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Racial Slur Cars now in Limerick

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  • 18-06-2007 11:01pm
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    zilog_jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭


    I noticed going down the Dock Road yesterday that Enterprise Cars changed their name to "Jap Cars Limerick", as shown by their new tacky sign - then again I suppose it's a bit better than their previous "[oval where Kia logo used to be] Motors".

    Is this now owned by that same ass in Dublin who apparently doesn't want to sell cars to anyone?


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    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,658 ✭✭✭maidhc


    Where is the racial slur?


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Jap is derogatory for Japanese. I guess on the same level as Yank for Americans


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    zilog_jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Erm... "Jap"


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,454 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Yeah, apparently in some cultures (possibly Japanese mainly!) some people get offended by the word "Jap", but to be fair, in Ireland, the term "Jap" Import has been around for years, as have companies like japparts and japrek. In these instances, it is simply shortening the name rather than igniting some type of WW2 hatred. I may be wrong.


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    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    I don't remember, did we fight the Japs in WWII?


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,454 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I didn't anyway. did you?


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    mike65
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    Could be worse, could be Paddys Motors selling er Irish made cars.

    Mike.


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    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    No, but hang on I'll ask me Da.
    Oh wait I can't, he died in a German concentration camp.
    Fell out of his machine gun tower. Tragic.


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    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    Hagar wrote:
    No, but hang on I'll ask me Da.
    Oh wait I can't, he died in a German concentration camp.
    Fell out of his machine gun tower. Tragic.
    I'll never forgive them for what they did to my grandfather there.

    Passed over for promotion time and time again...


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    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,342 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Ah FFS. Next the PC brigade have us moved on (again) from using terms like "members of the travelling community" and "social welfare recipients" :rolleyes:


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    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭testicle


    Travelling Community is derogatory. I've never seen them travelling anywhere. Any time I've seen them they're parked up at the side of the road.


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    FX Meister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭FX Meister


    So is it cool to say I'm just going round the corner to buy some crips from the Paki? Do negros have to wear suncream? The state of that eskimo's parka jacket?


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    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,342 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Enough! Take it to AH or somewhere...


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