After all this debate, QT will probably pass off quite peacefully.

It's pre-recorded so they might edit out any juicey bits too.

It'll be on too late for me anyway. I tend to be in bed by 9.30.

Convinced on what? That if a shop is run by a Paki it is a Paki shop?

Your statement about the proportion run by Pakis is somewhat puzzling in that nobody in their right mind would describe the likes of Gillens or the newsagent on York Road as Paki shops. Charlies on the other hand is a Paki shop and is generally described by some people as such.

I thought it was a convenience store.

Iphoned Virgin once to alter my TV and the bloke who answered told me his name was Gary and asked me how the weather was in Hartlepool, I said where he was will be a sight warmer ... and are you really called Gary...he said... 'It's raining in Swansea'. I'd assumed he was asian and his Welsh accent sounded deceptively so...Silly thing sometimes assumption.

Virgin have a cell centre in stockton, i phoned them the other week and got through to my best mate, we arranged our night out for the weekend whilst sorting out the broadband issue, was a bit weird.

Needless to say my bill was very very small for that month after that conversation.

what a very interesting and thought provoking thread. A very good 5 minute read.

[quote="Snowy"].he said... 'It's raining in Swansea'. I'd assumed he was asian



But surely that was the wrong answer if you'd asked him about the temperature where he was.........increasing the likelihood of English not being his first language?

I thought that we'd just established that the guy was a Taff?

But Welsh people don't speak English at all. Everyone knows that.

I think we have to assume that Snowy was calling his boy-friend, Gary, and that this is all an elaborate cover-up.

Anyone for a CHINKYS tonight...

News to me, but it explains a few things.

Aye, I think I'll probably have one......

And if she calls me 'lao wei,' I doubt I'll be running for the courts and telling them how I feel demeaned and hurt and I couldn't work for seven months, and I got depressed and my culture is worthless and it was horrible and..sob...sob...I just hate my life.....since she called me 'lao wei....'

Where's that suicide smiley??

not many folks in Swansea speak Welsh - however go another 15 miles west to Carmarthen and the locals there will oblige in the national lingo

If you disagree with what i've said why not use words rather than pictures? I don't know what your thinking from that.

One of the most boil my piss waste of money things in Great Britain are fooking road signs in Wales. For example Wrexham/Wrecsam. It's like they've let a dyslexic have a go for a laugh then corrected them. If you are Welsh then theirs every chance you hate the English sorry can spell the place where you live in English. What's the point??

One day I will go to Wales and cross out every piece of pointless Welsh on a road sign. I will you know. As for that dead long named place Gloglogsheepshaggingleekmunchingenglsihhatingglapglopglogglog or whatever it's called how much did that road sign cost?

Im thinking Ive heard it lots of times before & its boring & predictable.
The term 'Paki' has always been used as a derogatory term for Asians.Asians find the term to be derogatory & insulting therefore its not the same as using the term 'Brit'.
Its got nothing to do with PC at all its about common manners & respect.

PJP surely if you are going to wales to cross out pointless bits of road signs you should be crossing out the english bits not the welsh bits. Huh!

I seem to remember that it was used quite extensively in N Ireland as an insult, usually as 'Brits out'

So do you find the word 'Brit' demeaning ?

Given the fact that she was dealing with convicted terrorists that commited atrocities against Britain i'd say that's fair play.

Unlike Labour who only the other week had Martin McGuinness as a guest at the party conference at The Grand Hotel, Brighton. Remember? The one the I*A blew to fooking bits?

Better still, why not let one of the Lockerbie bombers free because he's ill?

What's next? Bin Laden round for a scone and a cuppa at No 10 or pie and mash with Gaddafi?

FOOK LABOUR.

So if we're sat in a pub before a Pools match and I say that I'm nipping over to the Paki shop for some fags you would want a debate about my reasoning for my choice of language. It'd be a short conversation as the reason would be no more complicated than the fact that the shop was owned / run by a Paki therefore meaning that my description would be correct.[/quote]

Or calling a footballer playing for the opposition a 'Nigger' whilst in the Toilets at Half-Time the other week!!!!

Sorry....getting ahead of myself....I promised I wouldn't reply to this Thread until i read it all!!!!

Mr.Ripper....If my brother was still alive....I can bet you a pound to a penny you wouldn't say you were going to the 'Paki' shop if you were near to him!!!!

I fecking BET you!!!! :(

Someone of your intelligence....I think ;)....I'm always shocked with you coming out with words like that!!!! :(

Oh I don't know, were you aware that Breidis Prescott was a member of this board?

Absolute bollocks I'm afraid Mr F. You might disagree with what he's got to say but he's got the right to say it. There are also safeguards in place like 'threatening words and behaviour' or 'racial incitement' etc.

I know. I think your missing my point.

There's no chance at all of me voting BNP but Labour take the moral high ground on Nick Griffin and the BNP, yet let convicted terrorists into their conference and give them freedom of speech in BRITAIN, the very place their "organisation" murdered people.

The subject of the I*A was brought up on QT tonight and the subject was changed quicker than Mr Benn.

Enoch Powell was our MP when we lived in Ulster, he called at our house to get votes an that. Me dad argued with him for ages.

I didn't have a clue what was going on, but! I know we lived on a fenian estate and he's car was going round giving all us kids DUP stickers and we ran in proud as punch of all our new balloons an that only to have em all binned by our parents taig or jehovahs witness alike......


my poor stickers

I'd be as likely to say "A" as I would be to walk into a shop and say "Hello Mrs White English counter woman".

But whilst we're on the subject if a descriptive word like Paki or whatever is offensive then how about calling somebody ginger? I used to get called all sorts when I was younger (even though my hair isn't ginger) and I hated it. It doesn't bother me now, I couldn't give a fk what people say, but in my opinion there is no difference between the two. How many of you self-righteous preachers of political correctness have never called somebody carrot top, duracell head etc etc.?

From memory what they had to say was broadcast, it was just done using actors voices and no images. Is that removing their right to free speach? Yes or no?

I would say yes and no.

I have in the past and I wouldn't completely rule it out in the future depending on the circumstances.

Walking into a shop to buy a pack of fags isn't the circumstances though really, is it?

I bet there was at least once that the majority of this board has refered to an Asian person as a paki at some point in their life to their face or not.

Yeah I did. I stopped when I was 12.

my dad fought in world war 2 against the japanese when we were growing up he wouldnt let us watch any tv with oriental people on it does that make him a racist? he called them every name you can think of

If he called them racist names then yes.

yes he did so all the lads who served in burma and witnessed what they did to our boys were racists then i am to

I heartily agree. The issue of casual cruelty and disrespect to other people is nothing to do with PC. PC just gives people a list (race, disability, gender etc) to tick off. People can then feel virtuous for not being racist or sexist, while all too often venting their spleen on someone else who hasn't got a protective PC-label.

Register your opposition to Nick Griffin here. I started to tire of it after 100.

http://www.slapnickgriffin.co.uk/

My uncle fought in Burma too. His was a pure hatred for what the Japanese did to PoWs. It was the brutality that forged their opinions.