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Why Are The Pc Brigade So Desperately Searching For Isms?
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http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ newsbea t/27236 363
He got in the SH for using the word "slope" last month, now some mumblings may have sounded like the verbotten word. Someone got into hot water last year for using the entirely urelated word "niggardly". I think most are not racist, is it really necessary to leap on even the tiniest of slips/mistakes/misunderstandings ?
He got in the SH for using the word "slope" last month, now some mumblings may have sounded like the verbotten word. Someone got into hot water last year for using the entirely urelated word "niggardly". I think most are not racist, is it really necessary to leap on even the tiniest of slips/mistakes/misunderstandings ?
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The only version I knew and assumed was the correct version had 'catch a tiger by his toe', when I was eeny meenying 45 years ago.
The n*gger version it seems was popular in the US in the 1880s, but was promoted by The Boy Scout movement...
// It was also used by Rudyard Kipling in his "A Counting-Out Song", from Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides, published in 1935. This may have helped popularise this version in the United Kingdom where it seems to have replaced all earlier versions until the late twentieth century. //
The only version I knew and assumed was the correct version had 'catch a tiger by his toe', when I was eeny meenying 45 years ago.
The n*gger version it seems was popular in the US in the 1880s, but was promoted by The Boy Scout movement...
// It was also used by Rudyard Kipling in his "A Counting-Out Song", from Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides, published in 1935. This may have helped popularise this version in the United Kingdom where it seems to have replaced all earlier versions until the late twentieth century. //
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I worked in a haberdashers and we got replacement labels for the reels of Silko sewing thread called 'n' Brown, new name 'Dark Brown'.
Clarkson tries to push it as far as possible, then makes a whining apology - too big for his boots and shows a lack of intelligence.
We always sang...
♪ Eeny Meeny Miny Moe, put the baby on the Po....♪ :-)
Clarkson tries to push it as far as possible, then makes a whining apology - too big for his boots and shows a lack of intelligence.
We always sang...
♪ Eeny Meeny Miny Moe, put the baby on the Po....♪ :-)
Just a question for ABers who are older than me - was this rhyme ever used with the offending word in British playgrounds?
I mean, I used to use it too when I was a kid - but the offending word was usually replaced with "tiger." I didn't realise the "n-bomb" was ever used in it until some years later and until this story came out I thought it was only an American thing.
I mean, I used to use it too when I was a kid - but the offending word was usually replaced with "tiger." I didn't realise the "n-bomb" was ever used in it until some years later and until this story came out I thought it was only an American thing.
your version sounds nice, mamya. I learnt Gromit's version with "tiger", but I am not British.
The BBC have admitted that they knew of the double meaning of slope ("a light-hearted word play joke"). Clarkson, having first denied using the N word has now changed his mind and admitted that he did but tried to "obscure" it. The BBC have now told him he's on a final warning.
The BBC have admitted that they knew of the double meaning of slope ("a light-hearted word play joke"). Clarkson, having first denied using the N word has now changed his mind and admitted that he did but tried to "obscure" it. The BBC have now told him he's on a final warning.
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