Names of inhabitants of the U.K.

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RedRover

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South/East London are prop'a cockney areas - (Anyone for some jellied eels and mash? )

Welsh people are welshies, or sheep 'admirers.'

Scottish people are scots, although I prefer 'big gay skirt wearers' personally.

Irish people are just called unintelligent.

NB I have scottish AND Irish in me, so its all fun and games.
 
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JasonaJaseaJesse

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The guy who started the post didnt know what britain was until he got a reply. If some people use the word paki in a derogatry way, then that word becomes derogatry. So now a cant say it wether i mean it non-offensively or not.

And for your information a person from britain is called a briton. Theres no such word as brit is there?
 
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MikeyD

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I think it's actually the St. Mary-le-Bow church in cheapside. Which had it's bells rehung in 1962, thus reinstating the cockney race.

The cockneys are notoriously hard to kill. It is suspected that they, along with their insect counterparts (the cockroaches), would be the only things to survive a global nuclear war...

Actually I completely made that last bit up.
 
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Kerpal

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Well 'Brit' isn't a real word, no. It's an abbreviation. It is used as a nickname for people from Britain.

The Britons were a Celtic race who inhabited England, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. They were conquered by the Romans, and then subsequently overrun by the barbarians who conquered their lands after the Roman legions withdrew. These barbarians included the Angles and the Saxons, and eventually became what we call the English, who are still basically barbarians, as the behaviour of their football supporters makes abundantly clear.

Personally I regard the word 'Paki' offensive, because I've almost always heard it used as an insult.
 
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twistedewings

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AAAaaaarrrrgh! Traitor!!!! Your dull twangs originate from the first cockneys!!! Never forget your roots...

Peace. And love. With lots of chocolate.


On a more serious note, calling a pakistani a paki is rude full stop. Calling someone from India a 'paki' is even worse to them!
I was brought up in a racist area, and have been called this many times - it didn't bother me, apart from the fact that they called me it with intent to hurt me mentally. If anyone can give me an instance where paki has been used in a non-derogatory way, then Ill eat my non existent hat. With chocolate again.

EDIT: Yes Kman, it had been forgotten quite amusingly. And thats not an insult to the toffees, (there you go Kgirl ) but more a reflection on how stupid some people who work in the EU are...
 
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softballplayernumba9

New member
GOD HELP ME!

this guy couldnt sound more ignorant and racist if he tried!

the very fact you made this statememnt in a public forum means you lack sensitivity toward the subject of racism....quite fitting that a recent poll on MAP has shown that people find "racial discrimination" hte most "annoying" type!

Please, try to be more understanding of others when you make statememnts like that...totally unnecessary!
 
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nicole[ilk]

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yes we can were kilts if we want, it is our national dress, and I for one am proud of it, the ladies love it

I think of Englands national dress as the costume worn by morris dancers!



to people who don't know the fine people from Glasgow are Glaswegians (glass wee jins) therefore weedgies.

Now another question (mainly for the british ones here)
is using the term "chinky" derogatory when used to indicate you would like chinese food? I do not mean to be offensive, just trying to understand peoples views

The thing that gets me is that people from around the world think Scotland is part of England, IT IS NOT, we are part of the united kingdom. I spent 3 hours explaining this to a NEW YORKER in the cook islands, and she could not understand.

Bcullen, do you class yourself a phoenixian?????????

to americans:
Do you consider yourselves Yanks/Americans or for example,
Alaskan, Texan, Californian, New Yorker, or something like an Irish American?????

ik
 
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GabzRockzttt

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I think we need to chill out a bit in this thread, before its gets too heated.

Its meant to be a bit of fun, lets not let it get out of hand and locked.
 
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Buzz

Member
You have to be born within the area that can hear the sound of bow-bells to be a cockney - the vast majority of londoners aren't
 
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PapaMcCain

Member
I don't think it is. When my freinds and I go out for a chinese meal we say "we're goin down the chinky". I don't see what is derogatory about it.

I already said that
 
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sctrojnvirus

New member
So is it degrading if the user think its degrading or is it degrading if the reciever thinks its degrading?

Who exactly decides?

I dont like being called a brit. So should everyone stop using the word? Why is it that if you do a particular thing to some people its 'ist' yet when you do the same thing to other people its not?

And could you please explain how you can call me a racist on a board which rules forbid personal attacks.

..and explain how its racial discrimination to compare the word brit to the word paki.
 
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FroBag76

New member
There's a bunch of ex-cons call us whingeing poms. I mean we never whinge! I hate it when people go on about how much whingeing we do....mutter....mumble.......whinge.....

Do the people down at the take away like the term chinky? It's probably borderline.
 
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black_rose_325

New member
I am honestly not being racist...in fact im trying to be the opposite.

Racism is creating a prejudgement about a person based on their race...how exactly did i do that?
 
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gangster97

New member
On the subject of pakistanis, and the shortened version of their 'name', and the use of Brit.

Brit has, to my knowledge, not been used as part of a racist attack whereas people of the asian community get called (you know what I mean) in such a way as to cause insult.

Personally I'd not use chinky in front of a chinese person, so I try not to use it elsewhere.
 
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