Rena, In this video and post I do not recall reading or seeing any laughter. Furthermore the pig on the cart does not appear until about 75 % of the video is viewed by which time I was getting a little bored at the sight of mainly oversized sows.
The previewed photo of the boar with the large testicles bears no inscription that it is off to slaughter. I wonder therefore at your state of indoctrination that results in you jumping to the conclusion that it is off to slaughter. It is more likely being taken to enjoy itself impregnating a sow. A task that I am told pigs, like normal humans, consider to be the pinnacle of physical gratification. Additionally your cramped cart is probably likely to create less animal injury than one 3 or 4 times the size. . . remember why and how babies are wrapped in swaddling clothes?
Are you sure that your response is to my post here which was made as a result of an another's enquiry on word usage?
I could better understand your whining if it was made on a thread where I do make mention of possible endangerment of the pig's testicles that frequently causes wincing by the empathetic. I am not sure that you are empathetic - simply opportunistic jumping on a band wagon.

Are you ok this morning?

@FrayedBear No. Mornings I just toss and turn. Can't get a decent kip until midday.

Lol, Must be why when it became PC not to use the expression I changed my vocabulary. When I was learning my vocabulary however it was a common word. It was also a time when you could marry a fourteen-year-old consenting girl.

@FrayedBear It’s fine if you are talking about a shovel. As far as I can remember it’s derogatory to use when talking about people. Maybe it’s not always been like that. I don’t know as I was not alive in the 1920s.

@indirect76 I wasn't either. I note that your life started in 1976. I was an adult by then. Be aware that I have made a minor edit to my comment. The fact however that you are aware of the sensitivity over the word points out that it was still being used as common nomenclature during your formative years.
. . to when 1990 to 1995? Interesting. The word fuck has been in the written English language for more than 400 years but has only been accepted in many circles in very recent times. Far less offensive words however continue to be eschewed particularly in America.

@FrayedBear I never heard it used in that way until the late 90s, well after being an adult. Before that I just knew it as a term for a shovel or card suit.

@indirect76 Interesting. It was British, particularly London, way before then mid- late 1940's when they the West Indians were deliberately exploited to fill menial tasks post WWII. Whoops I'm told that it is not PC correct to mention that fracas now and schools (in Australia) no longer teach that it occurred!

@indirect76 The derogatory expression may have been born out of religion and come from the expression "black as the Earl of Hades waistcoat or the Ace of Spades" (the devil's card?).
@evidentialist do you have any insight into this?

@FrayedBear Nope. I’ve always thought it just came from the card suit, which is black.

@indirect76 You have never encountered "black as the Earl of Hade's waistcoat" then?

@FrayedBear I never heard the expression until today.

@indirect76 23 years ago I had not encountered it either.

@FrayedBear @indirect76

The word spade/spades has been in use since the invention of the currently used suits in playing cards. In several card games the spade suit is the highest ranking of the suits, hence it came into common language for such things as: They did him wrong and he vowed he'd repay them in spades. Here the meaning is that his retribution will be far in excess of what they had done to them. Anything in spades is an overabundance.

Let's call a spade a spade has the meaning that we should not use euphemisms but rather call it as it is.

There is a trick taking game called Spades.

In the game of Hearts one of the main tricks is to not be caught with the Queen of Spades, thus there is the term "Never pass a spade" which means to hold any spades you are dealt and pass only the Ace, King, and Queen of spades so that the player is not able to take the Queen or be stuck with the Queen.

The derogatory use of spade when referring to African Americans is a reference to the color black. It is used in place of the "N" word and is interchangeable.

It is dependent on context, whether it is derogatory or not.

@evidentialist obviously

@evidentialist thank you. Do you however know of how the derogatory usage spread? It went out of fashion in the UK probably in the mid '60s, according to @indirect76 he learnt its derogatory use in N.America in the '90s. Who resurrected it in the '90s and why?