One of life's many mysteries?

[SpeedFreak]

All I know is that my wife doesn't appreciate being called a chinkie

 

[Eddie]

Oh noes, I also call a Chinese meal a chinkie.

You terribly naughty person you

Apparently though, this makes you scum, just so's you know

 

[Rainmaker]

Surely real racists don't spend money in ethnic retail outlets to begin with? We call it a "Chinky" around here too; it bears no racist connotations whatsoever.

 

[PapaLazaru]

All I know is that my wife doesn't appreciate being called a chinkie

Well stop calling her it then.

 

[SpeedFreak]

lol

 

[The_blue]

And all this started over ribs


Out is interest to the new and improved thread topic, what do you call your local Asian run corner shop?

 

[Cosimo]

All I know is that my wife doesn't appreciate being called a chinkie

You tell her to stop selling takeaways.

 

[PhillyDee]

The meal is a chinkies, the people who make it are (probably anyway) chinese. How is it racist? Its shorthand, and nothing more.

 

[Rainmaker]

And all this started over ribs


Out is interest to the new and improved thread topic, what do you call your local Asian run corner shop?

The same as everyone else.

 

[SpeedFreak]

And all this started over ribs


Out is interest to the new and improved thread topic, what do you call your local Asian run corner shop?

Medina

 

[Eddie]

And all this started over ribs


Out is interest to the new and improved thread topic, what do you call your local Asian run corner shop?

For the purpose of this thread I call it a 'local Asian run corner shop' and I wouldn't dare call it anything else

 

[PapaLazaru]

what do you call your local Asian run corner shop?

Jacks

 

[Strife212]

Don't tarnish the rest of us with your scummy racist brush.

You're being pathetic

 

[SpeedFreak]

The meal is a chinkies, the people who make it are (probably anyway) chinese. How is it racist? Its shorthand, and nothing more.

Really, so it's origins are not derogatory in any way nor intended to insult? It's funny because I'm clearly remember my in-laws telling me how offensive they found it. I'm probably overly sensitive due to my half Chinese half Irish child being due early in the new year .

 

[The_blue]

The same as everyone else.

Really?

 

[Deadbeat]

Out is interest to the new and improved thread topic, what do you call your local Asian run corner shop?

Moyler's. there's also one a bit further up the street called "Arsh newsagents". Generally I never got into referring to corner shops as **** shops because most of the ones around where I grew up were run by Greeks, and by the time I got to Southampton the majority of the local shops were run by Bangladeshis, not Pakistanis, but friends of mine who refer to them as such are the least racist of my friends - I've tended to notice that the more racist people refrain from using such terms.

All I know is that my wife doesn't appreciate being called a chinkie

My mate's wife doesn't like being called a chinkie either, but that's probably because she's from Essex. We call her chinkie because she had to wear an eyepatch for a month or so back in school, after she got sperm in her eye.

 

[Strife212]

Calling him a racist is laughable, I'll leave it at that.

 

[SpeedFreak]

Seriously Strife, you'd be surprised. Pretty much any time drunk customers kicked off in their old takeaway, by all accounts one of the first things they resorted to saying involved chinkie.

 

[Strife212]

I can understand the term is offensive when said to a chinese person, I'm just saying calling the op a racist is a little unfair when it seems he didn't even know the racist connotations of the word.

 

[Eddie]

My mate's wife doesn't like being called a chinkie either, but that's probably because she's from Essex. We call her chinkie because she had to wear an eyepatch for a month or so back in school, after she got sperm in her eye.

Haha

So we've come from spare ribs, to racism, and now we've got ***** in the eye!

Can't be bad for a Saturday