My listing has been removed for being offensive.

[ahunf]

We had to remove your listing because it didn’t follow our Offensive material policy. Listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination aren’t allowed.

Obviously eBay thinks it goes against their guidelines. I had no clue and I'm rather embarrassed.

What would you assume I was selling? I want to know if it's obvious to everyone but me.

Thanks.

I think it was Victorian Day. It was 4/5 years ago. I advertised the label and beret. I couldn't find the hat or bag. I may have sold them. I'll probably throw these now lol.

***Dress or bag!! See this is how my head works!!!

Someone might want the hat

Armada 1588 (thanks to a 'Jennings' book I read as a child), that was Sir Francis Drake - ever watched Black Adder? He's in it with Elizabeth I

Great Fire 1666 (Samuel Pepys wrote about it in his diary)

Trafalgar and Waterloo, I forget which is which, one is 1805 the other 1815

I'm amazed no one told you at the time that an evacuee wasn't the right outfit for Victorian day! Your poor daughter must have looked really out of place.

Don't think this has anything to do with Americans not understanding the history. Odds are that the eBay algorithm has lumped in "evacuee" with "refugee" or similar and that's why is was removed

‘Like this but without the bag or dress’
…so just a hat and a naked child, then?

Not sure who was evacuated in the 1800s, but surely they’d have needed clothes and not just a hat 😄

Spot on for the Battle of Hastings

You're a couple of centuries out on the Great Fire but it's in there somewhere because you know that the last three digits are all the same. But it's 1666, not 1888. 1888 is late Victorian - not that far out of living memory.

The Great Fire was just after Charles II was restored to the throne (1660) and the plague was 1665.

Spanish Armada was during Elizabeth I's reign - 1588.

I'm still so confused! What did you write in the eBay listing? @ahunf

Exactly, that's all it is, the evacuees of WW2 didn't have a uniform or costume, it doesn't even look like a 1940s dress. I find this whole thread a bit puzzling and not only the historical inaccuracies.

The great fire of London in 1666 is easy to remember because it looks like a row of houses with fire spreading to the next one along. At least it does if you draw the 6's with square bottoms 😁

Correct for Trafalgar and Waterloo, in that order, 21st October is Trafalgar Day, we got the day off in Gib!

Given the reveal as to what the OP thought was "victorian" and the apparent relevance of "refugee" I suspect it's the rest of the attempted listing that included an accidental offense phrase.

Can't wait for the Daily Heil to find this thread.

Still have no clue how the OP worded the listing.

People don't know how to think logically about guessing though. On Pointless for example, the 100 people might be asked which decade Winston Churchill first became an MP. Very few people would know that for a fact. But even if you had the very very loosest knowledge of who he was you'd be able to work out that it has to be 1890s/1900s/1910s/1920s/1930s/1940s. So you could have a wild stab at one of those, giving you a 1/6 shot. But routinely you get less than 10% getting the right answer. Likewise "what century was Henry VIII born" which surely should be a one in four shot at most.

'Dumb Britain' in Private Eye has a selection of these answers every week. Some of them can be attributed to nerves or are reasonable guesses, but others are just astonishingly wrong.

Girls Fancy Dress Evacuee Beret and Tag

Were there evacuees in Victorian times🤔 My kids wore these type of costumes in primary so not sure what the issue was.

Somebody has to make a long-running TV series about the Post Nan; I could really see Brenda Blethyn in the starring role!

To be fair, absolutely everything that's sold on eBay is actively promoting discrimination, as it's blatantly discriminating against anybody who can't afford to buy it. I know that there are loads of things sold with 'buy it now' these days, but it started as an auction site - which is the sheer epitome of discrimination against the poor.

I find I've got more interested in History as I've got older.
I do think understanding chronology helps, so the Black Death meant fewer farmworkers, which meant they could push for better conditions which led to the peasants revolt. Once I started understanding the connections things seemed easier.

After 12 years with 100% ratings and only selling bits and personal pieces now and again, I got a curt your account has been shut down for fraudulent activity. I tried arguing with bots for 48 hours to no avail and then magically it came back. It is AI bots that are policing the site not real people so a combination of factors in your listing triggered the auto-censors.

It does look a bit like a 1940's dress, but not a child's dress from the era and adult's weren't labelled as far as I know. So as a costume it's a bit of a mash up.

The lack of knowledge about historical events is shocking from the op and a couple of others.

'Dumb Britain' in Private Eye has a selection of these answers every week. Some of them can be attributed to nerves or are reasonable guesses, but others are just astonishingly wrong.

One of my all-time favourites was on a 'celeb' version of The Weakest Link and some woman from Big Brother was asked "Which English Midlands city has a clock tower that is colloquially known as 'Big Brum'?"

She looked at Ann Robinson like she was the stupidest person ever (AR may be a lot of things, but she is not stupid - not that she wrote the questions herself anyway) and told her matter-of-factly that she was wrong - as it was actually called 'Big Ben' and was in London, not the Midlands.

As the old Welsh phrase goes, 'there's none so twp as those who don't know that they're twp' !

That said, I would struggle with older things like pyramids, great wall of China, roman empire, stonehenge

Armada 1588 (thanks to a 'Jennings' book I read as a child)

I was about to post the very same thing. The combination of Jennings's padlock and the phone number of Linbury Court. I remember it from Jennings's song: "Fifteen eighty-eight. Now we shan't be late. Because we know the date. A diddley-iddley-ate."

Trafalgar and Waterloo, I forget which is which, one is 1805 the other 1815

That way round. Waterloo was the end of Napoleon's second period as emperor, so Trafalgar - or anything else involving Napoleon - had to be before that.

Re remembering dates, though, I view it with the same scepticism as George Orwell in his recollection of the Harrow History Prize (see part II of Such, Such were the Joys - NB this is hosted on a Russian domain, so you might be wary of clicking, but this is one of Orwell's essays that everyone should read).