Tesco's offensive card

topper75

What were they thinking!!? I can't knock the lady's analogy.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1215/tesco.html

Tesco has apologised after complaints that a Christmas card it sold was offensive to people with ginger hair.
The card in question shows a child with red hair sitting on the lap of Santa Claus under the banner: 'Santa loves all kids. Even ginger ones.'
Davinia Phillips, whose three children all have red hair, was enraged when she saw the card at one of Tesco's stores in northern England.
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'It's discrimination, pure and simple. I have shown it to a lot of friends and they are all disgusted by it,' she said.
'I just don't find it funny at all. If it had been about a black child or an overweight child the store would have been shut down by now.'
Tesco said the offending card had now been withdrawn from all its stores.
'It is never our intention to offend any customer and we are sorry if this card caused any upset,' a spokeswoman said.

SV

lmao, I want that christmas card!

Graham_B18C

Santa loves Ginger kids??? Who'd of known

Lockstep

You just know she's the kind of woman who watches Eastenders with her finger on the speed-dial button for Joe Duffy. Just in case anyone says anything offensive.

WindSock

I agree it's offensive. I would be disgusted if I had to hang a picture of a ginger kid on my wall.

DOC09UNAM

OP's a liar.

Nobody loves ginger kids.

Photi

topper75 wrote: »

What were they thinking!!? I can't knock the lady's analogy.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1215/tesco.html

LIES!!

aidan_walsh

Soon to be removed from Tesco, every birthday card that makes any form of joke of the recipients age.

Dragan

In fairness, I understand the poor mother's plight, she has 3 ginger kids.....that would ****ing kill anyone's buzz.

ejmaztec

Her three kids must be more pissed off with her than she is with the card. They must be getting a right doing at school, or wherever their ginger heads are on display.

Schism

I wonder will there ever be a time when people stop getting personally offended by this kind of thing and maybe, just maybe try and laugh it off.

topper75

So 'Santa even loves black-skinned kids' would be equally high-larious, yeah?

DOC09UNAM

topper75 wrote: »

So 'Santa even loves black-skinned kids' would be equally high-larious, yeah?

racist post is racist.

Wertz

So it's official, ginger truely is the last ethnic minority. I expect all of boards mods to be up to speed on this matter and to issue strict rulings against members that post any anti-ginger sentiment or "jokes".

Lockstep

topper75 wrote: »

So 'Santa even loves black-skinned kids' would be equally high-larious, yeah?

No. They have souls.

Dragan

topper75 wrote: »

So 'Santa even loves black-skinned kids' would be equally high-larious, yeah?

Yes.

Although, that wasn't the original card.

Lux23

I bet he still doesn't love Stephen Higgins from the apprentice!

AnonoBoy

Meh.

Ginger jokes are like Mary Harney jokes. Old hat.

stovelid

Davina, your children don't have red hair.

This is red.

They have ginger hair.

And possibly ginger freckles as well.

OK-Cancel-Apply

It's a disgrace. Kids have enough **** to deal with already in school. For some weird reason, children do get picked on for being redheads in the UK. A card like this could serve to 'legitimise' the bullying they go through.

Schism

topper75 wrote: »

So 'Santa even loves black-skinned kids' would be equally high-larious, yeah?

Yeah because ginger people have gone through years of persecution, hardship and mistreatment too. It's just a joke.

abouttobebanned

wow...I never thought I'd be saying this...never thought I'd be so politically correct...

But I agree with the woman...I think other kids seeing something like this would encourage them to believe that it's okay to pick on kids with red hair...Christ, where and when was it decided anyway that having red hair was such a point of ridicule?

Graham_B18C

OK-Cancel-Apply wrote: »

It's a disgrace. Kids have enough **** to deal with already in school. For some weird reason, children do get picked on for being redheads in the UK. A card like this could serve to 'legitimise' the bullying they go through.

And rightly so, if we can't pick on Ginger Kids, who can we pick on?!

Mossy Monk

She was offended by it and then proceeded to show it to all her friends. What a ****

Gran Hermano

Dragan wrote: »

In fairness, I understand the poor mother's plight, she has 3 ginger kids.....that would ****ing kill anyone's buzz.

In defense of the mother, anyone can make a mistake - but to have 3 of them... has she no shame.

DOC09UNAM

OK-Cancel-Apply wrote: »

It's a disgrace. Kids have enough **** to deal with already in school. For some weird reason, children do get picked on for being redheads in the UK. A card like this could serve to 'legitimise' the bullying they go through.

obviously, they're ginger.

stovelid

Well, if her kids didn't know that Santa hates ginger kids, they sure do now. The bad kids in their playground will have a field day too.

Perhaps she should have just kept them away from Tesco until January.

bladespin

They sell hair dye too, maybe give a pack free with each card, problem solved

Lockstep

Ah c'mon guys.

Let's tell a joke to lighten the mood;

What does a ginger miss most about parties?
The invitation.

Schism wrote: »

Yeah because ginger people have gone through years of persecution, hardship and mistreatment too. It's just a joke.

THere's a link between the two.
Rearrange the letters of ginger and see what you get....

