Is this just ridiculous.

Dear mods,

As an Japanese-American I am a little offended by the smily icon called "jap" that you have here. Can you please rename it? If you do not know, that is a derogatory word and ethnic slur used against the Japanese.

:jap:

If the word "whistling" is used for then I can't imaging calling :jap: "Japanese" would be an issue regarding the amount of letters in the icon name.

Thank you.

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If it is offensive, does this give me the justification to complain about being called a Brit?

Moonrakers, were you thinking along the lines that the icon being called jap was politically incorrect?

Im thinking it would be fun to have icons for our own different nationalities, we could add them to our own posts. Maybe a few examples:

BRIT: Pasty white guy with tatts, sitting in pub with white singlet and handkerchief over head, drinking warm beer and complaining.

AUSSIE: Loudmouthed overweight guy with no shirt, holding a can of VB, mumbling incoherrantly,wanting to fight everyone and burping like MOE from the Simpsons.

AMERICAN: Pasty loudmouthed overweight white guy, baseball cap on backwards, holding two big macs, drunk on two cans of miller lite and mouthing off about how in America we.........

GERMAN:..err oops better not go there

Another anti-American post!!!

The German guy should be sat in a corner furtively looking around before going back to his map of Poland.......................Mahatma, where's my coat !!!!!!!!

The German guy should be sat in a corner furtively looking around before going back to his map of Poland.......................Mahatma, where's my coat !!!!!!!!

Danzig and the Northern area around it had been German for centuries, before being taken away to form Poland after the First World War. Prior to WW One Germany and Russia had contiguous borders.

(OK, before that there had been a Poland, but not as it is now)

Another anti-American post!!!

They saved our asses in WWII, you know

Another anti-American post!!!

They saved our asses in WWII, you know

DonT mention the war!......oh hang on is it the Japs or the Jerries we're discussing here ahahahahhha .....I always thought it was OK to talk about these things as we were allowed winners and losers back in those days.....not to mention of course its all true....but why let that interfere with a bit of PC nonsense.

If there was winners, how come we still had ration cards in England until 1963 ?

If there was winners, how come we still had ration cards in England until 1963 ?

Because America insisted that Thailand did not have a war debt to pay. And also Britain had to pay Ameriica for all the munitions and arms used.

If there was winners, how come we still had ration cards in England until 1963 ?

Because America insisted that Thailand did not have a war debt to pay. And also Britain had to pay Ameriica for all the munitions and arms used.

The Americans lent us a few quid...we paid it all back OK.....who did the Germans and Japs pay then? Sorry maybe I'm a bit thick on this one .....winners and losers....seems to be a bit of 'friendly fire' here somewhere...

If there was winners, how come we still had ration cards in England until 1963 ?

Because America insisted that Thailand did not have a war debt to pay. And also Britain had to pay Ameriica for all the munitions and arms used.

The Americans lent us a few quid...we paid it all back OK.....who did the Germans and Japs pay then? Sorry maybe I'm a bit thick on this one .....winners and losers....seems to be a bit of 'friendly fire' here somewhere...

Paying the bill was why you had ration cards. A bit of belt tightening.

Not saying who was right or wrong

Makes you wonder how much the cheese eating surrender monkeys paid.

You mean the ones who in WW1 charged each british train taking men to the front for the privilege of using their railways ?

Makes you wonder how much the cheese eating surrender monkeys paid.

Don't be too harsh on the spineless gucci wearing eyeties....they did give you London and St Albans oh and the M1....!

Makes you wonder how much the cheese eating surrender monkeys paid.

There are so many of 'em in Europe Its hard to keep up!! How quickly they have forgotten....or chosen too same in the UK of course ....sad...

Makes you wonder how much the cheese eating surrender monkeys paid.

Don't be too harsh on the spineless gucci wearing eyeties....they did give you London and St Albans oh and the M1....!

No, not the eyeties. I mean the frogs. You are thinking of the warriors of peace.

Makes you wonder how much the cheese eating surrender monkeys paid.

