The Advertising Agency are on my back.

One sitting in the family album.

Considering my blog is titled 'A little insight into the mind of a ginger girl', you as the reader probably should have seen a blog about being ginger somewhere. Actually no, none of them have. I shall probably be prosecuted for false advertising.

So I will start. Almost a year late, but better late than never!

1. Ginger twat. Oh.... sorry Vicky.
You could be anywhere, out drinking in town, walking down the street, drinking in the park. A ginger knobhead comes out of no where and offends you in some way.
'Fucking ginger twat.'
Then comes the abashed look and 'Sorry Vicky'. Infact, I can cope with the word ginger being used around me as a derogatory term.
I'm not four years old.
After the years having it used against me, I'm quite immune. Curse all you like at ugly ginger people, I honestly do it all of the time.

2. Oh don't say that, those gingers have fiery tempers.
I don't think this is scientifically proven. I shall now check on Google just to back myself up.

Oh lord. I would recommend typing 'do ginger people get angry easier' into Google, and looking at some of the internet pages. Couple of things that made me laugh...

Apparently "gingers" are really funny people!

IF a brunette or blonde gets angry it's okay, but if a redhead gets angry then it's because of their 'redhead temper'...baloney!...

                                                                          (It was just the baloney part)

I am half ginger            (DENIAL! There is no halfway house -                                                                 you are either ginger or not)

Thought I would include this because he looks like a knob.

I couldn't find any evidence that was conclusive. Although one person thought it was because gingers are picked on from such an early age, they act differently as they are singled out as different.

From my experience at primary school, I don't recall being ginger ever being an issue - it was my last name that caused me the most problems (Payne)!
I genuinely used to cry at being called a 'pain' by the other kids, what a loser!!





3. Get out of the sun Vicky, your ginger skin will burn!
They're right. I will burn, BUT ONLY IF I forget to use sun lotion (very often). Otherwise, I do tan. I won't be mistaken as a local if I go to an African country, but I tan enough for it to be noticeable. And that will do me.

4. Are you Scottish/Irish?
No! No I am not!

Some Ginger-tastic facts.

• Approximately 1% to 2% of the human population has red hair.
• Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads; 13 per cent of the population has red hair and approximately 40 per cent carries the recessive redhead gene.
• Red hair is the rarest natural hair color in humans.
• Researchers have found that people with red hair require greater amounts of anesthetic.
• Red hair was thought to be a mark of a beastly sexual desire and moral degeneration.
• A UK woman recently won an award from a tribunal after being sexually harassed and receiving abuse because of her red hair.
• A family in Newcastle upon Tyne was forced to move twice after being targeted for abuse and hate crime on the account of their red hair.
• British singer Mick Hucknall, who believes he has repeatedly faced prejudice or been described as ugly on account of his hair colour, argues Gingerism should be described as some form of racism.
• In December 2009 British supermarket chain Tesco was forced to withdraw a Christmas card which had the image of a child with red hair sitting on the lap of Santa Claus, and the words: "Santa loves all kids. Even the ginger ones" after customers complained the card was too offensive.

To be honest, I would have bought that Christmas card for everyone for laughs. People need to lighten up these days.