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Thread #130853   Message #2947471
Posted By: akenaton
19-Jul-10 - 04:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: offensive words
Subject: RE: BS: offensive words
I'm Scottish and I dont find being called a "jock" at all offensive.

Everyone has become over sensitive....just another symptom of our mad addiction to "liberalism".

Hamish Henderson in his great song "The banks o' Sicily" wrote, "nae JOCKS will mourn the kyles o' ye", meaning that none of the Scots soldiers would be sorry to leave the place.

In the parlance of the forces "Jock" was a term of affection for a comrade.

I'm in favour of free speech.....if I offend someone, I'm big enough to take the consequences, without the thought police telling me what I can or cannot say.
A word can mean a hundred different things depending on how it is said.....who can police that?