So, c'mon then let's dust down all the Bernard Manning jokes. I presume we are all comfortable with racism and homophobia. After all...
It's a joke ffs get over it!
Oh and...
Coyote is clearly ginger
Used to be a luxurious brunette. Now have it down to the wood. Grumm pretty much sums up my thoughts.
I imagine that's a bit easier to say if the joke isn't ALWAYS about you though.
get a set of clippers and endure the baldy jibes then. 
Well being of the slightly folically challenged nature, I get the mick taken out of me as well. But I don't bloody whinge about it, I take the mick back and laugh and joke and generally enjoy life instead of being offended at everything. Some folk need some lighten up juice seriously.
...another thing why are all the smilies bald?
I am really offended now, can I sue STW towers?
...another thing why are all the smilies bald?I am really offended now, can I sue STW towers?
I too am offended I demand them to be withdrawn!!!!
FWIW, I don't have a problem with adults sharing racist or ginger jokes among themselves. In the pub, or the comedy club, or on this forum, or whatever the right environment. But that crosses the line IMHO as it puts the joke in an environment where it can cause someone issues, and as I said, I'd welcome you to come round to my house and tell that joke to my wife and kids and suffer their reaction!
Well being of the slightly folically challenged nature, I get the mick taken out of me as well.
Yeah you're talking about adults though aren't you - who presumably are confident enough to take it. Like I said I would happily give that card to an adult friend.
Don't see why it's 'PC gone mad' to think that bullying ginger children isn't a particularly nice thing to do.
Edit: djglover - yup exactly
just out of interest, I just trawled back through the short jokes thread and found at a quick glance:
dyslexia
epilepsy
irishness
being female (and hence menstruating)
Madeleine McCann
dwarfism
people with speech defects
people with missing limbs
transexuals
ageism
Why not the same sense of outrage on any of these?
Because they don't afflict any of you, I'd guess. Or do you find pretty well all jokes offensive at some level?
...another thing why are all the smilies bald?I am really offended now, can I sue STW towers?
I quite like them being a slap head myself.
Or do you find pretty well all jokes offensive at some level?
In the right context, no. A lot of jokes can be extremely funny or offensive depending on the context. Not sure that I'm too comfortable with picking on a group of *kids*. But hey, if that floats your boat knock yourself out.
2 of the guys I ride with are ginger and they get the p!ss ripped on a regular basis. Quite right too in my opinion, although I'd draw the line at saying that they were loved by Santa and tescos should quite rightly be chastised for those cards.
Coyote is clearly Ginger
This made me smile.
Coyote - MemberSo...
It would be OK to say;
"Santa loves all kids, even paki ones"
"Santa loves all kids, even black ones"
"Santa loves all kids, even spastic ones"
Only if it's true .................. there's no point lying to kids.
Although personally, I can't stand the arsehole, so I wouldn't be surprised if he was a racist bigot.
...............never did figured out why I didn't get a Scalextric set.
Apparently the truth is Tescos had to withdraw it as it was false advertising, no one loves Ginger kids.
OK, from the above we should ban humour as just about every joke on the thread about short jokes has something that could offend someone or something. Every popular comedian gets close to the 'line' and therefore should all be charged with offensive behaviour. I would use a smiley but as pointed out previously they offend people.
So mods, any humourous threads must now be closed immediately, all smilies must be removed, any subject that divides opinion must be removed etc, etc
I despair
Gingerism,
the last bastion of acceptable bullying! I confess I do make fun of ginger friends, just the same as my hairy friends, overweight friends etc and they make fun of me, but... Funny as it may be kids do suffer as a result of cards like that. Someone made a list of previous tasteless joke victims, but you don't see any of them on Christmas cards.
Ban everything!!!! Equilibrium is coming!!!!!!!!
So mods, any humourous threads must now be closed immediately, all smilies must be removed, any subject that divides opinion must be removed etc, etc
As explained above, its about context - eg jokes that might be acceptable in the pub with your mates might not be acceptable for a teacher to say in school
Is the concept really so hard to grasp?
( and I will point out to all the po-faced internet heroes that I am fat, ginger and going bald - I'm off to rip my own throat out ).
Are we in school?
dyslexia
epilepsy
irishness
being female (and hence menstruating)
Madeleine McCann
dwarfism
people with speech defects
people with missing limbs
transexuals
ageism
there was a joke about Hora?
Tescos were just being nice.
In reality he proper hates ginger kids
I think Grumm sums it up pretty well so far
As for comedians getting near the bone - they can do this [as can your mates]because we know they do not mean it.
Imagine if Nick Griffin told a racist joke for example.
