What would you do if you had a ginger kid?

[TonsOfFun]

This is one of my greatest fears! Probably still love it like a dad would blah blah blah etc. Female wouldn't be too bad but a male ginger kid!?! Do you get state benifit for such a thing happening? I mean you'd have to start saving for therapy sessions right away from when the kids is about 14 otherwise he might burn down every hair salon in the country :eek: And all the sun lotion you'd have to buy, even in winter!

I feel bad when I see ginger kids.

[louise]

you mean with red hair ??? :o

[TonsOfFun]

well red hair would be cool. I mean ginger <-- A bit like this colour. But if it was RED, like this colour then I'd be ok with that.

You see there is s ginger in our family every 3 generations apparently and my offspring would be in that generation. So it's a rational fear.

But I suppose, I know a few ginger adults and they are fine, but man, kids used to tease the hell out of gingers at school... Kids can be cruel dude!

[louise]

..my youngest daughter is a ginger than......it's okee every body keep telling me that she got a nice colour of hair ! it's ginger with gold.......i would say : you can't do anything about it so...no problems there...better like this than totaly red ( i suppose the way i see it)

[synch]

In the UK it's like this huge thing louise. I reckon it's comparable to what blonde women have to go through :)

A ginger guy is marked for life ;)

[louise]

In the UK it's like this huge thing louise. I reckon it's comparable to what blonde women have to go through :)

A ginger guy is marked for life ;)


ahh thanks...for me i was already happy she isn't a blond.(my daughter).....yes i get it ....i totaly know what you mean...but here ginger isn't a problem what so ever...so she has got no big problems looking forward to her on school the way things look right now !!

[ms.peachy]

I have to say, I was very surprised when I came to the UK at this whole "ginger" thing, and how much antagonism there is towards people with red hair.

I mean I can't speak for all of America, but where I grew up (in and around NYC), it's nothing like any kind of big deal. Someone having red hair might get them called 'flame-head' on the playground or whatever, but in the same way a kid with glasses would be called 'four-eyes' or one with braces would be 'brace-face' or any other of the usual kidstuff teasing that goes on that is largely harmless.

But here it's like A BIG FUCKING DEAL to be 'ginger', and it's, like, a perfectly acceptable thing for grown adult people to mock others for openly. Very very weird. I've been told by some friends that it's the last acceptable form of racism in the UK, because it dates back to the conquering of the Celtic peoples (who are the genetic source of the 'ginger' gene, apparently.)

Crazy Brits.

[BionicEye]

I have to say, I was very surprised when I came to the UK at this whole "ginger" thing, and how much antagonism there is towards people with red hair.

I mean I can't speak for all of America, but where I grew up (in and around NYC), it's nothing like any kind of big deal. Someone having red hair might get them called 'flame-head' on the playground or whatever, but in the same way a kid with glasses would be called 'four-eyes' or one with braces would be 'brace-face' or any other of the usual kidstuff teasing that goes on that is largely harmless.

But here it's like A BIG FUCKING DEAL to be 'ginger', and it's, like, a perfectly acceptable thing for grown adult people to mock others for openly. Very very weird. I've been told by some friends that it's the last acceptable form of racism in the UK, because it dates back to the conquering of the Celtic peoples (who are the genetic source of the 'ginger' gene, apparently.)

Crazy Brits.


I completely agree. Besides I was in love with the hottest redhead in the world when i was in high school. She was red and freckly but insanely hot.

[synch]

I spend a lot of time on a message board with 90% brits on them and I noticed the same.

Very very peculiar :)

[synch]

She was red and freckly but insanely hot.
See? You are implying that normally red and freckly women can't be hot but this particular one was :)

I think it's either a cultural thing or a biological...

I hate to generalize entire groups of people but from what I've seen around me red heads are often either absolutely gorgeous or very plain, not many are inbetween.

[TonsOfFun]

There was this american girl at our school who had ginger hair and she was hot. I liked her but she kinda got teased by people for being ginger, by my mates and cus I didn't joined in, I got teased for fancying a ginger haired girl, which I did but didn't admit to. Fucking peer pressure man, it fucks up people for life. Thinking about her now, man I wish I got to know her outside of school. I can't even remember her name to look her up now :o

There was this one kid (male) who I grew up with at the same schools from 4 years old to 15 (when I left) but we used to tease the hell out of him, Bigger bullies used to hit him, proper cruel stuff. Feels wrong. He used to fight back, which was good for him but when he did, more bullies used to have a go.

If I have a ginger kid that is male then, I could say, fight the fuckers back but if school doesn't change too much then the poor kid'll messed up!

I suppose I'd have to move to America or Holland in that case, which wouldn't be too bad, could get used to the customs, especially in Holland! (y)

America maybe! GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS! *shudders* j/k

[voltanapricot]

My friend and her sister are redheads and were never accepted my one side of the family purely because every redhead before them was a complete bastard. So her grandparents would spoil the two brunette siblings but wouldn't look at my mate or her sister, in case they were, er, evil. :confused:

[Gareth]

yeh gings get a hard time here too, its shitballs.
i like gings.

