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Freddie Woo tugged our coat and asked: Have you ever had to tell someone they had BO? Had to break dreadful news to somebody? Tell us how you broke through the cringe barrier

(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 16:09)
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All I said was
that my portion of rice and peas looked a little niggardly. And then all hell broke loose
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(, Sat 12 Jan 2013, 9:31, 10 replies)
That's perfectly good use of the English language.
However, it does give me a rather tangential idea. "Liberal guilt cruises", in which white people pay to experience the entire slave transportation experience. Chained up and packed into the hull of the ship, and given niggardly portions of food and water.
(, Sat 12 Jan 2013, 9:43, closed)
This has comedic possibilities but I don't see it as a viable commercial endeavour
and for that reason, I'm out.
(, Sat 12 Jan 2013, 10:17, closed)
They already made a reality show based on the concept
I think they called it "go back where you came from"
(, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 3:35, closed)
And if there's an outbreak of Norovirus you can just chuck the sufferers overboard?

(, Sat 12 Jan 2013, 10:45, closed)
This only works if you're dull enough to think the word "Niggardly" has any relation to the racial epithet "nigger".

(, Sat 12 Jan 2013, 13:16, closed)
^This^
Though I suspect that at least 78% of the population is that dull.
(, Sat 12 Jan 2013, 15:03, closed)
But isn't it right that they should think that?
After all, the uneducated are so steeped in bigotry that they can't open their mouths without saying something offensive. They should really be taught to stay silent and know their place.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 2:01, closed)
Indeed. And 99.8% use of the word is by arseholes looking to kick up a fuss.

(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:43, closed)
Oh I see!!
Thanks for clearing that up. All this time there is me thinking the faux pas was my assumption that the staff had all read Chaucer up at Balliol instead of course having had to make do with a lesser education at some dreadful pinko outfit like Homerton. Now of course with the benefit of the world wide web I realise that all the litigation and resignations was due on some large part to them all thinking


Thanks to you "Spleep" for clearing that up, I can't begin to tell you how such a fool I feel right now and what an utter rotter I must have sounded like back then. What must they have all thought of me?
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(, Sat 12 Jan 2013, 16:39, closed)
The word "niggardly" only entered the language in the Elizabethan era and the epithet "nigger" only appeared in the 18th century so I'm not sure having read Chaucer would be any advantage here.

(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:09, closed)

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