A black AFL star and his former Collingwood teammate have traded online insults after he was accused of inventing his own racist nickname.
Former Magpies player Simon Buckley said Brazilian-born Heritier Lumumba never complained about his nickname Chimp when he was winning flags and getting a kick himself .
Buckley, who is indigenous and played 26 games with the team, posted comments on a Facebook page belonging to former AFL player Shae McNamara.
Former Magpies player Simon Buckley (pictured) said Brazilian-born Lumumba never complained about his nickname Chimp when he was winning
Pictured: A series of Facebook comments where Buckley claims Lumumba invented his own nickname
The sodden search for Britain s rainiest place
Launching a series on our extreme weather hotspots, Chris Moss looks back on wet weekends in Wales and the Lakes with drizzle-eyed fondness
The Lake District needs constant refills
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“Unsettled” is forecaster-speak for rain. “Changeable” means rain, eventually. “Miserable” most often signifies rain. The English dictionary has a host of other words: drizzle, mizzle, precipitation, smirr, downpour, spitting, chucking, slinging, throwing it down. Welsh has at least 25 words of its own. Shower? How about flist, pilmer, haster, haud, plash, perry, land-lash, and gosling blast?
Is this deluge of words anything other than the rain-fatigued British trying to make the best of a bad thing?