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Black man's pinch

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I've never heard of this saying till today.

Was in a school earlier today and overheard a few teacher talking. A kid had a nasty blister caused in school somehow.

A TA while speaking to the mother of the child at hometime called the blister a black man's pinch.

Today the school received a 3 page complaint letter.

It will be interesting to see how the school handles the complaint.

Is it just me that has never heard of this saying and is it offensive?

 

 

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  • Is it fuck if you pinched your skin and it was a white mark, and you called it white mans pinch no one would bat an eyelid Fuckin nonsense

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    But apparently it is offensive as stated above by our resident darky NIC?

Yes and Yes.

There we go, all cleared up.

6 minutes ago, wanderer1984 said:

I've never heard of this saying till today.

Was in a school earlier today and overheard a few teacher talking. A kid had a nasty blister caused in school somehow.

A TA while speaking to the mother of the child at hometime called the blister a black man's pinch.

Today the school received a 3 page complaint letter.

It will be interesting to see how the school handles the complaint.

Is it just me that has never heard of this saying and is it offensive?

 

 

No and you would need to ask a person of colour. As I don’t know how a middle aged white Person can find it offensive? 
 

 

Never heard of it

no doubt this will end in pages of how wrong it is 

1 minute ago, Escobarp said:

No and you would need to ask a person of colour. As I don’t know how a middle aged white Person can find it offensive? 
 

 

Either way, I'm sure a TA should know better than to use that sort of phrase, only asking for trouble really.

Like you, I don't know if it's offensive or not, it probably is to some people and not to others. 

Just now, radcliffewhite1 said:

Never heard of it

no doubt this will end in pages of how wrong it is 

I actually heard it a few months ago, the first time I'd heard it for years. The MiL said it, as she'd trapped her finger at work and had one of them horrible blood blisters

1 minute ago, Sweep said:

Either way, I'm sure a TA should know better than to use that sort of phrase, only asking for trouble really.

Like you, I don't know if it's offensive or not, it probably is to some people and not to others. 

And those people who like to be offended on other people’s behalf. Can’t think what the term is to describe them though off the top of my head 

3 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Never heard of it

no doubt this will end in pages of how wrong it is 

You just don’t get it 

Is this a Green Mile thing?

3 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

You just don’t get it 

I know mate

sad times we’re in 

some folk would have a heart attack if they saw my Robertsons Golly collection.   madness

Is it fuck

if you pinched your skin and it was a white mark, and you called it white mans pinch no one would bat an eyelid

Fuckin nonsense

Never heard that phrase in my life before. And this is from someone who's dad always used to always respond to the question of, "where's mum?" with, "run off with a black man".

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Never heard the phrase but like others,  I find it incomprehensible a TA would use this in conversation. 

It'd be interesting to know the skin colour of both the TA and the mother.  Also,  the opening post doesn't make it clear if the complaint came from the person the TA spoke to. 

Getting a dead leg at Primary School, what utter disrespect to a leg what got dead.

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2 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Never heard the phrase but like others,  I find it incomprehensible a TA would use this in conversation. 

It'd be interesting to know the skin colour of both the TA and the mother.  Also,  the opening post doesn't make it clear if the complaint came from the person the TA spoke to. 

I'm sorry MickyD.

TA - White

Mother - White

The complaint came from the mother of child with - blister/black man's pinch.

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42 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Yes and Yes.

There we go, all cleared up.

Black sheep of the conversation... what a surprise.

Was the complaint about the phrase or the bruise? 

Never heard of it before.

Fucking stupid thing to say.  I can only assume the TA is someone in their 50s or older.  Probably refers to a colour of brown as "n*gger brown" and thinks there's nothing wrong with saying that.

Probably not even racist either, just uneducated.

 

They should at least know what is and isn't acceptable otherwise how do they educate kids as to what is or isn't acceptable? 

21 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Is it fuck

if you pinched your skin and it was a white mark, and you called it white mans pinch no one would bat an eyelid

Fuckin nonsense

But apparently it is offensive as stated above by our resident darky NIC?

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23 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Was the complaint about the phrase or the bruise? 

Phrase. Would you like to know what time the incident took place?

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7 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

It's a haematoma 🙄

Blood blister?

Never heard of the saying, but can see why it might be so called.

What are we calling jap's eye nowadays?

 

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