Big Brother

Not defending this silly bint at all but you would be suprised the amount of white kids in East London / West Essex who like to speak getto.

One argument I have never ever agreed with is that black people can call each other the N word & Asian people the P word as they say they are "claiming the word back" erm, NO those words (especially the N one) were offensive terms used by the old toffy nosed b*stards of the British Army during the days of the British Empire!

In other words, pathetic chav scrotes that could each do with a painfully damn good slap across the mush!

Exactly, that's them. I never forget I saw the whitest little chav at the bust stop, dressed in a vest & tracksuit bottoms and her saying something along the lines of: "yeah come peeps me wanna go to the shops innit"

What was ever wrong with young white kids speaking in a cockney accent.

Interesting points you both raise, so to play Devil's Advocate:

What about black rap musicians who use the word to describe themselves? Are they right to do so? Should we boycott their records? Is it OK for those musicians to use it in the context of their music?

I can see the argument that it depends how the word is used (invectively,post-modern, affectionately etc), but personally I see it as an unpleasant word.

In terms of people finding such terms offensive, I always asked the people concerned how they would refer to themselves-- easiest way to avoid offence. A lot harder if you are broadcasting to the nation though.

Ironic that "coloured" should be used for black, since technically black isn't a colour (it's a absence of colour)!!

Black people I know would refer to themselves as black at all times, so I go by that yardstick if, for any reason, I make reference to their ethnic background.

There was a great documentary on the subject of the N word on Channel 4 Learning a little while ago, which examined the origins of the word and in the end Harvey from So Solid Crew (I think he was the one making the documentary) realised that using the word, which he had already done in music, wasn't appropriate.



I've always found the term coloured an incomprehensible one myself. Most black people I know dislike the N word but would have been known to refer to themselves as coloured, not to mention all the other could-be-considered-racist things I have heard said.

So Emily gets kicked out of the BB House for calling Charley a 6 letter N word.

Since when has the word Nobody been offensive!

I do wonder however if the CBB probs hadn't had happened earlier this year would they have ejected her so quickly? Surely she's not the first to say a racist term & I presume they would have bleeped it out in the past.

That said still haven't watched it so I couldn't give a toss

Its ashame these rules were not stated in previous Big Brothers as their has been many times of these types of incidents.

It's interesting to see that seemingly, it's okay to toy around with the idea of racism and stereotyping towards the 'white working class'. Oh, that's just fine.

I do agree with Channel 4's decision. I don't understand how she could say such a thing considering what happened in Celebrity Big Brother.

She's obviously a bit thick.

Most rap music has it in it quite predominately (sp) which is still no excuse but may be the reason the retched word is creeping back in again?

I guess these sort of situations always start us thinking what if this...what if that. Like the other night when they were chasing Ziggy trying to rip of his swim shorts - now imagine if that was 9 males to 1 female!