[voltanapricot]

This thread reminds me of that Catherine Tate sketch (the only one that really made me laugh) of a ginger persons home [protected from abuse]:

*two girls break into a fight*
Girl 1:"YOU'VE NO RIGHT TO BE HERE!"
Girl 2:"I've every right as you!"
Girl 1:*grits teeth* "But you're strawberry blonde, oh! Look at this! Getting a tan are we?"

[TonsOfFun]

not bothered tho am a...

I actually really like that show! (y)

[voltanapricot]

Catherine Tate:"Wgy are you here if only your son is ginger?"
Brunette:*places hand on chest* "Because...I am a....carrier."

Anyway I would like to be a gingaaa, actually, because it's different. I'm auburn, but that's not close enough. :mad:

[Beckalina]

I am a ginger carrier.

but the way i see it is, if i have a ginger kid they can become an actor and play all the ... erm... ginger roles, and in 15 years time when the harry potter films are re-made they can play a weasley.

[Loppfessor]

I thought this thread meant "ginger" like as in what if you're kid is a "wiener boy" or total wuss. If that were the case I'd just beat and torment them until they became tough. But shit making fun of some poor lil red head that's just mean. Besides I think I'll be okay considering I have black hair and brown eyes and I'm pretty sure the woman I have kids with will to

[Mr_Complex]

I'd be very suprised and suspect that she had been having an affair with my mate Ginger Greg.

[louise]

Besides I think I'll be okay considering I have black hair and brown eyes and I'm pretty sure the woman I have kids with will to


doesn't say a thing my husband was blond untill 16 years old know darker (towards brown )...i have brown eyes and brown hair...so we didn't thought that it was possible too but it CAN ....

[JBernas]

I find it really strange that having "ginger" hair is looked at so harshly......it's almost as if they were disabled or something....it's JUST a hair color. weird.

[Calimero jr.]

That's not even an eventuality in my mind....anyway they buy children to enslave in some countries, don't they ?? :D

[miss soul fire]

What's up with ginger kids?? They are very cute! I don't get it.:confused:

[beastiegirrl101]

I think people with red / ginger hair are adorable...and make them original. I went to school with this girl who hare beautiful red hair and it was naturally curly...I think you should worry more about your kid being healthy than what color he / she hair will be.

[Nuzzolese]

This thread reminds me of that Catherine Tate sketch (the only one that really made me laugh) of a ginger persons home [protected from abuse]:

*two girls break into a fight*
Girl 1:"YOU'VE NO RIGHT TO BE HERE!"
Girl 2:"I've every right as you!"
Girl 1:*grits teeth* "But you're strawberry blonde, oh! Look at this! Getting a tan are we?"


Catherine Tate:"Wgy are you here if only your son is ginger?"
Brunette:*places hand on chest* "Because...I am a....carrier."



This was fantastic.
Who says Brit humor isn't any good?

[TonsOfFun]

Who says Brit humor isn't any good?

germans

[Lindsey_1535]

I LOVE GINGER HAIR....


















RED TOOOO!!

[TurdBerglar]

what the hell?


you're lucky guns arent that available over there. these redheaded kids would would put our school shooting kids to shame. i don't remember anybody ever gettting teased for being "gingers" in school. all the dudes thought the chicks were hot and the chicks thought the dudes were cute that were "ginger". i've never heard of this shit before. and it kind of pisses me off.

[HEIRESS]

the year I spent dating a redhead was an extremely passionate time in my life

extremely

[Nuzzolese]

I guess they should start drowing them, the way ancient Chinese families allegedly did with unwanted daughters.

[franscar]

I was corrected in my Spanish oral exam by the teacher when I said I had ginger hair. She told me it was in fact blonde.

That had quite an effect on me in later life.

[Nuzzolese]

We don't even call it Ginger. It wasn't until last year that I became aware of that as a term for "redhead" but it sounds prettier anyway.

[franscar]

We don't even call it Ginger. It wasn't until last year that I became aware of that as a term for "redhead" but it sounds prettier anyway.

I said "pelirojo", to which she replied, "NO. RUBIO!"

I remember very little Spanish, but I'll never forget that. :(

[Nuzzolese]

Yeah, like Qdrop's chick for one.

[paul jones]

If it was a boy I'd call him Rusty and take him to Wally World

[JBernas]

If it was a boy I'd call him Rusty and take him to Wally World

In the Wagon Queen Family Truckster (in metallic pea) (y)

[zorra_chiflada]

i'm a carrier!
my father has (had) red hair (did you know that red hair never goes gray? at the age of 80, his hair is still brown)
he has skin cancer though.

[Documad]

I remember years ago reading a British music magazine and that guy from Simply Red was going on about the bias towards ginger-haired people and I thought wtf? I figured he was a pretty gruesome guy and not because of the hair.

[TonsOfFun]

That guy is just ugly.

I think Karma bit me in the ass today. I was dying my hair red and when I washed it out it was ginger. I think it was because I was using Henna rather than the normal dye I use. I know Henna is not always that great on bleached hair. But the other stuff is not that great when I do swimming cus it doesn't stay in.

