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Rainbow colours everywhere

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TalkToTheHand123 · 06/06/2026 14:00

Rainbows everywhere. Hi. I walked into the office building yesterday and rainbow stuff everywhere. Nearby nursery has all rainbow colours on fencing and there was an ambulance with rainbow colours. A bit ridiculous?

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Namechangeforthisdilemma1 · 06/06/2026 22:22

custardlover · 06/06/2026 14:14

This is so funny.

Why on earth would children like a rainbow? Outrageous! It’s WELL KNOWN that children HATE rainbows! Stop THRUSTING RAINBOWS DOWN CHILDREN'S NECKS. Colours are disgusting to children!

🤣🤣🤣

Namechangeforthisdilemma1 · 06/06/2026 22:23

Yes, you are being a bit ridiculous.

Rainbow Brite GIF
ExplodingSmittens · 06/06/2026 22:26

Wait till you find out about The Rainbow Street in Gloucester.

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 06/06/2026 22:27

What is ridiculous about rainbow colours OP? What is your AIBU?

FlyingWithBingoWings · 06/06/2026 22:27

Needmorelego · 06/06/2026 14:25

The OP (who hasn't come back) never actually said they didn't like rainbows because it's to do with Pride....
Maybe they're just sad they never found a pot of gold.

I don't know if she found a pot of gold or not but I can tell you what I and many others have found at the end of this LGBTQ+ rainbow....a big pot of shit.

Needmorelego · 06/06/2026 22:28

JustGiveMeReason · 06/06/2026 22:17

Ah, yet another thread where the OP tries to stir up a bit of controversy then never returns. Hmm

Yep....
But in their defence (😁) they never used the word "Pride" but those commenting have decided that's what it must be about.
Personally I have just had a bit of fun talking about keeping felt tip pens in rainbow colour order and whether it's "Indigo and Violet" or just "Purple".

Peakyblinder18 · 06/06/2026 22:32

Eye roll 😏

Seebiscuits · 06/06/2026 22:32

ilovesooty · 06/06/2026 14:03

Has someone told them that the lesbian capital of the north is in there area. 🤣 🌈

Loloblue · 06/06/2026 23:44

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 06/06/2026 19:10

I suspect it’s because everyone claims oppression now. There’s a general weariness at the victimhood everywhere. Even my teen comes home and said everyone at school is always offended. Words are literal violence, rules are oppression, consequences are injustice. I can’t imagine what it must be like to work in a secondary school right now.

Fair comment.

BatFinkk · 06/06/2026 23:57

I used to love a rainbow until it was hijacked by the LGBTQ etc.

ManyShapesOfPasta · 07/06/2026 00:03

Seebiscuits · 06/06/2026 22:32

Has someone told them that the lesbian capital of the north is in there area. 🤣 🌈

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-66441947

Not sure they're keen on actual lesbians though, just the bepenised type.

Halifax central library

Calderdale libraries at centre of row over gender-critical books removal

The removal of some books from Calderdale's library shelves is "not political", a councillor says.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-66441947

Needmorelego · 07/06/2026 00:04

BatFinkk · 06/06/2026 23:57

I used to love a rainbow until it was hijacked by the LGBTQ etc.

It's ok...The Care Bears still have part custody.

Rainbow colours everywhere
RogueFemale · 07/06/2026 00:08

ForSnappySwan · 06/06/2026 15:24

Something like 8 Pride organisers have been jailed for paedophilia in the last year alone.

I'm amazed that's not a bigger story.

This.

RogueFemale · 07/06/2026 00:20

BoredZelda · 06/06/2026 18:47

A whole load on misinformation there but…..now do one for Catholic Priests. And another for Cub Scouts. Shall we stop those organisations too?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kkrxdpndo

police custody photo of Stephen Ireland

Surrey Pride founder jailed for rape of boy, 12

Stephen Ireland, 41, from Addlestone, was sentenced alongside his former partner David Sutton, 27.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kkrxdpndo

Pistachiocake · 07/06/2026 00:25

Rainbow Brite, the ponies with rainbow hair, C&A window logo-if you were born in the 80s,, rainbows were everywhere anyway!

