Yeah, the problem was that Wayne never really saw the problem with it. But imagine calling James 'N***er James'...

People are routinely use expressions to refer to travellers, and also express prejudices about them, that they would never dream about using when referring to any other ethnic group...

so pikey is out now?
shit.....jippo it is then

actually no, not a hair splitter.

above and below my original comment is joke html [shit stirring] and [/shit stirring]. alas, i made the mistake of using the pointy arrows and your BB has tried to render it as code.

Being an ex-traveller myself I was surprised by a post on the international messenger mailing list along the lines of "thieving gypsies" referring to certain inhabitants of Dublin, I wrote a short response in complaint and I was roundly attacked for being too sensitive....yet how many left-leaning, self-styled anarcho-messengers are prepared to use the word "ni**er" in such a way....none, as usual ingnorance and double standards at every turn.....it's strange how some ethnic groups are fair game and others "protected" by white, middle class guilt syndrome, who remembers that film "Snatch"? would you be able to produce a film in the UK where the phrase "I fucking hate ni**ers" is used repeatedly? unless that film was a documentary into underground nazi skinhead groups....?

Pikeys are travellers of English /Irish dscent, "Dids" are specifically Irish, Romanys are gypsies and they are an ethnic group who can trace their rich and colourful history's roots back to India.