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Redhead banned from [U.K.] high school in England for being too ginger [natural hair color]
New York Daily News ^ | April 16, 2015 | Melissa Chan

Posted on 05/14/2015 1:11:29 PM PDT by grundle

A redheaded high school student in England has been banned from classes for being too ginger, the devastated teen said.

Emily Reay, 17, of Cumbria, was scolded by teachers who told her she couldn't come back to the Trinity School in Carlisle until she gets rid of her natural bright auburn locks or "tones it down considerably," according to reports.

"I was very angry at first, and then burst into tears," she told The Telegraph. "I've had the same color for the past three years, and nobody at school has commented on it."

The burgeoning musician's hair, which has hints of orange, had been a "bone of contention" since the beginning of the school year, the news site said. It reportedly falls under the category of "unnatural" hair colors like blue or green.

But the Monday news still stunned the teen, who won an award for best hairstyle during prom.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


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To: Norm Lenhart

Good man.

:)


141 posted on 05/14/2015 3:02:11 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Drango
84 posts and I’m the first to ask if the carpet matches the drapes?

Hardwood floor, I bet...

142 posted on 05/14/2015 3:02:34 PM PDT by null and void (My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front)
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To: Salamander

Hey I survived a redhead. One. A miracle by normal human standards. I don’t think I could fend off an attack by the Red Army. So I’m Vischy on this issue ;)


143 posted on 05/14/2015 3:04:41 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: The_Reader_David
But that theory doesn’t account for the same prejudice in Greece, nor for the Western-Europe-wide association of red hair with witchcraft and vampirism in the Middle Ages.

True enough - in those regions, red hair is a sufficiently rare occurrence to be associated with some sort of dark magic or curse. Which is also very likely the reason that southern Britons originally formed a dislike for their northern cousins with the fiery locks.

These "beliefs" have been around for much longer than the knowledge of Neanderthal hair color.

144 posted on 05/14/2015 3:06:43 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
"But she was also completely nutz!"

My old boss (10+ years ago) was married to, then divorced from a redhead.
He made a poem about her:

"Roses are red,
So is your head,
I wish I was dead."

:)

145 posted on 05/14/2015 3:07:40 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: grundle

Yeah, and so was Lucille Ball’s...


146 posted on 05/14/2015 3:07:43 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: Norm Lenhart

There’s an official army?

I’ve only been an Army Of One.

;D


147 posted on 05/14/2015 3:10:38 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: SparkyBass

People make way too much of the whole Redhead thing. If you treat them with the respect one gives a rabid honey badger, you’ll have no trouble at all...


148 posted on 05/14/2015 3:13:24 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Salamander

One is most often all it takes...you know this ;)


149 posted on 05/14/2015 3:14:06 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: mountn man

yes “beard” the hair on my face I grow as a man ..it was that color untill I got older even though my hair my eyebrows and everything else was regular brown....what is your issue?

Good lord. Where do you people live that you’ve never seen people with red hair or you think all redhead are fake...you’re not familiar with people with Scandinavian or Scotch Irish ancestry and all the crazy shades of red hair end up with...good grief.

like I said when I was younger I had a Danish girlfriend her hair was virtually almost white with just a hint of yellow it was all natural

Yet most women would think her hair was fake but then again she had a build most women would also think was “obviously fake way oversize silicon” that was also all natural:)...gotta love those Danish Brickhouse blondes women ...she could walk into a bar at 16 and not get carded but then again I wasn’t getting carded after 15 either

And in her Danish family members, some had red hair that look like Raggedy Ann, Pippi Longstockings dyed red yarn fake.. that was also natural.

I don’t know what it is with women that they’re always calling other women fake when they look a little different


150 posted on 05/14/2015 3:18:52 PM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Heh.


151 posted on 05/14/2015 3:19:34 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: tophat9000

Wish FR had a Like button.


152 posted on 05/14/2015 3:20:21 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Salamander

yeah Ive spent a lot of time in a few biker bars myself....good times


153 posted on 05/14/2015 3:23:00 PM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: Salamander
Green eyes, brown eyebrows.

You wouldn’t believe the other part of the test.

I'm pretty sure I know what you're hinting at. You may as well tell us, though - otherwise we'll just start guessing. ;-)

154 posted on 05/14/2015 3:23:13 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: tophat9000

Jealousy mostly. My daughter was born with NEON red hair. And I mean neon. The doctors and nurses at the Hospital were amazed. Within a few months it got progressively more blond. She ended up sort of a golden/dishwater mix with red highlights before she dyed it. Red.

She has all the redhead features including the tude. Transparent, freckles, the works.


155 posted on 05/14/2015 3:24:38 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: tophat9000

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11539642/This-is-ginger-nuts-Natural-redhead-banned-from-school-for-having-hair-thats-too-bright.html

This article makes it clear bright red (orange) is not her natural color. Even her mom says her hair is naturally auburn.

It is fake because it is fake.


156 posted on 05/14/2015 3:25:44 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: miss marmelstein

My cousin’s daughter has hair just this color. All of her kids are gingers, but that one is bright orange.

Incidentally, my cousin and I both had jet black eyebrows and light blonde hair until our late teens.

Nature has no rules.


157 posted on 05/14/2015 3:29:55 PM PDT by Marie
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

It probably is. But there are indeed some insane natural reds out there with no dye in them. Not common, But it happens.


158 posted on 05/14/2015 3:30:50 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Paisan

My eyebrows and lashes were jet black and I was a blonde until my late teens.

Then my hair turned ‘dishwater’.

Now it’s true caramel brown (with grey) and my eyebrows and lashes are still jet black.

No. You can’t always tell.


159 posted on 05/14/2015 3:31:40 PM PDT by Marie
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To: miss marmelstein

A ruddy redhead here (bright copper) says, “She’s probably a redhead, but that’s not quite natural.”


160 posted on 05/14/2015 3:32:37 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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