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Post by Libby on Feb 3, 2009 13:36:52 GMT
I completely agree and i had one myself as a child. I just thought for some reason that they were considered not PC in this crazy World we now live in!
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Post by feral on Feb 3, 2009 13:38:14 GMT
Perhaps the person she was talking about did look like the golliwog on the jar .FFS ! So it's a rude thing to say -so what ? she said it off air didnt she ?
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Post by mids on Feb 3, 2009 13:42:36 GMT
Doesn't say who she was talking about. What if they were a whitey?
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Post by Libby on Feb 3, 2009 13:44:47 GMT
Haven't a clue who she was talking about, does anyone know, or care come to that?!
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Post by feral on Feb 3, 2009 13:47:04 GMT
Well I would sort of be interested to know who it is to see if I agreed with her comment lol  |
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Post by mango on Feb 3, 2009 13:47:32 GMT
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
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Post by mango on Feb 3, 2009 13:48:37 GMT
looks nothing like any golliwog I've ever seen
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Post by mids on Feb 3, 2009 13:55:14 GMT
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 3, 2009 13:56:38 GMT
He looks bugger all like a gollywog but oooooh nice arms.
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Post by feral on Feb 3, 2009 14:00:24 GMT
well I've just looked him up and I can't say I would have looked at him and thought " he looks just like the golliwog on the jam jar " but I can't see it as being a terribly insulting thing to say as I always thought golliwogs were cute .Mind you ,I am one of these daft people who merely sees a golliwog as just being a cute doll with a slightly comical name
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Post by mids on Feb 3, 2009 14:00:55 GMT
He looks like Gary Willmot.
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Post by Libby on Feb 3, 2009 15:03:34 GMT
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Post by anotherlevel on Feb 3, 2009 15:15:37 GMT
I'd have thought everyone would not use that phrase because it's just not acceptable.
Who said it is not acceptable, you?, the media? it's acceptable to all those who wish to use it and as for you creating merry hell if someone used it in front of you i would reply in kind and told you if you didn't want to hear it go somewhere else.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 3, 2009 15:19:17 GMT
Who said it is not acceptable, you?, the media? it's acceptable to all those who wish to use it and as for you creating merry hell if someone used it in front of you i would reply in kind and told you if you didn't want to hear it go somewhere else. Not me definitely, it was roundly regarded as unacceptable by all thinking people even when I was a kid. The chances of us ever ending up in a social situation together are negligible, but if you were to say that at work and then respond as you claim you would, I wouldn't have to work with you for much longer, so knock yerself out. |
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Post by feral on Feb 3, 2009 15:22:10 GMT
I'd leave out the " thinking " bit if I was you
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 3, 2009 15:24:11 GMT
Nah. person is offensive. I am without doubt an arsehole on occasions, but I'm not nearly enough of one to use language that insults someone's race. I'm a skiver and I hate work but I'm way too professional to even do it in jest in a work context. Etc.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 3, 2009 15:24:45 GMT
Hehe well if that wasn't proof enough, wög gets censored by the board. I rest my case.
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Post by feral on Feb 3, 2009 15:35:25 GMT
But we're not talking about w og and whether that is offensive or not .We could of course -Personally ,I always think its the intent behind words that makes them offensive or not rather than the words themselves.Here the talk is about golliwog.Now ,for years a golliwog was merely that -a cute soft toy .No one ever noticed that it was BLACK and that it's name was golly + w og .Till one of your " thinking " people came along and said " well you do remember why those dolls were made in the first place and why they were called that don't you ? It's highly offensive to black people " .Well ,for a start no one had bloody remembered till they were reminded and second I bet it was a white person who decided that a black person should feel offended by it and if I was a black person Id be far more offended by that than a stuffed toy loved by many for no other reason than that it was nice
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Post by feral on Feb 3, 2009 15:35:46 GMT
...and so began all the PC crap
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Post by omnipleasant on Feb 3, 2009 15:36:21 GMT
PC has certainly come to something when you can't insult someone because of their race without being called "racist".
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