Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "Let’s not be niggardly about our use of unusual words!" video.

  1. I've always disliked the word "villain". It's a Norman-French word, which usually means "criminal" but literally means "villager". The Normans imposed ruthless cruel laws on the English peasants. Every native English villager was regarded as a potential criminal. The word was used by tyrants and land-grabbing monsters to condemn the common English, and I hate it.
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  2. I'm tempted to offer my transmotic contrafibularity, but my pericombobulations might be offered instead of my interfrastical pendergestulations. (With thanks to Rowan Atkinson.)
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  3.  Black Lesbian Poet  Aha, you're a hate-filled anti-British black lesbian. I've got you now.
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  4. The Normans stole great swathes of land from the English, but the Church oversaw a means of redress. Any villain who believed the land was his own could appear before a tribunal. A pot of water would be raised to the boil. The Englishman was required to plunge his arm into the boiling water and hold it there. If the arm healed itself quickly, this meant God had intervened on the Englishman's behalf and the land was rightfully his. That was justice, Norman style. The descendants of those Norman overlords still own most of those lands to this day.
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  5.  Black Lesbian Poet  "You will own nothing and be happy". I know about the first part. When can I expect the second bit?
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  6.  @andrewturnbull1027  The term "Great Britain" means the British Isles, as opposed to the "lesser Britain" of Brittany in what is today called France.
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  7.  @gumnut6922  Who could have imagined this: A black lesbian has lots of inner, hateful rage but blames her unhappiness on white Britons and Jews. But describes herself as a poet 'cos we woz kangs n sheet.
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  8.  @Fahrenheit451.  These are the same people as would claim Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare were black.
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  9.  @thefurrybstard1964  Wow. That's good info.
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  10. @C At that time, most English people were serfs and slaves. 'cos waycism n sheet. We wuz kangs.
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  11.  @gumnut6922  "Bitter and full of spite". A black antisemitic lesbian who hates the English. The black lesbian poet is either a parody, or a member of the Labour Party.
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  12. Yeah 'cos you've got white privilege. The BBC told me so.
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  13.  @johnbrereton5229  Wow. That's the kind of info I'd usually discover from Carl Benjamin.
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  14.  @johnbrereton5229  Wotevs. We're Great, ain't we?
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