Eddie McGuire's 'Falafel' Comment

[Curry & Beer 5,444]

Too bloody right mate. Those pakis, curry munchers and slopes should just harden the f!?k up and get over it.

Unbelievable that sentiments like yours still prevail in the year 2011.

unbelievable that abbreviating the name of a country to it's first four letters could be considered offensive

[daisycutter 29,604]

unbelievable that abbreviating the name of a country to it's first four letters could be considered offensive

even more so when you consider Pakistan means "place of" the Paki

The suffix -stan (-ston, -stān, spelled ـستان in the Perso-Arabic script) is Persian for "place of", a cognate to Pashto -tun, and the Indo-Aryan equivalent, -sthāna (pronounced [st̪ʰaːna]) (स्थान in the Devanāgarī script), a cognate Sanskrit suffix with a similar meaning. In Indo-Aryan languages, sthāna means "place", and is cognate to the Latin terms, state and status (meaning "to stand").

The suffix also appears in the names of many regions, especially in Central and South Asia, areas where ancient Indo-Iranian peoples were established; in Iranian, however, it is also used more generally, as in Persian and Urdu rigestan (ريگستان) 'place of sand, desert' and golestan (گلستان) 'place of roses, rose garden', Hindi/Sanskrit devasthan (place of devas, "temple"), etc. Both suffixes are of Indo-Iranian and ultimately Indo-European origin, the Proto-Indo-European root being *stā- 'stand,' which is also the source of English stand, Latin stāre, and Greek histamai (ίσταμαι), all meaning 'stand,' as well as many other words, for instance the Russian word стан (stan) meaning 'settlement' or 'semi-permanent camp' (used in reference to semi-nomadic settlements encountered in certain areas of Central Asia) or in other Slavic languages such as Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin where stan means 'apartment' in its modern usage, while its original meaning is 'habitat'. Also in Germanic languages the root has survived, for example in the words Stadt (German), stad (Dutch/Scandinavian) stêd (West Frisian) and stead (English), all meaning 'city'.

Countries

Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Pakistan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

[beelzebub 23,313]

Yes . Eddie ought have suggested you'd tire of Martians and Seagulls !!

If anything remotely football it's but a game between McGuire and Sheedy.

[Longsufferingnomore 1,631]

Thanks for that Daisy. I never knew that. If nothing else the forum does seek to educate us all in some form or another:wub:

[Demonland 71,626]

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