Is "grease monkey" a racist term?

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JazFusion wrote:
sindatur wrote:Greaseball, sure. But coopting Grease Monkey to be an insult for their hair grease in taking it pretty far

Sure, Mafioso guys can be called Gorillaz, but, that would be Grease Gorillaz, which doesn't flow right

IMHO
I'm just going by what my husband's family tells me. They're Italians from Long Island. I don't want to get shanked one day while I'm down there. ;)
Well...DUH, yea :oops: , if you gotta run in the neighborhood, of course you honor the accepted decorum, but, as a philosophical debate it's still stretching it, IMHO.
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Yea..Back east, the " connected" were referred to as greaseballs,spaghetti bender.. definitely a racist or maybe xenophobic usage..Out here in Az..they are referred to as..Mayor..or..State Senator..or City Council Member..or...Sheriff..Senator...Governor..etc.

My first name is Mike..some call me Mik..call an Irishman a Mik and you get the fight hes been looking for.

I dry my head off with a towel..Call a MidEasterner a Towel Head or a camel jockey , sand flea,,and you got a Jihad on your hands,,and so will all the generations spawned by your seed.

In Korean..me gook , is kinda like saying I'm Korean..but it became de-basing , de-humanizing when Westmoreland's divisions applied " gook" to the Vietnamese. Before or after we blew them up didn't seem to matter.

If you want to p.o. a Latino..wetback doesn't do it like " beaner" does. Ya better have some gas if ya do , cuz they'll be on your ass.

Now..the white man anglo-saxon purist racist..we call,,Skin Head..and hes so stupid, he takes it as a compliment and goes and shaves his head bald.
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sindatur wrote:
JazFusion wrote:
sindatur wrote:Greaseball, sure. But coopting Grease Monkey to be an insult for their hair grease in taking it pretty far

Sure, Mafioso guys can be called Gorillaz, but, that would be Grease Gorillaz, which doesn't flow right

IMHO
I'm just going by what my husband's family tells me. They're Italians from Long Island. I don't want to get shanked one day while I'm down there. ;)
Well...DUH, yea :oops: , if you gotta run in the neighborhood, of course you honor the accepted decorum, but, as a philosophical debate it's still stretching it, IMHO.
Ooooh, gotcha! I agree.
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lurch wrote:Yea..Back east, the " connected" were referred to as greaseballs,spaghetti bender.. definitely a racist or maybe xenophobic usage..Out here in Az..they are referred to as..Mayor..or..State Senator..or City Council Member..or...Sheriff..Senator...Governor..etc.

My first name is Mike..some call me Mik..call an Irishman a Mik and you get the fight hes been looking for.

I dry my head off with a towel..Call a MidEasterner a Towel Head or a camel jockey , sand flea,,and you got a Jihad on your hands,,and so will all the generations spawned by your seed.

In Korean..me gook , is kinda like saying I'm Korean..but it became de-basing , de-humanizing when Westmoreland's divisions applied " gook" to the Vietnamese. Before or after we blew them up didn't seem to matter.

If you want to p.o. a Latino..wetback doesn't do it like " beaner" does. Ya better have some gas if ya do , cuz they'll be on your ass.

Now..the white man anglo-saxon purist racist..we call,,Skin Head..and hes so stupid, he takes it as a compliment and goes and shaves his head bald.
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The ex worked had a superior officer in the Navy whose last name was Bobinski. The guy told everybody that his nickname at his previous command was "Bobo" and as he liked it okay, people could call him that. When the ex told me about it, I nearly died -- and then explained to him that "bobo" in Spanish means "fool". :lol:
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