My gran..
..watching 'The Cosby Show' back in the '80s at her house with my sister.

She'd never seen it before, and after a couple of minutes she said, in a loud voice: 'but...but...they're all NIGGERS!'

Me and my sister crack up laughing at my gran's lack of etiquette. She wasn't being racist; it's just the language her generation used.

'Er, gran, you can't say that anymore'

To which she turns to us and replies in open mouth astonishment..

'but they ARE!'


(inflateable, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:49, 4 replies)

So your gran wasn't racist...
... though she thought it as shocking that there was a programme which featured only black people who she thought she'd call a derogatory name which was never meant as a term of endearment. My Granddad who fought in the war alongside people of different races wouldn't dream of calling someone a nigger. Admittedly he is not the kindest to ze Germans but it's more playful jibes and he gets on very well with my aunt and her family who stem from there.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 4:18, closed)

allright, she wasn't being overtly racist. I should have said she wasn't bigoted.

And I bet your grandad did then - it was just the term used at the time. Guy Gibson had a black dog called Nigger, and it didn't mean he didn't like the dog.
(inflateable, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 7:42, closed)

Yes but...
...that was during the war and he died in '44.

I bet if he was still around in the 1980s and had to get a new dog, he would have called it something less offensive FOR THAT ERA.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 9:49, closed)

Probably Nick Griffin

( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 22:57, closed)