|
Post by glpotter on Jan 18, 2024 20:12:45 GMT
|
|
|
Post by noustie on Jan 18, 2024 20:42:10 GMT
I just absolutely hate social media. Aluko is shite, Owen is shite, Barton has lost his marbles and this young whipper snapper needs to get out more At least back in the day if we had unadulterated access to the Internet whilst our parents were out we were content with wanking ourselves into oblivion.
|
|
|
Post by thehartshillbadger on Jan 18, 2024 20:44:16 GMT
I just absolutely hate social media. Aluko is shite, Owen is shite, Barton has lost his marbles and this young whipper snapper needs to get out more At least back in the day if we had unadulterated access to the Internet whilst our parents were out we were content with wanking ourselves into oblivion. It’s literally the only thing the internet is good for. And The Oatcake obviously
|
|
|
Post by mickeythemaestro on Jan 18, 2024 21:16:12 GMT
At least back in the day if we had unadulterated access to the Internet whilst our parents were out we were content with wanking ourselves into oblivion. It’s literally the only thing the internet is good for. And The Oatcake obviously The internet has more or less ruined what used to be a great institution....that of pissed up men talking absolute bollox in the pub, but delivering it with unadulterated conviction and sincerity. Anything from British history, amazing biological facts, world history, you name it. But of course people can just pull out their phone now and fact check rather than have to wait till the library opens on Monday morning. By which time the arguments have been lost to the booze anyway. A very sad loss that has been 😥 😔 Cos I was one of em 🤣
|
|
|
Post by thehartshillbadger on Jan 18, 2024 21:20:59 GMT
It’s literally the only thing the internet is good for. And The Oatcake obviously The internet has more or less ruined what used to be a great institution....that of pissed up men talking absolute bollox in the pub, but delivering it with unadulterated conviction and sincerity. Anything from British history, amazing biological facts, world history, you name it. But of course people can just pull out their phone now and fact check rather than have to wait till the library opens on Monday morning. By which time the arguments have been lost to the booze anyway. A very sad loss that has been 😥 😔 Cos I was one of em 🤣 Exactly. There was nothing better than ripping the bloke who talked out of his arse but reasoning it with common knowledge instead of facts and having an argument about it
|
|
|
Post by tuum on Jan 19, 2024 5:12:14 GMT
The internet has more or less ruined what used to be a great institution....that of pissed up men talking absolute bollox in the pub, but delivering it with unadulterated conviction and sincerity. Anything from British history, amazing biological facts, world history, you name it. But of course people can just pull out their phone now and fact check rather than have to wait till the library opens on Monday morning. By which time the arguments have been lost to the booze anyway. A very sad loss that has been 😥 😔 Cos I was one of em 🤣 Exactly. There was nothing better than ripping the bloke who talked out of his arse but reasoning it with common knowledge instead of facts and having an argument about it No such thing as a considered opinion in a pub. It's just an opinion. I regularly spout shite on the topics of the day. Sometimes, some dickhead who knows what he is talking about will correct me and then we move on to talking shite about something else. I have a very flexible attitude to facts in the pub. You can tell me anything you want in a pub. If it's funny or an interesting anecdote or piece of info then fill yer boots up I don't really care too much if it is true or that the story you are telling in the first person didn't really hapen to you. I like the fact that after a few pints with just a quick glance at your mate you can both corpse into uncontrollable fits of giggles and laughter and no one in your group knows why. Getting pissed in pubs is great!
