Originally published at: Saying "Brits" is derogatory, according to Scottish conservatives | Boing Boing
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The oppressors are insulted by words used by the oppressed? Horror!
What a bunch of fucking snowflakes the brits are.
My Indian neighbors all use the term “Britishers” which I find delightful.
“Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!”
Tories are the most thin-skinned Quislings of them all.
[They’d probably complain about using the name of a Norwegian politician they respect in such a manner too.]
I do prefer Britons. It’s just more fun to say.
Twat, that’s the nicest thing they ever called us.
It’s because the tories consider England the main part and everything else second. You can be British and English, but for Tories only one matters.
Edit: Why the hell would a Scottish person want to be a Conservative?!
As a Brit, it’s not derogatory or even an insult, unlike Tory
As an aside, I already have several replies for Malcom Tucker…
I wish your Dad had worn a “balaclava”
Did you take off your brownshirt before tweeting that to me?
Careful, some snowflake who traces their lineage to Pre-brittonic Albion wil be up in arms!
But it’s still okay for us Brits to use it, right? Wassup, my brits?
FTFY. Picked the wrong word from the headline, IMHO.
Yeah, should have quoted brits in retrospect.
Only if you’re from the Midlands.
Wot yow sayin’, bab?