Leather dye

[kennedia_nigricans]

I bought green leather dye. The shopkeeper told me that it was old but I didn't mind cos it's GREEN!

I got a brush and brushed it merrily onto my shoes until I wondered about the incredible stink so I read the label more closely.

The next 30 minutes I was thinking "What the hell?!?!?!?"

I am still not over it and I thought I share this one with you cos that is just another reminder why "the good old times" were only good when you were a white male. My dad uses the term "the bad old times" for that reason.

[freakiness · Accepted solution]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@kennedia_nigricans wrote:

I showed it to hubby, wondering if there is another meaning of that word which I don't know, after all it's in foreign and I don't know every word of the english language but he said that there is no other meaning.

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OK.....I cant even post a link here to the relevant information because the word in the url gets bleeped out and it takes you to a page that does not exists.

Google that word, go to wiki and scroll down to Translations

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Last time I clicked on a link with bleep in it the link worked. It just reinstated the word when clicked on  😄

[freakiness · Accepted solution]

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@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:

oh, silly me, i didn't read the other shades.

hmmmm I might just walk away now, any further comments from me shall get me slapped in to next week

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I recommend caution, having just returned from next week  😄

[polksaladallie · Accepted solution]

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@nevillesdaughter wrote:

When I was a kid, there was a brand of shoe polish that went by that name, and N-brown was a valid description used for everything from from fabric to dogs. Just within the last 10 years or so there was a public kerfuffle about a football (I think) spectator stand, in Toowoomba. It was nammed the N... Surname stand after a famous local Aboriginal player long dead).

In the interest of propriety, and the 21st century, they wanted to rename it with his given name rather than the n-word. A very vocal oppostion grouped claimed long and loud that this was "political correctness gone mad". Their argument ran along the lines that because that was what he was really known as, it wasn't racism - just a friendly nickname. They lost.

Marina.

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The stand was named after a white footballer named Brown.  I don't agree that the argument was "political correctness gone mad".  That term is very offensive to most people.  The activist didn't lose.   The stand has been removed.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/**bleep**-brown-issue-laid-to-rest-at-last/2009/02/1...

[nevillesdaughter · Accepted solution]

My apologies - advance age is affecting my memory. I will stand by the point however, that in this day and age, the very use of a word with such baggage, is offensive.

I should have googled the story first - just got carried.

Marina.

[polksaladallie · Accepted solution]

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@nevillesdaughter wrote:

My apologies - advance age is affecting my memory. I will stand by the point however, that in this day and age, the very use of a word with such baggage, is offensive.

I should have googled the story first - just got carried.

Marina.

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No need to apologise.  I remember the shoe polish, but it was Nugget Brown.  Sorry, I seem to be picking on you.  No offense.

[**meep** · Accepted solution]

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@freakiness wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

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@kennedia_nigricans wrote:

I showed it to hubby, wondering if there is another meaning of that word which I don't know, after all it's in foreign and I don't know every word of the english language but he said that there is no other meaning.

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OK.....I cant even post a link here to the relevant information because the word in the url gets bleeped out and it takes you to a page that does not exists.

Google that word, go to wiki and scroll down to Translations

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Last time I clicked on a link with bleep in it the link worked. It just reinstated the word when clicked on  😄

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Testing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**bleep**#.22Nigger-brown.22_colored_furniture

[freakiness · Accepted solution]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@freakiness wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

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@kennedia_nigricans wrote:

I showed it to hubby, wondering if there is another meaning of that word which I don't know, after all it's in foreign and I don't know every word of the english language but he said that there is no other meaning.

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OK.....I cant even post a link here to the relevant information because the word in the url gets bleeped out and it takes you to a page that does not exists.

Google that word, go to wiki and scroll down to Translations

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Last time I clicked on a link with bleep in it the link worked. It just reinstated the word when clicked on  😄

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Testing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**bleep**#.22Nigger-brown.22_colored_furniture

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I don't need to test. If you recall the dunking thread had a word bleeped out and plenty of people linked to the age article.

[nevillesdaughter · Accepted solution]

This time I'm right. You can still buy Nugget shoe polish but Alexanders was an Australian company still operating into the 1960"s. They produced and sold N.... shoe polish and the tin even had a graphic of some sort of stork-type bird carrying a black baby!

I used to work for an antiques dealer and you still see the tins come up as collectors' items.

Marina.

[freddie*rooster]

What really concerns me is you dyed a pair of shoes GREEN?

Did pimpy dare you or something?

[serendipityricho]

LOL Freedie.

Put that word starting with N on the bay.

390 items for sale...............................Richo.