movie title offensive?
Would Hollywood accept a movie title like "The Ni g g er", The Ch i nk", "The K i ke", or "The G o ok"?
I don't think so.
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You named racial slurs, calling an English person a limey is no different than calling a Canadian a canuck.
Hardly too offensive.
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As a Brit/Limey, I don't find the title offensive at all. Is LIMEY still a common nickname for us these days, or is BRIT more widely used? Personally, I am more offended when I get called English rather than Brit.
...now I do it just to watch their f----n' expression change.
As an Englishman, I get offended when people call me British - I have no love for the Empire and all that it did. There hasn't been an Englishman on teh throne since 1066, so all that came after - conflict with the Irish and Scots, India, Burma, Africa, slavery, tea and all that - That's all British and nothing I claim association to.
But Limey is, as many have said, like Froggie, Pork & Cheese, Yank, Canuck, Jap, Ros-bif, *beep* Pommie, Aussie, Ruskie and so on. They generally used as terms of endearment, rather than racial slurs or direct insults like the N word, P word and many others.
Then again, I know some who got on a high horse over the retention of 'The Two Towers', due to the similarity with the World Trade Centre's nickname....
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You don't like the fact that the British Empire helped defeat the Nazis? Defeated French and Spanish tyranny? Congratulations, you know less than nothing.
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I'm sorry, I thought that was The Allies - Portugal, America, Spain, Poland, Canada, Free France, the UK and several other nations all combined. But if you say it's the British Empire, fair enough...
By WW2 'The Empire' had mostly ceased to exist and 'Britian' was pretty much interchangable with 'England', despite it referring to most of the UK anyway (Ireland remained neutral).
As for French and Spanish tyrany... Depends on which direction you look. At the same time as fighting these 'horrible nations', the Empire was doing it's fair share of snatching, grabing, looting, destroying and so on. Where do you think the NSDAP got the idea for Concentration Camps? The British.
Of course The Empire achieved good things, just like the Romans, but at the same time they usually comitted serious attrocities along the way to force the good stuff on cultures that didn't really want them in the first place.
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I'm sorry, I thought that was The Allies - Portugal, America, Spain, Poland, Canada, Free France, the UK and several other nations all combined.
Portugal and Spain! LOL
And the British DID NOT invent 'concentration' camps, that's a myth. The British might have first used that term during the Boer War but camps such as that had been around for much longer in history. They were also not 'extermination' camps, the Nazis thought those up all by themselves.
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Portugal and Spain! LOL
Yes. Two countries on the Western edge of Europe. I don't suppose you've heard of them, eh...
And the British DID NOT invent 'concentration' camps, that's a myth.
And I DID NOT say they did. I said that's where the NSDAP got the idea from, when the Germans had set up their own camps earlier in Namibia (which *were* extermination camps and well before the Nazis).
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The twenty-first century, and we're whining about name-calling.
I suppose we'll never grow up.
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Yes. Two countries on the Western edge of Europe. I don't suppose you've heard of them, eh...
Lol, the point is that not only was Spain not involved in the Second World War (they were having their own Civil War at the time) but Franco actually assisted the Nazis. So Spain as a country did not play a part in defeating the Nazis, nor were they ever "the allies". However, certain private Spanish citizens did help British spies. Portugal, also governed by a dictator at the time was officially neutral. Brush up your history. share
Lol, the point is that not only was Spain not involved in the Second World War (they were having their own Civil War at the time) but Franco actually assisted the Nazis. So Spain as a country did not play a part in defeating the Nazis, nor were they ever "the allies". However, certain private Spanish citizens did help British spies.
Actually, the point was that The Allies comprised more than just Britain. But hey ho, whatever floats yer sandal... LOL.
Spain was 'officially' neutral.
In addition to those that sided with the Axis, tens of thousands joined the French Resistance and Free French, several hundred thousand joined the Foreign Legion and an almost completely Spanish Allied military unit was the first to enter Paris during the liberation.
Yet you tell me they weren't 'involved'...??!!
Portugal also supplied supportive services, materiel and locations for Allied bases.
You really need to read up on world history before making such ignorant comments
Nah mate, you just need to pick up a dictionary. I suggest you start with the word 'mostly'.
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You listed Spain and Portugal as Allies. They weren't. End of. You made a huge factual mistake and no amount of googling bits of superficial information is going to get you out of it.
shareBy WW2 'The Empire' had mostly ceased to exist
Remind me again when did India gain its independence? 1947? Yes, so AFTER the war then. I think you'll find that decolonisation began post-war and to a large extent because of the war. You really need to read up on world history before making such ignorant comments. share
I'm sorry, I thought that was The Allies - Portugal, America, Spain, Poland, Canada, Free France, the UK and several other nations all combined. But if you say it's the British Empire, fair enough...
Portugal and Spain were Allies?? Perhaps in some alternate timeline! Can you give me the name of this fictional novel you are reading?
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Jeez, does no-one read history books any more, or pay attention in class??!!
Then again, you're debating history in a thread about a film title, so...
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Jeez, does no-one read history books any more, or pay attention in class??!!
Then again, you're debating history in a thread about a film title, so...
Clearly you didn't.
And it was you that brought history into the thread, albeit factually incorrect history. You got busted. Stop squirming and accept it. share