|
|
|
Post by scfcbiancorossi on Jan 19, 2024 5:31:55 GMT
|
|
|
Post by cobhamstokey on Jan 19, 2024 7:01:43 GMT
The internet has more or less ruined what used to be a great institution....that of pissed up men talking absolute bollox in the pub, but delivering it with unadulterated conviction and sincerity. Anything from British history, amazing biological facts, world history, you name it. But of course people can just pull out their phone now and fact check rather than have to wait till the library opens on Monday morning. By which time the arguments have been lost to the booze anyway. A very sad loss that has been 😥 😔 Cos I was one of em 🤣 Exactly. There was nothing better than ripping the bloke who talked out of his arse but reasoning it with common knowledge instead of facts and having an argument about it There’s some on here and the EE in particular that purely use figures as an argument (some of which are slanted) rather than any lived personal experience. It’s like having a debate with this guy
|
|
|
Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 19, 2024 9:09:38 GMT
SSN in a nutshell 😳🤣incredible
|
|
|
Post by noustie on Jan 19, 2024 9:49:13 GMT
I'm a big fan of women's football at international level anyway and the progress over the last decade is absolutely mental. The call for equal wages boils my piss though because those calling for it are going to blow the whole thing up (again) for me. Who do they want equality with? For me, it's easy - take the average % of wages to turnover in the blokes professional league and then the squad negotiates their share from there depending on ability. For argument sake, if Aston Villa women turnover £4m then c.£3m of that should be wages. However, the way I'm reading it is that because they play for Aston Villa they should be paid the same as an Aston Villa first team player! On the international side I can sort of see it but the hypocrisy is mental. The women's side moaned when they qualified for 2 tournaments that funding wasn't purely just spunked back into the women's game despite the blokes game funding them for the period before. Went quiet again when they benefited from the windfall Scotland have from qualifying for the blokes euros. It's absolute amateur hour too because they wanted paid as much as the men so the SFA basically came out and said 'fair enough the blokes get paid nowt and it all goes to charity - happy now?' Obviously they weren't - however, I can see it because some of the side are semi-pro who'll skip work for it and probably even the highest earning professional (Cuthbert/Weir) is on £100-£200k a year. It's not equality though but judging each situation on it's own merits whereas the whole thing screams picking n choosing to suit an agenda over reality.
|
|
|
Post by scfcbiancorossi on Jan 19, 2024 12:37:08 GMT
SSN in a nutshell 😳🤣incredible A fine example of why Joey Barton is right about so much of what he's been saying. People don't have to like him but he's only been highlighting what so many know to be true about bullshit box ticking quotas and conformity to the wider woke agenda. What the fuck is this reporter doing on a major broadcaster? Disgraceful levels of incompetence.
|
|
|
Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 19, 2024 12:42:50 GMT
SSN in a nutshell 😳🤣incredible A fine example of why Joey Barton is right about so much of what he's been saying. People don't have to like him but he's only been highlighting what so many know to be true about bullshit box ticking quotas and conformity to the wider woke agenda. What the fuck is this reporter doing on a major broadcaster? Disgraceful levels of incompetence. The problem is mate she’s one of many on Sky and that includes the News channel also,they are utterly clueless on the subject matter they’re talking about,utterly embarrassing and it’s why so many people have either cancelled their subscription or just not watching the shit I’d imagine
|
|
|
Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 19, 2024 12:49:16 GMT
This thread is pretty grim.
|
|
|
Post by independent on Jan 19, 2024 13:09:17 GMT
This thread is pretty grim. I agree. But when you try to have equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity this is the result. When you discriminate in favour of one person then it is obvious that you discriminate against others in an adverse way. The people driving the agenda to grow Womens Football seem to believe that the Mens Game and Sponsors and TV all have an open ended obligation to fund everything they think they need for their games success.
|
|
|
Post by Kewstokie on Jan 19, 2024 16:28:15 GMT
She's just rocked up on Sky Sports cricket interviewing Schalk Burger (sp) during a break in the Paarl v Cape Town match where Buttler is knocking the ball all over the place (other than when Curran is bowling) I must say she is very appropriately dressed for a hot day in Cape Town a very welcome addition to the programme, though tbh I didn't listen much to what she was saying....
