The only people who are allowed to use the word 'ginger' are ginger people. If you're not ginger yourself then please stick to one of only two acceptable alternatives: the first being 'redheads'; the second being a term coined by my brother Fergus: 'those who have the look of the fox about them'.
Lots of people with the look of the fox about them spend their adolescence wishing they'd been born blond or brunette or Japanese instead. It's not until we reach adulthood that we get over it and let the foxy love flow. And then bang, look, all of a sudden everyone else is wishing that they were ginger, too.
Sorry, but it is not possible to 'dye your hair ginger' because ginger is not a colour. You can dye your hair a nice copper tone or some kind of auburn hue, but you'll never have the hot coals burning at the pit of your stomach from being born with the look of the fox about you.
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A friend of mine enjoyed the term strawberry blonde.
ReplyDeleteShe was really just a cracker.
Are you allowed use the term "ranga" if you're not one, I wonder?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpk2F6rKVj0
"But redheads aren't a race, Jonah..."
ReplyDelete"But sir, there's heaps of them!"
^ I cracked up.
And redhead sex is HOT. Poor monochromes will never truly get that...
ReplyDeleteI have the privilege of being married to a redhead. And I must agree that it's just not possible to dye your hair that color. Fortunately, I get to look at him all the time ;-)
ReplyDeleteMy nipper dyed her hair ginger last week.
ReplyDeleteWhich was unfortunate, because she'd been aiming for blonde.
When I was younger, some of my hair was ginger, it didn't show, however. Does that count?
ReplyDeleteYes, it counts, some people are only foxy in places.
ReplyDeleteI hate when people use 'ginger' as an insult. It's only idiots who decide to pick on a hair colour
ReplyDeleteLEAVE REDHEADS ALONE!
I mostly have the look of the badger these days, although my beard goes a bit foxy if I grow it.
ReplyDeleteRedheads are awesome, I can highly recommend going out with them. It's like having a firework for a girlfriend.
I was born redhead and then my hair turned blonde... does that count? can I use the term "ginger"? ;)
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be some confusion over what counts as ginger and what doesn't. The thing is, regardless of where or when your ginger hair exists / existed, if you have the look of the fox about you you will know all about it.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I told you when you visited my plan to get the look of the fox about me. I must have concluded by then it can only be dyed that colour accidentally.
ReplyDeleteI was sexually obsessed with the ranga (Aussie too) two doors down for about half a year so I don't think these terms you mention are off limits to me.
Singing "ding-a-ling-a-ling your head's on fire" to a ginger = also not kosher. Although I was a lot gingerer back then.
ReplyDeleteWhat if you come from foxy blood but you had to dye it into your own hair? I would never call myself ginger, and I know I'm a faker, but I swears I have a redhead in me somewhere that would respectfully like to join in some of the fun.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, GET OUT OF OUR INTERNET!
ReplyDeleteJUSTICE FOR GINGERS!!! *makes cards*
White Rabbit, does that mean you're a Nordie and a ginger?
ReplyDeleteJesus wept...
Fiona: You are among some of the foxiest people I know.
ReplyDeleteOshi, first braces now this? You crack me up <3
I'm not ginger no but I as I'm getting older my blonde hair is embracing the red.
ReplyDeleteI love redheads though
The first time I was ever called ginger was on holidays in Jamaica when I was 15 (Only redser up to then.) Every Jamaican guy I passed greeted me with "Hey, ginger." Their accents caressed the word so delectably I never considered it could have been an insult.
ReplyDeletecan we say "ginga" please?!
ReplyDeleteTbh i Hate People who call ginger kids names. i Am ginger and i am bullied all the time. in A few years its gona become more and more rare, We arent diff we are Special :)
ReplyDeleteWell I can dye My hair a nice copper tone or some kind of auburn hue, but I'll never have the hot coals burning at the pit of My stomach from being born with the look of the fox about Me.
ReplyDeletei got bullied really baddly for my 'ginger' (hate that word) hair. so i started dying it from age12. now years on, i've scared my follicles so badly, ive lost the colour. shaved the dye out, no good :(
ReplyDeletei miss it.
still got the ginger eyebrows tho ;)
I was born strawberry blond, I don't think that's considered 'ginger' though. I died my hair red all the time in my teens, and bleached it blonde twice. The last color I ever used was black. I recently shaved my head, and it's growing out an ashy blond/brown. Where did that soft strawberry blond go!?
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