DOC09UNAM

kickoutthejams wrote: »

Ah c'mon guys.

Let's tell a joke to lighten the mood;

What does a ginger miss most about parties?
The invitation.



THere's a link between the two.
Rearrange the letters of ginger and see what you get....

reggin?

_Roz_

That's pretty hilarious, but you really do need the right sense of humor - I wouldn't fancy being a ginger kid - my eight year old cousin for example, who is gorgeous and highly intelligent (unlike his stupid little brother) - and seeing that card in a shop.

aidan_walsh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0IVuGK7sAw

Big Nasty

In a bar with a group of lads a few years back, pretty redhead behind the bar and one of the lads asked her if she reads books, yes, she answers, so he continues, have you read red pubes!?!

_Roz_

aidan_walsh wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0IVuGK7sAw

Tim Minchin has my heart. Always has, always will. I had that song stuck in my head for AGES after meeting him at the Vicar Street gig in September. I also like that he always can rip the piss out of himself, which is the level the card is funny on.

But probably not if you're a kid.

Bandit12

Ginger kids are like dwarfs imo, there to be made fun of.

Lockstep

Bandit12 wrote: »

Ginger kids are like dwarfs imo, there to be made fun of.

At least dwarves have a sense of humor; did you hear about the European Court of Human Rights case of Wackenheim v France?
Some dwarf was banned from being used in midget tossing as France felt it was degrading so he took went to the ECtHR to uphold his right to be tossed.

GavRedKing

Dont know how Tesco would not think that some people would get offended by it.

Personally I would laugh at it so job done. I know a couple of red heads who laugh at ot to if it was given to them, maybe the original problem was the character was a kid, if it had benn an adult and the message was written accordingly the I dont see why this would be such a big problem.

prinz

Hilarious card by Tesco, just saw next year's planned card, "Santa loves kids, even ones born with congenital heart defects".. I wonder will we see the same people finding it funny then :rolleyes: ffs people it's a hair colour. I thought people grew out of finding red hair funny when they were about 5.

stovelid

MCMLXXV wrote: »

In a bar with a group of lads a few years back, pretty redhead behind the bar and one of the lads asked her if she reads books, yes, she answers, so he continues, have you read red pubes!?!

They have bars in primary schools now?

RubyK

SV wrote: »

lmao, I want that christmas card!

Here you go, Happy Christmas

http://www.moonpig.com/ProductImages/BS003.aspx?ImageSize=2&PageNo=1

Wazdakka

Photi wrote: »

LIES!!

Santa wrote:

I want to make it absolutely clear that I do not love the ginger ones. In fact, I hate them. They make me physically sick.

Santa wrote:

They give my reindeers the most appalling diarrhea and the elves suffer from horrifying, vivid nightmares which, as I'm sure you can imagine, leads to some very disturbing toys.

Santa wrote:

Everyone knows that if you hug a ginger child it will explode.

HA!

Wertz

stovelid wrote: »

They have bars in primary schools now?

Since the cutbacks it's BYOB.

Lockstep

prinz wrote: »

Hilarious card by Tesco, just saw next year's planned card, "Santa loves kids, even ones born with congenital heart defects".. I wonder will we see the same people finding it funny then :rolleyes: ffs people it's a hair colour. I thought people grew out of finding red hair funny when they were about 5.

Get back in your box.
Go on.
Back in there.

Gummy Panda

Fúck this shít!

When is someone going to start posting links to pics of hot Ginger women?

Audrey Holland is pretty hot..

DOC09UNAM

prinz wrote: »

Hilarious card by Tesco, just saw next year's planned card, "Santa loves kids, even ones born with congenital heart defects".. I wonder will we see the same people finding it funny then :rolleyes: ffs people it's a hair colour. I thought people grew out of finding red hair funny when they were about 5.

Take your own advice, it's a hair colour, not a heart disease.

Stop taking it so seriously.

CreepingDeath

The complainer sounds like a bit of a McVities Ginger Nut to me....

BaconZombie

But ginger don;t have souls, so it does not matter.....

Wertz wrote: »

So it's official, ginger truely is the last ethnic minority. I expect all of boards mods to be up to speed on this matter and to issue strict rulings against members that post any anti-ginger sentiment or "jokes".

Aw man, I so gotta get me one of those cards!

prinz

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Stop taking it so seriously.

http://www.newser.com/story/43461/kids-attack-redheads-on-kick-a-ginger-day.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/3498766/Facebook-Kick-a-Ginger-campaign-prompts-attacks-on-redheads.html

http://www.neoows.com/story/9858173

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/11/23/bc-kick-ginger-anti-bullying.html

prinz

prinz wrote: »

http://www.newser.com/story/43461/kids-attack-redheads-on-kick-a-ginger-day.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/3498766/Facebook-Kick-a-Ginger-campaign-prompts-attacks-on-redheads.html

http://www.neoows.com/story/9858173

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/11/23/bc-kick-ginger-anti-bullying.html

Americans eh :rolleyes:

humanji

Deleted User wrote: »

Americans eh :rolleyes:

Thank god. I thought all that bullying I suffered for a huge portion of my life was real. But if it only happens in america...