What's wrong with ginger?

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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    vital5 wrote:
    Your body's natural defences kicked in due to your abuse and made your hair darker.... kinda like a chamelion's natural defences when in danger.

    Working on that theory, you're mouth should be all but healed up tight, eventually ;)
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    jamie uk wrote:
    Working on that theory, you're mouth should be all but healed up tight, eventually ;)
    I think i'll go eat worms...
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Newsflash for you, we don't judge people on their haircolor over here.
    This is a totally new thing for me to hear about and quite frankly it is pretty pathetic.

    No.... i was talking about the fact someone confused Australians as "(having) a big mouth, and over inflated sense of their own importance"
    when it's trully the US of A. Just setting them right. They seemed confused is all... nothing to do with Gingers
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    jamie uk wrote:
    Nah, no confusion We'll add 'completely ignorant to the fact that the rest of the world finds them completely ignorant' to the list of stereotypes shall we?



    p.s....not you Jeanie

    Phew!!! **wipes brow** I feel better now!! :p

    You gotta watch out for them young, dumb, fulla....oh yeah, well just watch out hey??? ;)

    As to gingers, well mostly we nickname em all Blue here. :D

    And I'm sure that many of you are well aware of my ginger fetish. :D:o
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Newsflash for you, we don't judge people on their haircolor over here.
    This is a totally new thing for me to hear about and quite frankly it is pretty pathetic.


    We and I use the term loosely, don't over here either trix. :)
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  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Jeanie wrote:
    As to gingers, well mostly we nickname em all Blue here. :D

    And I'm sure that many of you are well aware of my ginger fetish. :D:o

    why 'Blue'? :confused:

    and yes, ginger fetishes are the way forward ;)
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    why 'Blue'? : confused :

    and yes, ginger fetishes are the way forward ; )

    Tis just the warped Aussie sense of humor. :)

    Opposite of red I guess, I dunno, I'll go hunt up the origins but yeah, clearly not blue. :D I guess we've always done it. I can't count how many red head friends I've got that have the nickname Blue. :)

    I never even realized but someone mentioned it to me and then I noticed, a greater percentage of my friends and guys I've dated have been red headed. :) I think it's lovely. :)
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  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    Jeanie wrote:
    Phew!!! **wipes brow** I feel better now!! :p

    You gotta watch out for them young, dumb, fulla....oh yeah, well just watch out hey??? ;)

    As to gingers, well mostly we nickname em all Blue here.

    And I'm sure that many of you are well aware of my ginger fetish. :D
    I too have a ginger fetish... can't cook a stir fry without it :p

    um.... i don't care for Blue... yes in the past it was common to call them blue... but... I have had my eyes opened... calling them ginger... and carrot top... but i surely use it as a term of endearment... ;)

    blue is far from calling someone a ginger minge heh
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Jeanie wrote:
    Opposite of red I guess, I dunno, I'll go hunt up the origins but yeah, clearly not blue. :D I guess we've always done it. I can't count how many red head friends I've got that have the nickname Blue.

    I never even realized but someone mentioned it to me and then I noticed, a greater percentage of my friends and guys I've dated have been red headed. :) I think it's lovely. :)


    yeah I'd be interested to know the origins of that funny ol' nickname!

    I always used to feel sorry for my twin bro' growing up cuz he got picked on so much for being ginger... I never realised i'd end up with one! :o
    but you're right, it is lovely :)
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    maybe the hate for gingers stems from people being Albino.... hmmmm i just thought of that. Not that i really hate either Ginge Minge's or Albinoes.... i have never associated with either of them.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    vital5 wrote:
    I too have a ginger fetish... can't cook a stir fry without it :p

    um.... i don't care for Blue... yes in the past it was common to call them blue... but... I have had my eyes opened... calling them ginger... and carrot top...

    Ginger in cooking is good. :)

    Ginger hair is also lovely, or blue, whatever you want to call it. :) I usually go with whatever the person prefers. :)

    Don't know too many that have a preference for being called carrot top.
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  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    vital5 wrote:
    maybe the hate for gingers stems from people being Albino.... hmmmm i just thought of that. Not that i really hate either Ginge Minge's or Albinoes.... i have never associated with either of them.

    At the pub where I used to work there was an albino guy who used to walk past at the same time every morning... we called him 'Whitey'.

    He looked like Whitey from Me, Myself and Irene.

    Lovely bloke :)
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    Jeanie wrote:
    Ginger in cooking is good. :)

    Ginger hair is also lovely, or blue, whatever you want to call it. :) I usually go with whatever the person prefers. :)

    Don't know too many that have a preference for being called carrot top.
    blue hair is something grandmothers do hehe
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    yeah I'd be interested to know the origins of that funny ol' nickname!

    I always used to feel sorry for my twin bro' growing up cuz he got picked on so much for being ginger... I never realised i'd end up with one! :o
    but you're right, it is lovely :)

    http://www.abc.net.au/sa/stories/s881913.htm

    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Australian_English_vocabulary

    Having trouble finding the origins but here's a few little bits.

    It's possible it just evolved like so many of these things did.

    Blue is an affectionate term though. I recall someone saying to me once that it was because it's the opposite of red and that red heads are firey and more inclined to blue. (as in argue) :D but bluey is also considered like "me old mate" and very much a good thing. :)

    I'll keep looking. :)

    xxxxxxx
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    vital5 wrote:
    blue hair is something grandmothers do hehe

    I've had blue hair on more than one occasion and I'm not even a Mummy, so no chance of being a granny. :)
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  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    Jeanie wrote:
    I've had blue hair on more than one occasion and I'm not even a Mummy, so no chance of being a granny. :)
    you're ahead of your time! ;)
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    vital5 wrote:
    you're ahead of your time! ;)

    Ha!!! :D Been known to be!!! And not always in a good way! ;):D
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  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    Jeanie wrote:
    Ha!!! :D Been known to be!!! And not always in a good way! ;):D
    Interesting... DO TELL the 50,000 board members... ha
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    vital5 wrote:
    Interesting... DO TELL the 50,000 board members... ha

    meh! :p Most of em know already! :D
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  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    Jeanie wrote:
    meh! :p Most of em know already! :D
    rumour monger! :eek:

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