SW11_Saint

“What the fuck is going on?… what the fuuuuckkkk is going on?!l”🎶

“beauty” isn’t the word that leaps to mind for me… Eckert is another bizarre and unnecessary gamble by SR. And like all of their other gambles, I suspect it’ll blow up in their faces.

Feels to me like Eckert has the job already. They’re not announcing it in the hope that he gets results in the next three, and then they can pass it off as a ‘no brainer’… The football world is full of caretaker managers who do well, get the job full tine, and then…

Crossed wires. No disrespect, I didn’t really bother reading your memes. I assumed your ‘flawed’ comment related to the Fry meme, thus my response…

I really was just using a sledgehammer to crack a nut in that example (and purposely doing so, to detach it from the other conversations - it was simply a counter to the Fry meme, nothing else).

I wasn’t aiming anything at anyone… I was simply responding to your point about my perspective (re. the Fry meme) being ‘flawed’.

I think only you can answer that one.

I don’t think it was. The ‘Fry meme’ (which I suspect is taken out of context, if indeed it’s legit) appears to be saying that people can come out with any old crap, but it’s futile for those who find it offensive to say so. I think that’s nonsense. I used a heavy-handed example to illustrate my point.

No one, I was making an illustrative point - and a blatant one to avoid confusion.

Things are bad… we’ve hit the ‘memezone’ as a form of defence.

What tosh. People are allowed to react to offensive behaviour (in the same way the perpetrator is allowed to be offensive). Neither the offender nor the person who challenges them are necessarily claiming ‘rights’ in doing so. If you start shouting the ‘N word’ at people, I’m allowed to call you a racist arsehole. End of.

Well said.

I haven’t read 40 pages. I made a comment about the page I saw - the reactions the fans group make-up - which I felt overstepped at times, and I looked back at page 1 for reference to see what the thread was set-up to do.

I wasn’t going to bother but since you (and others) have asked these are posts I felt overstepped. I haven’t bothered looking at earlier pages (other than the first page - referenced below), but I’d wager there’s similar stuff there. It’s as much - maybe more - about the ‘punching down’ tone as it is the words. Haven’t assigned quotes either as you’ll see who said what if you look back. No doubt I’ll be branded a snowflake for not appreciating the ‘bantz’. I’d imagine though, any LGBT fan reading through this thread wouldn’t find it particularly welcoming… but the mods clearly don’t see a problem with it, so hey ho… ******* “We'll probably end up with a LGBTQ+ manager after they've given advice” ******* “They were going to call it the fan advisory group but calling them the FAG might not go down so well these days. Especially looking at some of their pictures.” ******* “safe spaces for the gay lot” ******* “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again success as a manager ✅ International experience ✅ black ✅ woman ✅ gay ✅ so much it right about this one” ******* Oh, and you opened the thread with this one, which is I guess where the penny dropped that the whole thing was some big piss-take at the expense of gay people… “Why have they chose the shortest and coldest month of the year to celebrate the bright, colourful, rainbow people that we as a society benefit from?”

Erm, no. The stuff moderators are supposed to moderate.

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Erm no… and it would be a pretty odd way of doing so. Not that it should matter, but I am straight and married to a woman. I have close family and friends who are gay though. I’ve found a lot of the content on this thread which - from the title at least - you’d expect to be supportive for/to LGBTQ+ fans - a rather odd, if not troubling read.

You can see them for yourself - you even wrote a couple - snide homophonic comments wrapped up no doubt as ‘harmless laddish banter’. The lower half of the page before this is full of them. Insinuations that ‘the gay lot’ can’t be managers, don’t know anything about football etc. Pretty depressing stuff given we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century…

Moderate maybe?

Homophobic gammons mainly…

Not really.

Do moderators even bother reading this forum these days?

Trying to imagine being small-minded enough to type that out… I can’t.

Seriously?!?

Not to mention if the mooted plans for an indoor arena happen too. You’d assume this is all part of the Project Renaissance initiative.