The Blackcock Inn

sassy wrote:That's because you can't use the markers on blackboards and people get pissed off being covered in chalk

sassy wrote:Errrrrr - you can still buy 'blackboard' paint for childrens rooms so they can use chalk on the wall.

sassy wrote:I think it was more that blackboards became obsolete and whiteboards came in that you can use coloured markers on.

Syl wrote:If you google 'blackboard definition' google will tell you exactly what a blackboard is.

I thought the name 'blackboard wasn't used in schools nowadays was  for the simple reason that boards are not black anymore.
How can the word BLACK....which is a colour be offensive to anyone?

I can (if someone was being incredibly pc) see it could be viewed as being  negative when used in the context of 'Black sheep'.or 'Black cloud'  because both terms imply something or someone who isn't welcome.......but black on it's own, or to describe an item that's black, like a board or a frock (the LBD) is inoffensive and anyone who thinks different must have a screw loose.

Syl wrote:Language is ever changing. The N word, which in my lifetime has always been used as an insulting term for a black person was taken from the word Negro which was acceptable till fairly recently.
As was the term 'coloured' or half caste.....no longer acceptable in polite society......unless you are black yourself then anything goes.

I suppose it's the way words were used, and by whom,  rather than the actual words themselves that originally caused offence.

eddie wrote:Most blacks use the term n---er as an affectionate term and some, to describe a low-life black person.

Original Quill wrote:

eddie wrote:Most blacks use the term n---er as an affectionate term and some, to describe a low-life black person.

What is your evidence for that?  You can hypothesize, but it should be identified as such.  If you have evidence, I would love to see it.  It's a most interesting thesis.

Original Quill wrote:

Syl wrote:Language is ever changing. The N word, which in my lifetime has always been used as an insulting term for a black person was taken from the word Negro which was acceptable till fairly recently.
As was the term 'coloured' or half caste.....no longer acceptable in polite society......unless you are black yourself then anything goes.

I suppose it's the way words were used, and by whom,  rather than the actual words themselves that originally caused offence.

I don't even think the 'by whom' qualification is always the case.  Blacks are humans too.  They go through the same emotions, and life cycles, etc.  They acclimate to words through history, just as we all do.  

If a black mother slaps a black son for using the N-word, it's going to be considered wrong.  The problem is that blacks have been told that they are wrong so much, they just use the wrong language out of moral habit--spite, if they are angry.  A perfectly normal reaction.  Tell a kid he's wrong so much, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. He goes from being told he is wrong, to thinking he's wrong, to making wrong choices...just to conform to your expectations.

Syl wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

I don't even think the 'by whom' qualification is always the case.  Blacks are humans too.  They go through the same emotions, and life cycles, etc.  They acclimate to words through history, just as we all do.  

If a black mother slaps a black son for using the N-word, it's going to be considered wrong.  The problem is that blacks have been told that they are wrong so much, they just use the wrong language out of moral habit--spite, if they are angry.  A perfectly normal reaction.  Tell a kid he's wrong so much, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. He goes from being told he is wrong, to thinking he's wrong, to making wrong choices...just to conform to your expectations.

Black music is full of the N word...and full of the MF words too....it's oddly quite acceptable for them to use the words between themselves.

And if this doesn't make your ears bleed nothing will.