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kennedia_nigricans · ‎19-10-2013

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 · ‎19-10-2013

At least with green you are safe in the knowledge no people were included in the making of it.

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kennedia_nigricans · ‎19-10-2013

what sort of colour is that supposed to be anyway?

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freakiness · ‎19-10-2013

@kennedia_nigricans wrote:
what sort of colour is that supposed to be anyway?

Could be blood red.

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punch*drunk · ‎19-10-2013

@freakiness wrote:
At least with green you are safe in the knowledge no people were included in the making of it.

lol "Soylent green is people"

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kennedia_nigricans · ‎19-10-2013

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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**meep** · ‎19-10-2013

@punch*drunk wrote:
@freakiness wrote:
At least with green you are safe in the knowledge no people were included in the making of it.
lol "Soylent green is people"

was just thinking the same

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the*scarlet*pimpernel · ‎19-10-2013

**bleep** is bloom ??

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kennedia_nigricans · ‎19-10-2013

@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:
**bleep** is bloom ??

?

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freakiness · ‎19-10-2013

@punch*drunk wrote:
@freakiness wrote:
At least with green you are safe in the knowledge no people were included in the making of it.
lol "Soylent green is people"

Yeah, old people (or not so old) people.

Did you ever wonder how they got the people to turn green?

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the*scarlet*pimpernel · ‎19-10-2013

the bottle says bloom

w t f is bloom

apparently if you put the letters wt and f together you get bleeped

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**meep** · ‎19-10-2013

@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.

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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kennedia_nigricans · ‎19-10-2013

i see, but there is already "dark brown" on the bottle as a colour.

bloom i guess is the excess dye sitting on top? it doesn't dye very well, it's all patchy almost like a pattern.

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**meep** · ‎19-10-2013

@freakiness wrote:
@punch*drunk wrote:
@freakiness wrote:
At least with green you are safe in the knowledge no people were included in the making of it.
lol "Soylent green is people"
Yeah, old people (or not so old) people.

Did you ever wonder how they got the people to turn green?

Green dye?

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the*scarlet*pimpernel · ‎19-10-2013

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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**meep** · ‎19-10-2013

@kennedia_nigricans wrote:
i see, but there is already "dark brown" on the bottle as a colour.

yeah......well, as Pimpy said, a rather delicate topic to be discussing here.

google will have to be your friend on this one. there is other info.

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nevillesdaughter · ‎19-10-2013

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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punch*drunk · ‎19-10-2013

I wonder how old it is? it would be a long time since a color would have been called that word. There was a couple of interesting things on wiki re outdated chinese translating software though.

If I was a shopkeeper I'd have thrown that out or at least crossed out that word with permanent marker, assuming he knew it was there.

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kennedia_nigricans · ‎19-10-2013

@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.

gawd there are so many bleeps around. "friendly nickname" harhar.

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kennedia_nigricans · ‎19-10-2013

I don't know if she knew. There were no bottles with that n-colour. I looked through them all cos I was initially looking for blue and most colours there were boring colours.

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freakiness · ‎19-10-2013

@**meep** wrote:
@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.
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

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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freakiness · ‎19-10-2013

@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

I recommend caution, having just returned from next week 😄

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polksaladallie · ‎19-10-2013

@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.

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...

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nevillesdaughter · ‎19-10-2013

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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polksaladallie · ‎19-10-2013

@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.

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

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**meep** · ‎19-10-2013

@freakiness wrote:
@**meep** wrote:
@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.
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
Last time I clicked on a link with bleep in it the link worked. It just reinstated the word when clicked on 😄

Testing

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

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freakiness · ‎19-10-2013

@**meep** wrote:
@freakiness wrote:
@**meep** wrote:
@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.
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
Last time I clicked on a link with bleep in it the link worked. It just reinstated the word when clicked on 😄
Testing

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

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.

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nevillesdaughter · ‎19-10-2013

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.

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freakiness · ‎19-10-2013

At least with green you are safe in the knowledge no people were included in the making of it.

kennedia_nigricans · ‎19-10-2013

what sort of colour is that supposed to be anyway?

freakiness · ‎19-10-2013

@kennedia_nigricans wrote:
what sort of colour is that supposed to be anyway?

Could be blood red.

punch*drunk · ‎19-10-2013

@freakiness wrote:
At least with green you are safe in the knowledge no people were included in the making of it.

lol "Soylent green is people"

kennedia_nigricans · ‎19-10-2013

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.

**meep** · ‎19-10-2013

@punch*drunk wrote:
@freakiness wrote:
At least with green you are safe in the knowledge no people were included in the making of it.
lol "Soylent green is people"

was just thinking the same

the*scarlet*pimpernel · ‎19-10-2013

**bleep** is bloom ??

kennedia_nigricans · ‎19-10-2013

@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:
**bleep** is bloom ??

?

freakiness · ‎19-10-2013

@punch*drunk wrote:
@freakiness wrote:
At least with green you are safe in the knowledge no people were included in the making of it.
lol "Soylent green is people"

Yeah, old people (or not so old) people.

Did you ever wonder how they got the people to turn green?

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