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Oh and did anyone else catch the slur The Big Show let slip tonight? Hmm, I wonder if many Asians watch Raw is War...
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 12:34 am
by Ishamael
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Oh and did anyone else catch the slur The Big Show let slip tonight? Hmm, I wonder if many Asians watch Raw is War...</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 12:36 am
by kent
<div style='font: bold 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>i usually do but not tonight and i doubt it would bother me anyway.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 3:53 am
by Crono
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>If someone isn't offended by the constant "dubbing" gag they do with Kaientai, I doubt that any typical slur would anger someone any moreso.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 5:34 am
by Ishamael
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Maybe...But IMO, what Show did was on a different level....</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 5:37 am
by Ishamael
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Big Show called Kaintentei "gooks". Didn't seem to bother Kainentai. But what could they do if it did? Nothing I guess...</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 6:43 am
by Zeus
<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold", Modern; text-align: left; '>That is one of the funniest gimmicks I've seen in a long time</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 7:13 am
by Crono
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Well, it's not even the right term, cause it's only supposed to be used to mean "Vietnamese."</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 11:11 am
by El Kabong
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I thought that was super-lame... they don't need to do that shit.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 11:12 am
by El Kabong
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>IN-deed....</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 11:32 am
by S.Cody2
<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>I thought it was the Chinese.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 2:01 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>heheheh...Did you see the "Indeed" sign in the crowd? Awesome!</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 2:01 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>The term was made in the Korean or Vietnam war (can't remember which one), but is pretty much applied to all Asians..</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 2:02 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I think Show just slipped while trying to ad lib. I don't think it was scripted at all...</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 2:06 pm
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>Yep. It was first used in the Philippines after the US defeated Spain in 1898. The Americans decided to make the islands it commonwealth and that started the war with the Filipinos for independence. The "gooks" were defeated.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 3:43 pm
by El Kabong
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>I dunno... that's a pretty major slip... you don't hear anyone else using racial slurs... you just have to be smarter than that, you're on freakin' national TV...</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 17, 2001 6:41 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Yeah, it was a big slip, but Big Show probably won't be winning the Nobel Prize in Physics this year either...he ain't exactly the quickest thinker on his feet...</div>