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Everybody grab your coloring books and go to your safe space, that is the only cure these days.

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Edwin Ek wrote: To my taste, all it shows is ignorance. It's like referring to Italian males as Tony or Giuseppe.
Sometimes, a cliche' can come true. I was picking up my brother's Ferrari last week from the shop, the mechanic's names were Tony and Anthony, no joke.

I think calling the Factory Worker's as Hanz and Fritz isn't derogatory, it's more showing a but of humor. Now if they were calling them Jerry, or something that had been used once as bad term, that wouldn't be cool. Or if you didn't ask a German his name and just called him Hanz or Fritz, that wouldn't be cool, but no one is assigning this name to anyone real, just a hypothetical Factory Worker.
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What about Charlie ?
My grandfathers name was Hans, blacksmith from Bavaria. Came over in the 20's.
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Cliff asked "are there any limits to off-topic"?
Yes Cliff, Alfa R***0's....
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John Hearn wrote:Cliff asked "are there any limits to off-topic"?
Yes Cliff, Alfa R***0's....
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Every Tom, Dick and Harry is probably organizing a protest as we speak.
Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.....

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Wes Bender wrote:Every Tom, Dick and Harry is probably organizing a protest as we speak.
:D :D :D

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Gees, John and Jane Doe are feeling left out in this discussion!

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Think about how offended all the Dicks are at the term "every swinging Dick". Why do we assume that every Dick is a "swinger"?
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We went to a German deli yesterday and I ordered a sausage with Sourgerman in order to avoid being offensive to German-Americans.

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#26 Post by Edwin Ek »

Dan, good move. :)

Like calling an Irishman a potato head, or a Mexican a beaner. Always nice to avoid slurs. Especially when you don't want to get your a** kicked in the wrong crowd.

Kraut actually means herb.
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Edwin Ek wrote:Like calling an Irishman a potato head
You got that all wrong, potato head is a toy, the Irish are Micks or is that Mcs or Mics?
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Edwin Ek wrote:Dan, good move. :)

Like calling an Irishman a potato head, or a Mexican a beaner. Always nice to avoid slurs. Especially when you don't want to get your a** kicked in the wrong crowd.

Kraut actually means herb.
Then next time in order to avoid stereotypes based on nationality I shall request "sour herbs" with my sausage.

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Is the name Herb used in Germany? How is it spelled?
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#30 Post by Craig Richter »

No, although I've seen it used on supermarket signs, the German word for Herb is Kraut. Normally in the plural, but I don't have an umlaut key on this computer. But in a German dictionary the word Kraut is listed as a belittling term for a Deutscher. Beware: Deutsche sprechers, in spite of what their PC-proper Socialist leaning might suggest, use lots of off-color terms.
 

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