Agreed: Anyone who uses the phrase "a gentleman of african descent"
is a cunt.
Even if used ironically: you still sounds like Jim Davidson, and need a hefty ballsac-kicking.
(
Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:48,
Reply)
You are way off
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.
(
Claws of Doom I am no longer infected, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 16:46,
Reply)
That is balls. Naïve Balls, but still balls.
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.
(
Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Sat 3 Jul 2010, 11:58,
Reply)
I think the problem with the
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.
(
monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 19:14,
Reply)