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@pepsi wrote:

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

:shock: :lol:

You nicked my quote!

It’s ok, I nicked it off of Oscar Wilde. :P

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@cheekylittleminx wrote:

a greggs buffet in a circus tent woooooohooooo

It sounds like one hell of a classy do! :wink:

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@terry wrote:

Isn’t there a middle ground which most normal people stand on. On either side though there is a racist area and an anti-racist area.

The racists and anti-racists annoy the hell out of me.

I remember reading about a woman who’d complained to the police that a shopkeeper had a golliwog on display in a shop window. I don’t see what the offence was, but the woman who’d complained had it in her mind that it breached some kind of racist law that existed. In reality it was her attempt at being a do-gooder. The only ‘good’ thing about it is that it highlighted her complete and utter stupidity.

Is this the story to which you refer: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052793/Golliwog-race-hate-charges-dropped-Jena-Mason.html

Total waste of the tax payer’s money to bring the charges in the first place. :roll:

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@kent f OBE wrote:

I don’t think the product (the doll) as such is offensive at all, nor do I think the doll lost it’s job because it was black.
Why is everyone skirting round the issue of the name? It’s the name that IS offensive. The name of the product is gollywog. For some reason Panda doesm’t mention this in her opening post. Why would anyone think Jack Golly is offensive and why would anyone think that the physical appearance of that toy is offensive?
The toy is gollywog and it’s not an appropriate name in this day and age…we have moved on (apparantly). It is obvious that the exact doll cannot be re branded as the original name will always stick

I know Jack is really a gollywog but when I was kid my golly was just golly.

And I hate the word wog – it brings back the name calling I got @ school in the late 70s and 80s.

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@jen_jen wrote:

Poli at times your naivety astounds me…at least I hope it is naivety.

My thoughts exactly.

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@sceptical guy wrote:

if it wasn’t Richard, it was some other bug ger.

Unless of course, they committed suicide.

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@desmondy wrote:

History is written by the victors, as they say.

Whoever “they” maybe, they are talking bollards – you only need to look @ Anne Frank to realise that.

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@sceptical guy wrote:

@pepsi wrote:

I remember the Robinson’s golly badges ,,, they were retired in 2002 apparently due to them not being popular any more with families and nothing to do with pc…. :lol:

I also recall there being a mainstream entertainment show in the late 70’s called ‘The Black and white Minstrels’ ….. eeek !

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I saw the Black and White Minstrels live in Morecambe in 1964…with Leslie Crowther…

‘When the red, red robin goes bob-bob-bobbin’ along, aloooog”.

should these lyrics have been banned?

No – the song was written in 1926 so the double entrendes and innuendoes of the 1960s should not be applied retrospectively.

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@rogue trader wrote:

this bloke scares me more

Bloke? It’s bear cosy, ffs!

:D

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@tinks wrote:

now that is one really scarey looking person ……i can’t believe how long it’s taken to get him out.

Wasn’t this a song by Randy Crawford where she sings,

“Hamaz, You lucky lucky thing.”

:D

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