Our boy Jeremy again

I agree, deedaa.

For those who feel free to use the N word in its full glory, on the grounds that a handful of black rappers do, would you ever describe someone as a mong, cretin, spaz, fag, dyke, cripple, queer, or any other charming title, because someone from that group had used the word?

My DGDs say 'fishy', which is daft as fish don't have 'em...

I had no notion of racism either as a child, and only became aware of the offensive nature of the word and its connotations years later. It was always associated in my childish mind with a lovely shade of brown, and it was in later years that I was very embarrassed by my dear MIL asking for THAT particular shade of brown very loudly in M&S and refusing to be shushed. As she pointed out, she did not mean it in a derogatory way, rather that everyone should know what colour skirt she wanted!

Who has said they feel free to use the word nigger because a handful of black rappers do, river? No-one as far as I can see. There was a remark about it perhaps being better if no-one used offensive words.

Soon we will not be allowed to buy faggots. Just because someone appropriates a word does not mean we should not be able to use it. Why should we not use the word queer in its old-fashioned sense, or for that matter the word gay. I knew girls at school called Gay.
I thought cretinism was a medical term.
I would not use any as a derogatory term.

I agree with jingl. It's quite cruel. It sounds like,

Eeeny, meeny, miney, mo,
Catch a baby by its toe,
If it shits,
Wipe its bits,
Eeeny, meeny, miney, mo.

Poor baby.

Did you just make that up, merlot?

Absolutely not Riverwalk just as I would not condone the use of any derogatory, insulting or racist word.

Norty merlot.

She did make it up. Rude girl.

hic!

That's upset me so much - poor baby. (Weeps into her )

Clarkson fell foul of me when the BSE thing first started. There was some footage of a cow suffering from it staggering around. Clarkson had some programme going at the time and showed it saying it was the funniest thing he had seen in ages.

I had to look up what "bellend" means. You learn something new every day.

Wotsit mean?

You can tell us anything on here Grannyknot. There's only us.

Oh!!!

It's on the James May tweet that Bags posted. It means penis head "British slang".

He's certainly not 'mine' nor is he a 'boy' (unless you take his mental age)

Yes I know! I've looked it up now! On Urban Dictionary.

1.hes got such a big bellend, but no shaft, hes mushroom rigged 2. come on sheila, lets do it in the bellend! 3. I say vicar, you need to polish your bellend!

I thought long and hard before I posted that.

Aka, I was just going to post that he is no boy, although puerile! And nothing to do with me either!