Hi, I am a refugee from another science board where full inline quotes can get the quoter permabanned. (I am not making this up)
It will be a hard habit to break here.
(I also observe the convention of not mentioning other boards by name here, that is another rule on another board I post on)
It is nice to meet you, Heyoka13! 
Quasimodem
For the record, I know the term jigaboo but I don’t automatically associate it with the advertisement. I never boycotted the company that sells “sea monkeys” either (although I promise myself this is the last time because they never live up to their hype).
It raises an eyebrow.
Over here, there are, I’m not kidding, Black Man-brand mops. Easy to find.
I am starting to think the folks running some of the other boards I post on are wound just a bit too tight.
One of them has a mod harping all the time about saving bandwidth, even on posts without pictures.
I take it as long as we are not posting recipes for Sarin IX here, it is a bit more c’est la vie.
I honestly get confused about some of these stereotypes. Some people tell me that all black people are lazy and yet these people invested real money developing a brand saying a Black Man is the best thing you can have making sure your floor are spotless. The last I heard, they were all in jail or committing robberies. It makes it hard on a consumer to know what to believe.
Love the pace here, some other places I post to are glacial. Unfortunately, I miss so much when I am gone.
BTW;
I have actually seen the Jig-a-loo product at Lowes. I did a double take.
We have been accused for being tight here too but you can basically say what you want as long as you don’t insult other posters directly rather than their ideas, you have some reasonable defense for your ideas, you don’t troll, and you don’t SPAM. The main rule is “Don’t be a jerk.”
We have plenty of geeks, motorheads, wiccans, transexuals, atheists, gays, lawyers, doctors, writers, and more than a few game show winners. Follow the basic style and you will be fine. Don’t set up multiple accounts though or call people names. You can get banned for that. Don’t give medical or legal advice either except in the most basic sense. That’s most of it.
Thanx for the tips! I have a friend active on an atheist board. I’ve looked at it and love the humor. Not sure that would fly here.
LOL, just remembered my old cellphone even has in it picture of the Jig-a-Loo display at Lowes.
(yeah, another board I’m onrequires on topic comments in an otherwise OT post)
BTW, I really miss having 500 smilies to pick from.
I don’t find it offensive, but I do think it’s a stupid name. Right up there with “I can’t believe it’s not butter” and other stupid names I can’t bring to mind at the moment.
Okay.
A couple of years ago, on a local “bulletin board” type website I subscribe to, a guy posted a thread which was entitled “Would You Help A Coon?”
Ostensibly, he was relating his experience with a raccoon, but I called him on it, in private, and he agreed with me that this was his way of being “cute”, and as far as I know, that thread was killed.
Look, I know we call each other names, okay, and that’s fine with me.
What isn’t fine with me is the snarky way of getting around the fact it isn’t okay to do that, and playing word games with hurtful phrases.
Thanks
Quasi
It makes me think of Insane Clown Posse. Except those were Juggalos and Juggalettes.
Guy on the mop packet looks dignified enough to belong here.
Without looking further for statements that match my reaction, I’ll support this one. It’s too close to “jig-a-boo” to be free of associations that probably offend others. I could accept the pun as clever, depending on the context. But I would expect others not to allow the connection without prejudice.
I’ve never heard the term jigaboo in my life. So to answer the OP, no, jigaloo wouldn’t offend me, except insofar as I think it’s a stupid name.
Is jigaboo currently used slang, or is it historical? Is it a general racist term against black people, or is there a specific connotation to “jigaboo”. Urban Dictionary was not much help in this regard.
The story has been rewritten with names such as “Little Babaji” or “Sam and the Tigers” and given new illustrations that don’t promote racial stereotypes.
I was a bit surprised to see the product in stores a while back. It’s uncomfortably close to the slur for my tastes. And, even if it didn’t remind me of the slur, it sounds moronic, and makes me think of crappy “Made for TV” products instead of something I’d actually want to use.
Well I’ll be. I’ve never heard of it before. Interesting etymology.
When I first came to Thailand, we also had Darkie toothpaste, which I’ve mentioned on the Board before. After an international outcry that I remember very well, the name was changed in about 1989 to Darlie, and the image made more race-neutral. That second link points out it still reads as Black People Toothpaste in China, presumably with the original image.
I can tell you it was not uncommon in West Texas when I was growing up there. And I do recall it being used in movies of the 1960s and 1970s.
