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gusmac
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Some people have double standards and that is a fact. Some on here see nothing wrong in calling someone from Pakistan a "[edited by admin]" but call a PH driver a "taxi driver" and you will get strung up. :?


Last time I checked PH driver was a job, not a race :wink:

That said, I think folk should be a little less touchy.

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gusmac wrote:
grandad wrote:
Some people have double standards and that is a fact. Some on here see nothing wrong in calling someone from Pakistan a "[edited by admin]" but call a PH driver a "taxi driver" and you will get strung up. :?


Last time I checked PH driver was a job, not a race :wink:

That said, I think folk should be a little less touchy.


Absolutly my point. Give someone the wrong job title and it's armaggedon.

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grandad wrote:
Some people have double standards and that is a fact. Some on here see nothing wrong in calling someone from Pakistan a "[edited by admin]" but call a PH driver a "taxi driver" and you will get strung up. :?



how very DARE you...
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Does it also mean that you cannot call a "Brit" a "Brit", and there was me thinking that America was the biggest lunatic asylum in the world. :roll:

I have been in the company of guys who have called one of their mates, that black b*s*a*d over there, there were smiles allround and if ever there was any trouble (not that they would go looking for it) everyone would look after one another - they were mates with no time for this silly PC sh!t. I will bet a penny to a pound that it was the same with the comments published.

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The whole family is at it :lol: :lol: :lol:

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The whole family is at it :lol: :lol: :lol:


We've got a driver called Sooty but not because of his skin colour either, unfortunately his mate has now acquired the nickname Sweep through association. Any nickname can be offensive IMO it depends if the recipient is happy with it. My cleaner's name is Andy and one of his friends kept introducing him as Gay Andy which was true but annoying. Then her 10 year old son suddenly said "Gay Andy that's Ghandi" the nick name stuck and he's happier with Ghandi than Gay Andy :D

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I bet you can't guess why my nickname at school was Porky. :wink: And no it was not because I f**k pigs. :roll:

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wife calls me donkey









She haw she haw she haw she always has :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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echo15 wrote:
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The whole family is at it :lol: :lol: :lol:


We've got a driver called Sooty but not because of his skin colour either, unfortunately his mate has now acquired the nickname Sweep through association. Any nickname can be offensive IMO it depends if the recipient is happy with it. My cleaner's name is Andy and one of his friends kept introducing him as Gay Andy which was true but annoying. Then her 10 year old son suddenly said "Gay Andy that's Ghandi" the nick name stuck and he's happier with Ghandi than Gay Andy :D



we had one driver nick named "Biscuit"

no hair and called Gary

(Gari-baldie?)
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My was jugs or curly at the other office I worked and neither one of them for any obvious reasons. :D

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If we're sharing nicknames mine was "Bawbag" I have no idea why :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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I remember a friend of my dad's always used to call him Taffy. Strange because he is 100% English. Mind you everyone else calls him Dave but his name is Francis. No wonder I am so confused. :?

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My was jugs or curly at the other office I worked and neither one of them for any obvious reasons. :D



ive an explanation for both but i think weve all gone far enough on this one....


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grandad wrote:
I remember a friend of my dad's always used to call him Taffy. Strange because he is 100% English. Mind you everyone else calls him Dave but his name is Francis. No wonder I am so confused. :?


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nKxZSwASr ... re=related :lol: :lol:
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My was jugs or curly at the other office I worked and neither one of them for any obvious reasons. :D



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