An Educational Interlude
In the interests of furthering public awareness, here’s an extensive list of potentially offensive words and expressions that you probably shouldn’t use on pre-watershed television. Oh, don’t pretend you’re not curious. There are at least a couple on there I wasn’t previously familiar with. And no Googling.
Via the invariably genteel Mr Tim Worstall.
A cunning linguist could easily drive home their point while avoiding any words on that list falling out of their mouth.
Should anyone know such a person please provide him my contact information.
So you can still say what you like about Poms. Why am I not surprised?
Samples from the section on Race and Ethnicity, ranked from least to most offensive –
Nazi: Mild (generally of little concern) [they don’t list “commie” anywhere]
Hun: Mild
Kraut: Medium
Jap: Strong
Wop: Strong
Wog: Strongest (highly unacceptable)
Fascinating.
Oh, and Limey is OK too.
Didn’t see Cracker anywhere, either…
…listening to the bloodcurdling war cries of the Katanganese rebels: “BOOOOOOO-Ka-KEEEEE!!!” (The Belgians had run off somwhere…
Do you blame the Phlegms ? You hear that war cry and you know someone was about to be shot in the face.
“Didn’t see cracker anywhere, either…”
…or peckerwood or red neck.
I will be a *far* better Scrabble player tomorrow than I am today for this.
‘beef curtains’
BAAAAAAA!!!!!!
I will add that to my list of favourite derogatory terms, which also include ‘fart-minge’, ‘thunder-cunt’ and ‘busted vagina’ (i.e. that guy drives like a busted vagina).
Cute.
. . . I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! Thank you.”
Quite so.
It’s practically a challenge to make a second list of all the ripe and salty terms missing from the first one.
That’s pretty much what Roger’s Profanisaurus is.
Incidentally, bukkake came about (‘scuse the pun) as a way around Japanese censorship rules.
TV censorship in foreign can be amusing. I remember watching Blade 3 in the gym of a hotel in Hong Kong. Every ‘shit’ and ‘fuck’ was carefully bleeped but clearly the censor did not know what to make of “cock-juggling thundercunt” and so left it in…
‘Window licker’.
I do miss the word mong. Phonetically, I mean.
Hedgehog, I take your point, but somehow I don’t think Ofcom sees it like that at all. In what I’m sure was the hilarious series of meetings in which the content of this list was thrashed out, it’s hard for me to imagine that the idea crossed their mind that acting white could be something positive. I don’t expect it went any further than a quick relativist cringe and the unchallenged assumption that it was, and should be, offensive to black people to be thought of in any way white.
404?
Was it too much fun for someone to allow it to continue?
Please tell me someone mirrored it
Please tell me someone mirrored it
I can email a copy of the PDF.
If you wouldn’t mind, m’lud?
Done.
“and no googling”
https://ageofshitlords.com/4chan-pol-launching-operation-google/
FYI
@Theophrastus
Oil of Ulay makes face cream
They created and advertised a website called DailyFacials.com
Unfortunately there was a website called DailyFacial with rather differing content.
It reminds me of all the giggling I had before Experts-Exchange added the hyphen.
Deborah
When a cunning linguist is driving home his point, no words can fall out of his mouth.
Fred the Fourth:
I would go easy on the self-mutilation. Gender reassignment is best done by a qualified surgeon.
Theophrastus,
Touché.
Call me.
Call me
David has my email address…
David has my email address…
Er, if anyone scores some under-the-sweater action via these threads, the house charges a 20% handling fee. As it were.