In the light of the Carol Thatcher issue....

[DumbledoresGirl]

....is the exclamation "golly!" offensive?

Just heard on Radio 4, the word derives from the Negro word god. So I suppose it has always been blasphemous, but that aside, is it now offensive?

"So do you actually think that anyone who uses "Jesus" as a swearword should be "done" for a religious hate crime? "

oh no! just heathens

"Or do you think that anyone who uses it as a swearword should be interrogated as to their personal belief system and anyone whose beliefs don't tally with yours should then be "done" even though their actions and intention were exactly the same as the Christian sweary person?"

heathens should be fined and there should be heathen inspectors roaming the streets

christians would carry a card saying they are christians

and if your not a christian - you can't blashpheme

No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Note to self, been watching far too much Monty Python on UKDAVE3+1

sweet jesus

Loving these posts - course all religious rules are made up, and made up by men which is why they're so misogynist!

As for going to hell - all the interesting people go to hell so (if i believed it existed) I'd far rather go there then have to go to heaven with Cliff Richard and listen to him singing for eternity!

Burn in hell with Marc Bolan, Jimi Hendrix and Marilyn Munroe or heaven with Cliff. I know which I'd prefer!

So you're not actually talking about an actual religious hate crime, then, given that there's no "hate" element involved. You're just suggesting that non-Christians should be treated less favourably than Christians (well, probably. Perhaps your heathen inspectors will be fining heathens but be referring any sweary Christians to the Inquisition to be burned at the stake for blasphemy).

Btw, just to keep my post relevant to thread title - think CT is a racist old bint who deserved to be sacked!

Just for the record!

Well quite probably, she strikes me as one of those upper class twit types who think nothing of beating their dogs, shagging their staff and using racist language.

Exactly, although yeeeuuuuccchh at thought of CT shagging her staff (or anyone for that matter!)

She probably doesn't take off her riding boots and uses her whip when she's feeling particularly fiesty!

Barf!!!

You are one sick lady HeadFairy!

No, use it far too refularly for dh's taste

??? @ peachy

Sorry, don't understand!

Oh and latrgely agree with OBM's posts

what you thought of a golliwog when you were three is alrgely iirelevant: three year ols dont do racism, they do whtevr they're taught or play with what is there. Golliwogs were justb there.

Now we know better.

The fact we even have ne at all fills me with horror, can't bin it (its away in the wardrobe, dh's birthay gift aged 1- all he has from his long gone Nan) but I think, if dh were to pass on I would dispose of it the, sad though it is in terms of his Nan bieng more motherly than his Mum ever was, it's just not appropriate now and I would hate for me to go and then somewone to find it and think Ina pproved of the thing iyswim.

spongebrain- had only read OP , sorry- came back again

Peachy -- just a thought, could you get a crafty type to make it over into some other kind of toy, or even incorporate the fabric into something else? Then you have the sentimental tie but in a better form.

I culod do that PandL (I was a doyenne of A&C when I started here LOL, just got distracted by life) but Dh wouldn't let me near it atm,., good idea for one day.

Bum
Bugger
Sod
Crap

No, not a comment on the thread so far, but an attempt to return to its theme, which is not CT or golliwogs or religious bigotry.

So bugger off religious bigots. Dusk has fallen and you should be praying.

Oi PandL do I nto make a good enough not bigoted Christian for you? i thought I was quite good on that front meself

Buggers the lot of ya

Oh and if anybodya ske me tocarry a Christian ID card I'm refusing, God knows. Nobody else should be bothered.

(SOrry DG back to you......)

yes Golliwogs. Crap toys in the seventies, evil things represented the terrible side of manind now. Ditch 'em, hide 'em, never but one.

representing

I didn't actually make the connection between the racist insult "wog" and the seemingly-innocent "golliwog" for a very long time.

onebatmother: "neutrality could quite reasonably be perceived as reactionary"? Well, if it is, that's a problem for the perceiver, not me. I know I'm not racist and so do people who know me. I was just trying to have an interesting conversation about childhood.

lisaofpalatine - "heathens", LOL. Long time since I have heard that particular term of abuse.