RogueFemale · 07/06/2026 00:26

BoredZelda · 06/06/2026 18:47

A whole load on misinformation there but…..now do one for Catholic Priests. And another for Cub Scouts. Shall we stop those organisations too?

www.gbnews.com/news/bbc-convicted-paedophile-ex-drag-queen-report
"The former drag-queen was organising the first Pride event for Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, when he was caught."

RogueFemale · 07/06/2026 00:34

BoredZelda · 06/06/2026 18:47

A whole load on misinformation there but…..now do one for Catholic Priests. And another for Cub Scouts. Shall we stop those organisations too?

Boyd was a chair of Swindon and Wiltshire Pride from September 2022 to March 2023.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clymmgmxnd8o

A man in a nursing uniform smiles at the camera. His uniform is blue and there is a stethescope around his neck. He has short brown hair and wears rectangular spectacles. The room his is standing in is painted bright blue.

Swindon nurse carried out unnecessary intimate exams on children

Ashley Boyd performed the examinations in pursuit of sexual gratification, a misconduct panel was told.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clymmgmxnd8o

randomchap · 07/06/2026 00:37

BatFinkk · 06/06/2026 23:57

I used to love a rainbow until it was hijacked by the LGBTQ etc.

Awwwww, diddums

randomchap · 07/06/2026 00:38

RogueFemale · 07/06/2026 00:08

This.

Out of how many and how does that compare with the wider population? Those numbers are meaningless on their own

RogueFemale · 07/06/2026 00:51

randomchap · 07/06/2026 00:38

Out of how many and how does that compare with the wider population? Those numbers are meaningless on their own

The number of Pride organisers nationwide are in the hundreds. It's not comparing incidences with the wider population but with the small numbers involved with Pride who have been convicted. If you worked at a company with a few hundred employees and 8 of them were convicted of paedophile offences, it'd be front page news.

FrootyCider · 07/06/2026 00:52

I was at a village fete and saw a woman PAINTING a rainbow on to a child's FACE. She painted a UNICORN on another child's face. What colour was the unicorn's mane? ANOTHER fucking rainbow! It made me sick. Solidarity.

ReflectingPool · 07/06/2026 01:01

I absolutely loved Pride month when I first came out about 30 years ago, but back then it was about LGB & the right to be same sex attracted

As I remember it was Pride day and now it's turned into a month.

ItstoolateformeDaveyourselves · 07/06/2026 01:50

ADHDDoomScroller · 06/06/2026 19:12

Is it really beyond you? You cannot understand why teaching acceptance, inclusion and representation to small children is needed? You are exactly why it's needed actually, you've proved them right!

I am not LGB or TQ+ but surely in a nursery they are just rainbows?! I also have strong beliefs on biology which means that you are the sex you are born with. I also have strong beliefs that you can dress however you want. I also have absolute belief in protecting biological women's spaces.

Noone is teaching under 4s anything about sexuality or this stuff surely? A rainbow is just a rainbow to a nursery aged child. If it is not is bloody well should be!

I cannot imagine a situation where I would be marking an unremarkable fact to me that someone has 2 mummy's or 2 daddy's or whatever else, with a rainbow to children this young.

Or in fact that my very young child would be interested? Families come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and that would be what what my young child understood. It would not be attached to the flag.

Having said that I lived in Manchester 30 years ago and pride was brilliant. Canal street was epic!

ManyShapesOfPasta · 07/06/2026 03:08

RogueFemale · 07/06/2026 00:51

The number of Pride organisers nationwide are in the hundreds. It's not comparing incidences with the wider population but with the small numbers involved with Pride who have been convicted. If you worked at a company with a few hundred employees and 8 of them were convicted of paedophile offences, it'd be front page news.

Also who else in the organisation knew, and are still involved 🤔