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Original poster

to punch my aunt in the gob?

55 replies

TaggieCampbellBlack · 13/03/2013 21:23

There is history but...

First she talked about golliw*gs loudly.

Then she started on about how Savilles victims were 'precocious 15 year olds who knew what they were doing'.

I didn't punch her but at that point I left.

I hope we don't share may genes.

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TaggieCampbellBlack · 13/03/2013 21:25

It was a funeral so i couldn't make a scene.
I wish i had though.
Sorry.

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Januarymadness · 13/03/2013 21:25

yanbuAngry

LunaticFringe · 13/03/2013 21:25

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timidviper · 13/03/2013 21:29

A while ago I saw a greetings card with a phrase on that I always remember in situations like yours, it said "Friends are God's way of apologising for your family"

Avoid family in future and stick with your friends!

Startail · 13/03/2013 21:29

I'm old enough not to find gollywogs offensive in all contexts, the second comment does require gaffer tape at the very least.

ratspeaker · 13/03/2013 21:35

I think you deserve a pat on the back if not a Nobel Peace prize

ratspeaker · 13/03/2013 21:41

btw I had a doll that I loved, early 1960s, it was called g word. I slept beside it for years, it was a comfort.

SecretNutellaFix · 13/03/2013 21:42

a foot accidentally stuck out as she passed by would have shut her up.

HollyBerryBush · 13/03/2013 21:43

Violence of course is the solution to every comment we disagree with Hmm

SecretNutellaFix · 13/03/2013 21:43

I am joking btw. I don't actually advocate tripping older people up accidentally-done-on-purpose.

Eveho · 13/03/2013 21:43

I'm old enough not to find gollywogs offensive in all contexts

Exactly how young do you need to be to find this totally abhorrent. I'm late 50s and it makes my flesh creep in ALL contexts.

And the second one is just as bad. OP you are the very model of restraint (and don't beat yourself up for not kicking off at a funeral)

ComposHat · 13/03/2013 21:43

She is fucking idiot and like most idiots the less they know the more they have to say for themselves and refuse to entertain that they may be wrong. Arguing with Oxygen thieves like her is a waste of time so ignore the silly old bigot and thank your lucky stars you aren't her.

akaemmafrost · 13/03/2013 21:45

Oh dear Sad. Unfortunately A LOT of that generation seem to hold those opinions.

My Mum says that women who experience domestic abuse should be "stronger" then it wouldn't happen to them Hmm. That makes me pretty livid I can tell you.

Lucyellensmum95 · 13/03/2013 21:45

Take heart that you probably wasn't the only one to think she was a cunt, but fortunately you did not sink to her level. Some people are just stupid

Eveho · 13/03/2013 21:47

To be fair Emma we don't know what generation auntie is. It's perfectly possible that she's the same age as the OP (whose age we don't know either). Let's not stray into ageism in our rush to condemn racism and sexism eh?

ComposHat · 13/03/2013 21:48

op I would like yo extend an invitation to my funeral where you have my permission to hit as many of my bigotted relatives as you like.

Startail · 13/03/2013 21:51

I'm 45 and we had various Robinson golly things. One being my school cookery apron. Lots of happy memories of really bad cooking, things were forever going wrong.

Never vaguely connected them to black people. No ethnic minorities at my school, well except for us English, since I was in Wales.

The only black people I'd ever met were the lovely patient lads who picked up annoying little school girls at Birmingham ice rink. They never once moaned at us getting in the way. Just gently helped us to our feet.

akaemmafrost · 13/03/2013 21:52

How old is your aunt OP?

ClippedPhoenix · 13/03/2013 21:52

having a gollywog as a toy in my day was not offensive. People made them offensive as with most things.

Telling people they are biggots due to this is however offensive.

ClippedPhoenix · 13/03/2013 21:55

Who do you think you are really to call people biggots? that is in itself incitive.

Startail · 13/03/2013 21:56

Mine this week was, what to say when, retired clergyman says he doesn't mind woman bishops if they are like the American one he's met.

He then gave the most lecherous, sexist disruption of a beautiful curvy blond woman you could possibly imagine.

Eveho · 13/03/2013 21:56

Why this obsession with the age of the OP's aunt Emma. As I said I am well into middle age though of course I look years younger and I find her views as abhorrent as the next person and I find it bloody objectionable that they could be perceived as a generational thing.

akaemmafrost · 13/03/2013 21:59

It's not an obsession. Your post made me aware of something I hadn't thought of so I wanted to clarify the position.

ClippedPhoenix · 13/03/2013 22:00

Because people used different language and actually had different toys in those days so why you call it abhorrent is beyond me and I actually thing people like you incite things.

No one can actually talk about things due to throwing these words in all the time.

Lot's of things these days are allowed due to "culture" but in my book a damn racist, but that's ok then?

ClippedPhoenix · 13/03/2013 22:00

are, not a.

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