Whitey Grandad

Mrs WG is stressed out over it all. In the interests of marital harmony and in keeping with the seasonal goodwill I shall be taking her shopping later today. I shall refuse to get involved in the mayhem and shall stroll calmly through it all merely letting it all flow past me and over me. I don't want a medal, I just see it as my duty as head of the family. And I want some turkey on Christmas Day.

The word 'wog' is not derived from the toy. That was in the article quoted above. If Pakistan is ok then how can Paki be wrong? How about these others: Frog, Kraut, Mick, Spic, Yank, Itie, Aussie, Kiwi, Eskimo, Lapp, Ivan, Hun, Newfie...

If you give the details to me I'll test it for you

Out of interest, who has Milliband favoured?

Were you unaware of the cultural differences because you were in an unfamiliar culture? Who should adapt to whom?

I'm still waiting for Groundhog Day 2.

The proper name for these trainers is 'thought police'.

The wrong people are being retrained. Oh, and n*gger is only offensive if spoken by a white person. How racist is that?

The first step to recovery is to admit that there is a problem.

Harriet Harman once described women who stayed at home with the kids and didn't go out to work as 'a problem'.

Not good, I'll grant you, but more importantly what is the form guide for the next five games?

But it isn't either of those two is it? Is 'pollywog' racist? Is 'woggle'? Words are just collection of letters. It is how those letters are combined and used that is important. There is a lot of ignorance about over some of these proscribed words. Some councils will not allow 'nitty-gritty' for example but is has absolutely nothing to do with the slave trade. My friends had a house built outside Toronto in the early 1980s. It stood at the junction of two roads. The council sent them a letter telling them that their address would be no. 1 Coons Road. They explained that there family in England would not understand so they were allowed to be in the other road which was Beaufort Hills Drive. (Coons is short for raccoons in that part of the world). Racist is as racist sees.

I totally agree. Are dolls not allowed to be black?

Like.

What about the away fans?

They keep repeating lies in the hope that they will be believed, but who is telling the lies here? It appears to me that theses dates and figures have been carefully selected.

When you become invisible.

Well done, I'm pleased for both of you. My mum has just turned 94 and is very hard of hearing but we can still talk on the phone. At least, she talks at me.

I'd give her one too.

It's been the other way round in the last few years.

I have long held the same view. Londoners have a very blinkered view of the country and if it's not happening there then it doesn't count. Anything else is 'provincial'. What they overlook is how much London is supported by the surrounding counties in terms of social support. A large number of the people who work there commute from outside and all their housing, educational, medical needs are provided locally.

Many years ago I was at Rownhams one evening waiting in my car behind an Ever-Ready delivery van at a set of temporary traffic lights when a cyclist came through in the opposite direction. His rear light fell off and before he could pick it up a car had driven over it and smashed it. In the space of a few seconds the driver of the Ever-Ready van had leapt out of his cab, ran round to the back, opened the door, grabbed a box with a new lamp and had tossed it to the cyclist. He was back in his cab just as the lights changed.

We tried that a couple of seasons ago and it never really worked.

Where do you think the boy came from? (Only joking, honest)

Oops, thanks for reminding me. I knew there was something I had to do tomorrow.