Frogy in goal at Shrewsbury

[Scotty Mac]

http://www.seagulls.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/LatestDetail/0,,10433~702586,00.html

villa have requested that henderson doesnt play, so the french keeper will make his debut

its a big game for him, as a good performance could see henderson dropped, although he didnt do too badly yesterday

 

[Safeway]

Wicked, are we playing that ****** on the wing as well?

 

[Scotty Mac]

Wicked, are we playing that ****** on the wing as well?

no idea - bloody hope so though

 

[London Irish]

I think McGhee would have played him anyway regardless of Villa - he said as much the other day.

 

[cardboard]

Nice choice of words Scotty

 

[Scotty Mac]

Nice choice of words Scotty

thank you - i feel it is on a par with describing mccammon as trolley

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Oh dear - NSP must be bored and are pushing the envelope again. How long before Kinky starts posting hard core porn.

 

[Strike]

thank you - i feel it is on a par with describing mccammon as trolley

yep thats right scott, lets hope the froggy gives a good performance today.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Wicked, are we playing that ****** on the wing as well?

I find that utterly offensive. Please remove and apologise.

 

[Silent Bob]

Oh dear - NSP must be bored and are pushing the envelope again. How long before Kinky starts posting hard core porn.

I think Safeway was making a point about the keeper being called "froggy".

 

[The Great Cornholio]

I think Safeway was making a point about the keeper being called "froggy".

Hardly the same though, is it? Argie has been branded around enough over the last few weeks - the same as Yank, etc. These don't have the same racial undertones.

 

[Strike]

Hardly the same though, is it? Argie has been branded around enough over the last few weeks - the same as Yank, etc. These don't have the same racial undertones.

As is calling Scots/ Jocks, Welsh/ Taffys Irish/ Paddys. Nothing wrong with it.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

As is calling Scots/ Jocks, Welsh/ Taffys Irish/ Paddys. Nothing wrong with it.

Nothing wrong with those - I just think that Safeway's effort was in a different league and has been used for years as a racist slur. Here is a definition :-

******

This most offensive of words in American speech dates back to the late 16th century, although the modern spelling doesn't appear until two centuries later. The OED2's earliest cite of the modern spelling is from 1786 in Burns's Ordination. (The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, however, claims that this is an editorial error and Burns's original manuscript uses the older niger.) The obsolete spelling niger dates to 1574. It comes from the Latin meaning black. It shares this common root with negro.

The offensiveness of the term has increased over time, especially in the 20th century. Two 16th century quotes that are commonly cited in dictionaries are from scholarly tracts. A 1700 quote by judge Samuel Sewall uses the term in a denunciation of slavery. Gradually, however, polite discourse increasingly used the term negro (which dates to at least 1555) and ****** became relegated to the vulgar tongue, increasing in offensiveness over the centuries.

So for example, when Mark Twain uses the word in Huckleberry Finn, by the standards of his day he is not being especially offensive (although even then it was a term that would not be used in polite society), but is using the term as a marker of class and socio-economic status of the characters who utter it.

In the 20th century of course, it has become extremely offensive. It, along with !!!! are just about the only taboo words in American discourse today (it's interesting that the most offensive terms have strong racial or gender discrimination components). About the only acceptable use is in Black English when African-Americans use it to refer to themselves. (There is a similar reclamation of the word queer among homosexuals to rob the term of its offensiveness of the term by using it to refer to themselves.)

It is etymologically unrelated to the word niggard.



Hardly the same as Froggy is it?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Niggard means tight or thrifty or as Ernest would say Dick Tight

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Niggard means tight or thrifty or as Ernest would say Dick Tight

Surely Ernest would say 'tickets please'

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Interesting how a word relating to the female genitalia is censored on here but the most widely accepted, worst racial slur is not. Any reason why the word in question is censored? Surely it should be an all or nothing deal - especially as so many people know ways around it.

There are no words I find offensive - it is always the context that can offend.

Time for a heated debate?

 

[Gerbil]

****** means mate in err ****** language.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Erm, anyway can we get back to the Shrewsbury game? Will he play a second string side? Jake to start?

 

[London Irish]

I find that utterly offensive. Please remove and apologise.

He was actually being satirical. Get yourself a better brain.

It's not words that are offensive, but the intent behind them

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

ANYWAY


glad to see a change in goal, didn't go to hull but i thought henderson was AVERAGE in the 3 previous. This guy was Rennes no. 2 goalie wasn't he? That means he was PETR CECH's understudy- can't be that bad can he?

These sorts of games we should be trying stuff out, would like to see total pace on the wings aswell