I find that people that use the word “muppet” are people with no sense of humour, no sense of their own (sometimes glaring) inadequacies, and a smug reducto ad absurdumview of life. The sort of people who think they are above-average drivers, or that other people have “shit cars”. They are also often boiling with repressed anger. Imho of course.
Muppet.
How did you use the term ‘chinky’ 10 or 15 years ago?
Well, around 1979-81, it was used frequently by my then g/f and her family when referring to meals, and as her mum was ethnic Chinese from Singapore, making my g/f half Chinese, I tended to use the term in the same context. The discomfiture of a mate who asked if we’d stopped off for a chinky when we arrived late for a wedding reception was quite something as he was seldom lost for words. We thought it was just really funny.
But as they say, the past is a foreign country, they do things different there…