Tiger's Getting Some Grief ...

[GeauxLions94]

... from the Brits for the "spaz" comment he made after The Masters. Hey folks, Tiger is one of ours and he made the comments in OUR country. Get a life! :rolleyes:

Tiger's Spaz Comment Irks Some Across the Pond (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/golf/04/13/tiger.comments/index.html)

[rokamortis]

... from the Brits for the "spaz" comment he made after The Masters. Hey folks, Tiger is one of ours and he made the comments in OUR country. Get a life! :rolleyes:

Tiger's Spaz Comment Irks Some Across the Pond (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/golf/04/13/tiger.comments/index.html)

And they smoke fags after they shag. They live in flats. They call their friends mates. I guess we should be just as offended that they use different slang?

[Tod]

And they smoke fags after they shag. They live in flats. They call their friends mates. I guess we should be just as offended that they use different slang?

Aw, quit being such a spaz about it. :D :D :D

Seriously, I agree. The media attention, first and foremost, should point to what the term means in the US.

I work with a black woman who went to the military EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) to complain that another woman I work with used the term "cotten pickin'". Where I'm from, saying "keep your cotton picken' hands off my beer" is just fine, not considered racial at all. But this young lady was traumatized by the term.

In this case, I believe the young lady was lying, but I can certainly see where some people would be offended by the remark, or the term "spaz" for that matter.

But again, regional meaning and intent are very important when looking into a situation like this.

[GannonFan]

The Brits are not always the most flexible when it comes to understanding a different country's slang - heck, even we as Americans look downright understanding compared to the Brits. I saw this a few days ago on a Brit website and some people over there were highly offended - apparently it's quite the damning insult over there. But yeah, you have to look at the context and who said it and where he said it - obviously he wasn't attempting to make the insult that some Brits felt he had made.

[griz37]

Since when does anybody care what British people think?

[bobcatfan06]

Since when does anybody care what British people think?

Amen. xlolx :nod:

[ngineer]

I remember once when a lady Brit asked the clerk at the hotel desk to "knocker her up at 7 a.m.":D

[bulldog10jw]

I remember once when a lady Brit asked the clerk at the hotel desk to "knocker her up at 7 a.m.":D

reminds me of when my Grandmother died in the '70's. She was from England and was born in the late 1880's. When we were going through her stuff we found some paperwork from England showing her parents occupations. Her Mother was a "knocker upperer". In other words went around town waking people up for work in the A.M.