Deliver Us From Swedish Furniture

Just when you thought IQs could get no lower…..

A friend of mine sent this link through to me. It starts out as a vaguely amusing thing about Gingers and how we have lots of them in the UK. However, in true US style reporting, the histerics kick in and soon it becomes a story or Ginger persecution that would make Papa Doc Duvalier proud. Then I started reading the comments and I was caught in that weird state between laughing your head off and utter dispair.

Now I know there are some very intelligent, elloquent Americans out there, but somehow the good ‘ole boys (and girls) reading this have determined that it is not safe to come over here without dying their hair or wearing a hat and managed to extrapolate a thing about people getting the mick taken out of them for having red hair into proof that this is in actual fact just our hatred of the Irish! It’s not hatred of the Irish, it’s the Plastic Paddies over there still thinking it’s the 1970s. If they had said the French, then they might have been onto something…..