On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 6:59:32 PM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 1/28/2018 1:47 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> >
> >
> > "jmcquown"Â* wrote in message ....
> >
> > On 1/28/2018 12:14 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> "jmcquown"Â* wrote in message ....
> >>
> >> On 1/28/2018 7:57 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "Cindy Hamilton"Â* wrote in message
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>> On Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 1:14:30 PM UTC-5, casa sobre ruedas
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> On 1/27/2018 11:11 AM, Gary wrote:
> >>>> > wrote:
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> "Julie Bove" wrote:
> >>>> >>> I get the little guacamole cups from Costco.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> Yeah, urine specimen cups, used and repurposed.Â* And naturally you
> >>>> >> don't care whose pubic hairs and nose pickings you ingest...WTF
> >>>> is so
> >>>> >> difficult about mashing an avocado... for all you know you're eating
> >>>> >> the nappy poopings from Central America.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Belize comes to mind here.Â*
> >>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>> "nappy" is a racist slur.
> >>>
> >>> It's also British slang for "diaper".Â* Dates back to the 1920s.
> >>> Nothing to do with hair.
> >>>
> >>> Cindy Hamilton
> >>>
> >>> ==
> >>>
> >>> What does it mean in US?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> The troll is trying to suggest it's about black people's hair.Â* I've
> >> always heard and understood the term to mean dirty diapers.
> >>
> >> OB Avocados: nice to know they can be frozen when they are in season.
> >>
> >> Jill
> >> ==
> >>
> >> Yes we callÂ* 'diapers' nappies. Not necessarily dirty though.
> >
> > Sorry, but nappies usually wind up being soiled, no?
> >
> > Jill
> >
> > ==
> >
> > Usually, but I would still call a pile of clean nappies ... er nappies)
> >
> >
> So do I. It's the troll who is trying to turn this into some sort of
> racial slur. Nappy is a diaper unless you live under a bridge and are a
> nymshifting troll.
>
> Jill

No, it's not. I've heard "nappy headed" for years. I have never heard
any native-born American refer to diapers as "nappies".

Cindy Hamilton