#3 Skin colour
Mr Wicksy's post reminded me of this one...

When I was a very small Chickenlady my mum used to be friends with a local foster mother. One of her charges (whom she eventually adopted) was a lovely lad called Nigel.

Nigel's parents had come from Jamaica and for various reasons he had now ended up being cared for by Doreen - my mum's friend. Doreen and her husband were both Irish Catholics living in deepest Kent. Down here in deepest Kent back in the 70s and 80s everyone was white.

Nigel and I became great friends and playmates - I was about three or four and he would have been around seven or eight.

One day during the summer Nigel and I were playing in the backgarden in shorts and t-shirts, but he got hot so he removed his shirt.

I was shocked and ran into the house asking my mum why Nigel had a 'brown belly'.

Mum still laughs about that one.
( chickenlady Official Antelope keeper and trainer for 2009, Thu 17 Apr 2008, 22:34, closed)

I still live in
Kent, and with the exception of my mixed race ass, pretty much everyone still is white.
(belms, Thu 17 Apr 2008, 23:31, closed)

Belms -
your arse is mixed race? So what's the rest of you? :P
( Bob Todd, Groincrusher General Wrath of the Lich King is MINT!, Thu 17 Apr 2008, 23:50, closed)

Well
My top half is Chinese, my lower half is English, my ass being where the transition occurs, it's mixed.
(belms, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 0:00, closed)