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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Newsflash
Minister for Schools, children and something else, Ed Balls is not expected to announce the introduction of 'Kick a Ginger' Day in British Schools this week.
We had a similar problem here after a popular program (Summer Heights High- a spoof on high school life - I don't know how well it would travel but we loved it) depicted the bullying of "Rangas" (redheads -pronounced as in orangutan) The countersurge was well done .The ABC (which screened the program) printed "Sorry Ranga Day" T-shirts (another spoof - on "Sorry Day" where we officially apologise to the aboriginals- compulsory in schools by the way and of course there is a training day so you teach it sensitively) and the local zoo celebrated the new orangutan enclosure by having a" rangas get in free" day.
4 comments:
That's fabulous.
For once, we really can "blame Canada".
Any chance that the UK could institute a "Thrash a Hooligan" day?
I blame Catherine Tate http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=bUhLIjlTNSk
Or, perhaps this http://www.theindieheresy.com/redhair.html wil shed some light.
We had a similar problem here after a popular program (Summer Heights High- a spoof on high school life - I don't know how well it would travel but we loved it) depicted the bullying of "Rangas" (redheads -pronounced as in orangutan)
The countersurge was well done .The ABC (which screened the program) printed "Sorry Ranga Day" T-shirts (another spoof - on "Sorry Day" where we officially apologise to the aboriginals- compulsory in schools by the way and of course there is a training day so you teach it sensitively) and the local zoo celebrated the new orangutan enclosure by having a" rangas get in free" day.
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