mjmooney Posted February 6, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted February 6, 2011 When people say "The 'N word'", instead of actually saying the word itself (nigger). It's an ugly, vile word, but cleaning it up by referring to it as the "N Word", does us all a disservice. "He got fired for calling the sales manager the N word." Just say the **** word, so people can hear it in all it's ugliness. It's part of the language, it should be heard, and maybe then the full meaning and impact of the word can be properly understood, especially by young people, who have been desensitized to it, either though the overuse of the word (in rap music and the wider popular culture), or by the extraction of the words' teeth by abbreviating it down to one letter.The imdb message boards' word filters are particularly ridiculous with this one. But what really annoys me is when "nigger" is retrospectively censored in historical sources - whether it's The Dambusters dog, Twain's Huckleberry Finn, or the fact that "nigger brown" was until comparatively recently a routine term for a particular paint or fabric shade. This sort of revisionist nonsense should be resisted at all costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno_2004 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 When people say "The 'N word'", instead of actually saying the word itself (nigger). It's an ugly, vile word, but cleaning it up by referring to it as the "N Word", does us all a disservice. "He got fired for calling the sales manager the N word." Just say the **** word, so people can hear it in all it's ugliness. It's part of the language, it should be heard, and maybe then the full meaning and impact of the word can be properly understood, especially by young people, who have been desensitized to it, either though the overuse of the word (in rap music and the wider popular culture), or by the extraction of the words' teeth by abbreviating it down to one letter.I had an interesting chat with my flatmate and his friend (both are black) about the word. My flatmate says he wouldn't care if a white man said to him on the street 'You alright n*gger?' and he considers it a way of informally speaking. His friend totally disagreed and sided with me in the fact that due to the history of the word, even as one black man to another, you are doing the other guy a disservice and putting him down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 You want to watch a stream just to see adverts? Eh! Not any old adverts. Super Bowl adverts. There's a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 You want to watch a stream just to see adverts? Eh! Not any old adverts. Super Bowl adverts. There's a difference. SUPER BOWL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Some effeminate version of Rugby League is on BBC1 at the moment :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 ****' steelers are literally throwin this away.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf_stewart Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I'm sure this has been picked up before, but: The use of the word 'epic' as a superlative. Heads will roll... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 You want to watch a stream just to see adverts? Eh! Not any old adverts. Super Bowl adverts. There's a difference. SUPER BOWL. You can see all the Super Bowl adverts HERE moments after they air stateside. Some of them have been pretty good so far. Thanks to Levi for the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YLN Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 My father's friend has a Canon 7D. A serious piece of photo equipment. At the game yesterday he kept taking photos. It was a bit annoying that he kept flashing and not watching the game and that, but I was content that we'd see some good pictures afterwards. Nine out of every ten photos were completely blurry. You go out and spend loads of money on a camera, but then don't know how to use it. What is the point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted February 7, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2011 Nine out of every ten photos were completely blurry. You go out and spend loads of money on a camera, but then don't know how to use it. What is the point? You get to show off how rich you are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I'm sure this has been picked up before, but: The use of the word 'epic' as a superlative. Heads will roll... Good to see someone agree with me. Epic fail **** me right off. Also, we have no Snickers in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 When you have to type in some weird random bunch of letters in a form to show you are not a computer and either you can't read what the letters are or when you type it all in exactly, it comes back saying 'incorrect' When you search Google for something and you go to a page that seems like it might have what you want, but instead it turns out to be a pge with another search engine asking you to type your 'search terms' in. I hate computers and the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 How every Aston Villa player who wasn't crap is referred to as a legend. Sasa Curcic 'legend 'savo milosevic 'legend', Olof Mellberg 'legend', Juan Pablo Angel 'legend', Steve Stone 'legend' etc Legends are players like Taylor, Yorke, Mcgrath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 I think Mellberg WAS a legend, but thats for another day. Agree on Savo and Curcic, who on earth calls Steve Stone a legend? :shock: Not being able to get on here on ym phone, meaning I can't annoy you all as much. