
Nothing else I can really add to the description really. The bloke seems happy to do this before the usual cries of 'RACIST' or whatever.
( , Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:04, Reply)

why do you even care what race he is? what does that have to do with anything?
( , Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:42, Reply)

is a cunt.
Even if used ironically: you still sounds like Jim Davidson, and need a hefty ballsac-kicking.
( , Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:48, Reply)

Describing something using language that specifically avoids terms found by some to be perjorative is absolutely the way it should be done. The guy does look of African descent to me. Does he look Nordic to you?
It in no way impinges on the man in the video, is not a flaw in the describer, and in fact makes me think you don't even know who Jim Davidson is, if you think the above is offensive.
Pick your fights. This one isn't one of them.
( , Fri 2 Jul 2010, 16:46, Reply)

Firstly, apologies for the tone, I came across as boorish & spoiling for a fight; when it was meant as robust b3ta banter: Pissflaps (a /links stalwart) often takes the same tone.
However, the chap's ethnicity is in no way pertinent to the video, so to use such a deliberately atatvistic term to reference his ethnic origin is trolling.
Again, apologies for tone; not content.
( , Sat 3 Jul 2010, 11:58, Reply)

phrase "A gentleman of african descent" is that it now sounds weirdly clumsy and dated - and thus a little patronising. So, more 1980s Ben Elton than Jim Davidson.
It looks like Pissflaps is tying himself up in knots worrying about saying the right thing, but he's hardly a cunt for that.
( , Fri 2 Jul 2010, 19:14, Reply)

Trying to be helpful, that's all.
( , Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:49, Reply)

he's black, it is a fact. Does the fact he is black offend you?
( , Fri 2 Jul 2010, 15:37, Reply)

when you post a video of a white person do you write "someone of european descent does such and such"? No? then maybe you can understand why this seems so bizarre to me then.
( , Fri 2 Jul 2010, 18:31, Reply)

about slight 'racism' in descriptions. its so petty compared to some of the stuff posted on /talk.
unless you dont like the word black.
( , Fri 2 Jul 2010, 18:32, Reply)