The assumption of having a fiery temper does confuse me.
I'm ginger, and I'm incredibly placid. My son is ginger too and he's lovely and calm.

On the other hand and if you pick on him I'll spank you until you cry for your mum. Or my mum. Whichever you prefer.

I think I may have some underlying repressed anger issues.

edit: I did get called Rusty Bollocks at school. I didn't mind, they do look a bit rusty.
(Discocat is bringing sexy back, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 13:42, Reply)

The Ginger Experience
Bollocks. I meant to enter this questions as I set it. Anyway VERY VERY quickly I'll write a quick list of my experiences having red hair.

1. At junior school the teachers made jokes about "the milkmen"
2. The names. Duracell and Baked-Beans are the two I remember.
3. If I'm in at a public event I get picked on. Say I go to a comedy night it's always me the comedian will start riffing off. Even if it's not making reference to my hair, I just (presumably) stand out when scanning a room.
4. As a child / teenager, older women stopping me in street to tell me my hair was beautiful. Sadly this had stopped by the time I was old enough for such interest to be useful.
5. I'm never very anonymous. Often, even when introduced to new people, people say they've seen me around.
6. Old people (never had this from someone young or my own generation) assuming or making jokes that I've got a temper. This irritates the fuck out of me and of course then proves the statement true.
7. People being really puzzled about my kids not being ginger. Their mum has black hair. It's a recessive gene. Didn't anyone listen in GCSE biology?
8. It goes hand in hand with freckles and pale skin. That combined with hey fever means summer is a bit crap for me.
9. I'm getting bored of typing this list, I've got work I should be doing and I'm hungry. BYEEEEEEE!

BTW: The reason I set this question? I was chatting to a journalist called James Medd and he'd written a very interesting Guardian story about having ginger kids and I fancied getting you lot to share your stories, prejudices and random blather on the subject. Still, there will be probably some good stuff voted up. There normally is.
( rob, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 13:37, 1 reply)

Oh - and one last thing -

phwooar!!
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 12:36, 4 replies)

I've just remembered a good ginger!
Sainsbury's own brand ginger wine:



70cl, £2.87, 13.5% ABV.

(last?)
( Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 12:31, 5 replies)

This happens to me a lot

( Bootsthealchemist is barred from the Masterchef Facebook page, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 12:25, Reply)

How do redheads make love?
Gingerly.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 12:24, Reply)

A census taker once tried to test me
I ate his liver with some ginger biscuits and a nice chianti.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 12:23, 1 reply)

If you're really getting that desperate might I refer you to
this?
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 12:21, Reply)

Yeah Rob,
where's your story?
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Thu 4 Mar 2010, 12:15, Reply)

Dear B3ta -
please accept my sincere apologies for this mornings posts.
I don't know what came over me - it was as if a child had somehow possessed my mind, directing my hand to write.
If only someone could have stopped me.
I hang my head in shame.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 12:02, Reply)

Try Empire instead
The polemic is less vicious and the sarcasm more refined. And there are movie poster mash-ups. This week's is quite good
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:57, 1 reply)

Someone
please stop me going onto the Daily Mail website. I'm losing my faith in humanity.
(ToysForBigBoys would spread her legs for Nick Clegg., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:55, 45 replies)

It's carefully timed.
Hello new person. Please read our FAQ. Cheers.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:52, 1 reply)

Is there actually a timed cutoff
Or are the mods just wondering how much more childish this can get with wry bemusement?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:50, 3 replies)

Hey, the question can't close
until we've seen Rob's story.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Now!! Me! - winner!

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:48, Reply)

LAST
night I enjoyed a packet of ginger biscuits
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:45, 5 replies)

Do so and we might let you claim last

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:43, Reply)

All subsequent post are requested to click 'NFC FTW' post below.
Although, to be honest, the question caused much introspection.
Robbo held up a mirror before B3ta, causing us to rethink the difference between the virtual and the real.
And what did we see in the mirror? Who was the unfairest of all?
Or perhaps it's the writing on the wall we should see -
Mene, mene, tekel upharsin.

Brilliant question Mr Manuel.
Now pull the bleedin plug.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:41, Reply)

Can I be bothered
to got to the supermarket and get some ginger biscuits?
(ToysForBigBoys would spread her legs for Nick Clegg., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:40, 3 replies)

Just click the damn entry below
EDIT: hehe, "entry"
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:38, Reply)

i r the winnar

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:38, Reply)

May as well
worth a try?
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:37, Reply)

Nope. Last.
Click "I like this" if you regard this as a sub-standard QOTW and have gained more amusement from such childish games as Larry and I have been playing this morning. Or are really bored.

Also, Nottingham Forest FC are really fucking brilliant
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:33, 1 reply)

*whispers*:last?
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:31, Reply)

Back to my scheme
It's diabolical.

Seriously, if we all click "I like this" on all these inane posts we could have a 20-way tie for most popular. We'll be heroes. Um, yeah.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:07, 16 replies)

That ginger one in eastenders
Despite the monobrow, I probably would.
( Muns, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:02, 1 reply)

we should just flood this page
with google image search results of gingers
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 11:00, Reply)

Or a spoonful of mustard for the upchuck effect.
I expect there other unmentionable condiments in the spice rack which would do the same
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 10:58, Reply)

It occurs
That this not being the most popular QOTW ever, not many stories will have received a huge number of votes. So if we all click all of these posts, we can probably ruin the popular list for everyone
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 10:58, 1 reply)