'Coloured' not PC anymore

[mudskipper]

I'll just assume you're not bright enough to make a sensible point.

Careful sweetheart, there's a bit pan and kettle involved there.

QED

[NotAllThere]

Wat?

Started on the meths a bit later today then. Well done.

If I said in 2020 there will be 8 black men in the Olympics 100 meters men's race, 8 white men in the Olympics 50 meters men swim. And Jewish people will get more Oscars than Mormons.

It'd be about as relevant as there will be 8 blondes men in the 100 meter's percent race, eight brown eyed men in the Olympics 50 meters swim. And Anglicans will get more booker prizes than Jedis.

I.e. not at all, so why mention it?

I note you gave a helpful answer in the end. Which was nice of you.

What exactly does this mean?

It means that Zigenare gave a nice helpful reply to the poster. Which was jolly decent of him.

Perhaps the Zigenares of the past thought "I don't give a stuff what some jumped up professionally offended virtue warrior thinks about what I do.

I don't think so - "virtue signalling" came into common parlance in about 2010.

[vetran]

Never. You can call a spade a spade around here without fear of falling foul of Wilde's observation

funny really as it was a mis-translation from Plutarch. 300 BC a bit before the suit of spades. Of course one can get upset about anything if you try hard enough.

The Grammarphobia Blog: Spade work

spade / call a spade a spade - Wordwizard

[vetran]

It it skinless?

The Naked Grape?

[IAmContractor]

Amber Rudd apologises over 'coloured woman' comment - BBC News

So apparently the term 'coloured' when used to refer a to non-white person is now considered racist...

Surely the world's gone mad?

I filled in a form yesterday where I had to select "WHITE-BRITISH". That is offensive and racist, but I checked the box and moved on with my life.

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[Zigenare]

I filled in a form yesterday where I had to select "WHITE-BRITISH". That is offensive and racist, but I checked the box and moved on with my life.

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What? You weren't offended? Mortified!

[minestrone]

Started on the meths a bit later today then. Well done.

You started off with a "there is only one race" post then went on to talk about "mixed race".

You just seem to be saying stuff that does not match up.

[BR14]

You started off with a "there is only one race" post then went on to talk about "mixed race".

You just seem to be saying stuff that does not match up.

he's probably on the local farmer's schnapps.
sort of posh, swiss meths

[minestrone]

It'd be about as relevant as there will be 8 blondes men in the 100 meter's percent race, eight brown eyed men in the Olympics 50 meters swim. And Anglicans will get more booker prizes than Jedis.

I am not God, I did not create heaven and the universe.

[NotAllThere]

I am not God, I did not create heaven and the universe.

Yeah, we know.

he's probably on the local farmer's schnapps.
sort of posh, swiss meths

Nah - Swissky.