28 Aug 2025, 8:15 am
UncannyDanny wrote:
Hard to believe that F-word that rhymes with "maggot" was actually used in The Hobbit, referring to the aforementioned smoking pipes certain characters, like Bilbo and Gandalf, use.
It's also a bundle of sticks used in fire-making.The word has a long and varied history - search for it on Wikipedia: I can't post a URL because inclusion of the word in it is censored, breaking the link.
This conflict reminds me of (whichever company was responsible for/distribution of the Tolkien films) attempts at copyrighting the word "shire".
Yeah, good luck with that arrogance (it failed) - the UK can easily claim primacy over the word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire
28 Aug 2025, 8:21 am
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28 Aug 2025, 9:48 am
Cornflake wrote:
Tamaya wrote:
What word is P*i then? (I put the asterisk in myself).
There was no reason to do so because it's now censored automatically.See my post a little earlier.
Rather than risk further offence by posting the word in a way that bypasses the auto-censor, here's a Wiki page explaining it.
Based partly on the method of de-fanging the raw word as described on that page, I've adjusted the censoring to replace it with "P-word".
It's fine, I get it now. I was just having one of my...Tamaya moments.
28 Aug 2025, 6:16 pm
28 Aug 2025, 7:09 pm
The Spaniards seem to have retaliated for that p*to diss:
28 Aug 2025, 11:25 pm
Honey69 wrote:
Peter Sellers played an Indian character in a few movies. I thought it was fine. Not "great", but, meh, okay. Not offensive at all.
I looked up p-word Paddy on Youtube. I can see where some might not like it. In the USA, we don't see a lot of Indians. (Asian Indians, that is). If we do, they are usually doctors, or scientists, or owners of small businesses.
I looked up p-word Paddy on Youtube. I can see where some might not like it. In the USA, we don't see a lot of Indians. (Asian Indians, that is). If we do, they are usually doctors, or scientists, or owners of small businesses.
I hope I'm still allowed to post my beloved Paddy and Mick jokes, because in that context Paddy refers to an idiotic Irish bloke, although whenever I think of the jokes I just pretend they're both idiotic Brits.
But it's politically okay to make jokes about Brits, right?
29 Aug 2025, 12:13 am
29 Aug 2025, 5:27 am
^ Yeah - "an Englishman and no-one else walked into a bar ..." doesn't really work.
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29 Aug 2025, 6:37 am
Tamaya wrote:
Honey69 wrote:
Peter Sellers played an Indian character in a few movies. I thought it was fine. Not "great", but, meh, okay. Not offensive at all.
I looked up p-word Paddy on Youtube. I can see where some might not like it. In the USA, we don't see a lot of Indians. (Asian Indians, that is). If we do, they are usually doctors, or scientists, or owners of small businesses.
I looked up p-word Paddy on Youtube. I can see where some might not like it. In the USA, we don't see a lot of Indians. (Asian Indians, that is). If we do, they are usually doctors, or scientists, or owners of small businesses.
I hope I'm still allowed to post my beloved Paddy and Mick jokes, because in that context Paddy refers to an idiotic Irish bloke, although whenever I think of the jokes I just pretend they're both idiotic Brits.
But it's politically okay to make jokes about Brits, right?
I used to laugh at jokes to do with ethnicity or race
It was the way things were back in those days. The whole country was laughing at black people, Asian people, Chinese people and every person under the sun who looked different and spoke different
It used to also be perfectly normal to laugh at disabled people and stare at downs syndrome people and just lock them away for ever because they were different
We had really derogatory names for people of colour and people who were disabled and I can remember all those names I used to call them
I was part of that culture
I was raised to think it was perfectly acceptable
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