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kav Flag The Helicopter View 29 Oct 04 2.38pm Send a Private Message to kav Add kav as a friend

Well I think your hair looks lovely.

 


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Penge Eagle Flag Beckenham 29 Oct 04 3.49pm Send a Private Message to Penge Eagle Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Penge Eagle as a friend

Quote Bexter at 29 Oct 2004 2:37pm

oh god, i think i'm being sensitive here! just when anyone thinks their roots are being mocked - you know, i'll go out and get some chocolate!

Nobody's mocking your roots, only today's wnakers that we call pikeys.

 

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Danger Flag Playa del Merstham 29 Oct 04 4.12pm Send a Private Message to Danger Add Danger as a friend

I have a question?

Why is this in Palace Talk?

 


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jcreedy Flag 29 Oct 04 4.28pm Send a Private Message to jcreedy Add jcreedy as a friend

You should get your eyes tested mate

 


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Danger Flag Playa del Merstham 29 Oct 04 4.30pm Send a Private Message to Danger Add Danger as a friend

Quote jcreedy at 29 Oct 2004 4:28pm

You should get your eyes tested mate

You git!

 


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Jake d'Eagle Flag in the section labelled 'shirts', ... 29 Oct 04 5.30pm

would it be OK if we replaced the (potentially) offensive term 'pikey' with the non specific, non racist term .......

ASBO ?

for these lawless, ignorant, theiving b******s who are actually PROUD of their ignorance.

 


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Old Chap Flag Orpington 29 Oct 04 5.59pm Send a Private Message to Old Chap Add Old Chap as a friend

Interesting point - what classes prejudice? This could cover race, sex, religion, colour etc etc.

So taking it a logical progession it COULD be extended to followers of a team. If we say we hate Brighton it's prejudice!

Pikeys a term is normally associated with theaving scum of any race, sex, religion, colour. I've seen it applied to Charlton and Gillingham - and there are probably more.

Gypsies are not necessarily pikeys, pikeys are not necessarily gypsies.

I'm sure if we complain to other moderators (eg Lee Owen) about people calling us Nigels they'll instantly take the appropriate action - and there goes a flying pig!


So unless we class slagging anyone who doesn't support Palace as racial prejudice, there's no point in this discussion.

 


Trivial fact - Palace used to win 5-1 at least once a season, maybe next season?

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moaner Flag Westerham 29 Oct 04 6.45pm Send a Private Message to moaner Add moaner as a friend

Load of PC rubbish again. Football is the name, Football is the game...This is the topic we are interested in.

 


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Seth Flag On a pale blue dot 29 Oct 04 9.13pm Send a Private Message to Seth Add Seth as a friend

Quote Penge Eagle at 29 Oct 2004 2:12pm

I hope you don't put a curse on me Bexter. Yes, you are a nice shade of brown having briefly seen you before Superfly scared you off! Shame you couldn't stay!

Years and years ago, there may have been a difference between gypsies and pikeys due to the way people earned a living and possibly moved around to do so. There is rarely such a thing as a goldsmith, blacksmith or iron-monger anymore. Times have changed and I don't think the majority of this board have ever seen the sort of travellers your ancestors were in today's society. I'm not sure they exist.

People make judgements from experience and if people had bumped into decent travellers, then they would say it on here. However, it seems that pikeys are in are nighbourhoods and according to everyone who has had the misfortune of bumping into them, they are not very nice. People like Seth admit they are not nice, but still forgives. And that's so nice of him.

I'm glad you don't find the word pikey offensive because a) you're not one and b) neither were your family. I would semi understand if you were offended, so why do the PC people get so worked up about it when they have no links with the travelling sort or more than likely have ever met a decent pikey??

I'm half Irish, my mum's family are unusually dark skinned and must have Spanish or dare I say it traveller ancestry. I don't know. If someone called me a pikey or Paddy, I don't give a s*** because I am English and proud. That's why I can't understand how you've been mildly bothered when we've had these discussions in the past.


Er, excuse me, why have I been brought into this debate? I made one post on the first page and then made a decision not to get any more involved, having been through all this on more than one occasion.

