Hmmmm

Post by **crazy88** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:25 pm

That would have been some woolyback scally rather than a scouser methinks

Crazy 88

Post by **Winkie** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:15 pm

Whilst Paki is an abbreviation for Pakistani, I'm sure all will agree it is primarily used only as an insult.

Other abbreviations are similar. examples I can think of are:-

Spaz - Spastic
Crip - Crippled
Flid - Thalidamide

If any of you , have disabled relations, would you address them as 'Spaz', or 'Crip'?

Most likely not!

For me, Paki is in the same category - maybe I am a minority for just beleiving this.

Post by **redzonerocker** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:40 pm

Winkie wrote:Whilst Paki is an abbreviation for Pakistani, I'm sure all will agree it is primarily used only as an insult.

i thought the same until caller put this link up

when you see the constant use of the 'offending' word describing the features, it kind of begs the question,
is it only offensive if white people use the word??

http://www.paki.com/

Post by **(buffalo) Bill** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:43 pm

Winky, I do believe you’re missing the point, spastics, cripples and thalidomide’s are not a race and should not be brought into this discussion.

We were talking about paki’s

I personally know blacks (Negros) that call themselves niggers also Pakistanis that call themselves paki’s. When whites do it they make a big commotion about it and claim and get a few quid out of it. If you look at the post above they have their own website.

Some people just love to bitch. Get real and think about it, how could the word paki be offensive? Please tell!

Post by **STEVE G** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:10 pm

Get real and think about it, how could the word paki be offensive? Please tell!

Try saying it to an Indian and you'll find out Bill!

Post by **(buffalo) Bill** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:03 pm

Steve, you’re another person missing the point, this thread started about a Pakistani being called a paki, or am I wrong?

I won't say, being called a paki by his white royal friend.

Post by **STEVE G** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:13 pm

To be honest Bill I’m not the most politically correct person around, but I was brought up in the East Midlands with its large Pakistani population and I wouldn’t use the term “Paki” without expecting to get into a fight.
I appreciate the term was used innocently in the original story, but generally speaking it is a derogatory term in England.
That website mentioned above is US based and perhaps it doesn’t have the same connotations there.

Super Joe · Post by **Super Joe** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:00 am

I remember in school using Paki, Joe-Raki and Bacon-Sarnie. We didn't use it in a friendly manner to mates. Most of the time I think it was said to Indians rather than bacon-sarnies which must have had double impact.

I wouldn't say it nowadays to an Indian or Pakistani in person as most wouldn't I believe, I'm sure when a Pakistani walks into your gaff Bill you don't say "would you like a table by the window ya Paki ?" ..... or do you

Not saying we've stopped using the term though.

SJ

Post by **caller** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:26 am

Super Joe wrote: Joe-Raki and Bacon-Sarnie

Never heard of those two!

I can guess the first, but the 2nd?

Super Joe · Post by **Super Joe** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:34 am

Pakistani.

SJ

Post by **Heebio** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:38 am

In Scotland we used to call them Hamiltons, after the football team.

Difference was, half the time the people this was directed at came from nowhere near Pakistan - our local corner shop was run by Egyptians but was universally known as 'the Paki's'. A lot of people, myself included, knew their origin but still continued to call them P's. I was a kid at the time, but still no excuse.

Try calling a Mackem a Geordie and see how you get on.

Post by **Randy Cornhole** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:59 am

Thinking about this, someone asked me directions the other day and I replied by telling them to turn right at the paki shop. They were white but didn't flinch. Just thanked me...

Post by **(buffalo) Bill** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:21 pm

Bollocks to it, lets add paki to the English dictionary that way every time they are called paki's they cant claim a cash hand out.

Post by **crazy88** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:22 pm

A maccam a Geordie

That is real fighting talk .Used to do it to mate from Sunderland all the time to watch him go purple .

Crazy 88

a soft,southern shandy drinker that needs a piss after only 8 pints,eats saveloys and owns a Jamie Oliver cookbook according to Maccam Dave .

Post by **STEVE G** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:59 pm

(buffalo) Bill wrote:Bollocks to it, lets add paki to the English dictionary that way every time they are called paki's they cant claim a cash hand out.

It’s already there Bill:

Paki n. pl. Pak·is Chiefly British Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a person from Pakistan or neighboring countries or for the descendant of such a person.