the unobtrusive, orderly manner in which they filed up the steps to leave the stadium
the unobtrusive, orderly manner in which they filed up the steps to leave the stadium
It is a bit weird how it's entirely socially acceptable (or at least tolerated) to hurl all kind of abuse at footballers, but we're not allowed to be racist to them.
I don't really have a problem with racism inside football stadiums. It's just part of the pantomime :shrug:
Of course. it's all just sh*thousery and banter.
As a society we all acknowledge that football fans operate under entirely different social rules once they step inside a stadium. I don't see why we should tolerate tens of thousands of fans calling a footballer a **** for having dared to move club or acquire a reputation for cheating, but then clutch our pearls if we call them a black **** :shrug:
oh, I'd expect absolutely nothing else there, m
standard stuff innit
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/09...9882127582.jpg
Yes, although whether or not we find humour in that kind of stuff is is heavily nuanced and context-dependent, even within the narrow genre of kiddie rape and murder.
I think the reason Maddie is such a comedy goldmine is because of the whole circus surrounding the case, and the fact that her white middle class parents blatantly killed her, which *is* inherently funny.
There are other cases where small children were brutally murdered that you'd struggle to find any humour in.
You don't hear any jokes about Jamie Bulger, for example.
Madeline McCann is ripe to mine for humour content purely because hers is an unsolved case with no proven evidence as to any crimes attached to her
A bit like Shergar really
To this day he might be living it up on a stud farm somewhere in the Bhamas
The dental hygienist gave me a mirror to admire my teeth when he'd finished yesterday. I did a big grin and remarked, "Ah, that's what happened to Shergar" - not a flicker of recognition from the fellow. Mind you, he was about 23 and Indian. But imagine not remembering Shergar.
This is what's known in some quarters as 'Whataboutery', I gather.
Besides, there have been left-wing governments who have not been run by Stalin, and not behaved remotely like him, however much they are demonised, and however much the oligarchs are furious that the wealth they nicked from the poor is redistributed to the poor.
Indeed. How does a multi cultural society move on to the next level when it’s only ok to abuse gingers :shrug:
That's right, those magnificent shining examples of the gentle loving nature of socialists, Mao, Pol Pot, Uncle Ho, dear Nicolae in Romania, cuddly Enver who made Albania such a paradise of redistributed wealth - and let's not forget our old chum Castro, who cleverly reduced and entire population to penury and locked them in so they had to try to escape on home-made rafts.
Were all these the wrong type of socialism?
I'm not sure that made much difference to the millions tortured and murdered by the twisted politics of envy, or even the millions living in misery in eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989.
But hey, it'll be better next time when it's proper socialism, eh?
I saw it. I saw it in the flesh. It makes me angry.
C, you're one of the few right-wingers here who've actually got a brain.
But if I really have to spell it out:
There has only been one soi disant Nazi regime in history. And pretty much everyone agrees that they weren't the most civilised of chaps.
Socialism is a much broader church. {Now let's ignore that most of the really bad lefties called themselves commies, not socialists, in the same way nazis are a sub-set of fascists who are a sub-set of right-wingers.}
Many of the left-of-centre parties in the EU claim to be socialists, but are basically centrists compared to Stalin.
The 1945-51 govt here claimed to be socialists. And:
1. The country they built was accepted and protected by those evil lefties that came after them; WSC, Eden and SuperMac.
2. They were brought down by the left of their own (democratically elected) party. Bevan over prescription charges.
The '64-70 likewise.
1. None of Heath, Maggie et al undid divorce, abortion or rights for poofs.
2. Again, that democratically-elected, soi disant socialist govt - whose progressive policies were accepted by the the following Tory govts - were undone by the hard left. The Unions rejected Barbara Castle's "In Place Of Strife" union reforms.
If you can't see the difference between Adolf and Atlee/Wilson, you haven't really thought this through.
Some "socialists" have killed more one their own than the Nazis.
Some "socialists" were democratically elected and introduced rights we now all, proper Tories included, accept.
All Nazi regimes (i.e. the only one) were a little beyond the pale.
Just cos I like footy, doesn't mean I agree with Harry Kane's right to live, does it?
Despite hating Tories, I think One Nation Conservatism has been a positive force in the history of our isles.
While the hard right of the Tory party are inherently evil and should all be gassed.
The left - "Socialism" in your terms - is but a mirror image.