I worked in a charity shop and we had the forbidding shelf of horrors under the counter. It was full of stuff we couldn’t in good consequence sell. Mostly racist stuff like this, Hitler stuff and Rolf Harris records.
I had a Teddy like that as a child and didn’t realise it was weird until I got on social media as a teenager🤣
😯
I’m sure I had a doll that looked like that as a child. I’m not sure what part of its name was bad but I think they were called gollywogs? Or something similar. I’m an early 80s baby
Jinx?
I love their ice cream!
What ever you do, do not google zwarte Piet, I think these are possibly of dutch origin.
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I work in a charity and we get all sorts of mad things dropped in but the fact they took this out of a bag, priced it and put it on the shelf and no one spotted it?
Bad form out of them.
I remember reading an Enid Blyton book to my son a few years back and there was an entire chapter devoted to them.
Wow great find a Gary Glitter record next to the Rolf… oh … oh look it’s a Jim ‘ill fix it badge… oooh … come on Margaret let’s go to the SvP.
Had a remote college lecture during covid with a guest speaker. He had a bunch of these dolls on the shelf behind him, caused an understandable stir
Golly wogs. Some guy my mum knew gave me 30 or so of the badges when I was little. Still have them now. I think they are still quite collectible
Some of those are actually worth quite a bit of money due to their rarity these days.
You can buy these new in Aus and they think nothing of it
Gee wizz
In primary school we did a play on the 3 wise men and all the countries they passed through before eventually getting to baby Jesus (I was one of the wise men lol).
Anyways, each country was represented by a flag, and a small group of kids each dressed to fit the country they were representing. So, USA kids (not historically accurate I know.) had cowboy hats, backwards caps etc; Australia kids had Steve Irwin-esque style clothing and boomerangs; then came South Africa… this was in the late 2000’s in a lost town in Tipperary and we didn’t have any black kids in our school… People were just beginning to use the internet and I’d go as far as saying that a good few kids had never even seen a black person IRL before.
My parents videotaped it and 10 years later, we got the whole family to sit down and watch our childhood footage.
I had completely forgotten that we had done this and I literally spat my drink out when my sister asked: “Are those kids in the back wearing blackface??”.
I’d buy em, not to display but to sell on eBay, they maybe racist, but dam could a rare one pay your rent or electric bill…amazed people collect em.
I’m surprised nobody has brought up Robinson’s golliwog badges – they were still using these in the early 2000’s. IIRC they didn’t drop them because they were racist and offensive but because their popularity had fallen (no kidding!).
A friend bought me one around 20 years ago to prove a point ie that you can still get them
I still have it
What’s the problem here?
Wasn’t there a marmalade in the 80’s with these guys on it?
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The good old days. When times were bad.
Golly
Ouch
> Toys and Games
Ehhhmmm, maybe not.
Are they old or reproduction?
They look new.
Cute little cartoon characters
I worked in a charity shop and we had the forbidding shelf of horrors under the counter. It was full of stuff we couldn’t in good consequence sell. Mostly racist stuff like this, Hitler stuff and Rolf Harris records.
I had a Teddy like that as a child and didn’t realise it was weird until I got on social media as a teenager🤣
😯
I’m sure I had a doll that looked like that as a child. I’m not sure what part of its name was bad but I think they were called gollywogs? Or something similar. I’m an early 80s baby
Jinx?
I love their ice cream!
What ever you do, do not google zwarte Piet, I think these are possibly of dutch origin.
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I work in a charity and we get all sorts of mad things dropped in but the fact they took this out of a bag, priced it and put it on the shelf and no one spotted it?
Bad form out of them.
I remember reading an Enid Blyton book to my son a few years back and there was an entire chapter devoted to them.
Wow great find a Gary Glitter record next to the Rolf… oh … oh look it’s a Jim ‘ill fix it badge… oooh … come on Margaret let’s go to the SvP.
Had a remote college lecture during covid with a guest speaker. He had a bunch of these dolls on the shelf behind him, caused an understandable stir
Golly wogs. Some guy my mum knew gave me 30 or so of the badges when I was little. Still have them now. I think they are still quite collectible
Some of those are actually worth quite a bit of money due to their rarity these days.
You can buy these new in Aus and they think nothing of it
Gee wizz
In primary school we did a play on the 3 wise men and all the countries they passed through before eventually getting to baby Jesus (I was one of the wise men lol).
Anyways, each country was represented by a flag, and a small group of kids each dressed to fit the country they were representing. So, USA kids (not historically accurate I know.) had cowboy hats, backwards caps etc; Australia kids had Steve Irwin-esque style clothing and boomerangs; then came South Africa… this was in the late 2000’s in a lost town in Tipperary and we didn’t have any black kids in our school… People were just beginning to use the internet and I’d go as far as saying that a good few kids had never even seen a black person IRL before.
My parents videotaped it and 10 years later, we got the whole family to sit down and watch our childhood footage.
I had completely forgotten that we had done this and I literally spat my drink out when my sister asked: “Are those kids in the back wearing blackface??”.
I’d buy em, not to display but to sell on eBay, they maybe racist, but dam could a rare one pay your rent or electric bill…amazed people collect em.
I’m surprised nobody has brought up Robinson’s golliwog badges – they were still using these in the early 2000’s. IIRC they didn’t drop them because they were racist and offensive but because their popularity had fallen (no kidding!).
A friend bought me one around 20 years ago to prove a point ie that you can still get them
I still have it
What’s the problem here?
Wasn’t there a marmalade in the 80’s with these guys on it?
Odd how few people mention these are racist.
Nice, where?