JohnnyFontane90
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you're thinking of stereotypes
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Are you suggesting a banana ban at the footy?
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As a collective sure, it's a shortening. But you wouldn't refer to someone in the street as a Paki. My apologies for the miscommunication.
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I took my crazy old man to G and he was horrified that I spent $10 on a sandwich, so last week he brought everything "just in case": I'm talking bananas, oranges, apples, take-away samosas, sandwiches, potato cakes... mother*er bought a banquet.
Anyway the best bit was he even snuck in a proper kitchen knife in so he could dice up the fruit. Crafty bugger hid it in a newspaper he kept in his hands. So glad he stuck to the samosas and potato cakes, i'm not sure how the good people of the MCC would have reacted to some crazy old *er pulling a knife out of a beaten up herald-sun.
Probably best I pat him down myself before the next game...
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Bloke I know was called Paki. Those were the first two syllables of his 6-syllable surname.
True story.
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JeffDunne
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Didn't hurt Billy Birmingham's career using the term Paki (& similar terms).
Not sure how that sort of comedy would viewed if it was released now.
Not sure how that sort of comedy would viewed if it was released now.
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There is a bloke (African chap) working here in Perth Ive met a few times whose name is 'Chimpo'.
Lovely bloke. ******* hate saying his name aloud in public though. Or referring to him by name.
'Speak to Chimpo over there' while pointing at him always gets a few looks.
Certain things have been co-opted and made unclean. The three-letter contraction of 'Aboriginal' was routinely used in the schoolyard without a hint of pejorative. We studied Aboriginal life but we didn't personally know any Aboriginals, and weren't aware at that stage of any of the negative stereotypes; they were simply people who lived 'somewhere else'.
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Who would enforce it?
I think I know. Young bloke name of Eric.
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JeffDunne
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Not sure that's true.
I'm probably remembering the adjectives usually used with it but it certainly wasn't a term of endearment.
Besides, it's not up to non-indigenous people to decide if it's offensive to them. It's not really a big imposition to stop using a term if you know people find it offensive. Context is always important too.
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Sure. But you can see how e.g. Dipper got into trouble a few years back.
There was a widely-broadcast TV ad, late 70's or early 80's, in which an Aboriginal ran through a list of insulting nicknames he'd been called before appealing for more humane treatment. The three-letter word wasn't among them.
Now there's a reference a lot of people won't get.
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Indians have a lot of terms for Pakistanis, and vice versa.
None of them are flattering that's for sure.
This also demonstrates an interesting difference between xenophobia/bigotry/predudice and true racism.
Indians and Pakistanis/Bangladeshis as a rule have a loathing for each others cultures that they express freely in the most extreme and insulting terms.
Yet since they belong to the same race it's hardly racism.
Yeah nah. I'd rather not walk down Redfern full stop.
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Too many hipsters and cafes?
It's kinda like Eddie's celebration. If I get mugged walking through Redfern, it's not exactly my fault but not unforeseeable, either.
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Have you been to Redfern recently?
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It's pretty gentrified.
We've all seen the doco's. I looked up a few forum threads started by people concerned they had to live/work/study in Redfern. Some respondents said it was OK, others advised caution - don't do this, don't do that. But I take the point that things have improved.
My preference would be to get Eddie with the young girl and chat it out
I'm not of the belief that you need a sledgehammer to put a tac in the wall
This was a banana not a surface to air missile
A peeved off fan ......ok she did the wrong thing but calling for life bans is just way over the top
How about the girl and Eddie meet over a coffee .....she would walk a away a wiser person
I'm not of the belief that you need a sledgehammer to put a tac in the wall
This was a banana not a surface to air missile
A peeved off fan ......ok she did the wrong thing but calling for life bans is just way over the top
How about the girl and Eddie meet over a coffee .....she would walk a away a wiser person
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It's a reasonably desirable inner-city neighbourhood. No worse than Smith St.
I guess it would be a bit scary if you are unsettled by crowds or loud noises.
