Ginger Pride

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The first time I even heard the term 'ginger' was in reference to a cat...so I learned that all the reddish and white striped tabbies were called gingers. Then I saw an episode on Southpark about gingers. I've been a ginger by choice for the last thirty years, thanks to lady Clairol. :playful: Original color was brown with auburn highlights...now grey.
 
SeaBreeze said:
The first time I even heard the term 'ginger' was in reference to a cat...so I learned that all the reddish and white striped tabbies were called gingers. Then I saw an episode on Southpark about gingers. I've been a ginger by choice for the last thirty years, thanks to lady Clairol. :playful:
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Yeah, I had never heard the term until I saw South Park, too.
 
Ginger jokes:

Q: What do you get when you cross a Jamaican and a ginger?
A: A gingerbreadmon

Q: What do you call it when a redhead goes off the deepend?
A: a ginger snap.

Q: What do gingers look forward to later on in life?
A: Grey Hair

Q: What do you call a redheaded ninja?
A: a ginga

Q: Why are ginger kids lucky?
A: They get their own room when they stay at Michael Jackson's house

Q: How can two redheads become invisible in a crowd of three?
A: When they're with a blonde.

Q: Why do redheads take the pill?
A: Wishful thinking.

Q: What do you call a redhead with an attitude?
A: Normal
 
I love red hair. In spite of having two red headed cousins I seem to have missed the ginger gene because not only did I get no red headed children, the grandkids are also non ginger.

By the way, in Oz we call red heads "Bluey".
 
While we referred to Redheads as having ginger hair, we would never refer to them as a Ginger, or say "he's/she's Ginger", because that had very different connotation when I was young.
It was rhyming slang for Ginger Beer = Queer. So if you called someone a Ginger back then they'd deck you.

They were 'carrots', or more recently 'rangas', and redhaired men were invariably nicknamed Bluey.

The 'ranga' is short for Orangutan, not very PC, but very funny, and pretty much accepted by all now. Even our last PM, a woman, was referred to as 'the Ranga'.

We still don't call them Gingers here as far as I've heard, just Rangas.

I used to wish for hair like my grandmother's. It was that rich dark auburn and I loved it. She had just begun to go grey in her late 60s and and it was still mostly auburn when she died in her 70s. siiiiigh. I got my first bunch of grey for my 30th birthday. Damn!
 
My ex was a redhead (much like carrot top) and one of my children has red hair but a really beautiful red with gold, brown and blond all combined. One night years ago when she was about 15, she woke me up and said "look at my new hair". I did and went back to sleep and truly thought I had dreamed the whole thing. Got up in the morning and looked in her room and sure enough, she had cut it really short and dyed it blue/black. It looked like one of the small motorcycle helmets. Her reason was that red hair had become the "in thing" and she didn't like looking like everyone else who had dyed there hair red. It grew out fast and she hasn't done it since but I thought she had ruined her beautiful head of hair for a while.
 
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