Rangas Let into the Zoo for Free this Weekend

WindSock

Surprised there isn't a thread on this already.

http://swns.com/dublin-zoo-gives-ginger-children-free-entry-to-orang-utan-weekend-121029.html

Dublin Zoo will offer all red-haired children under 16 and anyone dressed as an orangutan free entry to the zoo this weekend to highlight the plight of the great ape.
But the publicity stunt has been criticised for indirectly comparing red-haired people to primates and giving school bullies ammunition for playground taunts.
Jessica Bateman, a 25-year-old red head, said: “Red-headed children often have terrible experiences at school where they are singled out and picked on for being ‘different’.
“The destruction of self-esteem this causes is massively underestimated and can affect people for their whole lives.
“I understand they are trying to raise awareness for an important issue but singling out red heads isn’t the right way to do it.”
But Ciarán McMahon, the primate keeper at the zoo, defended the Orangutan Awareness Weekend.
She said: “The real point is raising awareness about these endangered animals that may be extinct in 10 years.”
Orangutans – which are among the cleverest primates – are heading towards extinction as a result of habitat loss, palm oil plantations and illegal pet trade.
The primate, which shares 97 per cent DNA with humans, could be the first Great Ape to be extinct

Scarydoll

I don't understand why they had to single out red heads.

KeithM89_old

What about 'strawberry blondes' ??

krudler

Scarydoll wrote: »

I don't understand why they had to single out red heads.

Not having a soul has to have some benefits at some point.

marxcoo

so red-headed children are basically the same as orangutans. They may have a point.

Mrmoe

I'm surprised they didn't offer them a motorboat:pac:

TheZohanS

That's a good way to recycle them, hats off to WEEE.

alwaysadub

Will they let all the gingers back out of the zoo though?

WindSock

I wonder if they would dare try this stunt with Gorillas and....er.....children of a certain ethnic....

Ah, nevermind.

I love Orang-Utans though. my fave of the great apes.

Basq

This was a thread in Bargain Alerts..

.. but it was locked when "gingers" took offence.

:rolleyes:

stimpson

Scarydoll wrote: »

I don't understand why they had to single out red heads.

Because, like ourangatans they have no souls.

Tabnabs

I think it's worth reposting the comment under the story

It's a shame that the Irish are now using the originally British racial stereotype of red haired people being somehow different against their own people as a form of bullying.

I also think it's shameful for the OP to use the derogatory title they have put on the thread.

Scarydoll

I mean could they let children in for free anyway? Surly they could raise awareness without having to insult people.

The orangutans are cute though. I hope they raise lots of money to help them.

The Waltzing Consumer

The pc wall has finally tumbled!
Can we start comparing anyone to primates now?

Fill in the blanks:

White people with black hair look like ________
Asian people look like _______
Black people look like ________
Mexicans are _________

4zn76tysfajdxp

Dyflin wrote: »

I also think it's shameful for the OP to use the derogatory title they have put on the thread.

No surprise, AH posters orange exactly the most sensitive people out there.

Tabnabs

Bennett Jealous Stovepipe wrote: »

No surprise, AH posters orange exactly the most sensitive people out there.

00112984

Such discrimination! Why should red haired kids get in for free? How about black and brown and blonde haired kids?

efb

Bring a ginge wig!

Scarydoll

00112984 wrote: »

Such discrimination! Why should red haired kids get in for free? How about black and brown and blonde haired kids?

Dress as an orangutan and you'll get in for free.

SadieSue

stimpson wrote: »

Because, like ourangatans they have no souls.

I am a red head and I have a soul.



I have lots of them.:pac:

Orangutans are so cute and are my favourites too.

Jamiekelly

Dublin Zoo opening hours
9:30am - 4:00pm

Ginger kids don't get in at all!
Everyone knows gingers vaporize in the sunlight

00112984

Scarydoll wrote: »

Dress as an orangutan and you'll get in for free.

I haven't looked like I'm under 12 years of age since I was about 6

See, now I'm being discriminated against because I've dark hair and I'm an adult.

Ginger midgets get all the breaks :mad:

hmmm

Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

In hindsight it probably wasn't the wisest thing for the zoo to have done. Some poor kid will probably be bullied because of this.

p.s. the red pandas are a hell of a lot cuter than the orangutangs.

WindSock

Dyflin wrote: »

I also think it's shameful for the OP to use the derogatory title they have put on the thread.

Ranga from Orang-Utan, as per the stunt played by the Zoo.

Did people get as all up in arms at dumb blonde jokes as ginger/red haired people do?

Pookah

WindSock wrote: »

Ranga from Orang-Utan, as per the stunt played by the Zoo.

Did people get as all up in arms at dumb blonde jokes as ginger/red haired people do?

It's a very offensive term to Orang-Utans.

You should hold your head in shame, OP.

Scarydoll

hmmm wrote: »

p.s. the red pandas are a hell of a lot cuter than the orangutangs.

They are very cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=occw-8sSao4

Scarydoll

WindSock wrote: »

Ranga from Orang-Utan, as per the stunt played by the Zoo.

