kendor said:It's bad enough trying to decipher Pips' posts let alone others aswell
jtaunton said:I wouldn't ever use the shortened version of Pakistani, but I wonder if it is really as offensive as we think it is. People from Uzbekistan are Uzbeks, Khazakstan - Khazaks, Turkmenistan - Turkmen and Afghanistan - Afghans, so it kind of stands to reason that Pakistani isn't the right word either. Is it possible that we have chosen to find it offensive, but people from Pakistan don't (I don't know the answer, btw, just wondering).
Also, I used to know an elderly Sikh, and he told me that since Pakistan is an invented state, it was named after an acronym for 'Pashtun Afghanistan, Kashmiri India' but I don't know if this is true or not.....
very wise comment thatjtaunton said:True - In fact, now I've reflected a bit, anything's insulting if the person you say it to is insulted by it.
jtaunton said:True - In fact, now I've reflected a bit, anything's insulting if the person you say it to is insulted by it.
petewood said:jtaunton said:True - In fact, now I've reflected a bit, anything's insulting if the person you say it to is insulted by it.
You have hit the nail right on the head there. **** is commonly used in a derogatory way, intended to insult, whereas words such as 'Brit' are not.
Freddie said:How the hell do you know ??? You arent likely to hear it in Britain are you, but you do here it elsewhere as an insult, also in THOSE countries you do not see them bend over backwards to help and apese others in the way you are batting for everybody else in your own country before you play for your own side------i think people like you are a modern equivelant of Lord Ha Ha . !!
petewood said:I think you are the modern equivalent of a tit.