The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Kunt 4 Life]

My old landlord, when ever it was cold would say it's a bit pearl harbour....(there's a nip in the air)

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

In Scotland a nip is a short, as in a 'dram'.

Haha, okay, but where does Scotland come into this? In the US also, a "nip" is a mini-bar style bottle of alcohol.

New neighbours have invited us round for some kind of Sunday afternoon snack/play-date with their kid. Whether I'm offered a nip or not will be the deciding factor in whether we ever accept again! 

[Caomhaoin]

Nippy for contrary too, I'm unsure if it's related to Japanese people having short tempers or not. Hope so

[astfgyl]

In Scotland a nip is a short, as in a 'dram'.

Haha, okay, but where does Scotland come into this? In the US also, a "nip" is a mini-bar style bottle of alcohol.

New neighbours have invited us round for some kind of Sunday afternoon snack/play-date with their kid. Whether I'm offered a nip or not will be the deciding factor in whether we ever accept again! 

Human trafficking is wrong. Don't let them offer you a nip

[Kunt 4 Life]

I take it the word nip comes from Nippon which is Japanese for Japan?

[astfgyl]

I think that's what it was too but I suppose it's become accepted as a derogatory term in public

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I suppose it's become accepted as a derogatory term in public

It started life, as Kev said, in warfare against the Japanese so it's always been a derogatory slur. And yer wan Mina Kimes being half Korean rather than Japanese doesn't change anything. It's not like if someone calls an Indian a 'paki', which happens a lot, it can't be offensive cos it's geographically inaccurate. Sure even 'spic' is originally a US slur for Latin Americans, not for people from Spain, but that's how I first heard it as a kid used against the Spanish students and the pejorative intent couldn't have been any clearer. Anyway, yer man Chris Curtis only got suspended for a week, probably less than he'd have gotten if he'd said cunt or fuck on air during the day, and if he'd done that there'd be no discussion about it; we all just accept that there's things you can and can't say in certain places, and that's all this is too.

[astfgyl]

Yeah the point I was making was that he should know his audience in today's climate. Maybe we can claim it as a term of endearment for the future but it's too late for whoever he is

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Today's climate? See, this is part of the whole bullshit "culture war", "rah wokeness gone mad!" problem. I don't think racial slurs on daytime commercial radio have passed uncriticized for about the last 40-50 years or so. Case in point:
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/08/25/Talk-show-host-quits-over-racial-word/3333462254400/

[astfgyl]

Would the same logic be applied to the Jerries then?

[Mower Liberation Front]

Whoops, wrong thread.

[hellfire]

Kellie Harrington is getting the cancel culture thing at the moment. Over a deleted tweet she made in October. Some subterranean news reporter decided to make a thing about it. The whole modern leftism thing really is just about making yourself feel better by dragging down others. She's an Olympic gold medalist. An achievement that far outweighs anything you will ever achieve.

[Bürggermeister]

Not sure where was best to put this, but an interesting development in the incredible Burke family saga

"Mr Burke has issued subpoenas against three senior members of the Church of Ireland in an effort to compel them to give evidence in the action. Mr Burke said he had personally served the subpoenas against the Right Reverend Ferran Glenfield, the Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, the Most Rev Patricia Storey, the Bishop of Meath and Kildare and the Rev Canon Alastair Graham."

Getting the senior COI figures into court as means to justify his actions, which are essentially considered discriminatory, is a spicy meatball.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Kellie Harrington is getting the cancel culture thing at the moment. Over a deleted tweet she made in October. Some subterranean news reporter decided to make a thing about it. The whole modern leftism thing really is just about making yourself feel better by dragging down others. She's an Olympic gold medalist. An achievement that far outweighs anything you will ever achieve.

Damn that interview is painful to watch, I think whichever side you take; I wanted the ground to open up and swallow both of them 
https://twitter.com/offtheball/status/1640419664496050176


Posting later with a cool head (and presumably a PR agent breathing down her neck), she says all she needed to have said to move on: I retweeted some false information related to a tragic and emotional story and deleted it as soon as I found out the information was false.
https://twitter.com/Kelly64kg/status/1640475577156083722

The tweet/video she originally shared was from GBNews, no less. I guess if you sow "subterranean news reporters" that's what you reap!
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1582099926724796416

In that car-crash interview with Off The Ball there, Harrington (being interviewed as a brand ambassador for Spar) got off on the worst PR foot imaginable with her "I switched off there when you said diversity in the inner city"! Unless you're either an Olympian at fast-talk follow ups or you've decided to take whatever the consequences and state what you really think, then you don't tell a journalist that one of their questions made you "switch off", no more than that journalist would step into a ring and tell Kellie he thinks women can't punch unless he was prepared to get the head bate off him 

[Caomhaoin]

Got an email from my young lads teacher there saying they are having a 'celebration of diversity' at school on Thursday. He's half Irish half polish but not that kind of diversity, obviously.