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Wake The **** Up!; Samuel L. Jackson
Topic Started: Sep 27 2012, 09:56 AM (4,515 Views)
Renauda
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HOLY CARP!!!
We call the Quebecois Pepsi's and they call us maudite anglais.
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John D'Oh
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I've always liked the terms Frogs and Rosbifs.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Frank_W
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I forgot about Limeys, Frogs, Ivans, and Pollocks.
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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John D'Oh
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I take Limey as more of a compliment that they've realised I'm not an Australian or something.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
Actually no. The term is universally applicable to those who speak non-American English. Except the Irish, of course.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
What in hell is a bohunk, a gray meat, and a sh!t skin??
Of the Pokatwat Tribe

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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
Frank_W
Oct 2 2012, 11:41 AM
We Indians hate being called "Tonto." Personally, I prefer to be called a prairie-nigger. :lol2:
You could have called me Tonto and I would have laughed. Same with George, Mik, Renauda, and several others. Heck, even Klaus could get away with it, because I don't sense any racism in him, and he didn't even know what it meant.

It's one thing to say it in a joking manner. When it's said the way NS said it, I'll kill you.

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Frank_W
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+1. :) I am an equal-opportunity offender. I like most people, and often hate most people, have served alongside people of nearly every creed and ancestry... :) It's all good. :)

You want to get into some serious grudge-holding and some real nastiness, explore the history between the Blackfoot and Crow Indians. Yikes! :hair:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Renauda
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Larry
Oct 2 2012, 02:49 PM
What in hell is a bohunk....
Up here its a person of Eastern European descent. Usually Hohols (Ukrainians) or Kutsups (Russians).
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jon-nyc
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Cheers
Larry
Oct 2 2012, 02:49 PM
What in hell is a bohunk, a gray meat, and a sh!t skin??
We could tell you, but then we'd have to scalp you.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Amanda
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Kutsups (Russians).
Hmmm, now that I think of it, it I'd wanted to come up with an insulting (and really apt) term for North Americans, Ketchup or Catsup would have been perfect. Our uncouth habit of dousing everything with ketchup has not passed unnoticed in the lands of European haute cuisine. What cuisine do we have anyhow - or perhaps, for that matter, any real (indigenous or other) civilization - not counting US Indians? More broadly, when Gandhi was asked his opinion of Western civilization overall, he replied that he thought it would be a good idea.

Ouch.

There are potentially a whole LOT more insulting terms for US-ians besides "Yankee/Yanqui" - and we deserve them. Why haven't they been forthcoming? I remember jousting with a Black American opera singer in Berlin. We'd made friends in a boarding house - the typical result of being overseas (mutually alien territory), was we'd been able to get close whereas back home, it would have been a long shot. I never forgot, her jabbing me that "hey, if we're called 'colored', I say you're colorless!" How too true! :hide:

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brenda
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..............
I just read this thread, and I've not posted in it at all until now. Did you miss me?

With all those names, you couldn't even think of 'hooker'? Well, this place is certainly going to the dogs.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
Two terms for white people: Bama, and Mayo...


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Frank_W
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Hi, Brenda! :wave:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Renauda
Oct 2 2012, 03:41 PM
Larry
Oct 2 2012, 02:49 PM
What in hell is a bohunk....
Up here its a person of Eastern European descent. Usually Hohols (Ukrainians) or Kutsups (Russians).
More specifically, it refers to Bohemians. That's what my Kraut dad called my mom's family - grandpa from Bratislava area and grandma from somewhere in what's now the Ukraine. But, they all consider themselves Bohemians.
Edited by kathyk, Oct 2 2012, 04:36 PM.
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
You might even say they were Natural Bohemians™.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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brenda
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Frank_W
Oct 2 2012, 04:17 PM
Hi, Brenda! :wave:
Howdy, Frank! Have people been behavin' around here?
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
~A.A. Milne
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kathyk
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Or National Bohemian?

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Something tells me that that is akin to Milwaukee's Best.
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Horace
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New Bohemians? Is that what they are, or what?
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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Renauda
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Amanda
Oct 2 2012, 04:03 PM
There are potentially a whole LOT more insulting terms for US-ians besides "Yankee/Yanqui" -
Here in the Alberta oil patch we call American roughnecks and oil trash "u-alls". The Alberta equivalent of the British term "wazzock".

Also I can assure you the term Katsup for a Russian is taken directly from the Ukrainian pejorative for a Russian. It's not used any more other than in a few rural areas northeast of where I live. I am sure Blondie has never heard the term being that she is from Calgary. Also, it has nothing to do with ketchup or any condiment.
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Dewey
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kathyk
Oct 2 2012, 04:20 PM
Renauda
Oct 2 2012, 03:41 PM
Larry
Oct 2 2012, 02:49 PM
What in hell is a bohunk....
Up here its a person of Eastern European descent. Usually Hohols (Ukrainians) or Kutsups (Russians).
More specifically, it refers to Bohemians. That's what my Kraut dad called my mom's family - grandpa from Bratislava area and grandma from somewhere in what's now the Ukraine. But, they all consider themselves Bohemians.
Almost all my friends while growing up were Dagos, Pollocks, or Bohunks (or sometimes called Millhunks, or probably most common, just Hunkies). It was a catch-all term for Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenians, Slavs, Croatians, Serbians, Albanians, Russians, Ukranians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, etc., all of whom were represented in my hometown.
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

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Renauda
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Dewey, that's exactly how understand the pejorative as well. Poor Dr. George K.
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John D'Oh
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In England, we generally used the pejorative term 'foreigner'. It's a lot more efficient.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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JBryan
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Renauda
Oct 2 2012, 07:43 PM
Dewey, that's exactly how understand the pejorative as well. Poor Dr. George K.
On the other hand, he might not mind being thought of as a Hunk.
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Copper
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jon-nyc
Oct 1 2012, 10:27 PM

Nonsense. Attacking public figures is not in the same league as implied threats to member's children.

If you are going to say something like that you ought to be able to back it up.

You really are a small person jon.

And you know exactly what I am talking about and it has nothing to do with public figures.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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