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Bunch of coconuts!

  • 29-06-2010 2:58pm
    #1
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/10440371.stm
    'Coconut' row Bristol City councillor found guilty

    Shirley Brown was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £620 costs

    A councillor has been found guilty of racial harassment after she called a political opponent a "coconut".
    Liberal Democrat Shirley Brown called Asian Conservative Jay Jethwa a "coconut" during a debate at Bristol City Council in February 2009.
    District Judge Simon Cooper, sitting at Bristol Magistrates' Court, told Brown: "You made a mistake this time. You have to accept responsibility."
    He gave Brown a 12-month conditional discharge.
    She was also ordered to pay £620 costs, following the trial on Monday.


    She certainly didn't shy away from saying what she thought!

    Dream up a new meaning to a common word, make it racist, talk about killing speech!


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  • #2
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    dolanbaker wrote: »
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/10440371.stm



    She certainly didn't shy away from saying what she thought!

    Dream up a new meaning to a common word, make it racist, talk about killing speech!

    In fairness I've heard coconut used as a racial slur before. They use it in Australia to describe people of Pacific Island descent.


  • #3
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    ♪ I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts ♪


  • #4
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    surely an asian conservative would be more a banana than a coconut :confused:


  • #5
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,543 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Where is the common sense in this?

    Flipping hell some people just take things way too serious.

    EVENFLOW



  • #6
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    The snapper wrote:
    What' hairy on the outside... Wet on the inside.. It begins with C... and ends with T....

    A.C... .C... C.... Coconut!
    :pac:


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  • #7
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    c3hjm.jpg


  • #8
    revz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 ✭✭revz


    Not entirely sure why but the first thing that came to mind:



  • #9
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    bonerm wrote: »
    In fairness I've heard coconut used as a racial slur before. They use it in Australia to describe people of Pacific Island descent.

    ya, common here too.

    Pacific Islanders will joke about it between themselves, but don't call them a coconut if you're not an islander

    Its a racist word.... weird one.


  • #10
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Kiera wrote: »
    ♪ I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts ♪

    Pics or GTFO!! :pac:


  • #11
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    Pics or GTFO!! :pac:

    Did you not get my text last night? Who the fúck did i send it to? :eek:

    /its a song out of my fav movie :)


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  • #12
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Kiera wrote: »
    Did you not get my text last night? Who the fúck did i send it to? :eek:

    /its a song out of my fav movie :)

    Ah that was you, it all makes sense now:D

    What film is that out of-it's doing my head in tryin to remember!!


  • #13
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    Ah that was you, it all makes sense now:D

    What film is that out of-it's doing my head in tryin to remember!!

    The Lion King :)


  • #14
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,454 ✭✭✭positron


    I've heard coconut as the term for 'brown people who behave like white people' - what ever that means..! Sounds racist to me.


  • #15
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    facepalm tree.


  • #16
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    It's not a new meaning to coconut.


    http://www.slang-dictionary.com/definition/coconut.html
    British a non-white person who collaborates with the white establishment, an ‘Uncle Tom’. This expression, used by young Asians and blacks since the 1980s, refers to the idea that such people are, like the coconut, black on the outside but white on the inside.


  • #17
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    prinz wrote: »
    It's not a new meaning to coconut.


    http://www.slang-dictionary.com/definition/coconut.html

    Ah right, bit like West Brit in the Irish Republican threads.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #18
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,906 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Just one of the many new words I learned today on wikipedia.


  • #19
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    I've heard both coconut and bounty used as racial slurs in the UK, as mentioned above it's most often used by asians or blacks against others
    of their own race who they feel are trying to act 'white' hence the 'White on the inside but dark on the outside'.


  • #20
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Is there anything you can say as a politician that wont land you in hot water?


  • #21
    starbelgrade
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    recylingbin wrote: »
    facepalm tree.

    *Gets hit on head by falling coconut*


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  • #22
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Is there anything you can say as a politician that wont land you in hot water?

    "Please don't boil me alive Mr.Coconut - I give you three horses and my beautiful, virgin sister"


  • #23
    Feeona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Feeona


    Kiera wrote: »
    The Lion King :)

    I thought you were going to say this movie!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEr31Jkxwyk


  • #24
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Everyone that posts in this thread is a coconut.

    Go sue me.


  • #25
    theboss80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,838 ✭✭✭theboss80


    Kiera wrote: »
    ♪ I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts ♪
    alwaysadub wrote: »
    Pics or GTFO!! :pac:

    Dont bother if they hairy cocunuts Kiera....













    ah go on so...


  • #26
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    positron wrote: »
    I've heard coconut as the term for 'brown people who behave like white people' - what ever that means..! Sounds racist to me.

    Just like egg and banana \o/.


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