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Originally Posted by brucie

There is quite a few very obvious racist terms on ONLY FOOLS particularly the early episodes...e.g

uncle albert referring to corner shop as the "pa£i shop"
del boy referring to tea cosy as 'soppy hats for the west indians'

When the asians first came over here I think it was very common for them to be referred to as '*****' - it is just short for pakistanis, after all, but then the negative connotations came and today it's taboo to call somebody that even though in the literal sense it wasn't actually an insult..

I don't remember the episode though so I can't comment on the context of this individual use of the word but I'd guess at the time, most people didn't read too much into it?? ...