you can still buy a negro these days

Not for those of a nervous disposition:

Ben Reilly wrote:"Negro" simply means "black" in a lot of languages.

Tomé una caca en tus zapatos negros.

nicko wrote:Playing Snooker "pot the Negro"

blackie333 wrote:

nicko wrote:Playing Snooker "pot the Negro"

I dont understand this thread at all??????????

Major wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:"Negro" simply means "black" in a lot of languages.

Tomé una caca en tus zapatos negros.

OFFENSIVE
Negro
ˈniːɡrəʊ/
datedoffensive
noun
1.
a member of a dark-skinned group of peoples originally native to Africa south of the Sahara.
adjective
adjective: Negro
1.
relating to black people.

Ben Reilly wrote:"Negro" simply means "black" in a lot of languages.

Tomé una caca en tus zapatos negros.

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Major wrote:

OFFENSIVE
Negro
ˈniːɡrəʊ/
datedoffensive
noun
1.
a member of a dark-skinned group of peoples originally native to Africa south of the Sahara.
adjective
adjective: Negro
1.
relating to black people.

Wrong again,  Major...

Name that online dictionary you used..
WAS IT the "Urban" online dictionary, per chance ?  They're often wrong, more times than not..

The word "negro" isn't offensive,  but some of its derivatives are...        

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:"Negro" simply means "black" in a lot of languages.

Tomé una caca en tus zapatos negros.

Wouldn't it be better to say "Tome una caca en tus zapatos marron."? The colour co-ordination would be more appropriate.

Ps. I know the accents are missing. I can't find them on my computer.


           

The Devil, You Know wrote:

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:


Wrong again,  Major...

Name that online dictionary you used..
WAS IT the "Urban" online dictionary, per chance ?  They're often wrong, more times than not..

The word "negro" isn't offensive,  but some of its derivatives are...        

try walking into watts and asking to speak to the negro.

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

The Devil, You Know wrote:
try walking into watts and asking to speak to the negro.

YOU  Pommies need to realise that you are no longer the centre of the universe...

Some of the words and phrases that you lot tippy-toe around these days,  because of your local p/c pressures,  still aren't considered so offensive by average people in other countries (yet..).

And vice versa..
Two examples --  negro and paki' aren't considered as offensive/insulting down here in Australia --  though I notice some English people offended by them;  however the terms "abo" and "coon" are considered as abusive insults when used against dark-skinned persons -- and I have seen English posters using those terms on here before.

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

"Hate crime" is British Law.

Not Australian, nor is American law quite the same, again (remembering that the Yanks have their concepts of 'Freedom of Speech' codified in their Constitution..').

Down here we have "Anti Villification" laws that cover the same ground -- and it treats the rules on language a little differently to the over-sensitive and reactionary measures that you lot are more used to, and some of you often complain about on here..