Red Mosquito

dimejinky99 wrote:We’re really ok with the term Paki Now?

Rm is slipping.

Norris wrote:Where else do you buy booze?

dimejinky99 wrote:We’re really ok with the term Paki Now?

Rm is slipping.

LetMeSleep wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:We’re really ok with the term Paki Now?

Rm is slipping.

It doesn’t hold the same connotations here in Australia, Dave.

I cringed when I read it though.

Higgs wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:We’re really ok with the term Paki Now?

Rm is slipping.

It doesn’t hold the same connotations here in Australia, Dave.

I cringed when I read it though.

I was kidding - old school cricket joke.

But if I can be an Aussie why can't a Pakistani be a Paki? I really don't see the difference.

Birds in Hell wrote:

Higgs wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:We’re really ok with the term Paki Now?

Rm is slipping.

It doesn’t hold the same connotations here in Australia, Dave.

I cringed when I read it though.

I was kidding - old school cricket joke.

But if I can be an Aussie why can't a Pakistani be a Paki? I really don't see the difference.

It has a history in the UK and Ireland as a racial slur, comparable to 'Abo' as used towards Aborigines in Aus.

96583UP wrote:Higgs is racist pass it on

washing machine wrote:I only know that slur because it's in the database.

http://www.rsdb.org/races

96583UP wrote:that must have been coined after my visits to japadog

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