https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...ailor-soldier-spy-night-manager-b1772688.html John le-Carre brown bread.
Are you going for the record amount of dogshit threads created in a week? Jonno's title is seriously at risk here.
I was on yet another equal opportunity course (I know, who'd have thought it?) and I had to explain to a participant what Nicknack was, even when I said it was Knick Knack Paddy Whack she still didn't get it. She was so PC she didn't even know Paddy was a colloquial term for an Irishman.
Nope. She was not of British heritage and caused quite a stink in the group. A member of the group had joked about going to a stripper's pub which got a bit of a chuckle, she returned after the lunch break with a couple of testosterone lacking tree-hugging simps and complained to the course tutor about how he allowed a member of the group to go un-checked for making light of the sexual exploitation of wimmin. It kicked off.
Offensive to me? Offensive to her? Offensive to the Irish? Not sure but a) not really b) I never asked her and c) assuming anything derogatory, whether intentional or not, would be yes. I have yet to be referred to in any terms regarding race, colour, nationality etc that I find offensive. Whereas the English language appears to be the source of some of the most racist, sexist, homophobic etc phrases and terms that others can't hope to compete with. Being called a honky, cracker, whitey, slaver, imperialist, gammon etc really isn't a bother. I find the term Nigel rather amusing and until GC never knew that this was meant to be an insult towards the English.
