What's the big deal?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....tomer-Ginger-Kid.html

So one of the staff at Dominoes Pizza, had wrote on the schoolboys receipt 'Ginger Kid' instead of his name.

Is it at all surprising when his name was Ross Wajtknecht, most would not be able to pronounce it let alone spell it.

[flip_flop]

The point I was (clumsily) trying to make redhelen is that if being described as a ginger kid is so upsetting that the boy was reduced to tears, then he really really needs to toughen up.

[jackthehat]

What was your nick-name, flip_flop ?

[ummmm]

Helen....Ginge didn't get picked on in school. He went round with 3 other gingers...lol. It was funny watching them walking down the corridor like the ginger mafia.

[Bbbananas]

lol ummmm

Flip - your reply wasn't clumsy at all, it was hysterical. My biggest laugh of the day so far x

[Mick-Talbot]

I wouldn't see a problem if the kid never got hold of the receipt (no story obviously if he didn't) but would you laugh if you went into dominos and received your 'miserable old git' receipt AOG ?

[Ankou]

"One poor sod went through his whole secondary school life as spastic spencer becuase he had a wonky eye. "

it doesn't really ecuse it though duzzit. perhaps spastic spencer is sitting in a bedsit somewhere planning a gun rampage revenge on all his old schoolmates. i suspect this particular story is some naff crap attempt at poking fun towards discimnatory laws 'if they mentioned the colour of his skin 'blah blah blah'. the fact that this kid won't go back to dominoes any more because of this incident is a good thing, his receipts later in life won't say 'fatty arbuckle'.

[ummmm]

That would be a bit different the Helen. The majority of our school was Irish/Irish decent. Ginger wasn't unusual. I asked my young cousins if they get any grief...apparently not. Saying that, there's loads of cousins at the school.

[Bbbananas]

I can imagine AOG would love that Mick....

[vulcan]

I don't think flip flop was trying to excuse anything, just pointing out that people and children in particular can be cruel. I have been described in similar circumstances, ie picking up a takeaway as bald man. So what, that's what I am and it made certain I got the right meal.

[anotheoldgit]

You never mentioned kids with a different colour skin flip_flop.

I bet that wouldn't have been 'all in what was considered a good grammar' as you put it?

Surely If they had been so bullied, the perpetrators would have been expelled immediately, and quite rightly so.

[Ankou]

of course children can be cruel. so why do adults working in a pizza chain have to be ?

[flip_flop]

I'm not trying to excuse it Ankou and I'm not saying it is right - what I am saying is that calling names has happened time immemorial and will always continue.

It is a fact of life.

Spastic Spencer went on to become a research chemist and the last time I saw him (probably a couple of years ago) he was due to take up a position at a University in the States.

JTH - I have mad hair when it gets long and therefore was Hairbear from The Hair Bear Bunch.

[Ankou]

good for spencer! i hope he's not planning a chemical bomb!

[Bbbananas]

Or to eradicate the Hair Bear Bunch?

[Ankou]

i could do some beatbox whilst you say that triggs, we could tour the schools and stuff. we'd be the next big thing since grange hill's 'just say no' drugswatch campagin.

of course i'd have to be zammo. you could be roly browning or gripper stebson.

[NoMercy]

How many years have jokes about dumb blondes being doing the rounds?

[ummmm]

It doesn't matter NoM....they don't understand them anyway :-)