Tesco's offensive card

consultech · 15-12-2009 04:36PM

_Roz_ wrote: »

Dudes with shoulder length+ ginger hair are hawt.

Mick Hucknall = Dish.

Dudess · 15-12-2009 04:43PM

In the case of non malicious slagging: getting upset by it will only ensure it continues. Best ways to deal with it: fire back some similar material, see the funny side and laugh along, ignore it/not let it bother you.

Wasn't Lord Anthony "Penneys does posh"? I remember my dad got a Lord Anthony jacket when we were kids and we were super impressed by the fact the label said "Lord" on it. Thought we had well and truly arrived...

humanji · 15-12-2009 04:44PM

Deleted User wrote: »

That's ok, these things happen!

Excusing kids kicking the sh*t out of other kids is not my thing!

For the record though I've got a ginger kid and a ginger husband and I still find the card hilarious.

Well that's just wrong. My kind shouldn't mix with you impure "sun-dwellers"! :mad:

15-12-2009 04:47PM

Post deleted because I'm having a blonde moment (:p)

stovelid · 15-12-2009 04:51PM

Dudess wrote: »

In the case of non malicious slagging: getting upset by it will only ensure it continues. Best ways to deal with it: fire back some similar material, see the funny side and laugh along, ignore it/not let it bother you.

Like the poor, playground cruelty will always be with us. It's often not nice, but I really feel that they need no encouragement. We've all heard a lot worse than Ginger in our time. Or at least, I have.

Lord Anthonys were the original gurrier classic, Dudess. I now have this picture of your da squeezed into a tiny parka and throwing stones now.

Dudess · 15-12-2009 05:08PM

stovelid wrote: »

Like the poor, playground cruelty will always be with us. It's often not nice, but I really feel that they need no encouragement. We've all heard a lot worse than Ginger in our time. Or at least, I have.

One of the sharpest kids in my class for giving/taking a slagging... was an overweight ginger lad. So the power balance can be reversed. :pac:

A kid with glasses used to call me "bag of bones" for being skinny and said my parents couldn't afford to feed me etc. So I called him "four eyes" or whatever. I didn't like what he said, but getting ratty would only have been giving him exactly what he was looking for. I think if it hurts, it's still better to even pretend you think it's funny/don't care.
The two of us ended up getting on very well eventually. Being able to take a slagging makes a person very likeable, I think.
Obviously I'm not referring to blatant bullying, which is another kettle of fish IMO.

Lord Anthonys were the original gurrier classic, Dudess. I now have this picture of your da squeezed into a tiny parka and throwing stones now.

:pac:
He still has it - for outdoor painting, bringing out the bins and such.

time42play · 15-12-2009 05:09PM

Wish I'd bought a few of those cards. As a ginger myself I think it's funny, and they'd probably have got away with it if it was aimed at adults rather than children. I know a few others I'd love to send it to!

Is it copyright infringement if I find the image and print up a few of my own?

Kimia · 15-12-2009 05:12PM

But it's not about us going 'ah sure kids will be kids' and roll our eyes. Can we not take a little bit more responsibility?

At the end of the day, it's not very responsible to give children ammunition to mock other children. How can anyone think it is, just because 'playgrounds are nasty anyway'.

It's about your own moral compass, but I sure as hell will not be telling my kids that it's ok to slag someone based on the colour of their hair. Grow up.

Dudess · 15-12-2009 05:18PM

I'm in two minds about that card - on the one hand I think "it's just a joke"... on the other, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

But kids will be kids - better not to cosset them from these realities than to (if unintentionally) encourage them to be upset by them.

stovelid · 15-12-2009 05:18PM

Kimia wrote: »

It's about your own moral compass, but I sure as hell will not be telling my kids that it's ok to slag someone based on the colour of their hair. Grow up.

Are you ginger, by any chance?

Kimia · 15-12-2009 05:27PM

stovelid wrote: »

Are you ginger, by any chance?

That's gas. If I was giving out about racism against Jewish people for example, would you ask me am I Jewish?

Are you trying to imply that if I was ginger it would negate my argument?

What colour hair do you have Stovelid?

Wossack · 15-12-2009 05:36PM

nyom nyom nyom

consultech · 15-12-2009 05:42PM

Kimia wrote: »

That's gas. If I was giving out about racism against Jewish people for example, would you ask me am I Jewish?