So yeah, I had ginger hair, but I wanted a pillarbox red colour. So now I've gone back to my normal red hair dye which I've just put in, so I'll have a pillarbox red colour soon :)

I did look good as ginger person tho. But you could tell it was dyed. I think it's more ginger kids who get a raw deal and I'd feel bad for the kid if she/he was my own. When they grow up they'll be alright cus kids aren't as cruel.

[voltanapricot]

I need fresh ginger jokes to tease my flame-haired mate.

[TonsOfFun]

give him/her a mirror

[voltanapricot]

Hahah!

I remember years ago reading a British music magazine and that guy from Simply Red was going on about the bias towards ginger-haired people and I thought wtf? I figured he was a pretty gruesome guy and not because of the hair.
This reminds me, as I'm looking at universities, I was grabbed by an amazing peice of editing in the Manchester prospectus:

"We apologize for Mick Hucknall."

:D

[Rancid_Beasties]

I still like that song about ferris wheels or rides something, it had a cool drum line.

[fucktopgirl]

i love red hair,,,its rare and original!! (y)

i know a women who was blond,get pregnate,,and then turn ginger!!!

red hair are hot,,,Conan Obrien!!! :p

[mp-seventythree]

ginger pubes

[avignon]

I was corrected in my Spanish oral exam by the teacher when I said I had ginger hair. She told me it was in fact blonde.

That had quite an effect on me in later life.
Strange, I didn't picture you as either a blond or a ginger. But then the only picture I've seen of you, you had this weird thing on your head.

[monkey]

my best friend (and her brother) have the most beautiful "ginger" red hair. no one ever made fun of them. my dad's nickname for my friend is "peliroja" which is redhead in spanish.
my grandma was a redhead too, but not ginger.
my family has that redness.
i think it's cute.




i have freckles. no, i wont let you see them.

[TonsOfFun]

Me with red hair. Now this is how red hair should look! The first looks like it's on my face before you say anything. It's not, I think it's just the refelection from the flash, none on my back though which I'm glad to see, cus sometimes you miss a spot that dribbles down!

http://www.gethical.com/meredhair.jpg
http://www.gethical.com/meredhairback.jpg

I did this today and the pictures are just now...

[redhead]

i must say i am a bit upset over this hatred in the UK... :(

[IDIOTSVILLE]

if i had a ginger kid, i would go and buy a shotgun

[b-grrrlie]

Sometimes I think Brittons are so narrowminded and still live in the Victorian era. I never understood this dislike of red-haired people either. It doesn't make their brains any different.
I have loads of red-haired friends, one of them was married to a red-haired Englishman and all their kids are redheads with loads and loads of freckles. And they live by the sea so you can think how much sunblock they have to buy every summer! :eek:

[TonsOfFun]

I was gonna say a blonde joke but your swedish and that would of led us into me being more narrow minded.

I'm guessing you've never heard jokes or satire or sarcasm in that sense ever? Cus it's exactly the same and even though you've never laughed at such jokes, do you really think all Brits would not love their own child cus they was ginger?!


Damn right we would :mad:

seriously though, why do you think your ginger mate went abroad?

Ok, serious seriously now. I'll get my coat but lighten up!!

[beastieangel01]

I reckon it's comparable to what blonde women have to go through :)


so like they are a lot of ginger jokes? or they are considered to be ugly? or both?

because I know that at least in grade school, blondes don't get made fun of for being blonde. Also, there may be a lot of blonde jokes, but there are plenty of people here who love blondes.

I feel confused by this comparison.

[b-grrrlie]

I was gonna say a blonde joke but your swedish and that would of led us into me being more narrow minded.

I'm guessing you've never heard jokes or satire or sarcasm in that sense ever? Cus it's exactly the same and even though you've never laughed at such jokes, do you really think all Brits would not love their own child cus they was ginger?!


Damn right we would :mad:

seriously though, why do you think your ginger mate went abroad?

Ok, serious seriously now. I'll get my coat but lighten up!!
I am not Swedish and I'm not blond.
You can make Swedish girls eyes tinkle if you light a flashlight in their ears.

[TonsOfFun]

I am not Swedish and I'm not blond...

YES, BUT...

[fucktopgirl]

i am blond and got some viking in me!!!

command say you blond jok
let see if it funny!!!! :cool:

i did have a shirt one day,
direction was write on the shirt "head is hear,here is your left arm,here is your right arm"

it help me a lot to put it on! :p

[CrankItUp!]

Ginger from Gilligan's Island is (y) (y) (y)

[Documad]

This reminds me, as I'm looking at universities, I was grabbed by an amazing piece of editing in the Manchester prospectus:

"We apologize for Mick Hucknall."

:D
That's fabulous!

I was just talking the other day about how I can't understand this insane bias. My red-headed friend mentioned that when she was in England, some people were down right mean.

[scotty]

Me and my daughter have red hair and we rule. Red hair is the best and the rest of you people are in denial about the natural superiority that we hold over the other hair colours.

Plus redhead guys get more chicks.

[Kid Presentable]

Blood Nuts.

[discopants]

In the UK it's like this huge thing louise. I reckon it's comparable to what blonde women have to go through :)

A ginger guy is marked for life ;)

GINNER!!!!