Leave the bed sheats and the pillow cases at home and every thing should be fine.

If your not sure its offensive go and try ordering some KKK number plates for your car.

is jeff part of the kkk if so i'm sure he'll be the first to get the tatt and take on the bra boy's with a better hand shake

making appeals to some cliched notion of "aussie culture" to justify the use of the acronym of an american genocidal organisation is just ridiculous.

i've lived and travelled in the usa on and off for several years and seen a fair bit of that country and have gotten to know a wide range of americans. whilst things may be better there than they were, lynchings are still in living memory for plenty of folk.

do you really want to know if it's offensive? i dare you, i double-dare you to walk around in the states, anywhere, north or south, with a 3k tattoo showing and see how far the "just taking the piss, mate, it's aussie culture" line gets you. for that matter, just go for a walk along your local beaches, say from dolls point to brighton le sands one day when picnicing families are out in force and see how your notion of aussie culture is received.

what may be somewhat ok as a joke between friends is a completely different matter in the context of a forum visited by people you don't know and from cultures and countries other than your own. like joe jackson put it, "don't want to sound stupid, don't want to offend, so don't call me a ***got unless you are a friend." context makes a difference.

i don't know you guys but from what's said on the forums you're a bunch of friendly and skilled kiters with a bit of local pride in the mix. surely there's a name that could reflect this without making other people suspect you're a bunch of white supremacists?

. i don't find it offensive to me. to understate your personal usage, its i recon fair enough.
you/someone made a point about registration plates, "seee if you could get that as a rego" well as i remember things, doing some flying in an australian registed [beechcraft] i think with that australian rego VH-KKK, Victor Hotel Kilo Kilo Kilo
the australian aircraft register, open to all thru the internet has some risheeeeeeeeey regos. VH SEX that i have seen [i think] VH RAM another. I think many private story's are hidden there.

hookworm said...

is jeff part of the kkk if so i'm sure he'll be the first to get the tatt and take on the bra boy's with a better hand shake

I've actually got it around my neck hook, tried to pretty it up a bit so it looked a bit nicer so kind of looks like a doylie draped over my head with KKK embroidered into it.

I've also gone way past the "cool" handshakes and now just compare cock sizes. I've been the only one flopping it out so far but I'm sure the others will catch on once they see how much cooler it makes the "gang". Bra Boys have nothing on me.

Foxy Kane said...

Seems that there are a few kiters out there that find the Kurnell crew's use of the letters " KKK " ( which stands for Kings of Kurnell Kountry ) offensive.

Why don't you just admit it, Foxy ?
You called your stupid club KKK cause it sounded bad-arse.
The name is instantly recognisable with those other bad-arse haters.
If this isn't the case.....
You would have named your stupid club KKC, right ?

news.ronatvan.com/2009/05/26/ku-klux-klan-in-perth-australia/


If you don't think this would be offensive to some people maybe you need to leave Australia and learn more than "traditional aussia culture" and grow up.

Foxy Kane said...

We are interested to know if this feeling is more widespread than the one or two comments that have appeared. Feel free to comment....good or bad

Mate I reckon you already know the answer to this question.

KKK is a symbol – If you don’t get it think swastika. If that’s not meaningful to you I bet you know or have known people who see the swastika as a deeply offensive and vile symbol. It never happened on our shores but affected us nonetheless. The background and meaning of the swastika is widely known in white Australian culture. Yep it’s un Australian.

WWII ended in 1945. The lynchings your namesakes favoured happened as recently as 1964. Imagine walking a street knowing you could be strung by your neck and left to die on the nearest light pole for no other good reason than the way you looked. You bet the symbol still carries deep meaning.

I’d give it up mate – that meanings got nothing to do with an Aussie piss take and I’m guessing nothing like what you’re about.

KIT33R said...
Many Kurnell riders come from as many countries as you can count.

No one here is offended by the KKK tag

Do you have any African-Americans in your club ? ^^^

Can't believe this thread hasn't been canned yet. I'm not offended by it personally because you're obviously not smart enough to understand the potential impact of what you are playing around with. There are people that will take offence to the point of violence or some other kind of retribution. So go on, call your club "KKK" and see how it ends up.
I think you're opening yourself up to a whole world of grief.

Thanks for your angry rant, Djdodo, this is the sort of thing we don't want.

djdojo said...
WE KNOW THE LOCAL "REDNECK TAKING THE PISS" ANGLE, SO PLEASE DON'T GO ON ABOUT IT. IT IS NOT THE REST OF THE WORLD BUT YOU, SIR, WHO NEEDS SOME SUBTLETY IN YOUR THINKING TO APPRECIATE THAT THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE PERCEPTIONS FROM WITHIN YOUR CLUB, IT'S ABOUT PERCEPTIONS OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE YOUR CLUB.

RIGHT NOW THOSE PERCEPTIONS ARE THAT YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR AN ILL-CONCEIVED ATTEMPT AT HUMOUR. YOU CAN DIG YOUR HEELS IN AND REPEAT LAME ARGUMENTS OR YOU CAN, AS A GROUP, EAT SOME HUMBLE PIE AND ADMIT IT'S GONE TOO FAR, AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

loud noises. plz stop the SHOUTING

To many millions in the world the Swastika means ...food.... it is the used symbol for food for many of years before the Nastys used it. It has been part of world culture for eons, misappropriated by the Aggressors of the day. I think even the british or some now british clans used and worshiped it. Many more people of the world, in numbers use it than dont. So I dont see a problem.
In Australia we had a problem when a new car came to the market. The brand wanted to use two letters together to define thier product. The letters were "SS", so the barrow pushers came out ummming and ahhhhing ,its political said some its a disaster , said others, its a crime yelled some its a product said the General, That car was a Holden and we all drive Holden SS Commodore's
An Australian firm uses the Eagle symbol for their clothing range, the same way that it was portrayed by the nastys. It does not imply that they are nasty sympathizers or collaborators, or up to no good, Its a brand logo, read no more into it.
In Australia we use the word Durex to describe sticky tape, in New Zealand it has a more sinister meaning, prophylactics [frangers]
A word i hate and lough is the word Talliban. to me that means something akin to the nastys. To other people it means hero's. Mudjahudne to me is the same. There are hundreds more words that between different people mean different things, so use them as you intended.
In some country's one can get killed for the use of a word that to us is mere conversation. Australia hasn't been sanitized it is a free country to use the language as we feel free to do. We are a country of many diverse people, there will allways be words,symbols and signs that offend some of the populace , depending mainly on their religious slant.
To me we aussies are just that,aussies, no matter from where we came. We are here to do better than where we were. Your interpretation of a word can be related to your upbringing and education and experience.. Judge not the word, but the deed.

The swastika is actually an ancient hindu symbol that has been turned aound. It may have something to do with india being home to an ancient aryian race.

im not offended by KKK, but maybe you guys/girls should consider changing it to KOK(kings of kurnell). it will be a laugh and no-one will be unhappy and confused.