Yes it was obvious to anyone with a brain you meant that. Unfortunately when you are a racist pr1ck you are slightly blinded to all but your own petty agenda.
Given it's meaning in Urdu, Paki strikes me as a bizarre term to be offended by. "Who you calling clean, eh?" Paki in Urdu means the pure/clean/hygienic person.
Have a guess what the London Pakistani Ambassador's Limousine registration plate reads, and I'm not joking!
Pakistan does indeed mean 'land of the clean', which is slightly ironic, as I've been there and it's ****ing filthy.
Are you sure about that? I can't find it, but recall an article showing a business man with that number.
As you were. My memory's not totally shot though. I'm Paki and I'm proud "The racists hijacked this word and the power and confidence is with them. I want that power and confidence back with us." His campaign began by accident with an advertisement for his business. In it, an Asian man walks past a wall that has "Paki" sprayed on it. He returns a few seconds later with a spray can and adds "proud to be a" above the offensive word. The advert was promptly banned by a British-based Asian satellite channel but that only spurred Rahim to create a range of clothing. The inspiration for the label's logo came 15 years ago when he read the licence plate of the Pakistani ambassador's car: "PAK 1". T-shirts bearing the logo are already being sold in Bradford and local community leaders in Peterborough have warned Rahim that he risks damaging race relations with his designs. To his critics Rahim is a publicity-hungry troublemaker who is creating controversy to make a name for himself and money for his business. But he denies such base motives. "Those who think I'm doing it as a business gimmick have invested so much time into this word being derogatory," he says, "that they are naturally upset if someone comes along and tells them that they have been upset for 40 years for no reason." Why no reason? "Paki is just a shortened version of Pakistani - its literal meaning is 'the pure' - so why should anyone be afraid of being called pure? A native from Kazakhstan is a Kazakh, someone from Uzbekistan is an Uzbek; so why is someone from Pakistan not allowed to be called a Paki?"
I went to an England Pakistan test match a couple of years ago at the Kennington Oval. Before the start I was under the concourse of the main stand when a big black Limo Daimler car rolled up with chauffeur, red carpet, dignitories etc etc. and out got a group of oldish Asian guys. The registration of the car was PAK1.
Bradford probably does, that's why we call it Bradistan. Where there's ragheads, there's abuse to dish out.
We've been down this road before haven't we? Racism is just ignorance, pure and simple. Have you ever actually met anyone in the EDL? Brain dead, every single one of them. This sort of comment is unacceptable, much more if this nonsense and I'll knock this board on the head, it's pathetic.
Why would any team want Koren? None of his goals are timely... and look at how many of them come from the spot. COYH
