Words we mustn't use

[Platypus]

When I was a kid, it was, I'm afraid, pretty common to call people Jewish if they were being stingy, e.g. "Don't be such a Jew". A later variation of this was to make a sort of cat-like "meow" sound without pronouncing the "m", so a sort of "yoowww" noise, which was a corruption of "Jeoowww" and meant the same thing.

And we DID know that this was a reference to Jewish people

[d000hg]

WHS. "Jew" is also commonly heard in playgrounds. Many of the kids haven't even made the connection that it refers to Jewish people - it's just a word you use if someone annoys you.

Eh? Is this actually a thing?

I never heard of this outside South Park but I can easily believe it - kids are jerks

[TestMangler]

When I was a kid, it was, I'm afraid, pretty common to call people Jewish if they were being stingy, e.g. "Don't be such a Jew". A later variation of this was to make a sort of cat-like "meow" sound without pronouncing the "m", so a sort of "yoowww" noise, which was a corruption of "Jeoowww" and meant the same thing.

And we DID know that this was a reference to Jewish people

^^This

Did none of you young things go to school in the 70's ???

Someone being stingy was a 'Jew', someone not entirely clean was a 'pa*i' or a 'dar*ie' and anyone displaying less than perfect dexterity was a 'spastic'.

[DannyF1966]

Someone being stingy was a 'Jew', someone not entirely clean was a 'pa*i' or a 'dar*ie' and anyone displaying less than perfect dexterity was a 'spastic'.

As a Jewish person I take offense whenever I hear the word "Jew" even if it's not meant in a derogatory manner - simply because the word could be derogatory, and because it's a contraction of a longer word in the same way that Paki is a derogatory contraction of Pakistani.

I've not met anyone else that feels the same way (not that I've discussed it with that many people) so it may just be me though.

[Platypus]

anyone displaying less than perfect dexterity was a 'spastic'.

Yeah, or a 'flid' usually accompanied with flapping short arms actions. Ah yes, the 70's!

[TestMangler]

Yeah, or a 'flid' usually accompanied with flapping short arms actions. Ah yes, the 70's!

Indeed !

You remember the joke about the worlds shortest pub too then......

[stek]

Yeah, or a 'flid' usually accompanied with flapping short arms actions. Ah yes, the 70's!

Did you have 'biff' too, contraction from spina-bifida?

Just remembered what we called those little disabled cars you'd see on the touch line at the match - Spaz-chariots!

[GlenW]

Did you have 'biff' too, contraction from spina-bifida?

Just remembered what we called those little disabled cars you'd see on the touch line at the match - Spaz-chariots!

Or spacca wagons.

[VectraMan]

As a Jewish person I take offense whenever I hear the word "Jew" even if it's not meant in a derogatory manner - simply because the word could be derogatory, and because it's a contraction of a longer word in the same way that Paki is a derogatory contraction of Pakistani.

What is the longer version of the contraction "Jew"?

[TestMangler]

Did you have 'biff' too, contraction from spina-bifida?

Just remembered what we called those little disabled cars you'd see on the touch line at the match - Spaz-chariots!

Them little light blue three wheeled things ? That was known as a 'Spaxi' where I came from.