Didn't know that was where spoon came from.
I love 'Chop' it's really emotive. Try it out loud... 'Don, you are a total Chop!' Feels good, doesn't it?
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Quote: don rushmore @ October 8 2010, 11:09 PM BSTNo, it isn't.
'Spoon' is a racist slang word!
Egg and spoon = coon.
Under the etymological structure of rhyming slang shouldn't the contraction be 'egg'?
Mop-Head (prounounced, Mop 'ead - natch). A friend came up with it for his little boy who wanted something to say when he got cross - it's strangely satisfying...
Quote: Timbo @ October 9 2010, 12:01 AM BSTUnder the etymological structure of rhyming slang shouldn't the contraction be 'egg'?
Not always. Often, the contraction is established from the rhyming word.
Quote: don rushmore @ October 8 2010, 11:09 PM BSTNo, it isn't.
'Spoon' is a racist slang word!
Egg and spoon = coon.
If you say so, I've never heard that, and it was never said in a racist manner. If it does come from that none of us said it with racist intent as we had no idea. Unless you have proper evidence, I'll assume that's you trying to shit stir. We also didn't go much for rhyming slang up in Cumbria.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ October 9 2010, 1:08 AM BSTIf you say so, I've never heard that, and it was never said in a racist manner. If it does come from that none of us said it with racist intent as we had no idea. Unless you have proper evidence, I'll assume that's you trying to shit stir. We also didn't go much for rhyming slang up in Cumbria.
Google it.
Quote: don rushmore @ October 9 2010, 1:08 AM BSTGoogle it.
No. If it is, it is; but it was never used as a racist term by me and the rest of my friends when we said it at ten years old.
Actually, I just did Google it, the first definition I read was:
We call them "spoons" because you can't trust them with a knife of a fork.
Which is pretty much what I always assumed it meant. They're stupid, so they couldn't be trusted with a knife and fork, they're a spoon.
Maybe someone else thought up the racist one.
This should clear up any misunderstanding.
Other apparently innocuous phrases now frowned on in the Metropolitan Police - which was accused of "institutional racism" in the Macpherson inquiry into the bungled Stephen Lawrence case - are "egg and spoon" and "good egg".
Egg and spoon is deemed to be a rhyming slang term suggesting "coon" - a racially offensive phrase used towards black people - and good egg is said to be linked to it.
'Egg and spoon' often being shortened to just 'spoon'.
Quote: don rushmore @ October 9 2010, 1:37 AM BSTEgg and spoon is deemed to be a rhyming slang term suggesting "coon" - a racially offensive phrase used towards black people - and good egg is said to be linked to it.
I find it difficult to believe that every time P.G. Wodehouse used the term "good egg" that he was employing a truncated rhyming slang racial epithet. In fact, I would say it is absolute balderdash to suggest that "good egg" stems from "egg and spoon = coon". Eggs, if you've ever had much to do with them, are either good (fresh) or bad (rotten).
Quote: Nat Wicks @ October 8 2010, 11:09 PM BSTMuppet? Dingus?
No one believed me that this is a thing?
Muppet's good.
Quote: don rushmore @ October 8 2010, 11:09 PM BSTN
'Spoon' is a racist slang word!Egg and spoon = coon.
Really? Shit. 
Quote: AngieBaby @ October 8 2010, 11:20 PM BSTDidn't know that was where spoon came from.
I love 'Chop' it's really emotive. Try it out loud... 'Don, you are a total Chop!' Feels good, doesn't it?
It feels phonetically - satisfying I'll admit. "Shut it, you chop!"
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ October 8 2010, 11:47 PM BSTPlum
Yeah thought of that one - maybe a bit too Southern? This comedy's set in Northern parts.
Quote: clueless @ October 9 2010, 12:27 AM BSTMop-Head (prounounced, Mop 'ead - natch). A friend came up with it for his little boy who wanted something to say when he got cross - it's strangely satisfying...
I like anything ending with head - (fnaar) Mop-Head's good but it makes me think about hair. Boo Hoo.
There's fun to be had there for certain though. I've already mentioned my Dad's favourite insult "turnip head". Maybe I could mashup a few on here. "Spoon-Head" makes me smile.
Cheers for the help
we used to say dope but guess kids these days say f**ker LOL
Why not make up a word that your gang of kids all use?
Perhaps a vegetable, such as "You spud."
Might end up being used in the playground.
Pleb!
Numpty!
Twonk!