Comments on: Standard Life Boss Apologises For Racist Remark http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/25/standard-life-boss-apologises-for-racist-remark/ Taking a different one on the news Sat, 19 May 2012 13:02:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Bob http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/25/standard-life-boss-apologises-for-racist-remark/#comment-6055 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:16:21 +0000 http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/25/standard-life-boss-apologises-for-racist-remark/#comment-6055 He used the phrase 'Nigger in the woodpile', to be honest I don't actually know what the phrase means exactly, but I can't believe he's kept his job. Anyone lower down the company would have been sacked quicker than they could have come up with another raist comment. He used the phrase ‘Nigger in the woodpile’, to be honest I don’t actually know what the phrase means exactly, but I can’t believe he’s kept his job. Anyone lower down the company would have been sacked quicker than they could have come up with another raist comment.

]]> by: Rhys Wilcox http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/25/standard-life-boss-apologises-for-racist-remark/#comment-5125 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:06:43 +0000 http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/25/standard-life-boss-apologises-for-racist-remark/#comment-5125 Unfortunately 'a colloquialism he heard in his childhood' could mean anything. After all, my grandparents said things that were colloquialisms then yet are probably illegal now. I'd like to know, just in case it's something I say quite often but don't know the 'true' meaning. *Wanders off humming 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'* Unfortunately ‘a colloquialism he heard in his childhood’ could mean anything. After all, my grandparents said things that were colloquialisms then yet are probably illegal now.

I’d like to know, just in case it’s something I say quite often but don’t know the ‘true’ meaning.

*Wanders off humming ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’*

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