http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...g-2350560.html

Hey neighbours - get a life FFS

 

Ridiculous

 

I wonder if the O'Donnells are 'coloured*' people?

For what it's worth, my 5 year old son has a Golliwog in his bedroom....



*am I allowed to say that in these PC times?

 

Yes, they are.

Although that "little" fact was in the paper this morning, it's been removed from the website...

 

"History of difficulties" ... we don't know the entire story. Maybe she went off on one at the cops when they arrived and said something she shouldn't have.

It's a bit odd that one would display a childs toy in the window.

J.

 

one would assume the situation was that the neighbours asked for it to be removed from the window and she refused.

the BBC find the term offensive, so i guess it's not a great stretch for the doll to also be offensive.

 

This was 5 years ago in my home town.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...golliwogs.html

Some people have too much time on their hands.

 

The Independent has also removed the picture of her house - it's massive. The neighbours would need a telescope to see in through the windows.

CPS always ready to target the "easy" cases.
How many prosecutions do they bring against gypsies?

 

just because it's your house, doesn't mean you can put anything offensive in full view of the public.

 

Hardly offensive though. PC tripe more like. So f*cking glad I don't live down south when it comes to this stuff.

 

I wondered that myself, as you do get multi racial dolls in other forms

however, what constitutes as offensive ranges from the objective to the subjective. just because you find something inoffensive, does that nullify the feelings of someone else ?

i would have taken the doll out of view and apologised. life's too short and i don't have the spare time to go to court to defend my principles.

 

As an Englishman, I find these totally offensive...

http://www.walesdirectory.co.uk/Wels...owergirl01.jpg

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...zJ8Oal3wtetHR7

But strangely, not this...
http://www.gollydollies.co.uk/images...roductpic1.jpg

 

Momma mia!

 

your going down for a ten stretch for that mate

im hugley offended! lol

 

What a load of utter B******s

 

It's the thin end of a wedge. I'm a polite person and would never intentionally offend anyone. This is just a case of people with nothing better to do. Obviously I can't say what I would do at the time, but I'm not a fan of this stuff at all. Seems very petty behaviour in my opinion.

Worth going to court over? Maybe not, but I would not want to have anything to do with the kind of people who'd go to that extent over something so trivial.

If something like this hurts their feelings, they can't have much to worry about!

 

What a load of bo%%ocks!!!!

 

Was she watching this on a 50" plasma visible from the road?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1RuOrWo_P0

Joking aside and assuming the neighbours are black, its hard to believe her actions were not deliberate given a history of difficulties.

 

By putting a single toy behind a closed blind? yea right....

 

I have one pretty much the same, we gave him a name, but I dare not speak of him.

He's a bit of an antique, and is now in the loft, where he is safe.

Nobody we know was ever offended, but then I wouldn't display it in our living room window, as I know somebody would be sensetuve enough to get their knickers in a twist over it.

 

QUALITY

 

I suppose you have to turn the whole business around to get a true aspect of the situation.

If you were in an African or West Indian country, would anyone as a white person be offended by seeing a white doll in someone's window even if it represented a disreputable looking tramp.

I wonder what reason was given for the possibility of the golliwog actually being offensive by the complainant. It has been a children's traditional doll for years and years back. It is not as if a golliwog has an offensive or unpleasant appearance in any way. It was a doll to be loved by children. Quite ridiculous for the PC Plonkers to start making a fuss about it.

The Black and White minstrel show was very good to see and in fact did a lot to promote black people in this country since the performances and songs were pleasantly entertaining.

Les

 

Are we all really that stupid on this forum to think that this was not a deliberate attempt to offend the "black" neighbours with whom they have a" history of difficulties".

Now i have no problems with golliwog dolls, but the black and white minstrel type depiction of black people was shall we just for the purpose of discussion settle for the term "less than flattering" and did nothing for black people other than make them appear stupid.

And while i have no time for pc bull crap i can see how the neighbours might take offence and want to teach them a lesson for trying to be smart *****.

Oh and i don't care what people call me i'm old school and i can usually throw insults and or punches with the best of them.

Names are just words and i have no problem calling a spade a spade, wog or nig nog as jim davidson and many other very funny comics of that time used to, and me and my father ( who was black fyi) used to cry with laughter at this stuff, and we never missed an episode of love thy neighbour or rising damp.

 

When I worked in post apartheid SA, I nearly spat my tea over the TV one morning when on SABC1, they showed a re run of love thy neighbour!

Steve

 

My little one

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...ess-stunt.html

Bit old but its all mad!

 

I remember a teacher at my primary skool in the early 70's reading us this -
http://www.golliwogg.co.uk/books/littleblacksambo.htm

How times have changed....

 

I had one when I was a kid. I called Him ******! My mum told me that I had to keep it in the loft as it offended loads of people!! I for the life of me don't know why it offended anyone???