Meece 1,957 Posted April 5, 2018 Report Share Posted April 5, 2018 (edited) When I was a kid, Robertson jam used to have different stickers on jars of marmalade with a golliwog sticker on them. there were loads of different ones. You sent them off and got back an enamel badge of the golliwog doing things such as playing golf or playing a musical instrument. Like this >>> https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Robertsons-Jam-badges-x-2-keep-fit-and-standard/273140918525?hash=item3f9877a8fd:g:mEUAAOSw6TRauPv1 Kids had golliwog dolls. Nothing nasty was meant by these they were just toy things like Peter the rabbit or any other cartoon character of the time. But now it could end up with quite serious consequences. Total lunacy. what a load of nonsense. I've still got a load of those golliwog badges along with loads of other badges of the time. some must be quite rare now. I'd better go and hunt them out and dig a hole and consign them to the deep. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-43645636 Edited April 5, 2018 by Meece 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 19,725 Posted April 5, 2018 Report Share Posted April 5, 2018 That's madness I wonder if it works the other way round ..white and ginger ...racists cnuts! 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scothunter 12,609 Posted April 5, 2018 Report Share Posted April 5, 2018 I have a Golliwog somewhere. Boxed up when I moved Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 19,725 Posted April 5, 2018 Report Share Posted April 5, 2018 9 minutes ago, scothunter said: I have a Golliwog somewhere. Boxed up when I moved I've got a Golli doll at my mum's from when I was a kid .....think I will leave it there lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ted Newgent 4,896 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 my gran used to knit them i had one as a kid then i got my first staffie terrier,dog ragged it and ate the whole thing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 25,236 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 crazy aint it.....the only compliant was from a woman ...i bet she was a white leftie type....no difrent to any other black doll..like black barbie ect...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mister Gain 1,759 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 Got 2 of them here, my eldest grandaughter used to love them as a baby/toddler before she emigrated to Aussie, she's 15 now. Her great grandparents bought them for her, but the mother didn't want to take them because of the racist 'undertones', even after I had explained to her the origins of the 'gollywog', she even took a sharp intake of breath when I referred to a Jap as a Jap, fcuking crazy cow. I also have a small golly tattooed on my arm above my grandaughter's name, if it offends anyone... tough! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
walshie 2,804 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 I bet if they had a white doll in the window someone would scream racist that there wasn't a black one as well. Talking of which, the new moneysupermarket advert with action man - why isn't there a black or chinese one? Outraged! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bell 3,532 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 i remember my old nan doing some sewing using 'nigga brown' thread...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 26,398 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 Still have a golly wog doll somewhere in the loft, he ain't offended no one in over 30 years of being up there, yet we had a road called black boys hill near me that was so offencive they changed it to whiteladies road road wtf is that all about, in my youth I went to school with all colour and creed of people, you were never judged on it, but if you were a dick you got a slap and I never heard the word racism until well after I had finished school, it's just another word for the libs to throw at people that disagree with them and nothing more, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 25,236 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 2 hours ago, walshie said: I bet if they had a white doll in the window someone would scream racist that there wasn't a black one as well. Talking of which, the new moneysupermarket advert with action man - why isn't there a black or chinese one? Outraged! thats such a gay advert...lol....they even dance gay..... 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
si brown 8,486 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 me mum use to work at Robertsons in Manchester so ive got loads of them badges! I found this when I was sorting some stuff out, started getting flashbacks! lol I showed it to my kids who just started pi55ing them selves at how wrong it is and would I get in trouble for owning such a book!! wtf most of the badges are fecked from shooting them when I was at school!! haha 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Wilkes 2,915 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 12 minutes ago, TOMO said: thats such a gay advert...lol....they even dance gay..... As in light hearted and carefree ?.. ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stavross 13,945 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 My granny had a full collection of these that we played with when we were kids, sat on a chair in the front room along with the the biro flour chap, I’ll have to ask my Mam what happened to them, I’ve never understood racism, it makes no difference to me who or what you are, a tw*t is a tw*t whatever the colour 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 26,398 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 There is a grave of a slave a young black boy somewhere in england and on his headstone his name is something like little sambo, ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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