Originally Posted by
Psychoblues
Oreo's, Coconut's, what's the difference?
They are both disparaging and uncalled for? In intelligent conversation, no. In polite conversation, however, I get it. But there are some that are not so intelligent that use it in polite conversations. Perhaps it is the confusion of the type of conversation that is the culprit here, doc?!!?!!??!???!??!?!?
PB - we used to be Oreo-deprived so we had no handy icon to use as a reference, well not me, I'm Anglo-Irish-Australian and ain't about to call anyone a coconut (or anything else for that matter). So our indigenous folks settled on coconut as a disparaging term. First time I heard though I had to have it explained to me. (Anglo-Irish-Australian and thick apparently )
"Unbloodybreakable" DCI Gene Hunt, 2008