So Penge, please don't use my name to illustrate some half-baked point you to wish to make. It's not fair to bring my name into this when I have deliberately stayed out of the argument this time.

 


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big fat london boy Flag gillingham..(pykey land) 29 Oct 04 10.46pm

well gary o you should come and live down here and see the problems we have with dirty pikey scum.the leave a mass of destruction where-ever they decide is good for them to park there caravans.they took over a school playing field near me and when people were taking there kids to school they had bags of s,hit and bottles of p,iss thrown at them.they started fights with a lot of the kids at the school threw stones at windows while kids where in class..need i go on they are fvckin vermin and should be put down.so gary o if you want to continue you sympathetic approach to pikeys then carry on because you are probably one yourself.

 


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Gary O Flag London 30 Oct 04 12.14am

Quote Palace Tart at 29 Oct 2004 1:05am

Quote Gary O at 29 Oct 2004 12:42am

Like I said, if it's simply a cherished piece of your historic protestant struggle, what's it doing in the same breath as this abuse?

"Pikey's are ... scum!
Nuff said..NO SURRENDER"

Anyway, I'm too old to be bothered responding to your abuse. Interested in others' views, though.


Well, read my post, I never said that.


No you didn't say that, PT - JimboCPFC did. You just assumed that I was talking about you. Just like you assumed I'm a young, liberal, white, middle class student whose a naive political amateur, and whose got no experience of working class communities. Phew - what sort of political outlook takes you there? You know nothing of me. Actually, I'm a 45 year old father of 2 who's lived in South East London for 20 odd years, and I've been politically active for long enough no longer to need to brag about it. What sort of political culture jumps to such quick stereotype conclusions about people, and immediately launches into such vitriolic abuse?

Interesting thread, though. I can see that a lot of you just use "pikeys" to mean the same thing as "chavs". Trouble is, as far as I know "chavs" wasn't a word already in use until a few years ago, with an existing meaning. "Pikeys" is not a new word, and definitely already had a meaning - it still has that connotation, whatever you want it to mean now.

But there's a load of examples on this thread of people just straightforwadly hating travellers. And for me, whether or not you want to call it racism, it's offensive prejudice. I think it's ignorant to damn a whole community as lying, thieving scum. That doesn't mean I'm naive about what goes on, just as I'm not naive about who does most of the burglaries and muggings on north peckham estates.

As for the "No Surrender" slogan - this is not some quaint, cultural emblem. Whatever your position on the nationalist struggle in Ireland, this slogan is hugely emotive, partisan and historically loaded. Which is why the fascists adopted it. And why it's use by JimboCPFC on this thread required a response.

 

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vindaloo Flag 30 Oct 04 12.33am

Quote Gary O at 30 Oct 2004 12:14am

Quote Palace Tart at 29 Oct 2004 1:05am

Quote Gary O at 29 Oct 2004 12:42am

Like I said, if it's simply a cherished piece of your historic protestant struggle, what's it doing in the same breath as this abuse?

"Pikey's are ... scum!
Nuff said..NO SURRENDER"

Anyway, I'm too old to be bothered responding to your abuse. Interested in others' views, though.


Well, read my post, I never said that.


But there's a load of examples on this thread of people just straightforwadly hating travellers. And for me, whether or not you want to call it racism, it's offensive prejudice.


As i put on another thread , the level of abuse aimed at Americans recently is offensive prejudice.
From my personal experience i have had no problems with people from the USA , yet have found "Pikeys" represent a lot about what i hate about the UK today.
If we are talking about what i would call Pikeys e.g. Travellers , not Chavs or Neds or whatever they are specific to region.
For FCuks sake Gary , these people do not work . Stands to reason , stealing might be high on their agenda . If not , could you explain how they get by.
If you want to maintain that they are peacefull , law abiding citizens , then their only income must be state benefit. In which case the toe-rags don't even come close to deserving it.
Although i would agree that physical violence is over the top , when in your eyes does prejudice become warranted against people who do nothing but take and never give to society.?

 


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