h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"south of the 49th parallel"

Oh dear, I was born south of the 49th parallel. If it wasn't part of Canukistan I guess I would be a Yank now?



Solution- instead of the N word, use Nigerian.

RE and zoomer.

When I started school the current form of 'Eeny meeny miiny mo' at that time used 'Nigerian' as to be caught by a toe.

Nobody in the school had a clue what that word meant. It was a village school in the English countryside.

We knew such people lived in Africa..for some reason we learnt a lot about Pygmies and the kind of ways they bartered for salt...that sticks in my mind...but we didn't connect the words.

"comparitive" = comparative

One I've felt uncomfortable with since long before the September 11th thing is the name of a certain city in northern Mexico:



Heroica Matamoros



or, in English


Heroic Muslim Killer.

Effers, I am in your generation when it comes to "Eeny Meeny" Nigerian reference. At that time "retard" was another acceptable word, whether descriptive or derogatory. I recently learned that the Japanese word "hakuchi" is a similarly frowned on and it has the same connotation.

Drop the "a".

Paki used to be an accetable abreviation of Patrick as in Paki Bonner, Celtic goalkeeper.

A rustic at work recently referred to a large gentleman of African origin who had been working with us as a "big buck n."

Mong was a common insult when I was a child.

It's spelt Packy tho.