O/T black mans pinch...

[ees complicated no?]

Can this saying be used freely now adays? Or is it classed as racist some how?

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

You're just about to find out......

 

[Nibble]

What does it mean?

 

[ees complicated no?]

What does it mean?

When you pinch part of your skin in a certain way (normally at the end of your fingers) and a small area size of a pea turns black.

 

[Nibble]

Oh right, it means your skin turns black if you are pinched by a black man. A blood blister. I'm no expert but I would say inferring black men hold dark spiritual powers to turn your skin black while not being outright racist is a fairly ignorant thing to say. Would you still rub a black man for luck?

 

[Hillian1]

I must admit to still using the saying, I'd never really thought about it before, maybe I will now.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Never heard ot if, but sounds dodgy

 

[ees complicated no?]

Oh right, it means your skin turns black if you are pinched by a black man. A blood blister. I'm no expert but I would say inferring black men hold dark spiritual powers to turn your skin black while not being outright racist is a fairly ignorant thing to say. Would you still rub a black man for luck?

I didn't know rubbing a black man was lucky...

 

[fat old seagull]

Hasn't this racist stuff gone too far? Do Afro-Caribbeans get upset if we said they were black? I certainly wouldn't if someone bizarrely suggested I was pink.

 

[Fungus]

Hasn't this racist stuff gone too far? Do Afro-Caribbeans get upset if we said they were black? I certainly wouldn't if someone bizarrely suggested I was pink.

I think "black" is currently acceptable, but I got told off for using "coloured". Didn't it use to be the other way around?

 

[stripeyshark]

I think "black" is currently acceptable, but I got told off for using "coloured". Didn't it use to be the other way around?

It's such a joke. I don't bother.

 

[spongy]

I use that phrase, it's what my mum used to always call it. Force of habit now I suppose,

 

[Bwian]

Used by Derek Trotter in one episode of Only Fools and Horses...

 

[Triggaaar]

I think "black" is currently acceptable, but I got told off for using "coloured". Didn't it use to be the other way around?

I'm not sure 'coloured' was ever acceptable. Back when people said 'coloured' they didn't stop to think whether it was acceptable or not. Black is the correct term to refer to a black person's race. But that doesn't mean it's always appropriate to use it. For example, don't greet black people with 'hey black man'

 

[Boys 9d]

I'm not sure 'coloured' was ever acceptable. Back when people said 'coloured' they didn't stop to think whether it was acceptable or not. Black is the correct term to refer to a black person's race. But that doesn't mean it's always appropriate to use it. For example, don't greet black people with 'hey black man'

Yet an organisation in the USA which has been active for about 100 years championing an end to prejudice is the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP). To the best of my knowledge there has been no move to change their name.

 

[the wanderbus]

. Black is the correct term to refer to a black person's race.

There are 4 major humanoid Races which are all divided into smaller groups none of which are known as the Black Race
Caucasian races (Aryans, Hamites, Semites)
Mongolian races (northern Mongolian, Chinese and Indo-Chinese, Japanese and Korean, Tibetan, Malayan, Polynesian, Maori, Micronesian, Eskimo, American Indian),
Negroid races (African, Hottentots, Melanesians/Papua, “Negrito”, Australian Aborigine, Dravidians, Sinhalese)

You mean black is the currently accepted term

 

[User removed 4]

There are 4 major humanoid Races which are all divided into smaller groups none of which are known as the Black Race
Caucasian races (Aryans, Hamites, Semites)
Mongolian races (northern Mongolian, Chinese and Indo-Chinese, Japanese and Korean, Tibetan, Malayan, Polynesian, Maori, Micronesian, Eskimo, American Indian),
Negroid races (African, Hottentots, Melanesians/Papua, “Negrito”, Australian Aborigine, Dravidians, Sinhalese)

You mean black is the currently accepted term

You've only listed 3 , whats the fourth ?

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

You've only listed 3 , whats the fourth ?

The sack race,for people who talk bollox.

 

[Norman Potting]

When you pinch part of your skin in a certain way (normally at the end of your fingers) and a small area size of a pea turns black.

Please explain why you would want to do that?

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Never heard of that one