http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 03:19:38 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128512 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 07:45:29 +0000 cinquecento 128512@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>tell us more about these Cambodian log suckers </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128495 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:55:36 +0000 Scroat 128495@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ken Loach - brilliant.</p> <p>Cathy Come Home. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128485 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:30:23 +0000 waylandsmithy 128485@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Al, you disgust me. Wash out your potty mouth. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128479 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:27:29 +0000 Al OPecia 128479@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>But it IS a Pakistani Loach, and there is a Senegal bichir, a Malawi barracuda, an African butterfly cichlid, a Cambodian log sucker, and a Siamese Fighting Fish - are they all racist? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128433 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:36:17 +0000 Ironduke 128433@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>...they come over 'ere, stealing our ants eggs, they only shoal with their own sort and once one's moved in, thats it, the whole tanks gone. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128425 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:38:17 +0000 andhrimnir 128425@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Some of my best friends are Loaches. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128419 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:31:53 +0000 charlies_hat 128419@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I went to se Avenue Q last year, The 'Everyones a ittle bit racist' song was a highlight. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128397 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:40:40 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 128397@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>As much as people are trying to make light of it, it's still racist.</p> <p>Honestly, you're worse than John Terry, Luis Suarez and Nick Griffin combined. You big racist, racist. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128394 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:36:09 +0000 kimllfixit 128394@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If you ask for a 'box fish' is it sexist? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128381 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:21:18 +0000 Scroat 128381@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's a potential minefield Shits.</p> <p>At least you weren't after a Thick Lipped Gourami, or a Javanese Ricefish. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128377 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:10:16 +0000 Sinnick 128377@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>An Indian friend used to be insulted on the street sometimes by being called "Paki". He says he was more offended by the association with Pakistan than the racism.</p> <p>Well, I wouldn't want to be called French, or worse Welsh. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128372 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:20:06 +0000 Alan Sundry 128372@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Jeni - I bet you Scotch people have to put up with the same sort of thing all the time... :-) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128361 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:22:53 +0000 Thor 128361@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>As for French letters - why else do they have a town called Condom?<br /> Actually, it’s called Condom-en-Armagnac, which sounds like a typically disgusting thing that the French <em>would</em> do with food. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128359 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:07:51 +0000 Gerontius 128359@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ask him for a Welsh Rarebit next time </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128322 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:33:50 +0000 Salmon of Knowledge 128322@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My Belgian neighbour has the same hang-up with his sprouts. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128319 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:26:27 +0000 The All New Jeni B 128319@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A girl in my class told me I wasn't allowed to call her 'Oriental' just because she's from China.<br /> So I asked her why her father's restaurant was called 'The Oriental Garden'... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128318 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:23:02 +0000 dvo4fun 128318@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Can I ask for battered cod at the chippie? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128316 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:56:42 +0000 Salmon of Knowledge 128316@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'll ask for a definitive answer from the guy I sit next to at work. I'm not sure he's from Pakistan, and I don't want to use the word 'pakistani', so I'll just ask him if they have fish where he comes from, and that should clear the matter up. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128315 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:52:40 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 128315@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>He's right you know, it's racist. And if you can't understand why then you probably never will and there's not really any hope for you. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44836#post-128314 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:39:28 +0000 shitsu_tonka 128314@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Got some tropical fish today.</p> <p>Me: I'd like two Pakistani loaches, please.<br /> Pet Shop Chap: You can't say that! We call them Yo-Yo loaches.<br /> Me: Why?<br /> PSC: Pakistani loaches is racist.<br /> Me: But they're loaches and they're from Pakistan.<br /> PSC: That is racist, you can't call things Pakistani.<br /> Me: Even if they're from Pakistan?<br /> PSC: It's just wrong, you're wrong. You're so wrong!<br /> Me: If they were from France could I call them French loaches?<br /> PSC: Well yeah, obviously cos that's not racist.</p> <p>Eh? </p>