What does “throwing a paddy” mean?
Cambridge Dictionary defines “paddy” as an ‘old-fashioned, informal UK term’ meaning “a very angry state.” The dictionary notes that “paddy” is “an offensive word for an Irish person.”
In 2017, LBC reported that the ‘throwing a paddy’ phrase comes from “the slightly rude reference to Irish-ness,
a historical reference to the Irish complaints about English oppression – so throwing a paddy is a complaint about William of
Orange’s troops killing Catholics.”
BBC’s use of ‘throwing a paddy’ has drawn plenty of angry reactions on Twitter.
The BBC Sport blog, posted on Wednesday ahead of Manchester United’s Europa League game against Moldovan club Sheriff Tiraspol, focused on a recent spat between manager Erik Ten Hag and player Cristiano Ronaldo, accusing the player of “throwing a Paddy”.
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/bbc-throwing-a-paddy
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Who cares
I literally don’t care. An englishman could call me a paddy to my face and I wouldn’t find the word racist or offensive.
Quick offer education lol.
Snowflakes.
I hope that the correspondant is told that it was inappropriate and that’s it.
It’s very unlikely she meant to insult anyone. Just a case of ignorance.
I don’t think it’ll benefit anyone if she gets fired over it.
What do you expect from a country that fucked sausages randomly into a baking tray and thought it was good enough to name.. and furthermore, when they named it they came up with Toad in the Hole.
Who gives a shit.
It’s all G to me once we can refer to em as “the proddies”.
They made a huge thing out of the women’s soccer team singing a song, we in-turn must make a massive deal out of this, it’s only fair.
Paddies throw a paddy over use of throwing a paddy
Who cares
Everybody saying “who cares” as if they speak for the entire country. The phrase falls under racism against an ethnicity/nationality. It’s literally a racist slur against you and you’re just happily lapping it up.