Ach KNACKERS, Twitter's pretty certain that having Irish great grandparents doesn't get me an Irish passport. BLOODY BREXIT GOD DAMN YOU I JUST WANT A NOT-BRITISH PASSPORT.
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Replying to @caitlinmoran
I think you should edit your post, the second word is highly offensive to the Irish Traveller community
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Replying to @HelenGuinane @caitlinmoran
Hmmmmm, only insulting in certain context - and it's clearly not being used in that context here. People are just a little too sensitive these days
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Replying to @hippyundercover @caitlinmoran
Caitlin wants an Irish passport, I am assuming she doesn't want to use what is a racist slur in Ireland. It's not sensitivity, it's information
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FYI it’s also a descriptor for someone who works in a knackery, or the equivalent to the Aussie word boggan. Context is everything.
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Replying to @GeorgeMasterson @HelenGuinane and
Not really. All derivations of "knacker," are from "an eichoir" which is both the pejorative term for an Irish traveller and the slang term for someone who slaughters and renders broken-down horses. Because they were historically very often the same people.
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Replying to @Dara_bhur_gCara @GeorgeMasterson and
"The word is of uncertain origin, possibly from a dialectal survival of a Scandinavian word represented by Old Norse hnakkur "saddle," related to hnakki "back of the neck," and thus possibly related to neck (n.). Most often used in weakened sense of "to tire out" (1883)"
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Replying to @lynyrd_cohyn @GeorgeMasterson and
I've seen that explanation in the past, but i don't find it terribly convincing. The word "possibly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. But, you know, etymology is an imprecise discipline, so whatever gets you through the night.
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Replying to @Dara_bhur_gCara @lynyrd_cohyn and
What is well-established is the direct equivalence in the Irish language between the word for someone who slaughters and renders broken-down horses and the pejorative term for traveller, and the fact that "knacker," to refer to a traveller is considered hate speech.
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When in doubt, I am almost always talking about massive dangly sweaty bollocks.
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