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The Maroon Jacket
Posted

The little fruity sweets are being renamed from Midget Gems to Mini Gems as to not offend and upset people with dwarfism 

True story on talkradio now 

I P Knightley
Posted
16 minutes ago, The Maroon Pound said:

The little fruity sweets are being renamed from Midget Gems to Mini Gems as to not offend and upset people with dwarfism 

True story on talkradio now 

I've said this before but I once wrote to Maynards when they switched the black Midget Gems to being blackcurrant flavour. That was already a step too far; I just don't know how to digest this new news.

I hope it will be raised in the House next week at PMQs.

Posted
Just now, I P Knightley said:

I've said this before but I once wrote to Maynards when they switched the black Midget Gems to being blackcurrant flavour. That was already a step too far; I just don't know how to digest this new news.

I hope it will be raised in the House next week at PMQs.

 

The black midgets were the best.

I P Knightley
Posted
1 minute ago, indianajones said:

 

The black midgets were the best.

Thanks to JKB, I found that the original Lion's brand is available at Home Bargains, complete with the proper black ones.

Posted
Just now, I P Knightley said:

Thanks to JKB, I found that the original Lion's brand is available at Home Bargains, complete with the proper black ones.

 

It was the same with sports mixtures as well i think. The blackcurrent ones are honestly stinking.

Posted

I will never buy these ever again* in protest at this PC nonsense

 

*never bought them before in my puff

Posted

Oh woe is me! The woke culture is taking over society! All this trying not to offend people - where will it lead?!!! We won't be able to leave our houses soon, or even speak to anyone else in case we offend them, etc. etc. etc...

 

:jj_facepalm:

Seymour M Hersh
Posted
45 minutes ago, The Maroon Pound said:

The little fruity sweets are being renamed from Midget Gems to Mini Gems as to not offend and upset people with dwarfism 

True story on talkradio now 

 

I think it's just M&S who are doing it with their own brand. Apparently one person complained about midget being hate speech. 

Posted
1 hour ago, The Maroon Pound said:

The little fruity sweets are being renamed from Midget Gems to Mini Gems as to not offend and upset people with dwarfism 

True story on talkradio now 

They should grow up.

Posted (edited)

Ladies and gentlemen I give you MG Midget. image.jpeg.127ca91f629baeb8f3d32becfaf143ae.jpeg

Edited by Boy Daniel
Posted
18 minutes ago, ri Alban said:

They should grow up.

Correct, how low can they get.

SectionDJambo
Posted

I wonder how many complaints that the manufacturers have had from short people about this outrageous branding of Midget Gems.

Probably none, but happy to be corrected.

I P Knightley
Posted (edited)
10 minutes ago, Ron Burgundy said:

Correct, how low can they get.

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"I once tried it on a dachsund."

Edited by I P Knightley
Posted

So, a wee bit of research shows that the word midget started off as an alternative term given by the Americans to what we know as the midge. In about the mid 19th century or so, it then moved over to become used in freak shows to refer to those with dwarfism. Not entirely complimentary then. The current happenings are basically the results of a campaign by Dr Erin Pritchard from Liverpool Hope University, who has achondroplasia, to try to reduce the use of the word as she deems it offensive to folk with growth problems. This is not a one-woman crusade however, since the community of those with dwarfism has often expressed displeasure at the use of the term "midget". Warwick Davis, for example, has spoken out about how the term is offensive to those with dwarfism.

 

https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/warwick-davis-speaks-out-about-the-word-midget-257458151.html

 

https://www.lpaonline.org/the-m-word

Posted

You'd think Shaun Maloney would be too busy now to be writing letters of complaint.

Posted

I blame this on woke, snowflakey millenniums. Bring back national service and GSTQ after Late Call. 

I P Knightley
Posted
2 hours ago, Tazio said:

They're not Happy.

Those ones, though, they're far away.

Posted
4 hours ago, The Maroon Pound said:

The little fruity sweets are being renamed from Midget Gems to Mini Gems as to not offend and upset people with dwarfism 

True story on talkradio now 

 

Just mentioned on Radio 6. FFS, PC gone mad. 

Nucky Thompson
Posted

I see the usual Libtards are getting the tuppence worth in :lol:

 

Never liked Midget gems myself 

WorldChampions1902
Posted

Always found the term, “Dwarf Planets” offensive. Time for a re-brand. “Mini Planets” sounds so much more PC and in tune with the times. ::troll::

Spitonastranger
Posted
40 minutes ago, Savage Vince said:

I blame this on woke, snowflakey millenniums. Bring back national service and GSTQ after Late Call. 

