Right - I'm generally a lurker, I don't have the time to enter into many debates and the time difference with most posters means I'm asleep while most of you are arguing the toss over whatever...
With that in mind of course excuse me if I say my piece then bugger off (I have work to do) and dip in now and then.
I raised this on the Esther Rantzen/Veggie MP thread but it sorta got drowned in the deluge.
On this board we generally have a pretty healthy intolerance for, well intolerance if you like. Offensive or denigrating slang or nicknames are by and large challenged and debated. Witness several threads about the acceptability of using the terms 'septics' or 'chavs'. We stop short of "PC gone mad" (to use the cliche) but, you know, any poster who uses negative or derogatory language to describe any group of people is usually called on it.
So what's the story with windowlicker ?
Yep, I know it's an Aphex Twin track - and (or so he seems to claim) his favourite Aphex Twin track - which suggests there is even less excuse for him to claim he doesn't know what 'windowlicker' is a derogatory term for.
Now I would, genuinely, like to know why he thinks that is an acceptable user name - is he just ignorant of the meaning (look - to save you a Google - its derogatory slang for a mentally handicapped kid, now you know OK?) and if so now he knows will he change it to something less offensive.
Or does he just not give a fuck?
I might also ask why he's never been called on this before? He's one of the irish lot so is he just someone's idiot cousin they tolerate but largely ignore?
With that in mind of course excuse me if I say my piece then bugger off (I have work to do) and dip in now and then.
I raised this on the Esther Rantzen/Veggie MP thread but it sorta got drowned in the deluge.
On this board we generally have a pretty healthy intolerance for, well intolerance if you like. Offensive or denigrating slang or nicknames are by and large challenged and debated. Witness several threads about the acceptability of using the terms 'septics' or 'chavs'. We stop short of "PC gone mad" (to use the cliche) but, you know, any poster who uses negative or derogatory language to describe any group of people is usually called on it.
So what's the story with windowlicker ?
Yep, I know it's an Aphex Twin track - and (or so he seems to claim) his favourite Aphex Twin track - which suggests there is even less excuse for him to claim he doesn't know what 'windowlicker' is a derogatory term for.
Now I would, genuinely, like to know why he thinks that is an acceptable user name - is he just ignorant of the meaning (look - to save you a Google - its derogatory slang for a mentally handicapped kid, now you know OK?) and if so now he knows will he change it to something less offensive.
Or does he just not give a fuck?
I might also ask why he's never been called on this before? He's one of the irish lot so is he just someone's idiot cousin they tolerate but largely ignore?
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