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 7, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2011 When people say "The 'N word'", instead of actually saying the word itself (nigger). It's an ugly, vile word, but cleaning it up by referring to it as the "N Word", does us all a disservice. "He got fired for calling the sales manager the N word." Just say the **** word, so people can hear it in all it's ugliness. It's part of the language, it should be heard, and maybe then the full meaning and impact of the word can be properly understood, especially by young people, who have been desensitized to it, either though the overuse of the word (in rap music and the wider popular culture), or by the extraction of the words' teeth by abbreviating it down to one letter.I had an interesting chat with my flatmate and his friend (both are black) about the word. My flatmate says he wouldn't care if a white man said to him on the street 'You alright n*gger?' and he considers it a way of informally speaking. His friend totally disagreed and sided with me in the fact that due to the history of the word, even as one black man to another, you are doing the other guy a disservice and putting him down.Ask them about the historical thing. I mean, I would never dream of calling someone a nigger, to their face or behind their back, but the rewriting thing really bugs me. Mark Twain (who was massively anti-racist BTW) reflected the way people spoke in 1860s America. He didn't write "slave" he wrote "nigger". Should it be rewritten? Guy Gibson's dog WAS called "Nigger". It was a common name back then for a black dog. It described the dog's colour (Latin "niger" = black. As in the country Nigeria - is THAT racist?). Incidentally, why did you put an asterisk in there? (n*gger) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 7, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2011 I read that the Dambusters dog is going to be called "nigsy", as that was a shorter name used in the book. Still annoying that they are rewriting it (isn't that Orwell territory?), but I guess at least it is still attempting to stay true to the book. Incidentally, I didn't realise Stephen Fry was writing the Dambusters movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggyrichard Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Stephen Fry He pisses me off..dont know why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 7, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2011 I read that the Dambusters dog is going to be called "nigsy", as that was a shorter name used in the book. Still annoying that they are rewriting it (isn't that Orwell territory?), but I guess at least it is still attempting to stay true to the book. Incidentally, I didn't realise Stephen Fry was writing the Dambusters movie.I'm not convinced this is going to get made now. Which wouldn't bother me one bit. When you say "the book" - which one? Paul Brickhill's? (Written not long after the war, and full of inaccuracies), Gibson's "Enemy Coast Ahead"? Or one of the more recent - and more accurate - accounts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 7, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2011 I read that the Dambusters dog is going to be called "nigsy", as that was a shorter name used in the book. Still annoying that they are rewriting it (isn't that Orwell territory?), but I guess at least it is still attempting to stay true to the book. Incidentally, I didn't realise Stephen Fry was writing the Dambusters movie.I'm not convinced this is going to get made now. Which wouldn't bother me one bit. When you say "the book" - which one? Paul Brickhill's? (Written not long after the war, and full of inaccuracies), Gibson's "Enemy Coast Ahead"? Or one of the more recent - and more accurate - accounts? Oh, I don't know. I'd have to look on the article. I haven't read any of the books or seen the film to be honest. This article just mentioned that "Nigsy" was used by the guy who owned the dog in "the book". I can't remember which book it was referring to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 7, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2011 I read that the Dambusters dog is going to be called "nigsy", as that was a shorter name used in the book. Still annoying that they are rewriting it (isn't that Orwell territory?), but I guess at least it is still attempting to stay true to the book. Incidentally, I didn't realise Stephen Fry was writing the Dambusters movie.I'm not convinced this is going to get made now. Which wouldn't bother me one bit. When you say "the book" - which one? Paul Brickhill's? (Written not long after the war, and full of inaccuracies), Gibson's "Enemy Coast Ahead"? Or one of the more recent - and more accurate - accounts? Oh, I don't know. I'd have to look on the article. I haven't read any of the books or seen the film to be honest. This article just mentioned that "Nigsy" was used by the guy who owned the dog in "the book". I can't remember which book it was referring to.Sorry, I'm an obsessive WWII anorak! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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