nothing to do with the races who currently claim the term.
(I helped save b3ta! Halibut If you think education is expensive, try crack., Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:34, archived)
# Traveller and gypsy are different.
"Gypsy" is a contraction of "Egyptian", which is where members of this particular nomadic community were mistakenly thought to originate when they arrived in England in the 16th century. (In fact, they're from northern India originally; yep: the English response was "Darkies all look the same to me" even then....)

There's nothing ethnically determinate about a traveller.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:37, archived)
# Except
for their proliferate breeding and possession of very ill looking Horses
(Fenristhewolf ..back once again on, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 13:23, archived)
# If "pikey" is a race, then I'm up for a spot of ethnic cleansing.
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:29, archived)
# Quote of the week.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 12:19, archived)
#
the acceptable term is 'Irish Tinkers'
(babyaeroplanes, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 13:48, archived)
# "Pikey on a Spikey"
Oh, yes.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:25, archived)
# LOL MATE I'M UP ON THIS FUCKIN' SIGN MATE.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:14, archived)
# Poles on the Dole
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:15, archived)
# put a donk on it!
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:17, archived)
# 99% of the world's problems
can be solved by putting a donk on them

FACT
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:28, archived)
# ITV shirley?
Climb the pole and win £10! Amazing!

I fucking hate ITV.
(I helped save b3ta! mrlogic is copying your beard, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:18, archived)
# You are correct.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:18, archived)
# I fucking hate TV.
Apart from a handful of panel shows, and NCIS.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:19, archived)
# and Rebus
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:21, archived)
# I hate TV too.
It killed my father....
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:27, archived)
# Was he a radio star?
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:30, archived)
# It is very funny you should say that.
As soon as I posted that message I went off to confirm what I thought to be true, that Hans Zimmer was in The Buggles.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:36, archived)
# You are Emu
aicmfp
(I helped save b3ta! Victor Meldrew, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:41, archived)
# Did you ever do biology?
Emu could not have possibly been Rod Hull's son ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:44, archived)
# Oh I don't know,
I'm sure Emu had SOME Rod in him ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Victor Meldrew, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:55, archived)
# that's too difficult for ITV
"Which of these is the right answer:

a) this one
b) not this one
c) not this one either

text a, b or c to 5318008 to win a lifetime supply of brown food from Iceland"
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:20, archived)
# ^^^^
So much laughter...
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:29, archived)
# haha
true true
(I helped save b3ta! mrlogic is copying your beard, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:34, archived)
# hahahaha
(I helped save b3ta! Ysol ab abl blap, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:52, archived)
# ^^ this
i'm sorry but ITV is for thick people who think staying in on a Saturday night watching someone else win more money then they'll ever scrounge off the council, passes as entertainment
(I helped save b3ta! Victor Meldrew, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:28, archived)
# What the fuck is ITV?
I don't think my television does that
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:32, archived)
# Is "the public interest"
the same as what the public's interested in?
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:33, archived)