 

WorldChampions1902
Posted
12 minutes ago, Spitonastranger said:

 

Please, tell me this isn’t a spoof! Absolutely brilliant if this is what was actually aired. Talk about giving somebody the middle finger!:rudiyas:

Spitonastranger
Posted
4 minutes ago, WorldChampions1902 said:

Please, tell me this isn’t a spoof! Absolutely brilliant if this is what was actually aired. Talk about giving somebody the middle finger!:rudiyas:

Told it was actually aired 

Posted

Some folk have little to worry about.

 

 

Seriously though, whatever next?

 

 

:wtf:

Posted

I’m going out for a wee spin in my MG Midget now to try and calm down.

 

Thankfully, I’ve got long legs so if the feckin car starts getting cheeky I’ll just kick it’s wee headlights in.

 

That’ll show these short arses.

Posted
8 minutes ago, Morgan said:

I’m going out for a wee spin in my MG Midget now to try and calm down.

 

Thankfully, I’ve got long legs so if the feckin car starts getting cheeky I’ll just kick it’s wee headlights in.

 

That’ll show these short arses.

 

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Posted
30 minutes ago, WorldChampions1902 said:

Please, tell me this isn’t a spoof! Absolutely brilliant if this is what was actually aired. Talk about giving somebody the middle finger!:rudiyas:

 

It was aired. 

Posted
4 hours ago, Cade said:

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U been raiding my kitchen cupboards ? :) 

Posted

Booked tickets for the panto at the King's theatre for this Christmas.

It's being advertised as Snow White and the Seven dwarves. I await the name change from Snow neutral colour and the Seven vertically challenged persons.

Posted
1 hour ago, Savage Vince said:

I blame this on woke, snowflakey millenniums. Bring back national service and GSTQ after Late Call. 

My dad always ran to the telly before GSTQ   came on to turn it off or over to another channel. :) 

The Real Maroonblood
Posted
5 hours ago, The Maroon Pound said:

The little fruity sweets are being renamed from Midget Gems to Mini Gems as to not offend and upset people with dwarfism 

True story on talkradio now 

:4_1_72:

Posted

The Ginger Nuts biscuit branding department is probably working this weekend now.

Posted
2 minutes ago, Der Kaiser said:

The Ginger Nuts biscuit branding department is probably working this weekend now.

Hobnobs staff also looking at overtime !

luckyBatistuta
Posted
1 hour ago, Spitonastranger said:

 

 

44 minutes ago, Savage Vince said:

 

It was aired. 

I can’t believe this was aired. Was it a parting shot from someone leaving. If they weren’t leaving before it aired, I’m pretty sure they’d have been on their way out the door after it.

 

If it did actually, I’d love to buy the person responsible a drink, tremendous work:jj:

Spitonastranger
Posted
26 minutes ago, luckyBatistuta said:

 

I can’t believe this was aired. Was it a parting shot from someone leaving. If they weren’t leaving before it aired, I’m pretty sure they’d have been on their way out the door after it.

 

If it did actually, I’d love to buy the person responsible a drink, tremendous work:jj:

sorry for the link but 

 

Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark signs off by saying she's going to play the national anthem ... but shows 'God Save the Queen' by the Sex Pistols instead  | Daily Mail Online

 

 

Posted
6 minutes ago, jack D and coke said:

:clyay:

😂😂😂

Eldar Hadzimehmedovic
Posted

It's the people who object to this sort of thing that give it air and keep it a big deal. Absolutely nobody "woke" gives a shit about M&S changing the name of their sweeties.

Jambo_jim2001
Posted

Cannie order a black pudding now, it's an ethnic slice🙄

Posted
11 hours ago, The Maroon Pound said:

The little fruity sweets are being renamed from Midget Gems to Mini Gems as to not offend and upset people with dwarfism 

True story on talkradio now 

Thats shite eh!

theyve been midget gems since I was wee 😜

A Boy Named Crow
Posted

Anyone else off to re-watch In Bruges after reading this thread?

Posted
1 hour ago, A Boy Named Crow said:

Anyone else off to re-watch In Bruges after reading this thread?

Naw

Posted

Too feart, now. 😱 

 

 

Never heard of it. :D

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