Do Gingers migrate to WDW?

[ddoconnell]

My DD asked that I start this thread.

It seems that every time we go to WDW there is a large number of gingers (red heads for the uninformed) in attendance. As DD is herself a ginger, she tells me that it is a secret meeting and she can't tell me about it since I am not a ginger!

So any of you in the know...can you tell me why there are always so many gingers in central Florida?!?

TIA

BTW she thinks we need to add a ginger emoticon!!!

 

[DenLo]

LOL

In the United States, it is estimated that 2-6% of the population has red hair. This would give the U.S. the largest population of redheads in the world, at 6 to 18 million, compared to approximately 650,000 in Scotland and 420,000 in Ireland.

Or maybe there are just a lot of redheads in the UK and US.

 

[Jenbabe411]

I would tell you. But she's right, it's a ging secret.

 

[ddoconnell]

I would tell you. But she's right, it's a ging secret.

 

[vakamalua]

Love Gingers!!!

 

[goofy4tink]

Ah, hello dad....you didn't get the memo??? Only gingers know the secret, as well as the secret handshake and the special eye acknowledgment for other gingers!!!!
My dd's high school actually started a 'ginger club'!!! Gingers rule!!!

 

[poggs]

Gingerist thread in my opinon.

I'm off to work out who I can sue.

 

[Inkmahm]

My DD asked that I start this thread.

It seems that every time we go to WDW there is a large number of gingers (red heads for the uninformed) in attendance. As DD is herself a ginger, she tells me that it is a secret meeting and she can't tell me about it since I am not a ginger!

So any of you in the know...can you tell me why there are always so many gingers in central Florida?!?

TIA

BTW she thinks we need to add a ginger emoticon!!!

Funny. I personally dislike red hair (no offense meant to any of you gingers out there.) And every time we go to WDW, it feels like we are surrounded by red heads! I point out to my DH that there must be some convention of red heads every time we are there.

I agree that the % of red heads at WDW seems to be much greater than outside of WDW.

 

[bumbershoot]

DS won't tell me. darn him.


"They" say that red hair is on the way out, but I dunno. DS is a quarter Korean with no one closer than a grandparent who had red hair (though sometimes near the sea my hair will look reddish), and he has copper hair. And I've noticed many other part-Asian kids with similar hair to his. So I think the scientists aren't opening their eyes!


I'm just glad he has embraced his hair and the easy ability to trick or treat as Ron weasley (made even better by my first name)...much easier than when he thought he was Harry!

 

[TinkPirateMom]

This is interesting. We will have to take notice when we are there. Both of my children are gingers and absolutely no one else in our families have red hair.

Funny , the first time I heard the term Ginger it was on facebook and someone referred to my teen daughter as one. I was so upset thinking it was something really hoorible. Then I googled it, lol.

 

[poggs]

Funny. I personally dislike red hair (no offense meant to any of you gingers out there.) And every time we go to WDW, it feels like we are surrounded by red heads! I point out to my DH that there must be some convention of red heads every time we are there.

I agree that the % of red heads at WDW seems to be much greater than outside of WDW.

Last time I was at WDW I was surprised at how many Black people were there. I personally don't like black people (no offense meant to any black people out there) But every time we go to WDW we seem surrounded by black people. I pointed out to my wife all these black people everywhere and she wandered was there a black person convention ongoing somewhere?

Now I've got everyones attention, I dont see how its ok to ridicule, poke fun at or generally belittle a person because of the colour of their hair. In fact here in the UK its classed as discrimination, just the same as disliking someone because of the colour of their skin.

 

[mickey1979]

Come on now this is all susposed to be in fun lets not turn it bad!!!
I know red heads like me have freckle pox but you can't catch them I promise!

 

[M-I-C-K-E-Y]

Now I've got everyones attention, I dont see how its ok to ridicule, poke fun at or generally belittle a person because of the colour of their hair. In fact here in the UK its classed as discrimination, just the same as disliking someone because of the colour of their skin.

Could it be that the UK had no choice but to pass such a law or legislation? After all, unlike here in the freedom-loving U.S., there was such a thing as "hair descrimination" in the UK. I cite the wide-spread custom of "first footing," where on New Year's residents avoided letting a red head be the first to enter their home for the year. They believed that bad luck would cling to them for the year. Yes, the same UK where red heads used to be widely looked down upon, since they were descended from maurauding Vikings.

Tisk-tisk, UK, and for shame all you Ginger haters! Come to our shores and let that red hair fly free!

 

[CarolMN]

Moved to Community Board - Not a DVC topic.

 

[ddoconnell]

Ok...so this was supposed to be a fun thread, let's not go flaming anyone for the way they look!

My DD and I just wanted to see if anyone else noticed all of the gingers. (And I was hoping for some incite into the secret messages sent out amongst them to get so many to gather at WDW at a certain time! )

So let's have fun with this!!

Thanks!

 

[lisajl]

Ah, hello dad....you didn't get the memo??? Only gingers know the secret, as well as the secret handshake and the special eye acknowledgment for other gingers!!!!
My dd's high school actually started a 'ginger club'!!! Gingers rule!!!

Yes, there is a secret! My DH is surrounded by gingers and my daughter, youngest son and I tell him nothing! We have another son..not a ginger...too bad...can't be in on it!

Lisa

 

[southern_redhead]

BTW she thinks we need to add a ginger emoticon!!!

Good idea I clearly haven't gotten my memo to the convention When we went, I think DD and I might have been the only two redheads there. We didn't even see Ariel until our last night LOL

Bumbershoot, I've read that, too. I don't remember the specifics, just that they felt that redheads would eventually phase out. I have to agree, there seem to be waaay more reds now than when I was little. Perhaps it is just that I notice it more?

I remember a teacher once telling her son she was going to beat him like a redheaded stepchild, I said "Ms. ____, I really AM a redheaded stepchild, and I take offense to that!" Of course, she knew I didn't take any kind of offense to it and we all had a good laugh. I had never even heard the expression before then (I was a junior in high school at the time.) Aside from having heard that they sometimes accused redheads of being witches, that was the first negative thing I'd heard about red hair. It was also the last, until my SIL announced that she hoped ODS "grew out" of the red tint in his hair. She said that she hated red hair (they all have a red cast to their hair in DH's family) and would "just die" if her child had red hair. I was SO tickled when our next baby had a head full of red hair (just like me!) at birth ... I think I pointed it out to SIL a thousand times It's too bad redhead's aren't really witches, I would so put a curse on her LOL

 

[MIGrandma]

I personally dislike red hair (no offense meant to any of you gingers out there.)

My youngest granddaughter is a red head (she will be 3 in January). My DD's doctor told her that red hair is becoming less and less common (lack of the gene maybe?). The only person in my family that had red hair was my paternal grandmother so I guess that is where she got it, as my DD's DH doesn't have anyone in his family that has/had red hair.

I'd never heard the term "ginger" until here today.

 

[l_mccafferty]

Coming from Scotland, ginger is a term used all the time here! So much so one of the Irn Bru adverts had "It's ginger, it's fizzy" as part of its advert campaign.

 

[krcit]

I just paid good money to become a ginger! Been thinking about it for years and finally did it. I love it! I guess I better start planning a trip to WDW