Again Gingerism is the last area where we are allowed to pick on people I just see it as bullying really. We have stopped mocking other groups why do we continue with ginger people ... no one has even attempted to answer that one yet.
We have stopped mocking other groups why do we continue with ginger people ... no one has even attempted to answer that one yet.
Probably associated with all that raping and pillaging their ancestors were responsible for.
Again Gingerism is the last area where we are allowed to pick on people
Not sure about that. We've got a lad at work who in three months has not shown even an inkling of initiative, and in that short space of time he has picked up the following nicknames
Fungus (looks like Fungus the Bogeyman)
Pooh Bear (a bear of very little brain)
Daddy Mac (one half of Kris Kross, after he came in to work one morning with his polo shirt on back to front and sat through the morning briefing completely oblivious)
So we can still take the mickey out of kcufwits as well.
Not funny for kids....they can't change can they? it and assume its pretty much continual throughout their school life 
Wife had a hard time at school, my Mrs still hates standup cos she knows she'll get the p**s ripped every time...though last time some Aussie comic looked at me and said "he's a bit burly I'll shut up now"...
ah but you dont mock the black ones, the disabled, the gay one do you ?
As I said I am not trying to ban humour or mocking but just about things you cant alter - I assume the lad above could pay more attention to whether his polo shirt is on the right way round for example but doubt he can do much about his intelligence[or lack of] so that may be un fair or unkind ... I guess it depends on whether everyone takes the poi55 out of everyone though or the motive or the motive behind it humour can be inclusive or exclusive so it depends.
At our works for exampl I mock the Muslims here and the gay ones and at times as they mock me for mountain biking and not eating meat it can just be harmless banter but gingerism is STILL socially accepted where as a all the other isms are generally frowned apon.
Nice answer ernie bit I reckon the ginger ones may be the aboriginals here and the reast of us immigrants 
Having spent my younger school years being bullied for nothing other than the colour of my hair, I recall how i used to plead with my mother to have it dyed black. Because, frankly, being verbally and physically abused day and night (prep school) because of the way you look is pretty grim after a while.
I couldn't GAS as an adult, as there's always a riposte for a c*ck thinking they're funny having a go at you for the way you look. Usually they are stupid (mainly stupid) or northern.
However, I draw the line at tearing out throats. Have you seen the mess an artery makes? 
Probably associated with all that raping and pillaging their ancestors were responsible for.
Eh? The celts were here first. Now gerroff my manor..!
I imagine that's a bit easier to say if the joke isn't ALWAYS about you though.(I'm not a ginger by the way )
Joke isn't ALWAYS about ginger kids though is it. I remember, as a kid, that ANY feature was used to pick on you. Tall, small, fat, thin, ear size, hair style, hair colour, face shape, upbringing, parents car, parents hair colour, parents choice of garden shrubbery. There's a whole raft of cards out there that put posh old fashioned people in a bad light, should they be upset too?
There IS a line, but I don't think that card crosses it. There's a difference between something being used as humour and something being used in spite. Turn it round and say "northern kids" or "blonde kids" and I wouldn't give two hoots, in fact I'd probably laugh out loud despite having been both.
ha ha ha. look at her ginger kids!
cant complain them away can you fatty??!
No one is saying kids are not cruel I am just suggesting adults should have grown out of it.. I assume you dont act like a child and pick on people who are Tall, small, fat, thin, ear size, hair style, hair colour, face shape, upbringing, parents car, parents hair colour do you?
It's all balls. I'm a right little shortar$e & get some proper stick at work, 'oy Bilbo', 'now then Bonzai', 'right there's 4 of you searching this morning, take Jimmy & he can do under the beds', etc etc etc. Even Officer Rahim takes the pi$$, but would I dare say anything back to him about his ethnicity, no but I do take the mick out of his accent.
Frankly i couldn't care less cos If theyr'e taking the water out of me theyr'e leaving someone else alone!
I guess it depends on whether everyone takes the poi55 out of everyone though or the motive or the motive behind it humour can be inclusive or exclusive so it depends.
I would say so yes. It's an environment were any display of stupidity is pounced on and the piss taken, whoever it is. I think it would definitely come under the umbrella of banter rather than bullying.
ha ha ha
'under the beds'. i like it.
sorry.
Again Gingerism is the last area where we are allowed to pick on people I just see it as bullying really. We have stopped mocking other groups why do we continue with ginger people ... no one has even attempted to answer that one yet.
Except that we haven't stopped mocking all other groups of people, what we have done is stopped mocking a few groups of people that have been seriously oppressed by society in the past. I'm pretty sure that we haven't enslaved gingers, or passed any anti-ginger legislation, but I'm a dumb blond, so what do I know! 
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