Quote:quote:I do not see an apology for your 'knee jerk' reaction to detectorists.
Posted - 03/07/2005 : 19:54:36
06/07/2005 : 09:39:10 Topic locked and Sea Surgeon put on a month ban.
So BAJR did ask for an apology both online and also offline... I waited 3 days in fact. During which Sea Surgeon was smart with his post on the etymology of pikey.
Thanks for quoting the correct passage? I am afraid I paraphrased?and incorrectly at that
However.. I would love to know where this has happened in the UK? then it can be reported and dealt with. I may as well say that the IFA eat babies? honest? a bloke told me?
So back to the case in hand.
As it seems that the majority would like to hear more from Sea Surgeon ? I have now unlocked his account. But remember that this forum is here for both fun? general questions and also debate ?. It does not have to descend into unsubstantiated claims and smart alec comments.
As a matter of fact I do not agree with Troll saying that baseball bats should be taken to MDs either.. I am now on record as saying it. However that does not justify why Sea Surgeon should feel the need to use offensive language either
Just to show what aching recovered as the definition of Pikey
From the English "turnpike", the place where itinerent travellers and thieves would camp near a settlement.
Pikey is not a racial group, the term is used to describe anyone who lives in a caravan or shares the same values and "culture" of "the travelling community", and whose main sources of income are as follows:
Stealing cars, flogging roses in pubs for "childrens' charities", nicking lead off roofs, burgling garden sheds, blagging entry to old peoples house to rob them, doing dodgy tarmac jobs ("we've got some black stuff left over from a job up the road"), sometimes with mint imperials used as a substitute for white chippings, or, reportedly, using snow to lay slabs on when the sand ran out, stealing your bollocks if they weren't in a bag and anything else that's not nailed down and anything that is nailed down but will fit in the back of an untaxed Transit when nobody's looking.
Characterised by lurchers on a string, a unintelligible language that "isn't English, it isn't Irish, it's just Pikey" (source: Film: Snatch), a penchant for harecoursing, ketamine, lighter fuel, fighting in pubs and shopping at Lidl.
Best avoided.
So tell me? is that offensive?? Would you take offence? What would offend you?
To knock it back at you Medi.. Why do you find Baseball bats offensive and the line
?I think metal detectorists are a bunch of pikeys and should stick to raking in skips.?
So lets all step back? take a deep breath? admit we have all got hot and bothered about this? none of you will know the vicious postings that have raged on 2 other forums.. where it really got out of hand.
I can apologise to Sea Surgeon for over reacting? Sea Surgeon must see that many people will find such a term offensive and apologise.
So if everyone is ready? lets start fresh?
See new Thread? play fair and no polemics? this is a grown up thread!
Another day another WSI?
