if the spaniard is greasy and sweaty then that is ok if he is well groomed and clean then that is dissalowed

Vandenburg wrote:

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lol so drew is allowed to say frog-where do we draw the line with the racism? im in danger of being caught out, are these allowed in here
-pom
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-argy bargey

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"Pom", a shortened form of "pommy"/"pommie" is standard, mildly offensive (& usually intended to be!) Aussie/Kiwi slang for an Englishman/woman (more likely the former), but hardly racist, especially when Brits use it in reference to themselves (a bit like the use of the term "Brit" itself, which the Irish coined as an intentional offensive term for the British in Ireland, but which British people now frequently use to refer to themselves, I suppose...), so presumably permissible.

"Argy-bargy" (or, less frequently, "argie-bargie") is not racist at all, as it is an accepted informal/colloquial British English term for an argument or a verbal dispute, but likely to be used in comments about confrontations of all kinds between Brits & Argentines which rely on a play on words.   The term you should have listed is "Argy" & that's a different matter altogether...

For the record, Italians are sometimes still referred to in Brit English as "Eyeties" (jocular mispronunciation), Spaniards as "Spicks" & Mediterranean types in general, though especially Italians, as "wops".  They are ALL, however, derogatory & I wouldn't recommend their use in any circumstances, not even where humour is intended.  

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 14:13, 2009-01-17