It's difficult to say. Most of these names come from what we eat. Like us calling the French froggies or the Germans sausage-munchers. In the same way, the French call the English rosbifs (roast beef) and the Americans call us limeys. It doesn't sound insulting to me. Calling Americans Yanks doesn't seem insulting either but it does sound ignorant. Not all Americans are Yankees and I don't think many non-Americans understand what a Yankee actually is. I think if you're going to use a term to refer to someone, you should at least know what it means to them.
I think that might have been meant for me and you posted to the wrong person. Fish and chips isn't an English thing. It's a Jewish thing and was introduced to us by Jewish migrants fleeing persecution in Europe.
Also God doesn't damn me because he doesn't exist.
Why have you wrote cum eater in apostrophes? Are you trying to imply that he isn't a cum eater, which as far as insults go that would be a rubbish one.
Me and a friend introduced chip butties to a group of Swedish people when we were traveling round Europe, they thought it was a weird combination but after eating them they went crazy and started eating them everyday. I can't imagine not having a chippy round the corner, it's friday tea in my house.
You can't beat a chip buttie! They've been my Saturday night tea for three weeks in a row now. Just a shame that muffin means something else to most of the rest of the world and a chip muffin is liable to be seen as a chocolate chip muffin. And I doubt there's many on IIN who know what a barm is.
Kills me that there's about a hundred takeaways within walking distance of me and none of them is a traditional chippy. I really struggle to get chips that aren't french fries.
It wouldn't bother me. I didn't even know what it meant until I looked it up. Although some people are saying that it wasn't said at the time and has been invented afterwards, which seems a bit odd. Also, some people really will be offended because it's a military reference to a conflict in which people died.
In the same way the English and Irish could cause offence by using the term "black and tans".
Do you think the term "Yank" is derogatory?
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It's difficult to say. Most of these names come from what we eat. Like us calling the French froggies or the Germans sausage-munchers. In the same way, the French call the English rosbifs (roast beef) and the Americans call us limeys. It doesn't sound insulting to me. Calling Americans Yanks doesn't seem insulting either but it does sound ignorant. Not all Americans are Yankees and I don't think many non-Americans understand what a Yankee actually is. I think if you're going to use a term to refer to someone, you should at least know what it means to them.
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So is it okay to call you a lobsterback?
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Stuff your fish-n-chips eating face, you goddamn limey.
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I think that might have been meant for me and you posted to the wrong person. Fish and chips isn't an English thing. It's a Jewish thing and was introduced to us by Jewish migrants fleeing persecution in Europe.
Also God doesn't damn me because he doesn't exist.
I do quite like limes, though. :)
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Good job again, 'Cum Eater'.
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Why have you wrote cum eater in apostrophes? Are you trying to imply that he isn't a cum eater, which as far as insults go that would be a rubbish one.
Please stop spreading your verbal pollution around.
Me and a friend introduced chip butties to a group of Swedish people when we were traveling round Europe, they thought it was a weird combination but after eating them they went crazy and started eating them everyday. I can't imagine not having a chippy round the corner, it's friday tea in my house.
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You can't beat a chip buttie! They've been my Saturday night tea for three weeks in a row now. Just a shame that muffin means something else to most of the rest of the world and a chip muffin is liable to be seen as a chocolate chip muffin. And I doubt there's many on IIN who know what a barm is.
Kills me that there's about a hundred takeaways within walking distance of me and none of them is a traditional chippy. I really struggle to get chips that aren't french fries.
It wouldn't bother me. I didn't even know what it meant until I looked it up. Although some people are saying that it wasn't said at the time and has been invented afterwards, which seems a bit odd. Also, some people really will be offended because it's a military reference to a conflict in which people died.
In the same way the English and Irish could cause offence by using the term "black and tans".
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Yeah right, you Dog-Jizz-Eating-Bitch.
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Stop being a pussy and come at me bro.
Such a dirty creamy mouth you have.