Language no longer PC

Dotsmum apparently ''a happy ending'' has a different meaning to the one at the end of a story according to younger members of the family..
My GD also mixed race and on applying for PR for her S/S and the court always referred to dual heritage,we live in area where white is the predominant colour,and has often been blamed for things when she hasn't even been there,because she stands out and is easy to remember,a few years back a neighbour made the mistake of complaining about some stones being disturbed outside his house and made the very big mistake of referring to her to my face as the darkie..silly man got both barrels and retreated to lick his wounds 4 years later he still gives me a wide berth and a cringy smile by way of greeting..to make it worse she was actually staying at her granddads 150 miles away when said incident occurred..

I have a glory hole under the stairs - a place where all sorts of"stuff" is trown, sorry carefully put away. When I told one of the next generation to look in the glory hole the other day they all fell about laughing. It means something TOTALLY different now and it certainly doesn't happen in my glory hole - there isn't room for one thing!!

D'yer ever see a Scout
With his shirt hanging out?
Ginger, you're barmy!

Flick how strange - we none of us know what each other looks like (unless we add a photo to our profile and make it visible to others), but I have subconsciously imagined you as having red hair. I have no idea why. Nor was I consciously aware that I had this image of you, not until I read your post about wanting red hair!

Brave woman!

Are you really going to colour it so, FlicketyB?

Apparently 'foraging 'hens produce eggs with bright orange yolks. Just googled it, as I was puzzled too

That's what I thought!

Aren't egg yolks yellow?

FlicketyB The other day, my grandchildren and I were quoting poems that we had learned at school – that gave my memory something of a workout. One I remembered from the 1950s started, "Jemima is my name, but oh I have another…" and ended "But my sister, jealous of my bright red hair, calls Mima, Mima, Mima, mocking down the stair.

I have always been envious of those with red hair. It is the colour hair I have always wanted. As a toddler I had ginger hair, but as I grew the dark took over so that most of my like I have had dark brown hair with (natural) red highlights.

As soon as my hair goes white I am dying it bright egg-yoke red.

People who snear at those with red hair are just jealous

I do regret losing the word gay as I think its old use describes something that is difficult to find in other words.

Shysal My great neice is triple heritage. My neice was half British half Pakistani and her daughters husband was half Italian.

When her daughter, my Greatneice was born she had to be tested for a number of genetic conditions more prevalent in those ethnic groups. Sickle cell disease and Thalassaemia.

At least she will probably be at less risk of Cystic Fibrosis. which is largely a northern european trait.

Changing the subject from Gingas ,when I was teaching in primary school, the children fell about sniggering when I used the word 'knob' as in door knob; and be careful when reading Michael Morpurgo's 'Why the Whales Came ' as there are quite a few shags ( as in sea birds ) in the Isles of Scilly , though that word was in common usage when I was a child.

I had heard much later than my childhood that those with Ginger hair were in certain places considered to be evil, witches or in league with devil

www.thebubble.org.uk/history/redheads-a-minority-overlooked/onepage

It is horrifying in this day and age that such superstions still surface in certain communities.

What an ignorant man, biker! I hope your GS was not too upset.
Three of my GCs are 'mixed race'. I heard recently that this is no longer PC, but they and DD didn't know! Apparently we now have to talk of 'dual heritage'. Of course there will be some for whom triple or quadruple heritage would be more appropriate, it could get complicated!

sorry some of my txt has disappeared,.,, the sponge ball roll into their garden,and the man came out to tell them off.. the man has a child himself.

I am furious at the mo! my GS the one who has auburn hair who I have mentioned in earlier post, has been playing out in my close with his friend, they have been playing with a small soft sponge tennis ball, apparently to the garden of one of the houses, the house have little garden at the front no fence or bushes etc, they are about 4 feet in depth...the man from the house come out to tell them off (yes fair enough) but apparently he said to my GS "and don't eyeball me Ginger"!! I am furious as this man I am pretty sure is in the R.A.F but besides that he is an adult for goodness sake! was there any need to callmy GS that! that! it was bad enough he was made fun of the other week, which resulted in him having his hair cut really short so it wasn't as Auburn!! I really feel like confronting this so called man!

Red headed people used to be nicknamed ginger.

Sorry, Coolgran, didn't see your post.

I think Fanny Adams was a real girl who was murdered and dismembered, so nothing of her was left.

Yes, I did a search and found this account.
www3.hants.gov.uk/curtis-museum/alton-history/fanny-adams.htm

The Sweet F***-**l explanation was added later.

Bikergran, your poor GS, children can be so cruel.

I thought as Ana thought.
So I googled it. A horrific story.

Yes, of course a lot of people didn't know what it meant. Just saying.

I am sure that my mother who used to say 'sweet Fanny Adams' had no idea what it meant. She would have been so embarrassed.