Jap web sites.

[jtmcculloch]

ckeck out the cool models you can get in Japan

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www1.suzuki.co.jp/motor/&ei=OD_8SePeJJLSNYHgvYoF&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DSuzuki%2Bmotorcycle%2Bjapan%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

[sharpy]

Found on more of "those" sites..................

http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.tnk-eng.com/&ei=VGEYSqTiKIuitgOs0dWSDw&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=3&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtnk-eng%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

[donimo]

fine, jeez call them whatever you want, it was supposed to be a "oh by the wy" type comments, not a sermon.

can't say anything on the internet with out getting jumped on, ha

[Dreef1999]

But in seriousness.

You shouldn't use Jap. Harm intended or not.

The people that would notice won't be upset but it will tarnish their opinion of you.

[sharpy]

50 yrs old and its aussie slang. Dont think ill be changing soon. Arhh the joys of the world wide web.

[49er]

50 yrs old and its aussie slang. Dont think ill be changing soon. Arhh the joys of the world wide web.

Geez, yooz ockers ave stil got no finesse, cos its 64 yrs since the last invajun. Talk bout holdin a gruge!

I quite like the Japanese. They did a great job when they designed my "Shaftie".

[sharpy]

Geez, yooz ockers ave stil got no finesse, cos its 64 yrs since the last invajun. Talk bout holdin a gruge!

I quite like the Japanese. They did a great job when they designed my "Shaftie".

Better watch out, saying "shaftie" might mean somthing about being gay. And should i mention i have a chinese friend and care to know what i call him?

[Nessism]

50 yrs old and its aussie slang. Dont think ill be changing soon. Arhh the joys of the world wide web.

If you are going to be communicating using the www, you best become more politically " sensitive".

Here in the US, political correctness is a funny thing. For example, some black people call themselves "nig*gers", but holy HELL is raised if a while person uses the same word (and rightly so I think). We also have "Black history month" and other silliness but people would go ballistic to make a suggestion for something like "white history month". More examples of how F'ed up we can be here sometimes.

[propflux01]

If you are going to be communicating using the www, you best become more politically " sensitive".

Here in the US, political correctness is a funny thing. For example, some black people call themselves "nig*gers", but holy HELL is raised if a while person uses the same word (and rightly so I think). ...

So your saying Black people can call themselves "nig*gers", as you stated, but whites cannot, and that is "rightly so"? Why oK for them and not us? how about NOT ok for either?

AS for "Jap" I don't think that is as bad a word, however, and I beleive this originates from the English, the word "Nip" comes to mind in a derogatory reference to Japanese. And I have yet to understand what it refers to..

[saffa]

Nippon (Japanese: 日本) is a native name for Japan.

from wikipedia


you learn something every day dont you .
as for all this PC stuff im with the aussies on this one and as for peoples opinion of me ...you need to meet me before you can form an informed one

[Nessism]

Many of these derogatory terms came from legitimate words. It's how the term was being used is what moved them into a negative connotation. Nip and Jap were derogatory terms used by people fighting against the Japanese during WWII. This term stuck and is currently viewed as "bad" in the US, and Canada as well I suspect.

[49er]

Better watch out, saying "shaftie" might mean somthing about being gay. And should i mention i have a chinese friend and care to know what i call him?

The mind boggles. I hope you don't call him "Yella Shaft".

[sharpy]

Anyway..add any sites from there you like. Thought this was a bike site not a bitch site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All i wanted is some info, if i wanted to be corrected on how i talk ill go back to skool. So i can have a nip for a drink but not as a friend, i can have coon cheese but not a coloured friend, i cant have a pommie relation but i can have someone from England thats family. And now i cant have a jap bike, its a motorcycle from the japanese region? Next thing ill be told i cant do 800 metre (thats about 1/2 mile)wheelies as it will bugger MY steering head bearing on MY bike. Buy the way its been on the road for about 8 yrs and just about to have them changed. So much for that info. LOL So back to basics, any one with good info on suzukis place it in here please or go and get a Womans Day magazine and have a bitch there.

[hampshirehog]

Sharpy - I wouldn't in the least part feel offended if you called me a Pom.

However, come the 8th July and the start of the Ashes things might change.............

Though why the 1st Test is in Taffy Land is anyone's guess.....(Oops, that ain't PC for the Welsh).

And you can have a JAP bike

[posplayr]

And you can have a JAP bike

Great to be back OT