Did people get as all up in arms at dumb blonde jokes as ginger/red haired people do?

I don't think they are as hated as much as red heads tbh.

policarp

Do rangas eat monkey nuts?

thalia_13

Ah adelaide zoo did this nearly 3yrs ago! Its only a bit of a laugh

tbnewman

in all fairness if they had a "free black kids into dublin zoo for monkey awareness week" there would be absolute uproar

Terry

basquille wrote: »

This was a thread in Bargain Alerts..

.. but it was locked when "gingers" took offence.

:rolleyes:

Jesus ****ing christ.
I'm ginger. I'm a really freckled ginger too. One dick* used to call me "Cornflakes".

The only problem I have with jokes about ginger people is that most of them are really bad and not funny at all.

Yeah, I was bullied at school about being ginger, but it only amounted to the usual dickheads making stupid and uneducated comments.
Had South Park been around when I was in school, I would have cited Cartman and explained how we will take over the world.

*He was a neo-nazi.

stovelid

Why is nobody worried about the monkeys?

It must be very traumatic being compared to ginges - not to mention allowing large numbers of ginges to come and view them.

mudokon

The Waltzing Consumer wrote: »

The pc wall has finally tumbled!
Can we start comparing anyone to primates now?

Fill in the blanks:

White people with black hair look like ________
Asian people look like _______
Black people look like ________
Mexicans are _________

Do you have a problem with Mexicans? Every other description says they look like something but Mexicans are?

mikemac

tbnewman wrote: »

in all fairness if they had a "free black kids into dublin zoo for monkey awareness week" there would be absolute uproar

That's next week, black kids see the gorilla for free

Terry

tbnewman wrote: »

in all fairness if they had a "free black kids into dublin zoo for monkey awareness week" there would be absolute uproar

Hmm. Let me see.
A ginger person can dye their hair. A black person can appear in 2004's classic film White Chicks and a white person can do an Al Jolson.
I see how you came to that conclusion.

Terry

stovelid wrote: »

Why is nobody worried about the monkeys?

It must be very traumatic being compared to ginges - not to mention allowing large numbers of ginges to come and view them.

See. That's why I'm offended by ginger jokes.
That wasn't funny at all.

Try something original.
Allude to the fact that we're genetically linked to Neanderthals, and how the rest of the human race managed to evolve without having sex with a lower species or something.

Princess Peach

If anything gingers should be punished and banned from the zoo, and public places.

This is unfair.

Dudess

Dyflin wrote: »

I think it's worth reposting the comment under the story

The sentiment behind this initiative is not a ridiculing of red-haired kids.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Terry wrote: »

Hmm. Let me see.
A ginger person can dye their hair. A black person can appear in 2004's classic film White Chicks and a white person can do an Al Jolson.
I see how you came to that conclusion.

Ah now in fairness Terry, that's not 100% accurate.

There were two black people in White Chicks pretending to be white.

Nevyn

Terry wrote: »

See. That's why I'm offended by ginger jokes.
That wasn't funny at all.

Try something original.
Allude to the fact that we're genetically linked to Neanderthals, and how the rest of the human race managed to evolve without having sex with a lower species or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJMfskvEF-g

Oh and they are Apes not monkeys.

RolandIRL

Terry wrote: »

Jesus ****ing christ.
I'm ginger. I'm a really freckled ginger too. One dick* used to call me "Cornflakes".

The only problem I have with jokes about ginger people is that most of them are really bad and not funny at all.

Yeah, I was bullied at school about being ginger, but it only amounted to the usual dickheads making stupid and uneducated comments.
Had South Park been around when I was in school, I would have cited Cartman and explained how we will take over the world.

*He was a neo-nazi.

Same (maybe not about the neo-nazi part though). everyone just keeps saying the same ginger jokes over and over again. i thought that south park episode was brilliant but it's kinda ruined now with everyone saying oh gingers have no souls :rolleyes:
come up with something original ffs, and i'll probably laugh with ya.

Birdnuts

stovelid wrote: »

Why is nobody worried about the monkeys?

.

Apes my dear boy - which are our closest living relatives and are as distantly related to monkeys as we are.:)

PS: This if for a real good cause and should be supported as Orang-utans could be extinct in the wild within the next decade if illegal rainforest destruction in Indonesia for logging and Palm oil cultivation by multinationals continues at its current pace:(

joebucks

whiteman19 wrote: »

. i thought that south park episode was brilliant but it's kinda ruined now with everyone saying oh gingers have no souls :rolleyes:
come up with something original ffs, and i'll probably laugh with ya.

That South Park episode was brilliant and the ultimate irony of it is that alot of fools mistook it as an anti-redhair thing but it was actually a pisstake on people who will discriminate against others based on their physical appearance.

Those guys are geniuses for coming up with the Cartman character. He is the perfect vehicle for highlighting all that is wrong with how people interact with each other.

stovelid

Terry wrote: »

See. That's why I'm offended by ginger jokes.
That wasn't funny at all.

Shut it, Ginge