Have we gone completely bloody mad????

[Bobbisox]

http://www.thesun.co....-of-Chinese-pair.html

so next time I am away from home and someone asks me to say" Whay Aye"(which has happened often) or strikes up a rendition of the Blaydon Races
do I report this to the Police? and have them done for blatant racism....too daft for words imo!

[douglas9401]

Your black pudding breakfast is served Bobbisox. :)

Och aye the noo, haggis etc.

[jackthehat]

Are people from Tyneside a different race from the rest of the country ?

The Police have a duty to investigate accusations of this nature.We can only hope that common-sense prevails.................and the singer could have done better than leave his childish Facebook comment.

[nightmare]

I think we should wait for a totally balanced, accurate report from the Daily Mail about this before we pass judgment.

[jackthehat]

Here you go, glasscarp.

http://www.dailymail....hinese-customers.html

[jackthehat]

D'oh !!
Nightmare...............I meant Nightmare...........sorry :o(

[Bobbisox]

not at all jth, I merely used this as an example as I know it!

[Bobbisox]

so you think it was justified then JTH?

[jackthehat]

As I said, the Police, having been called, have a duty to investigate the complaint. Let's hope that the misunderstanding is cleared up, although I think he's shot himself in the foot with his Facebook 'joke'.

[Bobbisox]

as I hardly frequent FB I heard about this on the News , I won't use the term on here for obvious reasons, but how many of us when sending for, or going to, refer to a Chinese Takeaway, say by another name?

[China Doll]

'how many of us when sending for, or going to, refer to a Chinese Takeaway, say by another name?'

^^^ No one with any sense.

[Bobbisox]

sorry CD but,
I find this hard to believe, I will leave it there tho, as I must be the one without sense!
and get back to the silliness of what happened on the I.O.W

[jackthehat]

What ?!?
His comment on Facebook is clearly written in the article you have linked...

Some of us may well refer to the 'Chinky'.......it is lazy short-hand and usually means no offence.
It appears that a Chinese chap listening to the pub-singer has taken offence at a particular popular song. I think *he's* going to have trouble convincing anyone, on the facts given so far, at any rate, that there was any *racist* intent in that.
However, the Facebook comment may have handed it to him on a plate.............

[China Doll]

I don't refer to it as the chinky and neither to I nip to the *** shop which I have also heard people say... It's just lazy racism and I'm suprised you've posted that. Like I said, a bit sense and you wouldn't have.

[Bobbisox]

I did hear about his comment on FB and I have to agree he did himself no favours by it

[Lore]

I find that term quite offensive.

I'm hoping that it was all coincidental, as for the fb comments - silly man, bad form!

[Gromit]

WHAT IS WONG WITH YOU - Hilarious!

[Bobbisox]

Lore I am sure the term I haven't used, isnt just something I alone, have ever said but I suppose that is splitting hairs a bit on my part, I am referring to a pub singer singing Kung-fu fighting!

[Bobbisox]

OK CD>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[sara3]

I think it may have been a "you had to be there" moment. who knows how or why this was sung.. maybe in their faces? who knows? it seems a bit childish to me (backed up with the very stupid FB comment) but I guess the truth will out.

[WELSHYORKIE]

PC gone mad if you ask me - bonny lass