How Things Change From 50 Odd Years Ago.

[SparklyKid]

I remember when corner shops were taken over by Asian owners. They were open 24/7 and every day of the year. Very handy and were known as "*** shops"

Chip shops also, lots taken over by Chinese, open Sundays, brilliant. We would say "Do you fancy a ch1nkie for tea"

It was not disrepectful just a way of describing the shops, then.

[SparklyKid]

Funny how I can call an Australian an aussie !!

[Georgiesmum]

Use of a toasting forks for chestnuts over the fire. paper chains the children would make by the yard!

[Sqad]

or the Americans call us Limeys and the Aussies call us Poms.......
Scots known as Jocks ...Irish as Micks.

Sparkly....I don't recognise the world in which we are accelerating towards, I am just going along with the tide.

[ToraToraTora]

like this? from about 1:50

[bednobs]

the world certainly has changed but it was ever thus. The world has definitely changed fo the better since 50 years ago - i am in the world now

[Georgiesmum]

Hours would be spent after christmas by the children cutting up the old christmas cards and sticking them into scrap books, using just simple flour and water paste.

[goodgoalie]

Sqad - if anyone called me 'Jock' they would get put right in no uncertain way- I gave an example on another thread. And calling someone from Ireland 'Mick' or 'a Mick' is just as unacceptable

[Sqad]

goodgoalie......message received and understood.

[ichkeria]

Indeed it is and always has been. "***" shop was always a horrid term. It doesn't condemn everyone who used it although I often wonder what non-"***" Asians would have made of it

In my view, while no harm may have been intended, it was extremely disrespectful

[Hopkirk]

It was always offensive to describe corner shops in that way.

[Peter Pedant]

completely misses the point
some words are bad and become good - - er sanitary - healthful then leddy's monthly pad and back to healthful

some words are good and become bad - Chaucer wrote of the shitten shepherd.... meaning the unwashed shepherd, not one covered in sheep do

some are bad in one language - rubber, suspenders wonka and OK in another part of world.

no one wishes to cause offence - the workmen taught / used a word for folk darn sarf, and when I used it, my arabic teacher went ballistic - yeah Egypt and the common word for sudanese like the n word

I am not sure if anyone would point to count basie and say oh in the twenties he would be called a leader of n - band
oh no.
akrim foo-foo's anti Jewish comments take some beating as well.....

[Ken4155]

Our corner shop (Spar) was taken over by Asians many years back. The local yobs kept writing this slogan on one of their vehicles; "**** off P***** back to where you belong". The teenage son would clean the message off, only to see it return post haste. So he attached a note to the windscreen of the vehicle which read something like, "We're not P****, we're Indians, you morons."

[Peter Pedant]

Joanna Lumley was taught desert island skills around twenty years ago and used Mick - The Micks taught me to do this ....
and was quick to point out 1990
that those enlisted in the Irish regiments referred to themselves as Micks -to head off the PC brigade even then
( rather than tommies or baldric - - very falklands )

[grumpy01]

If someone came over from Ireland and his name was Mick would you call him Joe just to be PC.

[Ken4155]

Don't be silly, grumpy, he'd be called Paddy:-)

[grumpy01]

Now Ken that could be construed as racist.

[Bobbisox1]

Where did ‘Jock’ originate , is it a narrative of John in Scotland ?
Scousers = Liverpool
Geordies = Newcastle, not Durham,Sunderland etc
Yanks = America
The list is endless so why the offence ?

[Peter Pedant]

// "We're not P****, we're Indians, you morons."//

band of blood Netflix is a good view
BUT - be advised
it is about Indian agents infiltrating Pakistan to rescue their agent from the Taliban
and there is an awful lot of references to the different cultures - the indians are in bright colours and the islamics swathed in black

a constant theme surprisingly to us is that the Pakistani infrastructure in heavily infiltrated by Taliban traitors and this paralyses any lawful response by the authorities ( not Indian that is!)
and cultural misportrayals - Hindus beheaded in a mosque - o naughty naughty they would do it outside.....
sexy dancing, but it is in a taliban stronghold so it is the ..... boys doing the dancing. - better than reading AB I can tell you

[Peter Pedant]

why so offensive
because some terms are offensive and some not

slave owner and colonialist is
my grandfather was British Raj is not

[Peter Pedant]

yeah foo bobbi
i just have to open my mouth some days
and you sound off about me trolling you