Snowball

[Anto7]

is the word "snowball" offencive to you? as a white person, if a black person were to call you a snowball would you find it offencive?

[SirOracle]

No.

[1ndex]

Snowball is a proper surname. A white person can be blackballed, how would a black person feel in a similar position?

[Svejk]

Only if I was an Eskimo.

[wildwood]

No. I've been called a lot worse than snowball by non-whites and it doesn't matter to me at all. I just smile and say gidday.

[Iluvspikey]

I'd just wonder why, that's all.

[Svejk]

Wouldn't go into meltdown.
(Well, its early)

[MadMen]

No. I'd also think that anyone who *was* offended by that, should probably grow some balls.

[Old_Geezer]

Extremely unlikely, but like with most things in this category it's less what is said and more how it's said, and what is meant.

[ummmm]

No I wouldn't.

[Frank97]

I wouldn't be offended because I don't know what it means. Apart from the obvious that is.

[jomifl]

I might if I was dimensionally challenged.

[magsmay]

Snowball is not offenSive to white people as it does not have the underlying connotations that certain words used to describe black people in a negative way have.

[modeller]

No ! and nether did my Jamaican friend, but as OG says it depends on , how, why and when.

[Buenchico]

I used to drink in an illegal bar run by, and populated entirely by, members of Sheffield's Afro-Caribbean community. I was the only white guy allowed in and I was always referred to as 'da white ***'. I regarded it as a compliment!

[Buenchico]

Oh, I thought that I'd beaten AB's censorship system when I posted the n-word!

[craft1948]

One of my ancestors was called Snowball Botterill.............

[bhg481]

Some time ago I bought a book of non-pc jokes. In the forward the author made the point that "If someone hits you on the nose it hurts, no argument. If someone calls you a name aiming to offend you, you can CHOOSE whether or not to be offended; just choose not to". It works wonderfully well if you just ignore them and even better if you agree with them - their insult has failed and you have got one up on them. Try it.

[andres]

''Sticks and stones will hurt my bones but calling names won't hurt me''
This is what we used to chant when we were kids whenever the other kids were taunting us.
And no ,the name Snowball is not offensive to our family. My niece married a lad with that surname.

[sara3]

of all the names I've ever been called....... Snowball is not one of them!