Kiwiblog

The Telegraph reports:

It’s hilarious that is such a popular search term.

Matt Richens in The Press reports:

Tess O’Rourke was not a cricket fan before Sunday – and she certainly isn’t now.

But the 18-year-old still has her sense of humour despite being taken to hospital just minutes after arriving at the Canterbury Wizards’ Twenty20 game against the Auckland Aces on Sunday at QEII Park, where she was hit in the face by a Colin de Grandhomme six.

“I wasn’t watching. I had my face turned to the side, then bang.”

Her nose was broken in at least two places and she spent seven hours at Christchurch Hospital. She needed 12 stitches.

Ouch, ouch, ouch. A cricket ball to the face is just simply nasty.

She would go back to another cricket game only if she was in a corporate box. The Press contacted the Canterbury Cricket Association, which will invite O’Rourke to this Sunday’s game as its guest – in a corporate box.

They should give her a reasons pass for the box!

Asked if she had a message for de Grandhomme, O’Rourke cheekily said her younger brother Matt was keen on a cricket helmet for Christmas if he had a spare.

“I can only laugh now, but it hurt like a bitch at the time,” she said.

“My friends said if it was to happen to anyone, it would happen to me. I think it’s because I’m small and ginger.”

Now that’s a great sense of humour uder fire.

The UK Telegraph reports:

Red squirrels are cute. It is very unfair to them, to compare a politician to one.

news.co.au reported:

Oh this is hilarious.

TVNZ have done a story, and it is also on Close Up, about someone complaining about hug a ginga day.I’ll link to the video when it is up. Superb.

Read the comments at the TVNZ site.

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

Danyl at Dim-Post has found this video, and correctly blogged he thought I would approve.

I agree it is a wonderful vision of the future, that we can aspire to.

I should pass on Danyl’s warning that it may not be work safe, and will offend some.

The Age reports:

In one of the advertisements, a voiceover tells teenagers that every time they use mobile phones and drive, ”gingers get fresh with other gingers”, while showing two redheads in bed.

Another ad says that using a mobile while driving will cause an ”emo” to be born.

They will be the most effective road safety ads of a generation. Warning teenagers their actions could lead to more gingas or emos will be highly effective.

The videos are not set up for embedding, but you can view the emo one here and the ginga one there.

Stuff reports that Tesco have had to withdraw this Xmas Card.

I presume they withdrew it, because Samta complained it was not true.

AP reports:

CALABASAS, California — Authorities say there were at least five attacks on red-haired students at a Southern California middle school after a Facebook group announced “Kick a Ginger Day.”

However, nobody was seriously hurt and no arrests were made.

How very stupid. They should know not to actually kick Gingas in case they catch Gingervitis.

Investigators say the Facebook message may have been inspired by a South Park TV episode that satirised racial prejudice by portraying a campaign against red-haired, fair-skinned “ginger” people.

Good grief. That episode aired in 2005. And back then it was also blamed.

In that episode, Cartman organises all the gingas to start killing non-gingas as they are not members of the master race. So will someone also blame Southpark for any murders of brunettes?

Greer McDonald gets asked:

My brother and members of my family are ginger, and I know in my heart of hearts I carry a recessive ginger gene and there is a chance I will have ginger children myself.

At what state in a dating/relationship scenario do I need to admit this to my beau? Some friends say it should be at the first coffee, but I’d hate to scare them off before they know my redeeming features (I have quite nice toes, for example).

Please help.

Not this is serious issue. I tend to think it should be mandatory disclosure at a first date. Maybe even a criminal offence not to disclose – like with certain communicable diseases.

What do others think?

The Timaru Herald reports:

The study, published in the Journal of the American Dental Association has suggested that gingers are more than twice as likely to avoid a visit to the dentist.

The research found redheads are typically more sensitive to pain and require about 20 per cent more anaesthesia during dental visits. …

We should breed them out. Don’t allow them to have children and we’ll have a better society.

Red hair gets its distinctive colour from the pigment pheomelanin. Gingers get their red locks from a mutation in a gene called melanocortin-1 receptor.

Proof gingas are mutants. And not the cool ones like Wolverine either!