MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Don't think he's a racist and didn't see the thread but I think you may find that he was referring to people from this place near Aberdeen with a bit of word play.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigg,_Aberdeen
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He took the risk he paid the price.
He knew exactly what he was doing.
wordplay is a crime then, yeah?
It is on here.
I'd have very little problem with one of my mates using THAT WORD down the pub, in the context used by druidh - just a daft wee comment. But doing it on a public forum? Not surprised he's gone....
He'll probably only be in the cooler for a few days - lesson learned I dare say
FREE THE ONION!!!
So you don't mind the word being used in public but not on the internet?
That is correct.
according to TJ (just read the other thread) he's admitted it was him, no account hacked, so no defence really, i'm shocked though, apart from his slagging of charity bike races in the summer i thought he was an ok guy, maybe it was a joke gone wrong?
[i]So you don't mind the word being used in public but not on the internet?
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doesn't matter what anyone thinks on here except for Mark and he said there were no complaints, Mark pays the bill and bans who he wants, end of story
druidh wrote
[i]I thought some local might know when the Cromarty to Nigg ferry ran. I might incorporate it into a JoG ride.[/i]
wordplay gone wrong. 🙁
user removed - I know quite a few black guys who would disagree with you.
And RD,
I appreciate that, just wouldn't want a mate to be labelled racist when the truth is that he was just a bit gormless.
anyway dangerous i thought you were against this sort of thing?
[i]dangerousbeans - Member
I object strongly to the use of the word 'moron' or 'moronic' as used by a mod in another thread (also other derogatory terms involving people with learning disabilities - the few who know me will know why).
As it actually denoted a category of learning disability and was widely used as a categorisation for eugenics I feel it is unacceptable to be used to deride or describe others.
Those using it in such a fashion are being derogatory to those with learning disabilities, and making their condition an insult towards others
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Gormless is not the same as moronic. Moron has / had a specific meaning in medicalese / eugenics whereas gormless does not.
I am.
Gorm is from old Norse meaning sense - thus lacking in sense.
I often refer to people as Gormfull.
From dangerousbeans link the mods have got it wrong as you can't be banned if the area is named that, although obviously the mods are not going to know every place name.
If I referred to the rather better known river niger in the west of Africa should I be banned.
Surely a temporary ban. Didn't see the thread but Druidh adds to the forum and comes across as a steady lad. A (badly) misjudged joke isn't the end of the world.
user removed - I know quite a few black guys who would disagree with you.
OK I admit it. I'm a dangerous racist (despite being a quarter Singaporian).
what i would like to know is which one of the moderators decides on bannings and whether or not a post which is a obvious joke is racist.
can someone enlighten me on this please.
Isn't that pronounced Niy-Jer?
Can you use it on a public forum if you are black yourself ?
That's what annoys me is when blacks use this word in their songs or call each other it than get the arse ache when a white person says it. I don't use it as imo it is a derogatory word, even Samuel L Jackson in an interview even said something similar.
[i]OK I admit it. I'm a dangerous racist[/i]
Lucky I outed you then 🙂
I would have just google'd cromarty ferry, I think it was a fair pull by the mods. I'm not really sure it's about deciding if druidh is or isn't racist, the thread needed to go. Regardless of context, it wasn't the best way to title the thread, I don't think there will be much lost sleep about it.
oniongate 🙂
Druidh adds to the forum and comes across as a steady lad. A (badly) misjudged joke isn't the end of the world.
Yeah - one daft joke to far - I dont think it makes him a bad person.
That's what annoys me is when blacks use this word in their songs or call each other it than get the arse ache when a white person says it.
I would describe myself as a fat ****er. I would be unhappy if someone else called me one (even if they are right). I think its similar...
druidh has a great sense of humour(more than can be said about some on here) and knew exactly what he was doing.
There is no way on this earth he is a racist, and anyone who thinks he is needs to take a serious look at themselves.
AND it's hardly a great hardship to be banned from this place for a few days.
[i]He took the risk he paid the price. [/i]
Yep, he lives on the edge!! 😉
What a load of bollox!!!
Why is it bollox he knew what he was doing.
What tyres for living on the edge FoxyChick? 😆
Hands up all those people who have never said something in jest, then decided it may have been better not to.
Oh, just me then.
Much rather have Druidh back than that knob who banged on and on about any old shite that came into his benighted mind.
What [i]was[/i] his name?
*puts hand up*
I got banned for a far more offesive joke ( posted when drunk)
dangerousbeans i think.
he had the opportunity to change it when he saw the initial reaction and chose not to.
it was done to provoke a reaction and it has acheived it's aim.
If nothing else, fropm Marks perspective google and other search engines tend to get a bit funny about sites with that kind of term in their pages - the whole site can get classed as unsafe.
I got a ban for evading the swear filter in a thread title after a particularly torturous football game. Drunk and disorderly...
If nothing else, fropm Marks perspective google and other search engines tend to get a bit funny about sites with that kind of term in their pages - the whole site can get classed as unsafe.
I don't think that's the issue here
If you search for that word here it gets quite a few hits
Yep bring back Druid! I didn't see the thread but he's never struck me as the racist type.
[url= http://www.maine-coon-cat-club.com/ ]almost posted this with poorly thought out joke, but then didn't.[/url]
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free da onion.
*s****s*
I've been banned for overstepping the line too. Everyones lines are different. If mark had killed him and buried the body I might think it excessive, but druids a decent chap and I'm sure Mark knows it and he'll be back by the weekend.
In actual fact I was banned for posting a single (non pron) image.
*s****s*
I once tried to post that as a comment on a US-based sci-fi forum - it actually got picked up by their swear filter and came out as *s********.
I'd much rather have a decent bloke like Druidh on here than some of the self-rightous hypocrites who preach tolerance right up to the point where someone says something that offends their twisted PC view of the world; views that are more to do with their own desperate need to be seen to be "right-on" than anything else.
bring back Druidh ! what i got away with as former name Sarahbauz was far far worse . free this man now of i will go on Hunger strike !
So we'll call the doctor in about - ooh, 3 months then deertrack?
3months will hardly touch the cellulite man! i rekon i will last till next spring!
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LOL
This place is not a democracy.
Mark ban who he wants regardless of the rules, HIS rules. Is druidh a racsit far from it. He might actually be in the top 10 of the most tolerant guys on here, unlike a few others who insipte of several xenophobic comment have never been banned;
Is it fair nope. But the it's just the internet. You don't have to meet anyone from here if you don't want to you know.
[i]You don't have to meet anyone from here if you don't want to you know[/i]
Mean your real 😯