All this balloney about "cultural appropriation" really gets on my t**s nerves (well, no surprise in that then?) as just about everything in the world has been "appropriated" from somewhere / someone else.
I remember when I first checked out where my name originated, the book said it came from the old testament. Just about every name there is has been "stolen". Almost every muslim has "Mohammed" in there, which must have had the same sort of background from the sons of Abraham pre-Islam, because he was probably not the first with that name. Mary too. Peter. Jesus - there are loads of them from the religious books. Or flowers - when will the Lilies of the field start demanding reparation for abuse of their name? No wonder a certain "style" of parent started to invent names - a bit like the rappers - they were all ahead of the game (much as they thought, or, more likely, didn´t think).
Restaurants are stuffed - anything named after a town, region or landmark in a "foreign" country will have to change - I mean who wants to eat in somewhere named after a looted diamond or a mausoleum?
The latest joke is that one of the "fans" of the Exeter Rugby Club has started a petition to get rid of the "chiefs" tag - along with all the head-dresses, tom-toms, tomahawks, face-paint and indian-chief motifs, logos and accoutrements. Now I am all for that, as I could never quite work out why the rugby premiership in the UK decided that every team should have a nickname and logo. Sale styled themselves the "sharks", but purely for alliterative purposes I guess, as who the hell wants to see a fish on a rugby field?
The devil will be asking for payment too (doesn´t he always?) with Manchester United also know as the "Red Devils", Lincoln with its "imps", there is a beer named "old Nick" and almost everything in Ireleand is named after one goblin or another. I am sure I drove through the "Devil´s Punchbowl" in Scotland when I was a kid.
The BLM movement is also causing ructions with its demands for changes to language (and statues, and place-names and anything else they find offensive (like the police). So when we get right down to the real (unmentionable bits in bottom of boat) it will all end in tears. I see the technology industry have jumped on the bandwagon (I can´t say juggernaut) and said they will drop the terminology "master" and "slave" - that will cause all sort of IT b***kouts major outages, also absolutely screw the car industry if it is generally adopted, as every vehicle in the world using hydraulics has a m**** and a s**** cylinder.
Anyway, give all these appropriations back and start using some neologisms (and that is definitely appropriated from Latin).
Actually, start using some other language than English, as, apart from appropriating half the wealth and style from the Empire, we also nicked about half the words in the English language too.
... and while I am thinking about it, why have we never received any reparations from the Romans, Normans, Vikings, Celts etc for all their rape and plunder?. We poor Anglo-Saxons are just victims. Oops - Anglo and Saxon have been appropriated from somewhere (as was the name England I guess)
Hey - WE HAVE BEEN OPPRESSED!
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