Reply With QuoteI'm talking about middle class people, most of whom simply wouldn't dream of saying n*gger - even if they are leetle bit racist.
I'm talking about middle class people, most of whom simply wouldn't dream of saying n*gger - even if they are leetle bit racist.
Civil servants and Bank managers are a dying breed
And, whilst Im sure they are more aware of social conventions, there are plenty of racialists on all parts of the spectrum.
Mind you, you might have a point, that UKIP lady said she "didn't like negroes, there's something about their faces".
You'd never get a comment like that out of an educated middle class person.
They say 'lavatory' rather than 'toilet' and 'napkin' rather than 'serviette'.
Everyone else is common.
She probably has a collection of ceramic animals on her mantelpiece, ffs! And gives her house some sort of twee name like 'The Willows'.
Common.
pretty much all of what I said was tongue in cheek, the only part I'd really stand by is preferring him over Phil Neville.
I'd echo your sentiments as far as the word and it's connotations go, I assume in his case it is a word that was (wrongly) bandied about regularly in football and he is probably too stupid to know better.
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