Mr Harp

@Mr Harp wrote:

@Trapper wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

that’s no ‘woman’, harp, that is a welsh woman called Clive lol.

????

That pic is hilarious for a number of reasons, the laptop lead is the longest I have ever seen in my life. The head looks like it has had a Trapper photo-shop and the way he is pushing those already ample breasts even…

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@Trapper wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

that’s no ‘woman’, harp, that is a welsh woman called Clive lol.

????

That pic is hilarious for a number of reasons, the laptop lead is the longest I have ever seen in my life. The head looks like it has had a Trapper photo-shop and the way he is pushing those already ample breasts even further out is…[Read more]

Another excellent article from the Pulitzer Prize winning Guardian. The author a black woman describes eloquently why she personally finds golliwogs offensive.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/feb/06/bbc-race-golliwog

:D

@minnie mouse wrote:

mr harp when u grow a d ick i would love too know u but i might not live that long :D

How scary, I am being threatened by a ‘woman’ who has just admitted to stalking Moon for 13 years. I don’t know what is scarier, that you have been typing these lines for 13 years or that you really do believe them.

:lol:

@sceptical guy wrote:

I did argue why – Boo was used as a counterpoint. Didn’t see the necessity for anything else.

I gave the reason I didn’t like The Guardian as a paper – I particularly dislike the Guardian mindset. I think I’m allowed to. If you want to discuss why, set up a thread, and I may respond to it. If you don’t want to discuss why,…

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@sceptical guy wrote:

@Mr Harp wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

I’ve heard terms like blacklist and blackleg denounced as racist :roll:

The John Seymour article from the Guardian (a paper I really don’t like) quoted by Mr Harp is over the top – assuming that if any kids obtained a golly, they were being absorbed into the racist culture of the adult…

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@minnie mouse wrote:

i have never known mr pats be rude or anything like that and if you dont like a pm after yr years in here moon why didnt u just block him instead of trying too make out yet again your a victim . the only problem with you moon if i may be honest is yourself . sorry but mr pats is always nice and i think your doing this for…

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@sceptical guy wrote:

I’ve heard terms like blacklist and blackleg denounced as racist :roll:

The John Seymour article from the Guardian (a paper I really don’t like) quoted by Mr Harp is over the top – assuming that if any kids obtained a golly, they were being absorbed into the racist culture of the adult world.

Read Boo’s posts to see the…

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Hello again Moon,

An interesting article in the Guardian which says far more eloquently than I could, what I was aiming at in my previous post to you. Read the full post to understand the context.

Btw Moon, keep smiling and don’t take the bait, some posters, persistently, aim your way.

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“Where does one begin? With the dog-whistling about…[Read more]

@Moonshadow wrote:

@boojangle wrote:

@Moonshadow wrote:

@boojangle wrote:

When your kid comes home bleating that she cant clim the ladder lol
what you don’t get is people can be people withought hanging on to insulting .I can see the pitty right now in your doughters eyes,honest I don’t think your a gollywog.make fun of off

Pardon? Sorry Moon but I…

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@Trapper wrote:

Its the context in which it’s used that’s become racist and as such can’t be undone

I absolutely agree with you. Which is why my in opinion is golliwogs are offensive. They immediately became offensive when “wog” was transformed into a derogatory, racist insult, with historical links to the British Empire and slavery.

“However, the suggestion that she did not use an offensive term is frightening. At what point did comparing a black person to a doll, initially described by its creator as ‘a horrid sight, the blackest gnome’, become okay? Am I, and the countless black people that have been called Golliwogs and taken offence, just being bad sports?

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@Blossom. wrote:

@Mr Harp wrote:

@kent f OBE wrote:

Whats with the knickers in a twist? We dont live in an ideal world…..this is a message board and we can give different opinions….some seem to have problems with it because meaybe they are too childish to have a reasonable debate?
Whats wrong with Barbie anyway?…Took me ages to look like…

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@kent f OBE wrote:

Whats with the knickers in a twist? We dont live in an ideal world…..this is a message board and we can give different opinions….some seem to have problems with it because meaybe they are too childish to have a reasonable debate?
Whats wrong with Barbie anyway?…Took me ages to look like her…just waiting for my…

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@Blossom. wrote:

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Maybe we should ban them too.

2015 and daily newspapers still have pictures of young women in their teens, or barely out of their teens, exposing their breasts for men. That’s the UK for you. Good luck changing anything.

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@Blossom. wrote:

I’ve never seen anything but a doll in a golliwog….and never will.

Shall we start a thread on Barbie dolls next (or even one on a Sindy or a Bild Lilli) , as they apparently represent (or used to), the female ideal ?

Wonder what people’s thoughts on that would be.

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@kent f OBE wrote:

No Harpy (may I call you that now you have settled in?)
Your comment got me thinking, and I you are right….to really feel how others would feel, your example was bang on….very similar to walking in someone elses shoes
As for Sceppy pooh…hes big and ugly enough to make his own comments :lol:

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Pat raises an interesting point. Chatroom etiquette, what is acceptable or not. I flirt with people I know reasonably enough not to offend, then someone random will call me a perve. Horses for courses. I don’t think Pat is a perve he can’t be, he has NEVER flirted with me!

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@kent f OBE wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

an interesting discussion, with good posts from Ms K, Wanda and Mr Harp.

Do you know if any Asian/black groups think that the use of gollies is racist, and if so why?.

Ms K, as a fully paid-up member of the Gillingham KKK (does her bum look big in this bed-sheet?), doesn’t seem to be sure.

I don’t think…

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@sceptical guy wrote:

the fate of my brooch turns on the outcome of this debate!

You could just wear it while casually sauntering around places like St Paul’s, South London or Manningham in Bradford. I say that because I doubt you’ll find the answer here.

Good luck with that research.

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