|
|
|
Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Jan 20, 2024 3:00:41 GMT
I just absolutely hate social media. Aluko is shite, Owen is shite, Barton has lost his marbles and this young whipper snapper needs to get out more At least back in the day if we had unadulterated access to the Internet whilst our parents were out we were content with wanking ourselves into oblivion. Wankers aren't what they used to be! With regard to your other post, basic economics dictates what you're paid, Shirley? Any business pays it's workers based on their profits. If I set up a mobile phone company will Apple subsidise me so I can have similar pay to their owners? 😁
|
|
|
Post by scfcbiancorossi on Jan 20, 2024 7:16:58 GMT
A fine example of why Joey Barton is right about so much of what he's been saying. People don't have to like him but he's only been highlighting what so many know to be true about bullshit box ticking quotas and conformity to the wider woke agenda. What the fuck is this reporter doing on a major broadcaster? Disgraceful levels of incompetence. The problem is mate she’s one of many on Sky and that includes the News channel also,they are utterly clueless on the subject matter they’re talking about,utterly embarrassing and it’s why so many people have either cancelled their subscription or just not watching the shit I’d imagine Indeed mate. Whatever happened to selecting people for a job on merit and competence..
|
|
|
Post by satoshi on Jan 20, 2024 8:24:39 GMT
Has anyone actually watched sky sports news lately? You used to be able to put it on for days as background telly. It was factual, grown up and interesting.
Try it now, it’s like something from a monty python sketch, featuring you tubers from another galaxy and box ticked no marks who might aswell be talking in mandarin.
Sky are trying to out woke the bbc and they’re probably winning.
Sky boxing is the same. A once great program completely ruined.
|
|
|
Post by cobhamstokey on Jan 20, 2024 8:33:27 GMT
The problem is mate she’s one of many on Sky and that includes the News channel also,they are utterly clueless on the subject matter they’re talking about,utterly embarrassing and it’s why so many people have either cancelled their subscription or just not watching the shit I’d imagine Indeed mate. Whatever happened to selecting people for a job on merit and competence.. It’s called fear. If anyone has any opinion that’s slightly radical or different they’re leapt on for being an “ist” or “ic” and thrown to the lions when it’s actually just an opinion they’re giving (see Graham Souness). The problem with Barton is he’s an idiot so no one will ever treat him seriously particularly as he’s also a very unpleasant character to boot who doesn’t deserve a sounding board, but to be fair there’s plenty of others you could say the same for but I guess that’s social media for you. He’s the worst possible person to be a poster boy for the argument and actually does more damage than good because of who he is. I’m sure there’s plenty of sensible more liberal people that agree with some (not all) of what he says. For me there’s some excellent females (Dalglish and Yorath being 2) in footy and certainly they’re more than a match for their male counterparts however it does feel that the equality issues being pushed to far now and it’s going against what a lot of the core audience want. Maybe a high percentage of footy fans do want more men commentating on footy because that what they’ve been used to all these years but that’s life and yes those producing the programmes may get there way with more women in football but it’ll come at a cost. You only have to look at Football Focus’s figures to see that. They’ve gone down from 849k to 564k since Dan Walker was replaced by Alex Scott. I’m not sure what’s happened to Soccer Saturdays.
|
|
|
Post by scfcbiancorossi on Jan 20, 2024 9:28:13 GMT
Indeed mate. Whatever happened to selecting people for a job on merit and competence.. It’s called fear. If anyone has any opinion that’s slightly radical or different they’re leapt on for being an “ist” or “ic” and thrown to the lions when it’s actually just an option they’re giving (see Graham Souness). The problem with Barton is he’s an idiot so no one will ever treat him seriously and he’s also a very unpleasant character to boot that doesn’t deserve a sounding board but to be fair there’s plenty of others you could say the same for but I guess that’s social media for you. He’s the worst possible person to be a poster boy for the argument and actually does more damage than good because of who he is. I’m sure there’s plenty of sensible more liberal people that agree with some (not all) of what he says. For me there’s some excellent females (Dalglish and Yorath being 2) in footy and certainly they’re more than a match for their male counterparts however it does feel that the equality issues being pushed to far now and it’s going against what a lot of the core audience want. Maybe a high percentage of footy fans do want more men commentating on footy because that what they’ve been used to all these years but that’s life and yes those producing the programmes may get there way with more women in football but it’ll come at a cost. You only have to look at Football Focus’s figures to see that. They’ve gone down from 849k to 564k since Dan Walker was replaced by Alex Scott. Well said as ever mate.
