No more ‘midget’ gems
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NorthumberlandBoro
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Next thing they'll be banning the 'you fat b*****d' chant
Wiseman_Vaughn
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newyddion
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Haha same!
newyddion
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mini gems makes more sense tbhWorld is going crackers
M&S drops the name Midget Gems after discrimination complaints
Dr Erin Pritchard of Liverpool Hope University warned supermarkets 'midget' is 'a form of hate speech' and has been lobbying supermarkets to change the name.www.dailymail.co.uk
Wiseman_Vaughn
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small, semi precious candies
ThatFragranceGuy
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is it really that "crackers"?World is going crackers
M&S drops the name Midget Gems after discrimination complaints
Dr Erin Pritchard of Liverpool Hope University warned supermarkets 'midget' is 'a form of hate speech' and has been lobbying supermarkets to change the name.
People say the same about Golliwogs and its politically correctness gawn mardddddd.
Do people with dwarfism like being called a midget? Because something has been called something in the past, must it always remain so?
Anton_Berg
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What was wrong with 'Marathon'?
tripleheader
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It would take too long to tell you!
Billy69_uk
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nope.
to be filed in the "PC gone mad" section of dog whistling headlines designed to whip morons up into a frenzy.
I think dwarfism is an offensive term as well. More so than a small midget sweet being called a midget gem
DrummerMan
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What about White and Dark Chocolate?
Are we changing these names ?
Are we changing these names ?
ThatFragranceGuy
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Yes, that's totally comparable.
Don't think it is. There is even a sports association: https://www.dsauk.org/
From Wiki:
The appropriate term for describing a person of particularly short stature (or with the genetic condition achondroplasia) has developed euphemistically.
The noun dwarf stems from Old English dweorg, originally referring to a being from Germanic mythology—a dwarf—that dwells in mountains and in the earth, and is associated with wisdom, smithing, mining, and crafting. The etymology of the word dwarf is contested, and scholars have proposed varying theories about the origins of the being, including that dwarfs may have originated as nature spirits or as beings associated with death, or as a mixture of concepts. Competing etymologies include a basis in the Indo-European root *dheur- (meaning 'damage'), the Indo-European root *dhreugh (whence modern German Traum 'dream' and Trug 'deception'), and comparisons have been made with the Old Indian dhvaras (a type of demonic being). The being may not have gained associations with small stature until a later period.[33]
The terms "dwarf", "little person", "LP", and "person of short stature" are now generally considered acceptable by most people affected by these disorders.[17] However, the plural "dwarfs" as opposed to "dwarves" is generally preferred in the medical context, possibly because the plural "dwarves" was popularized by author J. R. R. Tolkien, describing a race of characters in his The Lord of the Rings books resembling Norse dwarfs.[34]
"Midget", whose etymology indicates a "tiny biting insect",[35] came into prominence in the mid-19th century after Harriet Beecher Stowe used it in her novels Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands and Oldtown Folks where she described children and an extremely short man, respectively.[17] Later some people of short stature considered the word to be offensive because it was the descriptive term applied to P. T. Barnum's dwarfs used for public amusement during the freak show era.[13][36] It is also not considered accurate as it is not a medical term or diagnosis, though it is sometimes used as a slang term to describe those who are particularly short, whether or not they have dwarfism.[37]
NorthumberlandBoro
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Seem to be out of stock at the main supermarkets. Available through Amazon but at a price.
Damn Brexit.
Dwarf is offensive
Oxford dictionary -
Oxford dictionary -
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OFTEN OFFENSIVE
a person who is of unusually short stature on account of a genetic or medical condition such as achondroplasia; a person affected by dwarfism.
same as midget -
- 1.
OFTEN OFFENSIVE
a person of extremely or exceptionally small stature.
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indeedido
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Lion still available in all good traditional sweet shops, I get mine in Masham or Whitby.
Can also buy them on line.
Lion Sports Mixtures have become Football Gums sadly.
Lion Fruit Salad are also good, as their black ones aren't liquorice. (not to be confused with the old Fruit Salad chews)
Lion are now owned by confec giant Valeo (formerly Tangerine) and are produced in Cleckheaton in West Yorks as normal.
They also make all the old Barratts chews including Black Jacks and Fruit Salad, as lots of other old greats that are still going well enough to turn over over £150m per year.
Can also buy them on line.
Lion Sports Mixtures have become Football Gums sadly.
Lion Fruit Salad are also good, as their black ones aren't liquorice. (not to be confused with the old Fruit Salad chews)
Lion are now owned by confec giant Valeo (formerly Tangerine) and are produced in Cleckheaton in West Yorks as normal.
They also make all the old Barratts chews including Black Jacks and Fruit Salad, as lots of other old greats that are still going well enough to turn over over £150m per year.