I know this is probably slightly premature, what with it being April 5th and there being a further 3/4 of the year to get through, but I think this little boffin’s brother also deserves a prize, that being ‘Best Ginger Hairdo 2013′:
Incredible!
This has been drawn to my eye by my ever reliable source, The Daily Mail. It’s the second story on their website today about ginger hair. Someone at the top must either be a) obsessed or b) a ginge themselves.
Anyway, here’s a new dating site for people who have or like red / ginger hair: http://www.topcarrots.co.uk
Good stuff! Lets hope this leads to an increase in ginger babies over the next few years.
You will always be welcome in my house tiny little ginger seal pup!
Lily Cole, whilst in the midst of a successful modelling / acting career, has achieved a double first in History of Art from Cambridge: http://www.graziadaily.co.uk/fashion/archive/2011/06/24/sigh-lily-cole-gets-double-first-at-cambridge.htm
What a boffin! But well done anyway. Now that you’ve finished your studies, please can you concentrate on ditching the bad brown hair dye job and stop letting Jude Law anywhere near you?
Basically Mick Hucknall has taken to Twitter to express the opinion that ginger jibes are similar to racism. When I was younger, Hucknall was THE ENEMY (see also Phil Collins, Shane Richie, Darren Day, Bono, Lulu). I’m not sure what I think of him anymore, he certainly doesn’t make me feel as angry as he did when I was 15.
Look here: http://twitter.com/mjhucknall
And have a look on the Daily Mail’s own take on it here (plus some extra bits about how many women he’s shagged, in case you didn’t know already (they’ve only mentioned it about a million times)): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2007971/Mick-Hucknall-says-ginger-jibes-akin-racism.html
This is an age old argument – yes it’s hideous to be picked on for your hair colour; yes it’s wrong for people to pick on other people due to their hair colour. But people will pick on you for just about anything, if they are that way inclined. I think that most people of normal / above normal intelligence wouldn’t even think about having a pop at someone for having ginger hair, so remember that the next time some spotty, rotten toothed, Donnay-wearing youth makes some kind of gingerist comment; they don’t really have many brain cells, and the ones they do have are being used to help them drag their knuckles across the floor (see also: Liam Gallagher).
As always, I love the readers comments on the Daily Mail website. A quick glance down the list led me to this one, from Mick in Maidstone: ‘I do not have ginger hair but I think I would rather like it.’ Yes of course you would – until someone shouts ‘ginger pubes’ at you from a speeding chavmobile, THEN you’d be running down to Boots for the nearest pack of Just for Men.
I’m not putting a photo of Katy Perry on here as she’s too much of a dick. Here’s some links to various other websites instead containing ‘the facts’.
http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/866777-katy-perry-tells-twitter-about-ginger-fail
http://stealherstyle.net/2011/06/22/katy-perry-ginger-hair-and-bikini/
Dear Katy – you don’t even deserve to be ginger anyway. Piss off out of my gang!
Another one of these rubbish ‘look how fashionable red hair is!?!?!?’ type articles appeared on the Daily Mail website this week: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1291263/Scarlet-women-From-copper-cherry-red-hair-celebrity-trend-moment.html. I was sure that I was going to find it all really irritating, until I clicked on the link and nearly peed myself at how shit everyone’s hair looks. Basically – get some decent hair dye famous people, surely you can afford it?
I love Ashes to Ashes, and wanted to put Keeley on here to celebrate the finale of the Life on Mars / Ashes story. Off the top of my head I couldn’t think of a role she played where she was a redhead, but I came across these photos from a few years ago where her hair looks *just about* red enough. I think she is ridiculously beautiful and always looks really good, even when they gave her that hideous perm in Ashes or rubbish blond bob in Spooks.
Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes
I think that this is probably scraping the barrel in terms of ginger-ness, and it could be a just a trick of the light… but I don’t care – it’s red enough for her to make an appearance on here.
Rupert Grint
I know of quite a few ladies who have had their lusty eye on this young chap over the last couple of years. For me, he’ll always be that little pipsqueak Ron Weasley, but he has just been in a ’saucy’ film called Cherrybomb getting up to all sorts of no good which has probably made my lady chums like him even more.
I was very pleased to see this quote as part of a news story on Contact Music:
‘I’ve always been quite a proud ginger so I couldn’t dye it and betray the other gingers.’
Glad to hear it!
Full story here: http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/proud-rupert-grint_1144197
M.I.A. - Born Free
There’s been a lot of fuss this week about the new M.I.A. ‘Born Free’ video, where some soldiers round up ginger people and shoot them.
The Independent (not sure why this twat feels he needs to make excuses for having red hair, maybe he’s got a chip on his shoulder because someone in Hoxton picked on him once): http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/caught-in-the-net–mia-sees-red-in–violent-new-video-1958285.html.
The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/apr/28/mia-bornfree-youtube
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_10080000/newsid_10087800/10087809.stm
In the rush to comment on what type of a ’statement’ M.I.A. is trying to make, everyone seems to have overlooked the fact that the song itself is quite rubbish.
I’m not a massive fan of gratuitous violence, even if it is making a political statement, so here’s a much more pleasant video instead. Have a look at thousands of gingers attending a gathering in The Netherlands for the fourth Red Hair Day in September 2009: