So, Are we still at the point where monkey jibes carry a direct impact upon black

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Originally Posted by Burney

True. But Sol Campbell does look like a gorilla. I think we can all agree on that.

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Yep - as much as Pete Sampras looks like a chimp

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

Yep - as much as Pete Sampras looks like a chimp

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I'll raise you a Gareth Bale

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

I do see your point but as long as people in less enlightened places (Russia, Spain, Tottenham) use monkey noises to abuse black people at football matches (as an example) it will carry a stigma which is best not encouraged

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True, but if you accommodate morons to continue along these lines, are you not then in danger of perpetuating the parallel ?
Those who continue to make monkey noises are simply taking themselves further along the road of contempt and isolation.

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

Yep - as much as Pete Sampras looks like a chimp

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Of course. And, being Greek, he was covered in very chimpy hair. :-(

He made men's tennis quite phenomenally dull, that man.

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Originally Posted by 7sisters

Indeed, if you look like a monkey, just wtf does colour have to do with it :shrug:

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See: Bale. G