BobbyPires7 wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 8:03 pm
goonertux wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 1:04 pm
BobbyPires7 wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 12:44 pm
goonertux wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 9:57 pm
wibble wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 5:19 pm
What do I win? What’s that, nothing?
I would make a full speech but I’m currently facing 115 charges of corruption and my legal team have advised me not to say anything other than I strenuously deny these charges!
I very much enjoyed making the predictions and one of these days I’m determined to actually win one of the money prizes!
I’ll be back next year to reclaim my title
Well, if you’re Man Cheaty, that makes me the Arsenal. Took it to the last game and just missed out. But I’ve just started the legal proceedings with ‘Johnny Knuckles’ soon to pay you a visit to sort it out. Hope your defence is strong!
Well done anyway!
Sounds like you bottled it mate.
Hello Johnny, I’ve got another one for you. Lives in ‘The Village’!
I doubt it sunshine. The only
paddies round here are either
flytipping the country lanes or robbing pensioners of their hard earned.
Ooh. You are on thin ice there, little fella.
Context is everything. To say "he's my paddy mate" is irreverent humour, well intentioned, not meant to offend.
But the term "paddy" or "paddies" as you've just used it, is considered an ethnic slur by most intelligent people, and as a racist term by many. And then when you qualified it with insinuations of criminal racial stereotyping by adding "flytipping the country lanes or robbing pensioners of their hard earned" you swerved right into actual racism.
To be honest, the term used that way tends to be only used by ignorant cùnts as an insult.
Much the way you've used it.
As an Irishman, it doesn't upset me too much tbh. It does however upset many Irish people and descendants of Irish people. It would massively upset my mate Paulo and if you said that to his face he'd knock you spark out in a split second. Actually if you manned up and said it to me aggressively I'd spark you just as quick.
But let me educate you a little.
The term "paddy" is viewed in much the same way as calling a black person "boy". The way you've used it there is what's called an
ethnophaulism.
Ethnophaulisms are used as insinuations towards members of a given ethnicity or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pejorative, or insulting manner. These were historically often used by the ruling class or Aristocracy who deemed the blacks and the Irish as not worthy of having their own name or culture.
So seeing as you've used the term as an ethnic and racial slur I'm going to give you a week off to think about your future on here.
Do you want to be remembered as that twat that got banned for being a racist - or as the bloke that got upset by a few pisstakes and lashed out with an ethnic slur and got a week's ban, but came back, apologised and went on to try and be a decent intelligent member of the forum?
Your call Bobby. See you in a week.
