Racist grandparentsIt Came From Planet Aylia says: "My husband's mad Auntie Joan accused the man seven doors down of stealing her milk as he was the first black neighbour she had. She doesn't even get her milk delivered." Tell us about casual racism from oldies.
Thanks to Brayn Dedd who suggested this too
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 11:54)
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There was a friend of the family while I was growing up called SamHe'd known my mum and her siblings since they were kids. It wasn't until I attended his wedding and the vicarpriest said his name that I found out he was called John. Sam wasn't even his middle name. I asked my mum about it afterwards and she told me that as a child John had contracted some kind of disease that turned his skin blotchy and made his face - particularly his lips - swell up. It was during this period that he acquired the nickname "Scabby Sambo", later abbreviated to just Sam...
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 16:00,
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My aunt gained the childhood nickname of 'Nig' because she used to tan quite brown in summer.
Her siblings (all aged over 55) still refer to her by this name. As an utterly guileless term of endearment.
There are large swathes of the population here who seem to exist in an eternal stasis in 1958.
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