Make Bratwurst British

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You're avoiding the issue. You claim to have many Asian firends (as have I). Why not call them Pakis in normal discourse and see where that gets you?

As the mainly come from Indian they would wander why on earth I'm talking about someone else.

[Old Greg]

Context is everything. Joey wasn't an insult until Blue Peter ran a campaign about disability starting with a report on Joey Deacon.

It's a very shoddy position to maintain that a word's meaning is driven by its structure and etymology rather than by its usage.

[MarillionFan]

Well I always thought that a paki shop was not necessarily run by people of Pakistani descent - but one which opened very long hours and supplied a great range of items. i.e. it is a complientary term.

Even by Churchills standards that is really clutching at straws.

If the word is complimentary in your opinion and you deem it has no racial overtones at all, at lunchtime in your office shout out to all your colleagues 'I'm just heading off to the Paki shop does anyone want anything?'

Then come back and tell us when you're getting benched.

[Old Greg]

Even by Churchills standards that is really clutching at straws.

If the word is complimentary in your opinion and you deem it has no racial overtones at all, at lunchtime in your office shout out to all your colleagues 'I'm just heading off to the Paki shop does anyone want anything?'

Then come back and tell us when you're getting benched.

It would be more sensible to pop round your local Asian run corner shop and ask them to put up stickers in their windows saying 'Nominated for paki shop of the year'.

[sasguru]

Even by Churchills standards that is really clutching at straws.

If the word is complimentary in your opinion and you deem it has no racial overtones at all, at lunchtime in your office shout out to all your colleagues 'I'm just heading off to the Paki shop does anyone want anything?'

Then come back and tell us when you're getting benched.

WHS. Churchill, Brillo et. al. have really gone down in my estimation by their juvenile keyboard warrior attitude a.k.a. say stuff on t'internet they wouldn't say in real life in a work context, say. If you think it's right then use it all the time and argue your case to the end.

[BrilloPad]

You're avoiding the issue. You claim to have many Asian firends (as have I). Why not call them Pakis in normal discourse and see where that gets you?

What would you know about normal discourse? Calling people cretin is not normal.

And I struggle to believe you have any friends.

[BrilloPad]

It would be more sensible to pop round your local Asian run corner shop and ask them to put up stickers in their windows saying 'Nominated for paki shop of the year'.

Why would it have to be Asian run?

[BrilloPad]

WHS. Churchill, Brillo et. al. have really gone down in my estimation by their juvenile keyboard warrior attitude a.k.a. say stuff on t'internet they wouldn't say in real life in a work context, say. If you think it's right then use it all the time and argue your case to the end.

Since when have you been know to argue your case? Why not just call us cretins like usual? Prove to me how thick you are.

And I am sorry I was ever up in your estimation - that upsets me. I must have been doing something wrong.

[MarillionFan]

WHS. Churchill, Brillo et. al. have really gone down in my estimation by their juvenile keyboard warrior attitude a.k.a. say stuff on t'internet they wouldn't say in real life in a work context, say. If you think it's right then use it all the time and argue your case to the end.

Northerners you see. It's in their blood.

You never see CM anymore now they're married.

Just saying like.

[Old Greg]

Why would it have to be Asian run?

Because that's the test to apply.