To think a police officer should have more sense?

[nappyaddict]

I have just seen a police officer say on his Facebook page "has finally got my car to move and has now found a great big fucking scratch on the door, pikeys....."

I was singing baa baa black sheep at rhyme time in the library only last week, so bollocks to everyone who says it's been banned. Why do you keep saying it, it's not true?

altinkum, please, please tell me the name of the school where children sing 'baah baah ethnic sheep'. I'm begging you

Actually I don't really use it. Although I used to call Morrison's Pikey

So your DC's school teaches them 'baah baah ethnic sheep'

Please confirm that. I'm seriously ineterested...

I very much use the the term 'pikey' as a term of endearment for my friend ,its as a result of a misunderstanding that occured where certain people believed she was a traveller ,she isnt ,but as i said she is close friends ( attends weddings,christenings etc) of travellers . I would never use the term in reference to anyone else ,other than my friend . Also the travellers ,who have single handedly kept unilever afloat during the recession , call her a pikey because of the abject squalor she lives in .

Ooooo am i now being racist by suggesting that travellers are fastidious about cleanliness in their homes ?

he sounds like a racist plonker.

Why, are you trying to be?

bumproon

how is what you have said racist?

I didn't know 'pikey' referred to travellers. I have only heard it used in the same way as 'chav'. Neither are nice terms, but I am because I'm pretty sure I've used it (not referring to a person) in public and people probably think I'm a racist twat. Shit.

Serendip yes I can, people have taste's don't they, like some men like slim women, some women like bald men. It is a matter of taste.

I've never used the term pikey, the kids dad does but he does reside in Essex.

Oh. Silly me. I thought it was about fancying the person. I don't think I've ever fancied, been out with, or slept with a blonde person - but I couldn't categorically say that I never would.

Oh well, Fabby, that's alright then. If he lives in Essex, he has every right to use a racist term

Honestly, this thread is winding me up.

I think the term Pikey is (probably deliberately) often misunderstood by those who are looking to find a reason to cry victimisation.

In the south east of England it is not aimed just at travellers, it is a word used to describe the sort of people that are usually on Jeremy Kyle, and basically means the same as calling someone a chav.

For example, someone who shops in Lidl,drinks White Lightning Cider, and looks like Waynetta Slob, or Vicky Pollard would be labelled a "bit of a pikey".

I think if anyone is deliberately misunderstanding the thread, charliesmommy, it is you.

I disagree charliesmommy I am from the south east of England, and know very well that it's a term used to describe a gypsy or a traveller. Whether it's now used to describe someone a bit chavvy is kind of irrelevant - it's where the roots of the offensive term lie that is the issue.

How dreadfully selfish of those people to deliberately misunderstand the term as racist. Fucking chip on their shoulder, that's what it is

I consider it racist, because it originated as an insulting word for Romanies who are an ethnic group and implies that thieving and criminal behaviour is synonymous with being Romany.

Which any one with any sense knows isn't true.

For a policeman to put a racist remark on FB is very stupid, and I hope he gets into trouble - prejudice IMO leads to poor policing. I don't agree with any 'all police are like that' sentiments. I've found the police to be very helpful whenever I've needed them. But you get the odd stupid person in any profession.

Fabby
am flaberghasted by the idea that it would be ok for a copper to spout racist insults as long as its to friends who will think its funny.

If he had said fucking Pakis instead would that also be ok in your opinion?

Really, altinkum. So if I called a white friend a n***, it's ok because they're not black? Worraloadofshit.