Still Falkland Islanders After British troops were forbidden to use the insulting term "Bennies", they named the Islanders "Stills" - because they were still Bennies.
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
i'd drink the pish off a bishop's leg by chrisht
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
It's those I Love Books boys, with their FAPs, terrible for it, so they are
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
the "pontiac" one was pretty common among kids where i grew up : /
― omar little, Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:53 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Me too. Along with a slur against Native Americans based on "Ford": Found on reservation dump. (Besides the more common "fix or repair daily" and "flip over, read directions.")
― Famous porn scenes like "shake that bear" (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Are you a Benny tied to a tree?
― I knew a guy in a local metal band called "Bangin' Moon" (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Wait - Pontiac? What's that? Site's blocked here.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
ILX is the second google result for that which cheers me no end
xp obv
Found on road, dead.
Yeah, I can't look at a Pontiac w/o thinking of that either.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
"Pontiac" = "Poor Old N***** Thinks It's A Cadillac"
― Famous porn scenes like "shake that bear" (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
I must admit, I laughed.
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
x-post
Whaaaaaaaaaa?
Yeah, I never ever heard that. Wow.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
ಠ_ಠ
― Famous porn scenes like "shake that bear" (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
But what do they call them? We've got Jocks, Micks, Paddys, what are they? Trevors? Brians?― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.)
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.)
The go-to phrase round these parts ime is "fuckin English bastarts".
― ERIC CANONTA FOR PRESIDETN! (onimo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
Feb (2) British Stands for Filthy (or Fucking) English Bastard.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
Haggistani Scottish Compares Scotland to a 3rd world country such as Pakistan
2-for-1!
― ledge, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
i always thought the pontiac thing was dumb because half the white dudes i knew were aspiring to pontiac fieros and also i'd seen 'superfly'
― omar little, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
that database was posted here years ago but I can't find the thread where we initially boggled at it
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Chinless Wonder British. Reference to inbreeding and a weak gene pool resulting in poor bone structure.
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahahaha
sorry British people
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
i'm trying to think of something to say about canadians but jon's "code word" story upthread is making me wary
Frostbacks, I guess, but I think we'd be more appreciative of the attention than offended by the slur
― house of the holey (Ówen P.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
I for one am trying to puzzle out why I've been in the dark about 95% of these slurs for so long"Itis" poll last night w/friends, only one had heard of it b4
― house of the holey (Ówen P.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
I originally mentioned pork chops because they are delicious with applesauce. The food dish, I had no idea about the Portuguese slur and I have never tried to combine a Portuguese person with applesauce and cannot speak to its appeal.
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
haven't read the newest 200 posts but
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news%2Fcrime&id=8511126
is it fair for the police chief to call the suspects 'animals'
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
calling little kids "monkey" is totally within the remit of this thread because it's often intended to be cute and innocent but the whole "this is also a term used to denigrate black people" thing makes it fraught with peril
I used to work for a UK children's book publisher who were doing a board book with pictures of babies matched up with random dumb "cute" things about the babies in the pics. Unfortunately, the page that said, "cheeky monkey" had a picture of a black toddler. Publisher had to change the text.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - I see what you're saying but I've used "animal/s" to describe people who don't know how to behave or do so badly without linking it to race at all. Like if I see a lot of litter or something - "What kid of animals would do that?!". P sure the chief prob did so too?
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I'm not sure, just tossing it out there
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
This thread is moving rather fast, but re: not knowing the connotations of stuff like "uppity", I remember being told off for using "inscrutable" about someone who was Japanese - my mind was blown that this was a *thing* but I never used it again.― emil.y, Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:44 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark
― emil.y, Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:44 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark
there def is a stereotype that east asians (and I don't know if this applies to ethnic east asians who were born in America and socialized as Americans) are reticent to show emotion/emotionless
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Beeps and I have off-and-on been working on her very public acknowledgment of people we see and what color they are.
There was this rly interesting article last year somewhere about how kids automatically classify things by their differences, because that's how their brains are wired to learn about the world, so pretending that two people AREN'T superficially different is just confusing to them and logically more likely to make them feel that the difference is embarrassing, because no one will talk about it/adults go against what is obviously visible.
No kids, me, so I'm free to be completely fascinated by problems I'm never likely to run up against.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
here's a line from saul bellow's herzog
It may be that guilt and sadness made me look Oriental. A morose, angry eye, a long upper lip-what people used to call the Chinese Gleep. It was beau to her.
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure the "beat up a 64-year old" takes precedence over "six black and Hispanic males" re: animal descriptor xp
― houses of the holey (Ówen P.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah "inscrutable Oriental" is a thing. "inscrutable" by itself is a great word, though; i wouldn't chuck it completely.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
My mother used the word "uppity" on phone w me the other day, in anger with a badly behaved kid in her class who also happened to be black and I was like, "Okay, let's go back to square one, here. I don't care what else you do with your life, as long as you never say that again." Tried to make the point that it has too much history to ever be a neutral word.
She got mad at me for finding fault with her AGAIN as she must feel like I'm always doing. :/
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Me and my PC nonsense that only I care about, because no one else has ever corrected her, apparently.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
"Oriental" shouldn't be used to describe anything except furniture and architecture afaik
― houses of the holey (Ówen P.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InscrutableOriental
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
and orientalism, obv xp
Lol, 'uppity' was already discussed ITT (my only ref was to Mr Uppity as well, NV)
― kinder, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
― houses of the holey (Ówen P.), Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:31 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yes, of course, but the racist archetype is "inscrutable Oriental"
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Well, like I said earlier I never ever knew that it had that history so your mom isn't the only one.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
if there's a black kid acting in such a way that would cause a white kid to be described as uppity, what do you use instead, just y'know out of interest
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Never heard that either. Jesus Christ I am never saying anything again ever.
x-post - snobby? stuck up?
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
wow
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GermanicDepressives
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GermanicEfficiency
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsianAndNerdy
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsianAirhead
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsianRudeness
this site is like a rabbit hole
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
nothing wrong with "inscrutable," like i said!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
why are you yelling at black kids?
― deltron the escape g.o.a.t. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
I probably wouldn't say uppity at all.
Snobby would work for me, despite the bike acronym.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
I would just say 'snotty little brat' because ime that label applies to every single child who has ever existed
if you find yourself wanting to describe an Asian person as inscrutable, maybe examine your assumptions but lots of things are inscrutable in a non-racist way.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
lol wgw
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link