'Nigger the Dog' Killed Off by Political Correctness
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I had a girlfriend whose parents were 'old ricjh' farmers who owned half of Cambridgeshire, or so it felt like, way back in the mid 70s. The sort of place where at Christmas the staff and tenant farmers would have a 'do' laid on for them in a marquee on the 'lawn' and be handed envelopes with a few notes in. Her dad's black lab was called Nigger. It was shocking even then and I winced every time he called the thing. I never had the nerve to say anything to him (though I did to her).
Why did I break up with her? She would have ended up rich as fuck.
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The interesting point is that no one in Britain would have winced in the 40s...Rum wrote:I had a girlfriend whose parents were 'old ricjh' farmers who owned half of Cambridgeshire, or so it felt like, way back in the mid 70s. The sort of place where at Christmas the staff and tenant farmers would have a 'do' laid on for them in a marquee on the 'lawn' and be handed envelopes with a few notes in. Her dad's black lab was called Nigger. It was shocking even then and I winced every time he called the thing. I never had the nerve to say anything to him (though I did to her).
Why did I break up with her? She would have ended up rich as fuck.
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The other halfs grandad, similar kind of guy to above, still openly called black people nig nogs and wogs up until he died last yearRum wrote:I had a girlfriend whose parents were 'old ricjh' farmers who owned half of Cambridgeshire, or so it felt like, way back in the mid 70s. The sort of place where at Christmas the staff and tenant farmers would have a 'do' laid on for them in a marquee on the 'lawn' and be handed envelopes with a few notes in. Her dad's black lab was called Nigger. It was shocking even then and I winced every time he called the thing. I never had the nerve to say anything to him (though I did to her).
Why did I break up with her? She would have ended up rich as fuck.

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You know "Memphis Belle" was a movie before it was a book?Feck wrote:I wonder if they will make a total fucking balls up of the film just like they butt- raped a good book when they made Memphis Belle .
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Well it was not I think considered a racial slur - indeed most Brits would not have seen people from other ethnic groups - ever! Sensibilities around such issues only arose when we had to live together in good old 'multicultural' Britain.JimC wrote:The interesting point is that no one in Britain would have winced in the 40s...Rum wrote:I had a girlfriend whose parents were 'old ricjh' farmers who owned half of Cambridgeshire, or so it felt like, way back in the mid 70s. The sort of place where at Christmas the staff and tenant farmers would have a 'do' laid on for them in a marquee on the 'lawn' and be handed envelopes with a few notes in. Her dad's black lab was called Nigger. It was shocking even then and I winced every time he called the thing. I never had the nerve to say anything to him (though I did to her).
Why did I break up with her? She would have ended up rich as fuck.
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It's really nothing new, lots of showings of the original film have replaced "Nigger" with "Trigger".

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Not true. Some guy jangled his keys at the dam and it just ran off.Pensioner wrote:Dambusters was a myth, the Germans did it. We proved that over on RDF.

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The dog did when it was hit by the car.JimC wrote:The interesting point is that no one in Britain would have winced in the 40s...Rum wrote:I had a girlfriend whose parents were 'old ricjh' farmers who owned half of Cambridgeshire, or so it felt like, way back in the mid 70s. The sort of place where at Christmas the staff and tenant farmers would have a 'do' laid on for them in a marquee on the 'lawn' and be handed envelopes with a few notes in. Her dad's black lab was called Nigger. It was shocking even then and I winced every time he called the thing. I never had the nerve to say anything to him (though I did to her).
Why did I break up with her? She would have ended up rich as fuck.

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Much more recently than that, even. It was still common in the 60's and early 70's. I remember being able to buy these in my teens:JimC wrote:The interesting point is that no one in Britain would have winced in the 40s...Rum wrote:I had a girlfriend whose parents were 'old ricjh' farmers who owned half of Cambridgeshire, or so it felt like, way back in the mid 70s. The sort of place where at Christmas the staff and tenant farmers would have a 'do' laid on for them in a marquee on the 'lawn' and be handed envelopes with a few notes in. Her dad's black lab was called Nigger. It was shocking even then and I winced every time he called the thing. I never had the nerve to say anything to him (though I did to her).
Why did I break up with her? She would have ended up rich as fuck.


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True and you used to be able to buy nigger boot polish and golly wog jam.Geoff wrote:Much more recently than that, even. It was still common in the 60's and early 70's. I remember being able to buy these in my teens:JimC wrote:The interesting point is that no one in Britain would have winced in the 40s...Rum wrote:I had a girlfriend whose parents were 'old ricjh' farmers who owned half of Cambridgeshire, or so it felt like, way back in the mid 70s. The sort of place where at Christmas the staff and tenant farmers would have a 'do' laid on for them in a marquee on the 'lawn' and be handed envelopes with a few notes in. Her dad's black lab was called Nigger. It was shocking even then and I winced every time he called the thing. I never had the nerve to say anything to him (though I did to her).
Why did I break up with her? She would have ended up rich as fuck.
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John Maclean (Scottish socialist) speech from the Dock 1918.
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I hate rewriting of history!
This is the rewriting of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer" issue all over again: http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 53&t=21949

This is the rewriting of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer" issue all over again: http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 53&t=21949
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I though Nigger was run over not killed by PC ?




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Bella beat him to death with a free laptop she has.Feck wrote:I though Nigger was run over not killed by PC ?

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I used to have a tube of Darkie toothpaste (before it was name changed to Darlie).Pensioner wrote:True and you used to be able to buy nigger boot polish and golly wog jam.Geoff wrote:Much more recently than that, even. It was still common in the 60's and early 70's. I remember being able to buy these in my teens:JimC wrote:The interesting point is that no one in Britain would have winced in the 40s...Rum wrote:I had a girlfriend whose parents were 'old ricjh' farmers who owned half of Cambridgeshire, or so it felt like, way back in the mid 70s. The sort of place where at Christmas the staff and tenant farmers would have a 'do' laid on for them in a marquee on the 'lawn' and be handed envelopes with a few notes in. Her dad's black lab was called Nigger. It was shocking even then and I winced every time he called the thing. I never had the nerve to say anything to him (though I did to her).
Why did I break up with her? She would have ended up rich as fuck.

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Re: 'Nigger the Dog' Killed Off by Political Correctness
Tis an old story this, if you check the piece filming started in 2008, so nigger was written out well before then and it comes up every so often for a bit of hrumping.
I think they should have bleeped it out, so people could speculate if the dog was called fucker or cunt.
I think they should have bleeped it out, so people could speculate if the dog was called fucker or cunt.
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