Is "Grease Monkey" Offensive?

[Zeuk in Oz]

for the record its diegos not dagoes

2 different words, I believe. Perhaps you are too young..........

According to http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dago they have the same origins.

Certainly in my youth there was only one.

[rob101]

2 different words, I believe. Perhaps you are too young..........

According to http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dago they have the same origins.

Certainly in my youth there was only one.

i think fortunately i am too young. lol

[ThoreauHD]

Well, a little history on a old scar. Don't get upset northerners. I'm just giving a little history.

Like I said, maybe it's just me... and my family actually. I found .50 caliber sized musket rounds all over my yard when I was a kid. We also found sets of bones about 9 feet under. There were old slave quarters that were burned to the ground, along with what seemed like a cottage. This was just in my yard in rural Louisiana.

So when my grandparents talked about yanks, I understood. We were called coon-asses or southerners. I have pictures, clothes, and diaries from my family during that war. We have chests from that time, and I am the decendent of that guy on your 20 dollar bill. His brother married, and so I'm here now.

The fight was over land, not slavery. If you have any delusions about this, look at your favorite local economically enslaved mexican or h1b indian and get used to disappointment. So, yes, yank is not a pleasant term to us southerners. And I didn't know what foreigners meant in fact, by that term. I thought they were talking about somebody else. But they insisted that I was a yank.. I corrected them.

And yes, I am older than Britney Spears. But not as old as most.

[winfred]

http://secure-shopping-cart.com/war/cart/cart42.html

Most americans could care less about the term Yank. In a lot of ways it is a compliment. Even though we get along fine now, there is still a small undercurrent of pride that we kicked you guys outta here! <grin>

[rob101]

But they insisted that I was a yank.. I corrected them.

fine we'll call you seppos

[Zeuk in Oz]

fine we'll call you seppos

Nice one !
But why be so obtuse, what's wrong with "septics" ?

[rob101]

Nice one !
But why be so obtuse, what's wrong with "septics" ?

lol this is really going to confuse the hell out of him, just like putting dead horse on your meat pie.