Packie" is from package store, brenda.
A friend of mine from back home, and here sort of, was married to a Royal Marine and lived in England for a while. She used the term there, and everyone was pretty horrified.
Inara: I think she looks adorable. Mal: Yeah, but I never said it.
'Shindig'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Daisy Jane - Jun 20, 2005 5:19:51 pm PDT #3252 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 5:20:04 pm PDT #3253 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
"Packie" is from package store, brenda.
Oh yeah, I know. But the same (pronounced) word is also a derogatory term for Pakistani, and I always get that initial ugly reaction and then consciously remind myself of what he's actually saying.
Jesse - Jun 20, 2005 5:20:43 pm PDT #3254 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sad for all you working folk. really.
Bah.
It took a while for me to get that white people were prejudiced against.
Boston is the land of NINA signs.
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2005 5:21:42 pm PDT #3255 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Boston is the land of NINA signs.
I'm going to ask what NINA stands for, but run to krav before an answer.
Niggers In North America springs first to mind.
brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 5:22:18 pm PDT #3256 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
No Irish Need Apply
Jesse - Jun 20, 2005 5:23:53 pm PDT #3257 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Like brenda said, but check this out. Huh.
I have to go to bed now, due to having to get up for work in the morning. AGAIN.
Scrappy - Jun 20, 2005 5:25:01 pm PDT #3258 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My mom told me when she was kid they called the chicken butt the "Pope's nose" which she didn't connect as an anti-Catholic slur until she was a young teenager. She was mortified about using the phrase, even though she stopped when she figured out what it meant.
brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 5:26:39 pm PDT #3259 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh yeah, my mom called it that too. I don't think I figured it out until just now.
brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 5:30:52 pm PDT #3260 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
but check this out. Huh.
Um, yeah, note the banner ad at the top of that page.
I think I'm going to go shower.
Emily - Jun 20, 2005 5:34:32 pm PDT #3261 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Also, the various "Dutch" phrases, like Dutch treat and going Dutch, are based on a stereotype of the Dutch along the same lines as "Indian summer".
It's funny; I do know, thinking about it, that "packie" and the slur sound just the same, but with the first I can hear the Boston accent in it so that it becomes a totally different-sounding word.
Sort of like the time I complained about a friend repeatedly calling another friend Eileen when her name is actually Aileen.
(Comma splice!)