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    The term 'Hun' is deemed not offensive

    There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.


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    When are the Huns making an official statement?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Craig_HFC View Post
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    When are the Huns making an official statement?
    They are too shocked and sickened to respond.

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    Hun Hun
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    Quote Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875 View Post
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    Hun Hun
    Hun Hun
    See, doesn't offend me in the least
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    I was never offended by it in the first place but it's handy to know

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    Love the bit where it said some respondents thought hun was just an abbreviation for " honey ".

    Maybe in " get it right up you honey ! " well perhaps not.

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    The the rangers bellends, wonder what Ofcom make of that?

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    Tough on the Huns but how did the prats doing the survey differentiate the offensiveness between 'Jock' and 'Taffy'?

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    Strange, have always found every Hun offensive in every context.

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    Quote Originally Posted by greenginger View Post
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    Love the bit where it said some respondents thought hun was just an abbreviation for " honey ".

    Maybe in " get it right up you honey ! " well perhaps not.
    Yeah, I know a young lady that's forever calling me hun. It takes a bit of getting used to.

    She's a barmaid, with a lovely smile, so I don't mind too much :-)
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    I thought hun was a derogatory term for a Protestant? Or have people stopped pretending that's the case now?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pretty Boy View Post
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    I thought hun was a derogatory term for a Protestant? Or have people stopped pretending that's the case now?
    Only Huns pretended ever thus!
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    Dont think our 'pals' over in Govan will think that way

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    Anyone else really, really looking forward to playing them?

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    The Huns hate to be called Huns. Probably why everyone continues to call them the Huns.

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    Pretty much confirms what everyone already knew. The huns trying to claim it as bigotry is simply a pathetic attempt to tar everyone else with the same brush as them.


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    "seen as less acceptable by those familiar with the history and use of the term as a sectarian insult"

    Seen as less acceptable by Huns, basically.


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    Shame. After a lot of practice I had just perfected the " Go home, ya stills, go home, ya stills, go home, ya stills, go home " routine. That's all wasted now.

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    It seems they've just questioned 248 random UK citizens. Gingers, Scots etc. are a minority, so I don't think it really paints an accurate picture of what is/isn't offensive.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Pretty Boy View Post
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    I thought hun was a derogatory term for a Protestant? Or have people stopped pretending that's the case now?
    I have honestly never thought of Hun as a derogatory term for a Protestant. I always thought it referred to barbaric and primitive beings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim44 View Post
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    I have honestly never thought of Hun as a derogatory term for a Protestant. I always thought it referred to barbaric and primitive beings.
    A Hun I know found it offensive in his words as "they used to call the Germans the Huns during the war and his grandad and many other people's grandads died fighting them"

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    I have honestly never thought of Hun as a derogatory term for a Protestant. I always thought it referred to barbaric and primitive beings.
    As did any sensible person.

    For whatever reason Nil by Mouth indulged the huns (see what I did there) and listed it as sectarian. I think it's all part of the charade in Scottish football where we have to pretend the sectarian issue extends further than the big Glasgow clubs.

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    I have honestly never thought of Hun as a derogatory term for a Protestant. I always thought it referred to barbaric and primitive beings.
    Did they not inherit the title from a repoter compared them to 'maurauding huns" after they were being naughty in the '70's? Seems they have confused the meaning that was intended into the sectarian issue they think now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim44 View Post
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    I have honestly never thought of Hun as a derogatory term for a Protestant. I always thought it referred to barbaric and primitive beings.
    I think it was the name for a certain group of primitive people initially, which then became a common way to refer to enemy soldiers during the war. Therefore with rangers being an enemy and their fans portraying a primitive nature, they became huns. In more recent history, a new club has emerged which shows similar primitive tendencies and therefore also get themselves refered to as huns.

    It's not sectarian, like many argue. But it is offensive to be fair - as most names are.

    I imagine the response from West is along the lines of "how dare those jakey spoonburning hobos call us "huns" - don't those f***** b******* know it's no very nice but"
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    Quote Originally Posted by DexterStJock View Post
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    A Hun I know found it offensive in his words as "they used to call the Germans the Huns during the war and his grandad and many other people's grandads died fighting them"
    Perjorative term, sure. Not sectarian though is it? Germans are of many faiths, lots of them Catholic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pretty Boy View Post
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    I thought hun was a derogatory term for a Protestant? Or have people stopped pretending that's the case now?
    I guess that would only apply if you considered yourself a Protestant through a faith based system. I'm an atheist so, don't use it and couldn't care less. Although the Hun history is extremely interesting.
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    It's offensive in a mild sense. The whole point of using the word is to upset The Rangers - they hate it - but it isn't sectarian/racist. If it's a religious slur, as they claim, why do hundreds of thousands of Scottish football fans who are themselves Protestant use the word to describe The Rangers? I always think of the barbaric tribe of yore; Rangers fans being the modern equivalent
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim44 View Post
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    I have honestly never thought of Hun as a derogatory term for a Protestant. I always thought it referred to barbaric and primitive beings.

    I always thought they got the name Hun from their support of the Hanoverian or German line of succession as opposed to the Jacobean line who lost in 1690.

    No matter, it sums them up pretty well, even if its a bit insulting to the original Huns.

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