Essex pub replace 'Golliwog' collection seized by police

hewielewie said:
My Nana actually had a book called 'The Three Golliwogs' by Enid Blyton and the characters names were Golly, Woggy and N***er. The whole premise of the stories was that the Golliwogs all looked the same and kept getting mixed up with each other!
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It's like something out of a Little Britain sketch. Sounds made up and exaggerated for "comic" effect it's that ridiculous. 🤯
 
festa5 said:
It's like something out of a Little Britain sketch. Sounds made up and exaggerated for "comic" effect it's that ridiculous. 🤯
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My wife's got the full collection of Enid Blyton books from her childhood and that book is amongst them.

When I was younger I would go to friend's houses and their parents would ask me if my family were half-castes. My nana though would go off it if she thought I was knocking about with protestants and would ask me if my friends were Catholics. Half the time I only knew what religion they were because of what school they went to.

Strange times.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
My wife's got the full collection of Enid Blyton books from her childhood and that book is amongst them.

When I was younger I would go to friend's houses and their parents would ask me if my family were half-castes. My nana though would go off it if she thought I was knocking about with protestants and would ask me if my friends were Catholics. Half the time I only knew what religion they were because of what school they went to.

Strange times.
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Obviously a different era. But very strange looking back now!

This has reminded of a good joke, but I'll post it on the appropriate thread.
 
I had a friend at Junior School whose surname was Whatton. The older kids called him Woggy and I thought it was a nickname because of his surname. I called him it one day and was sent to the Headmasters office. I hadn't a clue what I had done wrong and was mortified when I was told
 
hewielewie said:
I had a friend at Junior School whose surname was Whatton. The older kids called him Woggy and I thought it was a nickname because of his surname. I called him it one day and was sent to the Headmasters office. I hadn't a clue what I had done wrong and was mortified when I was told
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The only black lad in my year at school had the surname Brown.

And yep, everyone called him Browny. And I'm still pretty sure it was because of his surname and never entered anyone's head it could be for any other reason.

Won't have looked good to any casual observers who didn't know that was his name though! 😬😂
 
It was mainly a light-hearted reference to the person I was replying to.
But as it happens, a lot of the Huey, Louie & Dewey jokes revolved around mistaken identity. They were triplets after all.
 
Rofesleg said:
Coincidentally enough - similar to Huey, Louie & Dewey :)
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You mean the identical triplets getting mixed up by people.as they looked alike, vs the whole of a race of people apparently all looking the same.

Apologies you were typing as I posted my message
 
hewielewie said:
I had a friend at Junior School whose surname was Whatton. The older kids called him Woggy and I thought it was a nickname because of his surname. I called him it one day and was sent to the Headmasters office. I hadn't a clue what I had done wrong and was mortified when I was told
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We had a kid in the year above at secondary school who given that nickname by some.
He was of Italian ancestory and had fuzzy hair.
He put a stop to it by braying anybody who called him that, which was fair enough.
This was the 70's btw.
 
Rofesleg said:
Are you using 'pom' ironically?
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Lots of connotations around the word 'pom' - prisoner of her majesty etc. One is that the first nation people of australia first came up with it to describe the white man, think it derived from pomegranate or something. One of those words that we will never know the true beginning of it.

To be fair, I use it myself here sometimes, ironically I suppose, to describe people who just won't blend in to the country and bring their attitudes etc over from the UK and expect the place to confirm to them rather than them conforming to the place.
 
I remember working for Robertsons Jam in the 80s and getting the whole metal badge collection of them for my Aunt. I have to say I wasn't thinking about the racist connotations then and neither was my Aunt. I'll have to ask her if she still has them.
 
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