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Tesco's offensive card

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  • #122
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,688 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    soups05 wrote: »
    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?

    :confused::confused::confused:

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

    Q: What's brown and sticky?

    A: A stick.

    (however this could be seen as offensive to those plants/trees that don't have brown bark. Also the stick might have been broken off the tree by someone so the tree-huggers would be up in arms!!! Damn I can't say 'tree-huggers' because that's offensive and they surely wouldn't be 'up in arms' - it's hard to be inoffensive!)


  • #123
    Tinkerbell09
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭Tinkerbell09


    while i got bullied woefully as a kid, having a dash of the ginge about me, im now a red-blonde, and always get compliments on my gruaig.:D

    (tho it was 18 months before i confessed to my boyf that i dye my eyebrows - it was a big shock for him:eek:)


  • #124
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    _Roz_ wrote: »
    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.
    I did. My red hair rocked!

    Then started to fall out... I'm raven-headed now though, not bald.


  • #125
    _Roz_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 530 ✭✭✭_Roz_


    Dudess wrote: »
    I did. My red hair rocked!

    Then started to fall out... I'm raven-headed now though, not bald.

    I'd rather my hair stay in my head. I had black hair til recently, my mousy brown is growing out now and I'm going to let it continue.


  • #126
    Redzer7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,211 ✭✭✭Redzer7


    I say we get a group of Gingers, about 50 of them, put them in a room then tell them to slag eachother ;), who's with me :D.




    I'm ginger btw ;)


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  • #127
    _Roz_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 530 ✭✭✭_Roz_


    Redzer7 wrote: »
    I say we get a group of Gingers, about 50 of them, put them in a room then tell them to slag eachother ;)

    Let me pick one out to keep first.


  • #128
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    brummytom wrote: »
    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

    All English people i know are utter whinging cunts too.*



    *not really, i just felt like posting something extremely thick also.


  • #129
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Seloth wrote: »
    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 :p

    http://www.andrewcusack.com/gingerale1.jpg


  • #130
    Proxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Proxy


    Does the content of this thread not breach the AH charter?
    Zero tolerance will be shown to posts containing racism or discrimination. This includes the travelling community. Please do not use this forum to incite hatred.


  • #131
    tech77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    Some people are comparing this to "even Santa likes black kids".

    But maybe it's better to compare this with its simpler schoolyard examples:
    "even Santa likes fat kids"
    "even Santa likes kids with glasses".
    Would these be more/less objectionable. If so, why?

    There's an irony in the ginger thing that is appreciated by (mature) adults that may not be appreciated by kids.


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  • #132
    Proxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Proxy


    tech77 wrote: »
    Some people are comparing this to "even Santa likes black kids".

    But maybe it's better to compare this with its simpler schoolyard examples:
    "even Santa likes fat kids"
    "even Santa likes kids with glasses".
    Would these be more/less objectionable. If so, why?

    There's an irony in the ginger thing that is appreciated by (mature) adults that may not be appreciated by kids.
    If it was "likes fat kids", it'd be an even bigger mess.


  • #133
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Sir Gallagher wrote: »
    All English people i know are utter whinging cunts too.*



    *not really, i just felt like posting something extremely thick also.
    Personal experience, it's not my fault they're all pricks


    Thanks for being condescending though, it's always good. If only you'd put a ':rolleyes:' in the post, I could have ignored it


  • #134
    tudlytops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭tudlytops


    This is crazy it reminds me of one Xmas my daughter school decided to have a "Mother Xmas" instead of a Father Xmas to show the kids equality, well most of us chose to keep the kids at home for the day.

    On another occasion they couldn't tell the story of the ugly duckling because it suggested that the duck was ugly while it was black and beautiful when it turned white.

    For goodness sake, children don't see things like that.

    I think political currentness as just gone to far.


  • #135
    argosy2006
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,210 ✭✭✭argosy2006


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4yvY6vqFO0


  • #136
    tudlytops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭tudlytops


    argosy2006 wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4yvY6vqFO0


    LOL:D


  • #137
    Fear Uladh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Fear Uladh


    I hear the card looks something like this.....



    freak.jpg


  • #138
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    topper75 wrote: »
    So 'Santa even loves black-skinned kids' would be equally high-larious, yeah? ;)

    If they brought that card out along with the Ginger one...Wes Brown would be fcuked


  • #139
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,045 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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  • #140
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    LOL. I found it funny when i seen it. It's offensive alright but that's life.


  • #141
    tudlytops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭tudlytops


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    LOL. I found it funny when i seen it. It's offensive alright but that's life.


    But why is it offensive, when did we become so touchy.


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  • #142
    positivenote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭positivenote


    having grown up being slagged for being a red head, carrot head, tomato head and so on it didnt bother me at all and i still dont mind those terms, BUT the word 'ginger' was never used as a term of slaging when i was younger, its only in recent times that it has been adopted by people in ireland copying what they hear from across the water in britain. to be honest i hate the term and do find offensive, but more so because of its connotations in the uk being accepted and adopted for a degrading torn of phase here... why the need to try and copy the brits when we have so many terms of 'endearment' of our own.


    *cue the predictable barrage of 'gowan out of that ginger' from the wanna be brits*


  • #143
    sheep-go-baa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭sheep-go-baa


    In fairness it's not like people are going up to little kids, pointing and heckling. It's just a joke.


  • #144
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    tudlytops wrote: »
    But why is it offensive, when did we become so touchy.
    Everything has changed. It's all in jest but people will use anything now to complain about something. I'll give the perfect example. Some science proffesor from America has complained about thomas the tank engine saying it's sexist and could make young girls think that is what a womans way is in life and you just have to laugh.

    Corrupt PMs, recession, sense of humour going down the drain.


  • #145
    tudlytops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭tudlytops


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Everything has changed. It's all in jest but people will use anything now to complain about something. I'll give the perfect example. Some science proffesor from America has complained about thomas the tank engine saying it's sexist and could make young girls think that is what a womans way is in life and you just have to laugh.

    Corrupt PMs, recession, sense of humour going down the drain.


    You can't joke any more, in case (and you will) offend someone.


    It's madeness


  • #146
    sallysaucer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭sallysaucer


    I am actually horrified at some of the stuff posted in this thread!!


  • #147
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    sallysaucer wrote: »
    I am actually horrified at some of the stuff posted in this thread!!

    Me too.

    I assumed that the mods would keep the pictures of gingers to a minimum.

    :(


  • #148
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    sallysaucer wrote: »
    I am actually horrified at some of the stuff posted in this thread!!
    I know, so am I. But they really do exist :(


  • #149
    CamperMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭CamperMan


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

    what's wrong with ginger?.....


  • #150
    Lab_Mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Lab_Mouse


    Kimia wrote: »
    It's actually an anti-Irish sentiment, so therefore Tesco hates Irish people. Let's march to Dundrum with burning torches!

    Feck that,get the luas


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  • #151
    CamperMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭CamperMan


    Chillaxe wrote: »
    I hear the card looks something like this.....



    freak.jpg

    and what's wrong with this... I looked a bit like that when I was a kid :D


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