|
|
|
Post by scfcbiancorossi on Jan 20, 2024 9:35:48 GMT
Has anyone actually watched sky sports news lately? You used to be able to put it on for days as background telly. It was factual, grown up and interesting. Try it now, it’s like something from a monty python sketch, featuring you tubers from another galaxy and box ticked no marks who might aswell be talking in mandarin. Sky are trying to out woke the bbc and they’re probably winning. Sky boxing is the same. A once great program completely ruined. Was always going to happen the minute it was acquired by CNN (Comcast). Fox Sport Australia and Sky News Australia are fantastic and an example of what good sports and news should look like. Love listening to the cricket commentary on Fox, there is no fear of being cancelled. Michael Vaughan is one of the best sports guys the country has and we lost him. Same for Gower. Sky didn't like the fact he was old and white. Yet they'll happily go white when they are members of the Labour Party and huge proponents of Sky's woke ideals.
|
|
|
Post by chad on Jan 20, 2024 9:37:34 GMT
At least back in the day if we had unadulterated access to the Internet whilst our parents were out we were content with wanking ourselves into oblivion. It’s literally the only thing the internet is good for. And The Oatcake obviously And funny cat videos….
|
|
|
Post by scfcbiancorossi on Jan 20, 2024 9:39:40 GMT
It’s literally the only thing the internet is good for. And The Oatcake obviously And funny cat videos…. Check out Lunar the Panther on insta. So cute, makes you want a pet panther 🤗
|
|
|
Post by marylandstoke on Jan 20, 2024 13:30:49 GMT
Exactly. There was nothing better than ripping the bloke who talked out of his arse but reasoning it with common knowledge instead of facts and having an argument about it There’s some on here and the EE in particular that purely use figures as an argument (some of which are slanted) rather than any lived personal experience. It’s like having a debate with this guy It’s my opinion your are 68% right at least three quarters of the time.
|
|
|
Post by thornestein on Jan 20, 2024 19:59:49 GMT
if you’re a male white presenter you’ve got no career these days , the equality diversity brigade have ruined it , what happened to the best person for the job
|
|
|
Post by prestwichpotter on Jan 21, 2024 9:19:54 GMT
if you’re a male white presenter you’ve got no career these days , the equality diversity brigade have ruined it , what happened to the best person for the job The struggles of the white male presenter are definitely real, solidarity with them all…….
|
|
|
Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 21, 2024 9:24:28 GMT
You only have to watch Alex Scott’s performance last night in presenting MOTD to see how bad it’s become🙄She only spoke for about 3/4 minutes in a curtailed show and the amount of mistakes were embarrassing
|
|
|
Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 21, 2024 9:55:24 GMT
|
|
|
Post by sportsman on Jan 21, 2024 10:14:42 GMT
You only have to watch Alex Scott’s performance last night in presenting MOTD to see how bad it’s become🙄She only spoke for about 3/4 minutes in a curtailed show and the amount of mistakes were embarrassing Soon as it came on last night I turned off. Got a feeling ratings for all football broadcasters will drop quite a bit, if not already doing so. A female, other than Alex Scott, I can put up with presenting men’s football, pundits I can definitely do without, commentators is a switch off in a second.
|
|
|
Post by callas12 on Jan 21, 2024 10:26:41 GMT
www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/19/jeff-stelling-sky-sports-soccer-saturday-chris-kamara-footballThis is an interesting article from someone who was one of the main & respected presenters of live Football duties, Mr Jeff Stelling. Here he describes how the diversity changes and implementations being made at Sky for the sake of nothing more than diversity.. were making him ill! Great to hear that That Talksport have given him the opportunity to escape the diversity hamster wheel & give him the platform where he feels comfortable to do what only Jeff can do.
|
|