Are you trying to imply that if I was ginger it would negate my argument?

What colour hair do you have Stovelid?

Puts me in mind of the statement put to a stumped David Brent in the office as to why should it only be black people that are offended by racism.

Dudess · 15-12-2009 05:43PM

Kimia wrote: »

What colour hair do you have Stovelid?

Stovelid has a magnificent golden mane. Here is a picture of him:
http://www.fabioifc.com/Bookcover_plus/mousepad_shot_fabio.2.jpg

Kimia · 15-12-2009 05:45PM

That's fabulous. Magnificent is truly the only word to describe it.

I love the knowing look in the eye too.

we'llallhavetea_old · 15-12-2009 06:12PM

well i think its hilarious and i love the gingers, cant get enough of the little feckers.

AnonoBoy · 15-12-2009 06:14PM

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

well i think its hilarious and i love the gingers, cant get enough of the little feckers.

Tasty with a cup of tea alright.

we'llallhavetea_old · 15-12-2009 06:18PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Tasty with a cup of tea alright.

tea, coffee, lemonade, pretty much any drink, hot or cold.
i just hope my friends and family picked up on my hints for a christmas present. with a bit of luck i'll be immersed in gingers christmas morning

stovelid · 15-12-2009 06:25PM

Kimia wrote: »

That's gas. If I was giving out about racism against Jewish people for example, would you ask me am I Jewish?

For shame.

Kooli · 15-12-2009 06:30PM

I actually think that how Irish people have taken on 'Gingerism' in the past decade or so is pretty pathetic. It is SUCH a British thing, and always has been, and it has been argued that it has it's origins in anti-Irish sentiment, as the stereotypical Irish person was a redhead.

And by Gingerism, I do mean this rather unintelligent, unthought-out ubiquitous slagging of red-headed people. It's lazy, it's not particularly funny, and it's something we have just adopted, without thought, from all the British comedy we watch.

brummytom · 15-12-2009 06:32PM

Gingers for Justice!
Gingers for Justice!
etc.

Ginger rhymes with whinger, no surprise there.

I'll take the piss out of people, and I couldn't give a hairy shite if someone takes the piss out of me.

Why do people get so offended over things? Grow a pair for fuck sake.

And all the gingers I know are utter cunts

stovelid · 15-12-2009 06:34PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Tasty with a cup of tea alright.

Biccie of the god in fairness. Great chewing out of them when dunked in a cuppa.

Jesus Wept · 15-12-2009 07:02PM

topper75 wrote: »

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

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

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.

Red mist, typical.

Here is the card.

Seloth · 15-12-2009 07:14PM

A friend of mine is gigner and today he was asking one of the lads for a can of ginerale he was drinking so he could walk around with it for the novelty

phic · 15-12-2009 07:37PM

Totally ridiculous! I know the southpark thing started bullying in Canada, but really, I don't think Tesco Christmas cards have as big a cultural influence on kids as Southpark does.
Also black, Jewish etc. is not the same thing as ginger. At all. If you think it is, you badly need a history lesson.

namloc1980 · 15-12-2009 07:52PM

God...this is pathetic....would the PC brigade ever pee off!

soups05 · 15-12-2009 08:19PM

ok, so if i tell a joke then i can't make it about ginger hair?

i guess blonde jokes are out too then?

of course no racist jokes so no more paddy irish man, paddy english man etc.

no men or women jokes as it will offend due to sexism.

no animal jokes for fear of upsetting animal lovers.

so what can i tell a joke about?

can anyone post a link to a joke that is funny but cannot offend someone?

_Roz_ · 15-12-2009 08:21PM

consultech wrote: »

Mick Hucknall = Dish.

More like Tim Minchin.

soups05 wrote: »

can anyone post a link to a joke that is funny but cannot offend someone?

Oxymoron.

R0ot · 15-12-2009 08:22PM

Nobody loves Gingers. FACT! :pac:

_Roz_ · 15-12-2009 08:23PM

R0ot wrote: »

Nobody loves Gingers. FACT! :pac:

I love gingers! I think ginger girls tend to be gorgeous. Kinda wish I was ginge. Not enough to bleach and dye my hair though.

Tesco's offensive card

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