How many Pakis does it take to screw in a light bulb?

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I wuold hate to think that intentionally racist terminology was acceptable in the cellar.

Funny, I would hate to think terminology in the Cellar had to meet somebody's test of "acceptability".

"Paki" certainly isn't as loaded here as it apparently is in the UK...which I suspect has a lot more to do with your own situation concerning the unfortunate combination of largely unbridled immigration and a vastly more socialist government. Your personal situation must be interesting at the moment; descibing yourself as an "armchair socialist" while your party (you *are* Labor, right?) is tightening up immigration enforcement just as we're trying to do here while our liberals complain about how "racist" it all is.

I didn't think the point of the story had to do with the fact that the man was in a Pakistani jail but rather that he could have a light bulb up his ass and claim not to know how it got there. Comparable to the rash of men who got their dicks caught in vaccum cleaner hoses back when Penthouse Magazine was hyping them as a sex toys and claiming in the ER that it happened accidentally while housecleaning in the nude.

If it had happened in Afghanistan rather than Pakistan, the lede would have been "How many Afghanis does it take to screw in a light bulb?"...mainly because an "Afghan" here is as likely to be either a shawl or a hound.

If I have to tolerate the occasional "how gay is that?" (not to mention the incredible more caustic calumny in some other anti-gay threads of recent memory), I'm sure you can survive a "paki" here without getting all PC.