Wikipedia is not informative on why/where it is considered offensive.
The sad thing is, even in Canada many people don't realize how hurtful the "eskimo" epithet can be. To help spread awareness of the issue, I'm planning on partnering with my friend Dan Snyder to launch a public outreach program by buying the offensively ungrammatical Toronto Maple Leafs and rechristening them the Eskimos. Before every ice-hockey bout, we'll have a bunch of skating clowns attired in traditional garb and armed with harpoons chase down our mascot, Eskimodo the humpbacked whale, which should not only produce a most satisfactory comic effect, but serve to educate the mouth-breathing yokels who attend such spectacles on a part of their country's culture they're usually too soused on Moosebraü and overblown Canadian jingoism to pay the slightest mind to.
As part of this effort, if you wish to attend and can prove native descent, we'll be happy to give you a "reservation" free of charge, even at the last minute, although each of these seats will actually be a single square-foot of standing room located in the offsite parking-lot.
The problem I have with these theories is that they don't explain why the hand is so poorly adapted to *deliver* punches.
Actually it has been proposed that humans are unique amongst primates in the fact that their hands developed in part to maximize destructive punching power.
Let's see...pay $150 for something to blink an LED to alert a potential sighting for a single orbiting object vs. paying $0 for your smartphone to blink an LED to alert a potential sighting for virtually all significant objects in orbit.
This is the most blatant slashvertisment yet.
Well to be fair, this will get interesting once enough people hook these devices to high-powered lasers that the ISS is constantly bombarded and ends up having to spray paint all its windows.
I don't think you quite understand how trolling works. "Angry and pissed" is what trolls try to do to their audience.
In other words, trolling is a approach requiring subtlety.
The irony is that Chu is attacking nerds for stereotyping all women. But in the process, he's stereotyping all nerds.
Look Arthur, we're all really happy that you've got a GF who you think this stunt will impress. But throwing one group under the bus to stand up for another still results in just as many people getting hit by the bus.
This has always puzzled me. Why, in this so-called enlightened age of ours, is it so hard for us to realize that there's room under the bus for everybody?
what you're actually saying is, 'Oh my god, I’m capable of doing a terrible thing, but I would never actually do it.
you lost me
I had surgery to gain control over a "wandering" eye when it became obvious how much my inability to maintain eye contact was costing me
Why didn't you just send an anonymous message to HR requesting they enforce the cleavage policy?
The thief was killed because he raised a gun to an officer, not because he was tracked down by GPS.
Can we mod a submission as "-1 TROLL"?
I look forward to next week's headline "Robbery Suspect Noticed Wearing Hawaiian Shirt and Killed"
marriage does not equal love, doesn't guarentee love, and carries many obligations and raises many issues having nothing to do with love
you sound like that guy at the end of those life-affirming pharmaceutical commercials who reads all the horrible side effects super quick
Fourth unhappy one? you're not making mistakes, you have a problem
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to love
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood