MN allows racism to stand

Mmelindor should change her name, so she doesn't offend lactose-intolerant posters.

LOL at 'feetie stumpy' - for a moment I wondered if this was an obscure ethnic slur before working it out

There's a mumsnetter whose nn is NorthernMonkey. I met her at the weekend. Maybe she should be deleted for being racist!

One of my daughters is called Abbie, every time I say her name I am being racist according to the ethnic slurs link I won't mention DD2s nickname is Bananas for fear of being forever branded as a racist

You lot are as mad as a bucket of spiders!

million,you sees busy day a busy inbox can certainly take 6hr response
do you work?do you recall long to do list
you're being bit feetie stumpy here at not getting pronto resolution.immediacy issues?

what What WHAT?!?

"mad of a box of frogs" is a joke way of saying hopping mad!

Dago however is definitely racist!

There is so much to update my spreadsheet with this week I can hardly keep up with myself.

I consult the entrails meself

But hully, how are you to know what you really mean?

I had a great long dispute with amillion once that ran in a similar vein, can't remember the subject but certainly similar...tenacious wrong end of stickness and inability to see it.

True

Bof - yep, see your point. I'm probably overthinking.

But, if you can't overthink on a thread like this, where can you?!

Apologies for being daft.

And the award for most tenuous link to racism goes to..........

Also amillion are you going to apologise for your personal attack on HQ accusing them of loving racism or whatever your point was?

Amillion, are you going to use your mind-reading powers for good or evil?

I think you should apologise to mnhq. How dare you? Yes, you should report posts for PAs etc, but you should not start a thread accusing mnhq of supporting racism. It was nothing of the sort. Grow up, or find a forum that irritates you less.

Mad as a box of frogs racist! Hilarious!b:o

Northern Monkey
(UK) (See also Southern Fairy) used as a pejorative in the south of England, relating to the supposed stupidity and lack of sophistication of those in the north of the country.[143] In some cases this has been adopted in the north of England, with a pub in Leeds even taking the name 'The Northern Monkey'.[144]

I like this one. Sorry, am distracted by this list.

amillion have you accepted that you might have had good intentions, but that you were wrong?

amillion you've misunderstood what 'mad as a box of frogs' means. It's nothing to do with xenophobia (NOT racism). A box of amphibians would probably be pretty mad.

However, personal attack = bad = deletion. So all sorted.

I don't think anyone should stand on wankbadgers! I will immediately subscribe to the RSPCWB to stop this unkind practice.

Not really, LRD. I know that race is a construct, but if a group is not deemed as being part of that construct, it just isn't, whether some people disagree with the construct or not. And I don't agree either that somebody taking offence gets to dictate the language of others. By all means be guided by politeness, and don't seek to cause offence, but it simply isn't workable or reasonable to expect, for example, people to stop saying 'oh my god' or swearing or whatever, just because some people dislike it.

Ah. So we can use the word cunt but not frog? Frog as in the creature?

Ok. That's perfect. Just so I know.

Where do we stand on wankbadger? Is that offensive to badgers? Or a particular ethnicity I am unaware of?

Just so I don't fuck up and racially insult someone by accident.

I tell you what million if you want to see actual racism you should come to where I live. Ds1 can't walk the dog at night because he gets stopped by the police. He also was called the n word whilst playing football last week.

That's actual racism.

Mad as a box of frogs is ludicrous.

Well said usual.

IMO that is one of the nice things about MN, that if you get something wrong by misunderstanding and making an idiot of yourself, you apologize and move on.

Whatever we reckon about other terminology, 'mad as a box of frogs' quite obviously ain't racist!

Husband was miffed when he was told that in Liechtenstein they refer to the Germans as MOFs.

Menschen Ohne Freunde

(People Without Friends)

It is used in an affectionate way, and I was very much amused by it.