Swearing at the Police.

[Deleted member 63160]

They are all in common use. They have just been deemed naughty. My black mates say n%gg%r every other sentence and they are quite common

Is it just your 'black mates' that use the word?

They are the only ones that use it with that kind of frequency. My white mates tend to call each other fella, mate or bud. None of us whites call the blacks the "n" word though cos its frowned upon. Plus they get a bit shirty. I've known Eric for years and know he wouldn't like me calling him that. He likes it when I call him cous though.

 

[Blasphemous]

They are all in common use. They have just been deemed naughty. My black mates say n%gg%r every other sentence and they are quite common

Is it just your 'black mates' that use the word?

They are the only ones that use it with that kind of frequency. My white mates tend to call each other fella, mate or bud. None of us whites call the blacks the "n" word though cos its frowned upon. Plus they get a bit shirty. I've known Eric for years and know he wouldn't like me calling him that. He likes it when I call him cous though.

So why is it ok for your 'black mates' to use the 'N' word but not the 'white' mates?

 

[Deleted member 63160]

They are all in common use. They have just been deemed naughty. My black mates say n%gg%r every other sentence and they are quite common

Is it just your 'black mates' that use the word?

They are the only ones that use it with that kind of frequency. My white mates tend to call each other fella, mate or bud. None of us whites call the blacks the "n" word though cos its frowned upon. Plus they get a bit shirty. I've known Eric for years and know he wouldn't like me calling him that. He likes it when I call him cous though.

So why is it ok for your 'black mates' to use the 'N' word but not the 'white' mates?

Its the law I believe. Bit discriminatory I guess but hey ho.

 

[Blasphemous]

Its the law I believe. Bit discriminatory I guess but hey ho.

Yes, discriminatory in one direction it would seem. It's either a term/word that is discriminatory or it's not. We cannot have a society were it's ok for me to say 'X' but it is deemed as discriminatory if someone of a different colour/race says it. I'm fed up with this 'street talk' mentality where it's ok for a black person to use the 'N' word but it's unacceptable for everyone else to use it. What pees me off even more is those very same people are the ones shouting loudest that they're being discriminated against if someone (other than a black person), uses the very word they're using like 'please' and 'thank you'! If you don't like a word being used, don't use it!

 

[Deleted member 63160]

If I'm truthful I don't think its words that are the problem. Its how they are used. Like so many "expressions" I guess. It does seem though that its generally people with coloured skin that are offered protection against name calling. On another tack my circle of friends use the word poof a lot.
Not as a name for gays but as a friendly jibe against each other, who are all straight.

 

[Alarm]

Just to do a "JOE"

Off tangent, This gets better

Is Susie and Joe one and the same

I believe I have cracked the forum code

 

[Susiejb]

Just to do a "JOE"

Off tangent, This gets better

Is Susie and Joe one and the same

I believe I have cracked the forum code

OMG We are rumbled

Back to the post......its about swearing ....in general.....not just about black v white.
susie or joe omg now I don't know who I am ........

 

[Deleted member 63160]

What pees me off even more is those very same people are the ones shouting loudest that they're being discriminated against if someone (other than a black person), uses the very word they're using it!

It doesn't bother me. It is ironic though if you dwell on it

 

[opps]

So why is it ok for your 'black mates' to use the 'N' word but not the 'white' mates?

That you need to ask the question suggests that you don't understand the problems there-in.

Lets assume, for the sake of argument, that your other half is happy to be called fat by her friends (in a friendly bantereque way). How would you respond to a stranger in the pub calling her fat?

It comes down to intent. I don't call black friends the N word, because i am not black, if I was i might have the right to reclaim it and to use it as a two fingered salute to the red necks that had used it as a term of abuse- personally I don't see the benefit in potentially offending people unless I actually want to upset them.

Not a slight on you but an attempted insight into the life of a non white person

 

[raebhoop]

The use of language varies so much depending on where you hail from.

Playing pool years ago...a mate fluked the black in and I shouted,""You jammy B*****d!" Seeing the puzzled expression on a student Iranian lads' face I asked him what was wrong. He couldn't understand why we weren't rolling on the floor fighting because I called the guy a B*****d

I tried to explain to him that it was ok because it was a mate and that I would be in big trouble if I cussed the same to a stranger. He just couldn't understand our English sense of humour and was totally confused.

He said that in Iran...mate or no mate the use of a cuss word like that would have been taken very seriously and ended in a punch up.