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27-07-2012, 06:38   #1
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TF2 Sniper saying "Bloody Pikeys"

Anyone amazed this ethnic slur is still in the game?

It doesn't offend me but it's on par with the "n" word to blacks as far as Irish travellers are concerned imo

I posted a topic about it on the steam TF2 forums and it was taken down within minutes.
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27-07-2012, 10:53   #2
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Anyone amazed this ethnic slur is still in the game?

It doesn't offend me but it's on par with the "n" word to blacks as far as Irish travellers are concerned imo

I posted a topic about it on the steam TF2 forums and it was taken down within minutes.
I won't be losing any sleep over it
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27-07-2012, 15:47   #3
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The Sniper voice actor was a British lad anyway... in Oz they might say Bogans or something, not sure what the equivalent would be, or even if the travelling community ever made it as far as there!
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The Sniper voice actor was a British lad anyway... in Oz they might say Bogans or something
Well, Bogan is in the game too: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/image...r_taunts02.wav
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Doesn't bother me in the slightest
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In a game that rewards you for:
  • Setting people on fire.
  • Smashing their face with baseball bats.
  • Blowing them to little bits.
  • Pumping them full of lead.
  • Theft.
  • Pushing them off buildings.
  • Taunting them over their corpse (What's left of it)

You worry about the word 'Pikeys'.
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13-08-2012, 15:29   #7
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Yeah I know but the liberal bleeding heart brigade are always getting into a hissy fit when anything remotely racist is stated.

I'm not worried anyway, I'm just amazed it's left in what is pretty much a family-orientated game
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Yeah I know but the liberal bleeding heart brigade are always getting into a hissy fit when anything remotely racist is stated.
Leave them to it sure, the last time I checked 'Pikeys' were still the same race as us.

The PC Brigade, more often than not victims of their own ignorance.
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For what it's worth he says 'Pikers' not 'Pikeys' which might be construed to mean something different in Aussie slang.
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