Policeman in Trouble for Using the Phase "Whiter than White"

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Digger said:

So when I’m asked how I would like my coffee, how much longer will I be able to reply “black please . . . like my women”?

How about, black please . . . like my dildo?

bet they'd be some surprised baristas

[Talksteer]

Moonhawk said:

Looking up the origin of the term and the use in common parlance.

The phrase appears to have been coined by William Shakespere with a specific line about linen being "a whiter hue than white".

It was also used in a Persil ad campaign during the 20th century again referring to laundry.

Has it ever been used to refer to the colour of somebody's skin? It's all getting a bit ludicrous.

If the answer is "coined by Shakespere" it's almost certainly wrong:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/05/stop-s...

As the researcher states, if he was making phrases up from scratch the audience wouldn't have understood them, dench!

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Talksteer said:

As the researcher states, if he was making phrases up from scratch the audience wouldn't have understood them, dench!

Not a convincing argument. 'White' already had its own connotations, to do with 'clean'. I would think its intuitively obvious, and the audience would understand immediately.