Don't be too harsh on the spineless gucci wearing eyeties....they did give you London and St Albans oh and the M1....!

No, not the eyeties. I mean the frogs. You are thinking of the warriors of peace.

frogs?????????

would that happen to be the same species of frog that a Thaivisa member once reported as having seen surrendering to a taxi driver at Suvhambhum???

The first thing they teach in French primary one, is how to say " I surrender ' in German.

The second thing is " Do you want to see dirty pictures of my sister " In English.

( don't ever fall for the second one, it just means she doesn't wash )

Makes you wonder how much the cheese eating surrender monkeys paid.

Don't be too harsh on the spineless gucci wearing eyeties....they did give you London and St Albans oh and the M1....!

No, not the eyeties. I mean the frogs. You are thinking of the warriors of peace.

The frenchies hmm....I can't think of anything at all...well not strictly true I keep thinking about the Thatcher/Mitterand sketch here....

Go to: google

type in: french military victories

hit: I'm feeling lucky button

C'mon guys, Napoleon did win a few.

C'mon guys, Napoleon did win a few.

But not without a lot of other nations help. Try finding a war they've won on their own ?

C'mon guys, Napoleon did win a few.

Nappy was Corsican, not French.

But he did lead a lot of frogs on a long walk round Europe. Lost his way and wound up outside Moscow. Couldn't get any answer when he rang the doorbell, so went home again.

Wanted to visit England, but when he found the Eurostar terminus was Waterloo, he called it off.

(Couldn't stand Abba singing)

Can I ask the Brits here if they find the term "Pakis" racist?

In Australia it's a commonly used short version of Pakistanis.

When I used it on TV once, talking about cricket, some Brits took me to task for my racism.

If the answer is yes, what's the difference with the Jap - Japanese thing?

yep. 'paki' is almost universally regarded as racist here in the UK, apart from when the word 'shop' is attached at the end My Bengali mates use it in the way you describe, to refer to people of Pakistani origin.

I dunno if there's a difference, mostly, terms are regarded as racist if the people referred to find it so.

It's considered racist in the UK because for most of the 60s and 70s (and up to today) it was used as an insult, usually preceded by the word "f*cking."

Agreed. But this is only one of the uses.

If I'm taking an Essex girl out, we're likely to go to the local Paki Palace for a ruby.

Nothing racist there.

If I'm in Bradford I'd be waist deep in Paki foodstuffs - again without malicious intent.

The problem is the made-up name of Pakistan. (Punjab And Kashmir ISTAN). All other "stan's" (Baluchistan; Tajikistan; Afghanistan; so on) are derived from the tribal ehnicity of their inhabitants - so you have to call a Khazak a Khazak - as he's from Khazakstan. Paki's are not only Punjabi's and Kashmiri's, they have a dozen other ethnicities. So the word Paki does not correctly describe them.

(F**ing Paki may do)

Agreed. But this is only one of the uses.

If I'm taking an Essex girl out, we're likely to go to the local Paki Palace for a ruby.

Nothing racist there.

If I'm in Bradford I'd be waist deep in Paki foodstuffs - again without malicious intent.

The problem is the made-up name of Pakistan. (Punjab And Kashmir ISTAN). All other "stan's" (Baluchistan; Tajikistan; Afghanistan; so on) are derived from the tribal ehnicity of their inhabitants - so you have to call a Khazak a Khazak - as he's from Khazakstan. Paki's are not only Punjabi's and Kashmiri's, they have a dozen other ethnicities. So the word Paki does not correctly describe them.

(F**ing Paki may do)

Yerrr.........

The epitome of PC obstruction happened in so called racial free Vancouver, Canada. Hungarians got the racial slur "Hunky" when many migrated to Canada after their war with Russia. A local immigrant from Hungary started a popular and well run restaurant that he called "Hunky Bills". Everything was okay for several years and nobody thought anything of it. Eventually the name "Hunky" was hardly considered a slur any more until a few Johnny-come-Latelies started a PC campaign over the name saying it was a racial slur. It was a big joke considering the owner was a Hungarian and named it after himself.