Ginger Baker drum solo at Cream reunion concert a few years back.
Posted on 09/10/2014 10:14:17 AM PDT by llevrok
(Insert South Park Ginger Kids Episode Reference here)
Still okay to bully blondes and fat shame boys (girls are “BBW” now) and beat up on “nerds”? Just not gingers and faggots?
How about Don’t bully ANYBODY???
These PC campaigns really suck just as do mean people.
Lots of people suck. Lots of people think it’s fun to ridicule, tease, and bully other people. I topped 6 feet and got got picked on for that... most often by runty girls. Also got picked on for being a good student and being relatively non-voluptuous. I prefer cats to a lot of people!
It would be interesting to know where this term ‘ginger’ originates, as the vegetable bears no resemblance in color.
The Brits are particularly cold hearted when it comes to redheads. In America, its not really so much an issue.
Surprisingly, in the harsh country of Russia, it also isn’t an article of mockery. In fact, there is a small area in the caucuses where there are the most redheaded people in the world.
Probably because ‘ginger’ is a ‘hot’ spice, and ‘red’ is associated with heat..........................
I’ve never gotten this redhead teasing thing.
My mother and grandmother were and sister still is bright red redheads. I am particularly drawn to redheads for some reason.................
I need to head to the caucuses...
But my hair is not very red anymore. It’s a shame too.
Screw with me about being “ginger” and this “ginger”, who has received extensive firearms and self defense training will explain the error of your ways.
CC
and here I thought this was going to be a Harry Turtledove thread
As a red head I can say there are two types of red heads, smoking hot and not even close. There is no in between. I won’t say which I am ;), but I was bullied up until 6th grade when I beat the snot out of the biggest bully (like Ralphie did in Christmas Story I went nuts) after football practice. Never was bothered again and later in high school me and the ex-bully were pretty good friends.
Ginger Baker drum solo at Cream reunion concert a few years back.
” I am particularly drawn to redheads for some reason...........”
Me too. Father,brother,husband,and 2 sons.
Not one red head grandchild though. Very sad.
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Great episode...and Cartman’s finest acting.
I don’t get it. My daughter has a friend who is red haired and the two of them tease each other mercilessly and love it. My daughter makes fun of her being a ginger and her friend makes fun of her Japanese heritage. People can always take things too far... but c’mon.
Note: My sister, mother, and paternal Grandmother were all red haired. My hair was white when I was four and now it’s dark brown, gray, and has hints of red. My beard originally came in red. But my harassment came from being a “nerdy, four-eyed, yellow-belly”. The last part went away when I went blank during a fight in 8th grade and kicked my opponents teeth out (literally two front teeth). I blame the black out on my celtic (Scotch-Irish) berserker heritage.
Ireland is its share of redheads. I lived three years in Northern Ireland (’78 - ‘81). I have red hair (or I did then) and fair skin. Many thought I must be Irish, and some thought I had emigrated and then come back. I was readily accepted by those on both sides of the conflicts there...maybe because of my red hair, and more probably because of being American.
When I was a boy there were times I was teased for the red hair, but I didn’t let that be a bother. If I had it to do over, I would choose to be a redhead!
The term is at least a hundred years old or more. It's earliest roots come from the time the ginger root first started to be imported into England as a spice. The flower is bright red.
The term is apparently used much more disparagingly in the UK than the US.
I know all this only because I argued with my brother (who thought the term came from Ginger on Gilligan's Island) and I thought it was much older.
Of course, I was right.
WHERE DO RED-HEADED BABIES COME FROM?
After their baby was born, the panicked father went to see the Obstetrician. ‘Doctor,’ the man said, ‘I don’t mind telling you, but I’m a little upset because my daughter has red hair. She can’t possibly be mine!!’
‘Nonsense,’ the doctor said...’Even though you and your wife both have black hair, one of your ancestors may have contributed red hair to the gene pool.’
‘It isn’t possible,’ the man insisted.
‘This can’t be, our families on both sides had jet-black hair for generations.’
“Well, said the doctor, let me ask you this. How often do you have sex???”
The man seemed a bit ashamed..’I’ve been working very hard for the past year. We only made love once or twice every few months.’
‘Well, there you have it!’ The doctor said confidently....
“It’s Rust.”
I’m with you, pal (I am a nordic ginger).
From what I’ve read, red heads are an endangered species (due to the “browning” of the global population). So we can either populate like crazy with fellow gingers (ahem) or get one of those special parking permits.
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