Golliwog in the window - should this really be in court?

[Fozzie Bear]

Whareham by poole?

My geography is shite but, yes probably. We would have ended up there after visiting Lulworth. Have I spelt it wrong?

 

[butchersapron]

I think it's right, I've just been through there on train. What is it with these dorset types?

 

[Spymaster]

But - I've not come across another case before where someone displaying an item in their window, which isn't legally considered offensive itself (ie golliwogs aren't illegal), leads to a prosecution.

I've no objection to the woman being buggered by a shark in punishment tbh, I was just wondering about that aspect. And I'm not claiming to be particularly informed about how the law works in that area either.

As has been said, intent is all.

If this rancid old cunt had put a sign in the window saying "Nigger" or "Coon", few would disagree that prosecution would be appropriate.

Yet that's exactly what she has done, except rather than spell it out she thinks she's been clever and implied it instead.

Fuck her. Hope her fucking stables burn down.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I think it's right, I've just been through there on train. What is it with these dorset types?

Yeah I was wondering that too.

Perhaps there's a parallel with people "blacking up" in the North, which a mate up there has mentioned a few times. This:
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news..._row_erupts_after_mayor_s_show_trip_1_2413852

and some stuff about Morris Dancers, from what I can remember. He lives somewhere fairly rural and his local MP seems obsessed with the issue (as in "it's just a bit of harmless fun"), apparently.

 

[Yelkcub]

Back to blacking up. Wtf?

 

[past caring]

Leeds cunt.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Throw the book at the twat.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Golliwogs in shop windows in poole.

I rest my case.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

In Wareham there's a shop which basically just sells Golliwogs. Key rings, fridge magnets, dolls of all sizes, pictures, you name it.

Going in there was like being in a scene from Darius James' Negrophobia.

Reminds me of some of the memento shops you see in small-town USA

 

[butchersapron]

I rest my case.

What case fuckface?

 

[spring-peeper]

In Wareham there's a shop which basically just sells Golliwogs. Key rings, fridge magnets, dolls of all sizes, pictures, you name it.

.

I think they are cute. I have very fond memories of gollliwogs. I'm glad they are collectibles.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

What case fuckface?

Hey, that rhymes - good one!

 

[butchersapron]

I rest my case.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I rest my case.

Doesn't work for you.

 

[butchersapron]

Just did.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Just did.

Why are you still up?

 

[butchersapron]

Why are you still up?

That's it?
To make you look daft and slow.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

That's it?
To make you look daft and slow.

Being able to type quickly isn't the same thing as being clever.

 

[butchersapron]

Being able to type quickly isn't the same thing as being clever.

It helps if you are cleverer than your interlocutor though.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It helps if you are cleverer than your interlocutor though.

I'll bet there's an odd, British way of pronouncing that, too.

 

[butchersapron]

I'll bet there's an odd, British way of pronouncing that, too.

Lots of odd Britishness way of retreating.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Lots of odd Britishness way of retreating.

You see this as some sort of contest, don't you?

 

[butchersapron]

You see this as some sort of contest, don't you?

You're here for the bronze. It's over there. Well done.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

You're here for the bronze. It's over there. Well done.

 

[butchersapron]

...and now a nap.

 

[Firky]

I think they are cute. I have very fond memories of gollliwogs. I'm glad they are collectibles.

Uh huh.

 

[frogwoman]

if you have a gollywog, ffs dont put it in the window unless you want to be thought of as a massive racist

 

[Firky]

if you have a gollywog, ffs dont put it in the window unless you want to be thought of as a massive racist

Or worse. Mistken for spring-peeper.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I think they are cute. I have very fond memories of gollliwogs. I'm glad they are collectibles.

Didn't you get your kids foreskins chopped off for asthetic reasons?

 

[maldwyn]

I was surprised to see one recently on display at the Museum of Childhood, no explanation or context.